Tang Xuan

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Tang Xuan (唐玄)
Alias(es)	River God; Senior River God 22 74
Species/Race	Formerly human; transmigrated into an Innate River whose waters form his true body 1 11
Gender	Male 1
Affiliation	Independent; later revered by Primordial powerhouses as the River God 22 40
Occupation/Role	River God, cultivator, manipulator of fate, and architect of cultivation systems 45 97
Status	Active 155
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Mysterious Immortal	1	Reached this realm before the story proper; gained the ability to sense the Great Dao and learned that he was in the Primordial Era. 1
Great Luo Golden Immortal	2	Refined part of a Great Dao of Water fragment, attained Great Luo, and successfully assumed human form. 2
Peak Great Luo Golden Immortal	14	Reached peak Great Luo during his prolonged deduction of Foreknowledge of the Future. 14
Chaos Golden Immortal	20	Broke through after annexing the entire East Sea, making it part of his true body. 20
Hunyuan Golden Immortal	23	Advanced after changing the fates of the Three Tribes, Devil Race, and Three Ancestors, gaining vast Wish Origin and resources. 23
Peak Hunyuan Golden Immortal	34	Consolidated rivers across the Primordial Continent and reached the peak in one hundred years. 34
River of Myriad Treasures / Half-step Primordial	36	Advanced his river status, allowing magic treasures to be refined into origin; this propelled him to the half-step Primordial realm. 36
Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal	40	Refined the Chaos Bead into his body over ten thousand years and condensed a Dao Fruit. 40
River of Myriad Daos / Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, Second Heaven	46	Became the source that attracts, refines, and masters all Daos; his cultivation naturally rose from the first to second heaven. 46
Chaos River	66	His Chaos River status enhanced his comprehension enough to deduce Moving Stars and Shifting Cosmos in one year. 66
Primordial Luo Shang Golden Immortal, Ninth Layer	78	Automatic refinement through the Chaos River raised him from the first layer to the ninth during several million years of seclusion. 78
Karma River / Hongmeng Unique Dao Golden Immortal, Ninth Heaven	118	Absorbed the Chaos Bead to ascend to the Karma River, then reversed cause and effect to draw future cultivation back into the present. 118

Background

Tang Xuan was an Earthling reading a novel when he transmigrated into the Primordial Era and became an immense river. After initially panicking, he accepted his condition upon discovering that his river body could instinctively absorb and refine spiritual energy. 1

A mysterious system gave him a mission tied to the Dragon-Han Calamity. Rather than obeying it blindly, Tang Xuan chose to refine it for himself and use its Wish Origin as the foundation of his growth. He established the Great Dao of Water as his cultivation base and the Dao of Wishes as the means to alter others' fates and gain feedback. 1 2

Tang Xuan’s early strategy combined absorbing rivers to expand his true body with “developing customers”: powerful figures whose altered destinies would generate Wish Origin. His first major contact was Ancestral Dragon, whom he warned that the Three Tribes could not truly rule the Primordial Era because the Dragon-Han Calamity was fundamentally a Dao-Demon Conflict centered on Hongjun and Luohu. 2 3 6

He spent immense amounts of Wish Origin and one hundred million years deducing the Great Dao divine ability Foreknowledge of the Future. Armed with future knowledge, Tang Xuan guided Ancestral Dragon, Yuan Feng, Shi Qilin, and Luohu into a staged conflict meant to overturn Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao’s plans. 12 14 16

After annexing the East Sea and making it part of his true body, Tang Xuan openly entered the Dragon-Han Calamity. He freed Five Elements, Yin-Yang, and Qiankun Ancestor from Hongjun’s restrictions, changed the calamity’s outcome, and became known throughout the Primordial Continent as the River God. 20 21 22

Having secured a vast supply of Wish Origin, treasures, followers, and territory, Tang Xuan expanded beyond the Great Dao of Water. He began advancing through river statuses, gathering treasures and Daos into himself while encouraging Primordial powerhouses to develop distinct cultivation systems. His stated ambition became to serve as the origin and ancestor of all paths, eventually transforming the Primordial Era into a true mythological world. 36 40 45 46

Appearance

After attaining Great Luo Golden Immortal, Tang Xuan can manifest as a slender man in pale-blue robes. His bearing is described as both integrated with heaven and earth and detached from it, with an aura difficult to measure. 2

• Waist-length black hair. 2
• Sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes. 2
• Pale-blue robe and slender build. 2
• His true form is an immense river; after annexing the East Sea, the sea itself became part of that body. 1 20
• His manifestations are often accompanied by river phantoms, Dao runes, divine light, mist, and time-related phenomena. 14 21

Personality

Tang Xuan is cautious, pragmatic, and deeply opposed to risking his life for spectacle. He prefers steady development, expanding his river body and cultivating powerful “customers” simultaneously rather than gambling on reckless confrontations. 2 4

He is also highly theatrical when intimidation is useful. Tang Xuan knowingly uses extravagant phenomena and Wish Origin-generated effects to make his opponents overestimate him, considering the impact worthwhile even when the display is largely decorative. 21 39 141

His long-term plans are ambitious and manipulative. Tang Xuan treats conflicts, cultivation systems, and even the Gate of Taboo as opportunities to generate Wish Origin and strengthen the Primordial Era under his influence. 43 45 97

Abilities & Skills

River True Body and Annexation

Tang Xuan expands his existence by binding and assimilating rivers, seas, water veins, and eventually areas of Chaos into his true body.

• Bound dozens of rivers around the East Sea, forming a network that enveloped the region. 8
• Annexed the entire East Sea, making it his true body and using the feat to attain the Chaos Golden Immortal realm. 20
• Within the range covered by his main body, he is the absolute ruler of the environment. 52
• His broad territorial foundation makes him effectively indestructible unless the East Sea and its tributaries are destroyed. 21

Wish Origin and Dao of Wishes

Wish Origin is Tang Xuan’s principal resource. It can evolve abilities, strengthen comprehension, alter fate, create effects, and convert wishes or changed destinies into power. 2 12 45

• Gains feedback when the life trajectories and karma of major beings are changed. 2 11 23
• Used it to improve his comprehension rather than directly purchasing a single divine ability, maximizing later deductions. 12
• Can erase restrictions, create convincing illusions, and produce intimidating phenomena with comparatively little expenditure. 21 141
• Its nature is described as making fantasy real and rewriting underlying logic beyond the ordinary Wish Dao. 45

Foreknowledge of the Future

A Great Dao-level divine ability personally deduced by Tang Xuan through enhanced comprehension and nearly one million strands of Wish Origin. 12 14

• Allows him to observe possible future branches across countless timelines, subject to his cultivation. 14
• Ignores ordinary concealment and shielding of Heavenly Secrets. 14
• Lets him conceal himself from deduction and tracing through Reverse-Knowing the Future. 14
• At a later stage, he can examine future timelines up to ten huiyuan ahead. 24
• It does not make him literally omniscient; he cannot practically monitor every being’s future across billions of years. 57

Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Techniques and Tiangang Divine Ability

Tang Xuan deduced multiple Heavenly Dipper techniques and ultimately merged all thirty-six into the Tiangang Divine Ability. 77

• Nine Breaths Assimilation — rapidly digests and refines energy. 24 36
• Remote Sensing — perceives desired information across realms and was used to locate the Chaos Bead. 37
• Moving Stars and Shifting Cosmos — alters celestial phenomena, conceals or changes Heavenly Secrets, and can kill through those changes. 66
• Manipulate Creation — creates from nothing and rearranges the world’s structure at a fundamental level. 45
• Tiangang Divine Ability — combines the true meanings of all thirty-six arts into a single ability, described as granting a pseudo-omniscient and omnipotent state. 77

River Status Authorities

Each advancement of Tang Xuan’s river status grants a broader domain of authority.

• River of Myriad Treasures — assimilates and evolves magic treasures, converting their origin into cultivation. 36 40
• River of Myriad Daos — automatically attracts, refines, and masters Daos, including derivative water Daos. 46
• Chaos River — provides automatic refinement and exceptional comprehension enhancement. 66 78
• Karma River — makes Tang Xuan the source of cause and effect and permits reversal of cause and effect. 118 119

Karma Reversal

After ascending to the Karma River, Tang Xuan used himself as an anchor to reverse future results into present causes.

• Drew future cultivation back into the present, rapidly crossing multiple realms. 118
• Views karma connected to himself as inherently advantageous and under his control. 119

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Chaos Bead — The key medium for Tang Xuan’s Hunyuan Great Luo breakthrough; first refined into his body, then later completely absorbed to advance to the Karma River. 36 40 118
• Innate Spirit Treasure cauldron — Given by Ancestral Dragon; Tang Xuan temporarily stored it without refining it. 4
• Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, Qiankun Cauldron, God-Slaying Spear, Four Swords of Zhu Xian, and Twelve-Grade World-Ending Black Lotus — Among the supreme treasures that appeared under Tang Xuan’s control after the Dragon-Han Calamity. 23
• Novel Collection — A collection of fictional cultivation and mythological works that Tang Xuan distributes to help others establish new paths and systems. 36 61
• Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree — A Chaos Spirit Root presented by the Foreign Pangu in gratitude. 69
• Heavenly Dao Core — Submitted to Tang Xuan by the Heavenly Dao Incarnation while seeking his guidance. 69

Relationships

• Ancestral Dragon — Tang Xuan’s first major “customer.” He warned Ancestral Dragon of the Dragon Clan’s doomed path, then guided him through the Dragon-Han and Dao-Demon conflicts. 3 6 16
• Yuan Feng — One of the Three Tribe leaders who accepted Tang Xuan’s guidance and joined his plans against Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao. 14 16
• Shi Qilin — A Three Tribe leader and Tang Xuan’s ally in the plan to alter the Dragon-Han Calamity. 14 16
• Luohu — Formerly a target of Tang Xuan’s manipulation; after learning he was a pawn, Luohu surrendered his weapons and sought Tang Xuan’s guidance. 16
• Hongjun — Initially an opposing planner whose control Tang Xuan undermined; later becomes a respectful supporter who seeks Tang Xuan’s guidance and assists his projects. 21 34 40
• Qiankun Ancestor, Five Elements Ancestor, and Yin-Yang Ancestor — Tang Xuan freed them from Hongjun’s restrictions, after which they joined other powerhouses seeking his methods. 21 25
• Gate of Taboo — A recurring enemy, resource source, and object of Tang Xuan’s manipulation. He repeatedly suppresses it, extracts its origin, and turns its temptations into benefits for the Primordial Era. 39 43 53
• Pangu — Tang Xuan exposed Pangu’s hidden identity, suppressed his polluted true form, and provided him with the Novel Collection as an opportunity for progress. 61 67
• Foreign Pangu — A grateful visitor who offered the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree to repay Tang Xuan. 69
• Heavenly Dao Incarnation — Submitted its Heavenly Dao Core and sought Tang Xuan’s guidance to improve. 69

Notable Quotes

“From this day forward, whether the Primordial Continent is in chaos or not... is up to me to decide!” 22

“Now, please begin your performance.” 74

“Go back... where you came from!” 43