Human Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Creation and Early Survival

Nuwa created the Human Clan near Buzhou Mountain and announced its name to the Heavenly Dao. Jiang Yun supplied Xirang and Three Lights Divine Water and advised her on crucial aspects of the creation process. The original population numbered 129,600 189 191 324.

Because Buzhou Mountain was contested by the Witch and Demon Clans, Nuwa relocated humanity to the Shore of the Eastern Sea and entrusted Jiang Yun with its protection for a thousand years. He taught the newborn humans to obtain food and water, cover themselves, and preserve fire, while encouraging them to learn through experience 190 191.

The death of Mu to a fierce beast prompted Jiang Yun to develop Martial Dao for human self-defense. As cultivation spread, humans began hunting beasts rather than merely fleeing them. Their population reached several million, tribes multiplied, and Huang and Wa became leaders respected across the clan 191.

Cultivation and Outward Expansion

Humanity developed stone tools, hide clothing, and early farming from its original survival foundation. Laozi spent nearly a century studying its settlements and bodies before teaching the Golden Core Great Dao, supplementing the physically oriented Martial Dao with a path nourishing both body and Primordial Spirit 198 199.

Population growth eventually reached billions and then tens of billions. Farmland and settlements replaced forests, water supplies diminished, and nearby beasts were domesticated or hunted out. Huang and Wa therefore organized migrations west and north under the protection of elite martial artists 229.

The migrants established trade with Witch tribes, exchanging farming and crafted goods for meat, bones, and hides. Yan and Sang’s union, followed by the birth of their gifted child Qi, encouraged wider intermarriage. Both peoples’ leaders supported voluntary unions, and the rulers of reincarnation offered a special route for their descendants 229 230.

Demon Slaughter and the Western Refuge

Early coexistence with demons broke down as demons discovered the benefits of consuming humans and using human souls and resentment to forge weapons capable of penetrating Witch bodies. Humans retaliated by hunting demons and refining their remains into cultivation medicines 230 231 233.

Di Jun ultimately ordered a full-scale assault on human settlements to gather blood, souls, and resentment. The Witch leadership chose to let much of the slaughter proceed before destroying the resulting weapons and materials. Human appeals to the Three Pure Ones were refused, while pleas to Nuwa and Jiang Yun initially went unanswered 236.

Kong Xuan and other Western Teachings disciples organized a retreat toward Longevity Mountain, where Zhenyuanzi sheltered refugees beneath the Earth Scroll’s protection. The Demon Court blockaded the western route and attacked the sanctuary, eventually shattering its defenses with the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation 239 243 246 249.

Among Wuzhuang Temple’s ruins, Huang and Wa thanked the wounded defenders and led the survivors in an oath that humans and demons would never coexist. Jiang Yun later personally fought to preserve humanity and its protectors 249 324.

Recovery, Division, and a Second Purge

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humanity rebuilt in a remote corner of the world and recovered beyond its former peak. Its growing population, creativity, and cultivation strength nevertheless made it a target when the Witch and Demon Clans decided to eliminate potential postwar rivals 301.

Relations with mixed human-Witch descendants also deteriorated. Some had sought Witch protection during the earlier slaughter, while others had fought alongside humans. Suspicion broadened into exclusion from resources, marriages, and tribal decisions. Huang condemned the discrimination, but departing descendants formed a separate community that became the forerunner of Jiuli 269 334.

During the second purge, Demon armies attacked major settlements while Witch-Human forces under Great Witches seized resources and devastated smaller tribes. Four of humanity’s eight Great Luo-level experts died, two were gravely wounded, and Huang fell defending the clan. Wa led the survivors through the aftermath 301 318.

The Three Ancestors and Renewed Civilization

After the Witch-Demon War, the withdrawal of both dominant clans opened extensive fertile territory. Their entangled fortune also flowed into humanity, helping establish the beginnings of its position as the protagonists of heaven and earth 316.

Youchao advanced housebuilding, Suiren developed fire-making by drilling wood, and Ziyi improved clothing, hide treatment, and weaving. Their achievements earned immense human merit and Great Luo cultivation. Wa subsequently relinquished leadership and entered seclusion 316 317 318.

Human settlements grew toward a city-state era, with closer tribal ties, improved homes and textiles, and early recordkeeping. Suiren established friendly cooperation with Haotian’s Heavenly Court, which offered weather-control assistance and a channel for maintaining order 317.

Sovereign Rule and Guardian Alliances

Nuwa arranged for Fuxi’s remnant soul to reincarnate as humanity’s Heavenly Emperor. The Saints allocated teaching positions for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, whose reigns were expected to complete humanity’s foundations for enduring supremacy 319.

Fuxi united numerous tribes into the first stable human alliance of such scale and established marriage practices, organized production, and basic social rules. He later entered Huoyun Cave to guard humanity’s fortune, leaving Shennong to rule 320 321.

Under Shennong, agriculture, markets, medicine, and intertribal integration expanded. Following Spirit Gourd Daoist’s advice, humanity allied with the Four Seas Dragon Clan, established the Twelve Zodiac Guardian Gods, and added the Three Auspicious Beasts and Four Symbols Sacred Beasts to its defenses 321 325 326 327 328.

Xuanyuan’s Succession and Chi You

The Human Emperor Imprint selected Xuanyuan as Shennong’s successor. Shennong accepted the choice as an expression of humanity’s will, while recognizing that Chi You’s recovered Great Witch memories had redirected his loyalties toward the Witch Clan 331 332.

Chi You avoided immediate rebellion, strengthened Jiuli, and brought the Witch-Human tribes under his leadership through military strength and appeals to shared blood. Meanwhile, Xuanyuan studied governance in Chen Du, assumed most internal administrative duties, and gained the approval of many human sages as the succession approached 332 333 334.

Organization and Leadership

Racial Characteristics

• Innate Dao bodies: The first generation was formed from Xirang and Three Lights Divine Water, with naturally formed Dao bodies and all nine apertures open 191.
• Weak beginnings, exceptional potential: Humans are physically weak at birth compared with the great races, but possess unusual comprehension, creativity, and adaptability 192 301.
• Rapid reproduction: Population growth repeatedly enables recovery after catastrophic losses, but also drives migration and resource pressure 229 301.
• Learned craftsmanship: Farming, pottery, sewing, bone tools, and improved stone tools become valuable trade skills in dealings with Witch tribes 229.
• Mixed human-Witch lineages: Their descendants can combine Witch strength with human spiritual sensitivity. Qi’s gifts helped persuade both peoples to encourage intermarriage 230.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Dao

Created by Jiang Yun and subsequently developed by human practitioners, Martial Dao strengthens the body, blood, Qi, and will 191 233.

• Accessibility: It has no entry threshold, allowing even humans unsuited to Immortal Dao to cultivate 301.
• Collective warfare: Martial armies combine blood Qi into battle arrays and manifest a military soul to strengthen their resistance 301.
• Resource demands: Higher advancement consumes enormous resources; Witch and Demon control over major resource supplies limits humanity’s experts 301.
• Upper-realm development: Spirit Gourd completes later cultivation methods and identifies Wa as a candidate for the Quasi-Saint-level Hunyuan martial body. Her attainment of that realm is not documented 318.

Golden Core Great Dao

Laozi’s nine-revolution method uses Spiritual Qi to nourish the body and Primordial Spirit, building upon a practitioner’s martial foundation 199.

• Longevity: The transmitted path permits cultivation to Golden Immortal and a lifespan equal to heaven and earth 301.
• Limitations: Immortal cultivation is harder to enter than Martial Dao. Advancing too quickly can damage meridians, requiring correction 199 301.
• Standing: It becomes a mainstream human method, while Martial Dao retains enough practitioners to rival the immortal lineage 301.

Heroic-Spirit Divine Dao

Humanity develops an internal Divine Dao centered on the departed souls of its own heroes 327.

• Heroic spirits retain a dedication to protecting their kin and receive worship through statues in human settlements 327.
• Incense wish power supports this system, while humanity’s fortune coordinates heroic spirits with external guardian races 327.

Guardian Systems

Shennong’s alliances bind outside protectors to humanity through shared fortune, complementing its own cultivators and heroic spirits 327 328.

• Combined formation: The Three Auspicious Beasts and Four Symbols join existing guardians to establish an immense protective formation across human territory 328.
• Continuing weakness: Many zodiac guardians are not especially powerful. Humanity’s own middle- and upper-tier cultivators also struggle to keep pace with territorial expansion 328.
• Saint-level vulnerability: Despite its rising fortune and external patrons, the Human Clan and Dao of Humanity possess no Saint-level combat power of their own at this stage 329.

Important Texts and Treasures

• Martial Canon — Records and develops humanity’s martial cultivation. Jiang Yun later inscribes its perfected version on a jade slab 191 213.
• Kongtong Seal — Acquired by Jiang Yun before humanity’s creation. Identified as a future human treasure capable of suppressing human fortune and appointing or deposing a Human Emperor; Jiang Yun suspects a deeper connection to the Way of Man 37.
• Blood Forged Bone Pill — Refined from demonic materials to replenish vitality and strengthen martial bodies during the human-demon conflict 233.
• Three Ancestors’ fortune treasures — Housebuilding implements and the first nest, Suiren’s wooden drill and first spark, and Ziyi’s sewing implements and first garment are transformed by human merit 317.
• Crimson Whip — Given by Hong Yun to Shennong to distinguish medicinal plants from poisonous herbs 321.
• Hundred Herbs Scripture — Shennong’s medical work, whose dissemination precedes the completion of his reign’s achievements 328 333.

Relationships

• Nuwa — Creator and Holy Mother. She initially entrusts humanity to Jiang Yun, does not intervene during the Demon slaughter, and later arranges Fuxi’s reincarnation and sovereign destiny 190 255 319.
• Jiang Yun — Holy Father, sacred teacher, and Martial Ancestor. Humanity remembers his aid in its creation, early survival, cultivation, and protection from extermination 324.
• Spirit Gourd Daoist — Jiang Yun’s incarnation; refines higher Martial Dao methods and advises Shennong on alliances and guardian institutions while respecting humanity’s independent development 318 324 325.
• Zhenyuanzi — Shelters human refugees despite Demon Court demands and suffers severe injury defending them. Humanity pledges lasting gratitude 243 249.
• Hong Yun — Defends the refugees at Longevity Mountain and later teaches Shennong agriculture, trade, and medicine 249 321.
• Kong Xuan and the Western disciples — Organize, heal, and defend refugees during the westward retreat; Kong Xuan battles Kunpeng over their protection 239 243.
• Laozi and the Three Pure Ones — Possess religious ties to humanity and receive imperial teaching positions. Laozi supplies the Golden Core Method, but the Three Pure Ones refuse aid during the earlier massacre 199 236 319.
• Witch Clan — Relations progress from trade and intermarriage to strategic distrust, abandonment during the Demon slaughter, and participation in the later purge. Bloodline ties continue to connect their fortunes 230 236 301 319.
• Demon Clan — Initial coexistence collapses into predation, soul-weapon production, and repeated assaults. The survivors swear an enduring feud against them 230 231 249 301.
• Heavenly Court — Cooperates with humanity through the Heaven-Human Alliance, offering weather assistance and mutual communication on maintaining order 317.
• Four Seas Dragon Clan — Enters an alliance for weather regulation, protection, access to marine resources, and shared prosperity. Ao Bing’s attack on Shennong’s daughter provides the occasion for negotiating compensation and cooperation 324 325 326.

Notable Quotes

“The Human Clan must ultimately walk its own path.”
— Jiang Yun, before ending his thousand-year guardianship 191

“From this day forth, humans and demons shall... never... coexist!”
— The survivors’ oath at the ruins of Wuzhuang Temple 249

“Cooperation, coexistence, and mutual benefit are the best course.”
— Spirit Gourd Daoist’s advice to Shennong 324