Primordial Desolation World

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Creation and Ancient Calamities

Pangu opened the heavens, separating the clear into heaven and the turbid into earth. According to Hongjun’s later account, Pangu intended to gather the power of his created world to reach the Great Dao, but fighting the Chaos Demon Gods exhausted him. To prevent the new world from collapsing into Chaos, he sacrificed his cultivation and body; his spine became the Heaven Pillar, retaining part of his will 1 209.

The world subsequently endured the Great Tribulation of Fierce Beasts, the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, and the War of Immortals and Demons. Jiang Yun awakens ten thousand years after the last of these conflicts, in a Western Land devastated by Hongjun and Luohou’s battle 1.

Yang Mei later identifies Luohou as the instigator of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races’ war. He also accuses Hongjun of exploiting the conflict to eliminate rival Chaos survivors. Their final coalition battle against Luohou took place at Western Mount Sumeru, where Luohou detonated the Western Ancestral Vein 227.

Heavenly Dao Dominance

Hongjun became the world’s first Saint and announced Dao lectures open to fated beings. Although his attainment benefited the world, it also increased the Heavenly Dao’s dominance. Yang Mei felt its suppression, while the withdrawal of the Great Dao and concealment of manifest laws made the older path of law cultivation increasingly difficult 15 16 60.

Hongjun’s lectures introduced the Quasi-Saint path to the assembled powers. He also proposed appointing cultivators to restore order on Heaven’s behalf, linking cultivation authority with the governance of the world 60.

Restoration Alliance

Jiang Yun identified problems beyond damaged terrain: stranded souls were wasting and harming World Origin, spiritual energy was declining, and the Three Ways were developing unevenly. He suspected deliberate interference by Hongjun and other Chaos Demon Gods. The assembled powers formed a secret alliance to repair the western and northern lands, investigate Origin loss, and awaken the Earth Dao and Human Dao 122.

Exploration of the Ruins of Return uncovered a concrete source of damage. The Reincarnation Demon God’s remnant soul had maintained a breach in the Nine Netherworlds membrane, draining Origin into Chaos and weakening the Earth Dao. Repairing that breach and reopening the entrance began the underworld’s return to the Primordial Desolation 136 139 153.

The wider restoration effort later fractured. Jiang Yun ordered the Western Teachings to suspend costly projects outside the West, withdraw key personnel, and shift allied cooperation toward limited support and equal exchange 212.

Resource Reform and Resistance

Jiang Yun argued that repairing damaged lands merely redistributed the world’s existing resources. He proposed formations modeled on his Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane to transform external Chaos Qi into spiritual energy, replenish World Origin, and potentially reduce the pressure behind great tribulations 186.

The Chaos Fetal Membrane project eventually mobilized specialists and resources across the world, with bases rising at thirty-six key locations. Hongjun subsequently sought Houtu’s cooperation in diverting attention from it. Her announcement of Earth Dao lectures and Saint positions drew away much of the project’s manpower and resources 275 279 280.

Those opportunities nevertheless stimulated extensive northern restoration. More than thirty thousand years of work transformed the formerly shattered region; later, the Demon Court directed stellar power into organized Earth Vein Nodes to sustain its recovery 281 283 284.

Witch-Demon War and Its Aftermath

The Witch and Demon Clans displaced the Immortal Court and became the world’s two dominant powers. Before their decisive war, they jointly weakened potential rivals, targeting humanity in particular and killing four of its eight Grand Luo-level experts, including Chief Huang 185 301.

The calamity brought the Ten Suns disaster, Buzhou Mountain’s collapse, and the Saints’ intervention to mend the heavens. Weak Water and turbid earth qi devastated living beings and destabilized recently repaired veins. Zhenyuanzi mobilized Mountain Gods, Earth Gods, and Earth Immortals to divert the floods, while the Saints established four replacement heavenly pillars 295 297 317.

After the clans retreated, Saint sects competed for spiritual mountains and resources. The Demon Court’s destruction also left the stars without their former administrators, disrupting stellar nourishment and causing artificial spiritual lands and some Spirit Veins to decline 314.

Humanity later expanded from scattered settlements into connected territories with growing populations, agriculture, markets, and military strength. Its increasing prominence formed the setting for the Twelve Zodiac Guardian Gods plan 327.

Geography and Realms

Cosmology

The Three Ways

The Three Ways are intended to complement one another and jointly maintain the world. Jiang Yun identifies their early imbalance—Heaven dominant, Earth dormant, and Man not yet born—as evidence that normal development has been obstructed 122.

World Origin and Energy

• World growth: Hongjun states that every new Saint strengthens the world and makes its laws more complete 209.
• Soul circulation: Dead beings’ true spirits should return to Heaven and Earth. Stranded souls instead become contaminated, turn into ghosts and monsters, or are refined by evil cultivators, damaging World Origin 122.
• Origin leakage: The Nine Netherworlds breach allowed Origin to escape into Chaos while the Reincarnation Demon God’s finger bones prevented the opening from closing 136.
• External replenishment: The proposed Chaos Fetal Membrane network would convert Chaos Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi rather than merely move resources between regions 186.
• Mirror Worlds: Jiang Yun explains that historical tribulations caused portions of Origin to escape and project fragments of Primordial Desolation into Mirror Worlds 277.
• Independent will: The world itself responds to threats. It voluntarily supplies Origin to complete the Four Pillars of Heaven when their initial strength proves insufficient 297.

Great Tribulations

• Balancing mechanism: Houtu explains that the Witch-Demon War is needed to restore balance and clear accumulated karma 185.
• Resource interpretation: Jiang Yun argues that tribulations harvest cultivators because the world’s limited energy and carrying capacity are declining 186.
• Accumulated pressure: Spirit Gourd Daoist observes stagnant spiritual energy and trapped karmic power when the Witch and Demon Clans delay fighting; he diagnoses blocked Calamity Qi and world imbalance 285.
• Political manipulation: Hongjun admits suppressing the world’s growth and steering the Witch-Demon War to weaken the possibility of Pangu’s will awakening 209.

Pangu’s Possible Return

• Surviving will: Part of Pangu’s will remains within the original Heaven Pillar and may awaken as the world grows 209.
• Hongjun’s later explanation: Resonance among Heaven, Earth, and Man could produce a new collective consciousness carrying Pangu’s Dao intent. He warns that its emergence would collapse the world back into Pangu’s Dao Fruit 279.
• Limits of uniqueness: Jiang Yun’s accounts of ruined worlds demonstrate to the assembled powers that Primordial Desolation is neither the only great world nor inherently eternal 268.

World-Maintaining Systems

Earth Dao Administration

Supporting Infrastructure

• Four Pillars of Heaven: Anchored at the world’s eastern, southern, western, and northern extremes. The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu merge with them as guardian spirits 297.
• Reincarnation offices: Houtu treats the underworld as a public institution of the world, requiring both divine artifacts and capable personnel to exercise Earth Dao authority 220.
• Earth Immortal network: Mountain Gods, Earth Gods, and earth spirits act through Earth Vein Nodes, allowing coordinated protection and emergency redirection of waterways 295.
• Stellar administration: Star Lords regulate stellar movement and power. Their loss after the Demon Court’s Star Sacrifice leaves damaged stars unrepaired and causes destructive, irregular starlight 314.

Boundary with Chaos

• Heavenly Dao jurisdiction: The world’s Heavenly Dao has a limited reach; Jiang Yun establishes his Chaos Dao Field beyond it 273.
• Defense against possession: The Heavenly Dao instinctively purges invading Chaos Demon God remnants. A remnant already mixed with a native being’s soul and true spirit can evade that response 114.
• Karmic obligations: Di Jun concludes that beings leaving for Chaos must repay what they have taken from the world, since unrestricted departure would drain its Origin 270.
• Yang Mei’s departure: Yang Mei settles his debts by abandoning his former true body and cultivation and severing his karmic ties, gaining freedom from the world’s constraints 270.
• Resource restrictions: The Demon Clan pays an enormous price to take several high-grade Innate Spiritual Roots into Chaos 291.