Primordial World

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Primordial World (洪荒世界)
Alias(es)	Primordial Great World; Great Desolation
Type	Neutral Character (AI); primordial cosmic world
Status	Extant; later revealed to be a world constructed within a book 700
First Appearance	Chapter 1
Access	Initially reached through the hidden world beneath Chen Xuan's bed; the bed remains a recurring cross-realm travel medium 1 684

Cosmology

Original structure

The Primordial World is a vast creation born from Pangu's opening of heaven and earth. Its clear essence became heaven, its turbid essence became earth, and Buzhou Mountain supported the Nine Heavens. The Earth Realm later became known as the Earth Immortal Realm. 122 167 694

Region	Description
Great Zhou Heaven	A higher region associated with the Saints' dojos. 700
Heavenly Realm	Contains thirty-three interconnected layers of heaven, formed through the separation and stratification of clear and turbid qi. 179 700
Earth Immortal Realm	The terrestrial core of the world and later home to the Four Great Continents. 122 277
Human World	Composed of innumerable small planes inhabited by the scattered Myriad Races and the Human Race after the world's fragmentation. 277
Chaos	Surrounds or lies beyond the world; its gales can reduce even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal to dust. 344

Post-Investiture arrangement

After the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, the damaged world was repaired into a new but no longer unified structure. 277

Domain	Division
Heavenly Realm	Eastern Immortal Realm, Southern Spiritual Mountain Buddhist Realm, Western God Realm, and Northern Demon Realm
Earth Immortal Realm	East Victory Continent, South Continent of Jambudvipa, West Ox Continent, and North Continent of Uttarakuru
Human World	Countless small planes and cosmic regions
Cosmic order	The Three Realms and Six Paths, Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Nine Provinces and Eight Wastelands, and myriad divine positions

Characteristics

• The early world possesses dense spiritual energy, spiritual veins, divine beasts, natural treasures, and abundant opportunities for cultivation. 16 19
• Its scale vastly exceeds Earth: a cave dwelling opened by a Grand Unity Golden Immortal can contain an entire solar system. 40
• Time is not systematically recorded in the Primordial World; a single period of seclusion may last hundreds of thousands or millions of years. 3
• During its early era, the incomplete Heavenly Dao made it easier for beings to comprehend the Dao and cultivate. 17
• Every part of the world is said to bear the mark of the Heavenly Dao. 40
• Great Tribulations disrupt heavenly secrets and prevent reliable deduction of the future. 30

History

Creation and early inhabitants

Before the world existed, Chaos contained the Three Thousand Demon Gods and lacked conventional time, space, karma, and samsara. Pangu's act of creating heaven and earth gave rise to the Primordial World and its later myriad beings. 694

Innate Great Gods emerged from different primordial origins. Nuwa and Fuxi formed from Innate Creation Qi, while Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi were born from the Sun Star, itself formed from Pangu's eye. 167

Era of the Three Clans

Nuwa and Fuxi emerged roughly a million years before Chen Xuan's arrival and cultivated on Buzhou Mountain. At that time, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans occupied enormous territories, making a decisive conflict inevitable. 3

The Dragon-Han Calamity engulfed the world in warfare between the three clans. The sun and moon lost their light, wind and fire swept through the lands, and many Innate Great Gods withdrew into seclusion to avoid the catastrophe. 26

After the conflict, Ancestor Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and First Qilin acknowledged the devastation caused by their clans. The Dragon Clan retreated to the Four Seas to guard the sea eyes and bring rain, seeking merit to offset its karma. 46

Rise of the Human Race

Nuwa created the Human Race from Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Three-Light Divine Water, and the Innate Gourd Vine, producing 12,960 humans. The creation drew boundless heavenly merit and shook the entire Primordial World. 119

The Human Race spread rapidly across the world, eventually exceeding five hundred million people. Despite their innate Dao bodies and rapid cultivation, they became entangled in the Witch-Demon Great Tribulation, suffering attacks from both the Demon Race and Witch Clan. 127 128

The Human Race's martial inheritance emerged during this crisis. Three thousand Martial Dao powerhouses and the Three Innate Emperors revealed strength that shocked the world's myriad races and marked humanity's rise as a major force. 128 129

Fragmentation of the world

The Investiture of the Gods Calamity shattered the mortal realm and divided the formerly unified Primordial World into countless fragments, including the Four Great Continents and numerous cosmic planes. 86 122

After the calamity, Sect Leader Tongtian and other surviving powers repaired the fractured world. The reconstruction established the divided Heavenly Realm, Earth Immortal Realm, and Human World, but Nuwa regarded this outcome as another step toward a future doomsday era. 277

Heavenly Dao and fate

The Primordial World's Heavenly Dao governs its overall momentum, tribulations, and the marks borne by its space. Hongjun's eventual harmony with the Dao made the Heavenly Dao central to the world's order and to the Saint system. 114 179

Primordial Violet Qi is tied to this system. It possesses a trace of sentience and is described as a fragment of Heavenly Dao Origin; its return would expose information about those who had broken free of Hongjun's control. 114 416

The world's larger trend can be altered in smaller details. Chen Xuan's arrival repeatedly disrupts expected mythological outcomes, though the major trend of the Primordial World continues to exert pressure on its inhabitants. 30 416

Connections to later generations

Earth is not considered the true Primordial World. Its depleted spiritual energy, incomplete Heavenly Dao, and damaged rules differ sharply from the primordial era. 40 83

Several characters theorize that Earth and its universe may be fragments of the Primordial World left after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, though this remains uncertain. 98

The later generations retain a connection to the Primordial World through Chen Xuan's bed-based passage, allowing primordial beings to enter modern Earth and return to locations such as Buzhou Mountain, Penglai Immortal Island, and Nuwa Palace. 16 525 684

Metafictional revelation

Within the Chaos Return to Ruins, Chen Xuan, Hongjun, and the other great powers encounter a space filled with modern characters. By assembling written introductions of themselves, they witness the world's history—from Pangu's creation through the Dragon-Han, Dao-Demonic, Witch-Demon, and Investiture of the Gods Calamities—as a dreamlike record. 693

The final revelation identifies the immense Primordial World, its Chaos, heavens, Earth Immortal Realm, and myriad small worlds as a construction within a book. 700