Biodata

Feature Details
Name Nuwa (女娲)
Alias(es) Empress Nuwa; Human Ancestor Saint Mother; Melon King Empress 4 164 318
Gender Female
Affiliation Primordial World; Liu Bing's chat-group circle 16 358
Occupation/Role Human Ancestor Saint Mother; creator and protector of humanity; later ruler of the Primordial World 69 318 433
Status Active 433
First Appearance Chapter 3

Power Progression

This progression records the documented advancement of Nuwa's counterpart/incarnation aided by Liu Bing.

Stage / Realm / Level Chapter Notes
Beyond the limits of her world 162 164 After receiving a second Red Marriage Ball, she is freed from the Saint-Falling Pill and gains enough merit and power to alter or replace her world's underlying rules.
Further empowered through reunion with her Good Corpse 423 Her return to Wa Palace and fusion with her Good Corpse raises her strength again.
Reality-manifesting authority 423 425 After learning that her Primordial World is an illusion born from Wave's lingering thoughts, she uses the Red Marriage Ball to envelop the world and forcibly draw it into reality.

Background / History

Nuwa first encounters Liu Bing alongside Houtu after his arrival in the Primordial World. Rather than behaving as an unreachable deity, she and Houtu treat transmigrators as a source of amusement; Nuwa also warns that earlier arrogant transmigrators were killed. She demonstrates that Primordial Violet Qi and the crystals condensed from it are resources she can produce in vast quantities. 3

When Liu Bing questions his System and his death, Nuwa explains the danger surrounding his situation. She locates his original world through karmic ties and encourages him to take responsibility for saving it, though she refuses to directly interfere with another world's affairs. 4

Nuwa offers Liu Bing one compensation for her indirect role in bringing him to the Primordial World. She refuses his request for instant immortality, believing that cultivation gained through external shortcuts would harm his future path; instead, she permits him to cultivate in the Primordial World for ten thousand years before returning him to the exact moment of his transmigration. 5

A counterpart Nuwa from the Precious Lotus Lantern World is incapacitated by the Saint-Falling Pill and sealed within Wa Huang Tian while Jieyin and Zhunti dominate the Three Worlds. Liu Bing delivers a created Red Marriage Ball from the original Nuwa; when it merges with the counterpart's own life-bound treasure, it removes the pill and enables her to surpass the limits imposed by her Heavenly Dao. 161 162

Following her later encounter with the real Hongjun, this counterpart learns that her Primordial World is an illusory world formed from Wave's lingering thoughts. Rather than allow its inhabitants—including her children—to vanish with those thoughts, she resolves to make the world real and restore Wave's place as its dominant personality. 420 423

Personality

Nuwa is playful, sharp-tongued, and easily amused by other people's discomfort. She maintains a dedicated card-playing space in Wa Huang Tian where magic is forbidden specifically to prevent cheating. 4

Despite her teasing, she values human self-reliance and rejects giving Liu Bing unearned power. Her concern for humanity also emerges when she recalls people suffering through past catastrophes and seeks to repair worlds whose Heavenly Dao has become harmful. 4 5 165

She is capable of extreme ruthlessness when faced with those who scheme against her or endanger her people. After transcending a world's limits, one counterpart heals Jieyin and Zhunti only to continue punishing them, revokes their connection to the Heavenly Dao, and ultimately erases them. 163 164

Nuwa is also unusually enthusiastic about learning. During Hongjun's lesson, she is the only student who remains engaged enough to ask questions during the break. 422

Though she prohibits supernatural cheating in her card space, Nuwa is notably unlucky at gambling and repeatedly loses wagers without resorting to cheating. 246

Her behavior toward children is often openly maternal. Children from the Black Bullet World remember her as a kind “Auntie Nuwa” who plays games with them and brings them food, while she remains fiercely protective of the human race and those under her care. 165 318

Abilities & Skills

Creation

Nuwa is a creator whose authority extends from forming life to generating extraordinary cultivation resources.

  • She created the innate human race from clumps of mud; she states that carefully molding humans rather than flinging them into existence could have produced beings capable of reaching the Golden Immortal realm. 69
  • She can generate Primordial Violet Qi in bulk and condense it into Primordial Violet Crystals. 3
  • Her creation authority can manifest a new, mindless Heavenly Dao that follows established rules without personal bias. 164
  • She created a cultivation method tailored to Liu Bing that can be cultivated to the Golden Immortal realm, after which cultivators must establish their own path. 29

Rule Rewriting and Heavenly Dao Replacement

After breaking free from her world's restrictions, Nuwa gains the ability to treat reality's rules as editable code.

  • The Red Marriage Ball frees her counterpart from the Saint-Falling Pill and allows her to create rules that supersede the existing Heavenly Dao's laws. 162
  • She removes a self-aware Heavenly Dao will and replaces it with one that operates solely according to its rules. 164
  • In another world, she crushes a hostile Heavenly Dao, creates a replacement, and installs a heavenly-punishment system that judges grave sinners with Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. 396 397

Reality Manifestation

Having transcended the limitations of an illusory Primordial World, Nuwa can use the Red Marriage Ball to affect the world's existence itself.

  • She recognizes that her world was born from Wave's lingering thoughts and seeks to prevent it and its inhabitants from dissipating. 423
  • She activates the Red Marriage Ball to envelop the entire world and pull it from illusion into reality, making its Heavenly Dao real in the process. 425

Karma and Spatial Manipulation

Nuwa can perceive and act through karmic connections across worlds.

  • She locates Liu Bing's original world through his karmic connection. 4
  • She creates isolated spaces, including the card-playing area within Wa Huang Tian. 4
  • A counterpart uses karmic links to locate the Black Bullet World, but asks permission before visiting rather than arriving uninvited. 165

Restoration and Transformation

Nuwa can restore injuries and alter physical forms.

  • She instantly restores Zhunti and Jieyin after Six-Eared Macaque severely injures them. 163
  • She transforms Nezha's lotus-root body into a flesh-and-blood body and resolves his former physical limitations. 181 182

Overwhelming Erasure and Restoration

Nuwa can remove beings or restore them with negligible effort.

  • She instantly restores Zhunti and Jieyin after Six-Eared Macaque severely injures them. 163
  • She compresses Yaldabaoth and its land of flesh into a tiny flesh pellet. 186
  • She erases a strange progenitor with a casual gesture, then annihilates the ominous corruption released after replacing that world's Heavenly Dao. 396

Equipment / Weapons / Items

  • Red Marriage Ball — Nuwa's life-bound treasure. She provides Liu Bing with a created copy, which later fuses with a counterpart's Red Marriage Ball and frees that counterpart from the Saint-Falling Pill. 162 163
  • Red Sleeve — Nuwa's genuine Red Marriage Ball eventually takes human form as Red Sleeve, who works on Nuwa's behalf certifying marriages in the Primordial World's civil-affairs bureau. 162 165
  • Primordial Violet Crystals — Crystals condensed from vast quantities of Primordial Violet Qi. 3

Relationships

  • Liu Bing — Nuwa's frequent target for teasing and a beneficiary of her guidance. She allows him to cultivate rather than granting instant immortality; Liu Bing later openly identifies himself as her henchman. 5 358
  • Houtu — Close companion and fellow mischief-maker. The two regularly play cards or mahjong and banter over games. 3 105
  • Xi He — Companion in the Primordial World; Nuwa joins Xi He, Houtu, Chang Xi, and the Queen Mother of the West in confronting Chaos for entertainment. Nuwa also protects Lu Ya in accordance with a promise to Xi He. 418 432
  • Yang Chan — Honorary disciple of Nuwa. Yang Chan can recognize Nuwa's aura and attempts to mediate disputes involving Nuwa's descendants. 331
  • Zhao Ling'er — A descendant of Nuwa from another world. Nuwa's request for help leads Zhao Ling'er to Phoenix Girl and Long Wa. 330 331
  • Phoenix Girl and Long Wa — Nuwa's children in another world. She seeks aid for them through Zhao Ling'er. 330
  • Sun Wukong — His birth stone originates from Nuwa's sky-mending stones, making Nuwa one of the elders connected to his origin. She also takes an active interest in arranging his romantic life. 131 157
  • Nezha — Nuwa's Lingzhuzi reincarnation. She transforms his lotus-root body into a normal flesh-and-blood body and involves herself in his future marriage prospects. 181 182 350
  • Lu Ya — Nuwa protects him because she promised Xi He to care for her last child, though she is openly frustrated by his continued attempts to revive the Demon Court. 432 433
  • Jieyin and Zhunti — Enemies who plotted against a counterpart Nuwa; she strips them of their Saint Dao Fruits and erases them after replacing the Heavenly Dao. 163 164
  • Hongjun — A counterpart Nuwa attends a lecture by the real Hongjun, gaining knowledge that reveals her own world's illusory nature. Her subsequent transcendence unsettles the Hongjun of that world. 420 422 423
  • Wave — The counterpart Primordial World originates from Wave's lingering thoughts. Nuwa seeks to make the world real and help Wave reclaim the position of dominant personality. 423
  • The Three Pure Ones — Nuwa's senior brothers in the counterpart Primordial World. They witness the rise of her Good Corpse and her return from beyond the world's limits. 422 423

Story Role / Major Arcs

Liu Bing's Arrival

Nuwa brings Liu Bing into her orbit after his transmigration, explains the risks of his System, and sends him back to his own world only after giving him the time and opportunity to cultivate. She later has him return to the Spiritually Barren Land largely to entertain herself and the chat group. 4 5 16

The Red Marriage Ball Incident

When a counterpart Nuwa is trapped by the Saint-Falling Pill and threatened by Jieyin and Zhunti, Liu Bing delivers the Red Marriage Ball originally supplied by Nuwa. The counterpart uses its power to transcend her world's limits, replace the self-aware Heavenly Dao, and erase the two Western Saints. 162 163 164

Multiversal Interventions

Nuwa destroys Yaldabaoth, reducing it to a pellet containing the Law of Creation and giving it to Liu Bing. She later sends Liu Bing to resolve the consequences caused by her wandering counterpart in a world containing Zhao Ling'er, a descendant of Nuwa. 186 216 217

Nuwa also intervenes directly in worlds whose Heavenly Dao has become self-aware or corrupt. In the world of Shrouding the Heavens, she replaces the Heavenly Dao and establishes a punishment system for beings burdened by severe sins. 396 397

Primordial World Leadership

After learning that a version of the Primordial World is an illusion born from Wave's lingering thoughts, Nuwa seeks a way to bring the world and her children into reality rather than allowing them to disappear. She later becomes the Primordial World's ruler and warns Lu Ya not to create further trouble. 423 433

Using the Red Marriage Ball as a medium, Nuwa envelops the illusory Primordial World and forcibly draws it into reality. This realizes her plan to preserve the world and makes its Heavenly Dao real. 425

Notable Quotes

“Self-reliance and self-improvement are the beliefs that humans should have.” 4

“Enough. You're nothing more than a meaningless lump of rotten flesh.” 186

“If not, replace it.” 396

Trivia

  • Nuwa's special card-playing space in Wa Huang Tian prohibits all magic to prevent cheating. 4
  • Calling Nuwa “Mom” carries immense personal karma; Jia Junpeng dissipates after attempting it without possessing the destiny to withstand the title. 318
  • Legends of Nuwa persist across worlds wherever humans exist, described as an imprint within humanity's souls and true spirits. 318
  • Despite enforcing anti-cheating rules during games, Nuwa has a reputation for losing bets without cheating. 246

Appearances

569
Total Mentions
76
Chapters Appeared
7.49
Avg. per Chapter