Primordial Era

Biodata

Geography and Cosmology

• The Primordial World is described as a boundless continent beneath a round sky, unlike the spherical planets encountered in another world 151.
• Kunlun Mountain is a foremost blessed land and an early home of the Chan and Jie Sects 1.
• The Human Ancestral Land lies at Shouyang Mountain; the Four Seas are ruled by Dragon Kings 34 35.
• The Nether Blood Sea is the site where Houtu establishes the Underworld and the Six Paths of Reincarnation 65.
• Vast chaos lies beyond the world. Yang Mei discovers other worlds there, each with its own laws and a protective boundary that chaotic currents gradually wear thin 90.

History

Tribulations and the Human Race

• During the Witch–Demon Tribulation, the Demon Race rules the heavens and the Witch Race occupies the land. Their clashes generate tribulation energy that begins eroding the world's spiritual veins 18.
• The newly born Human Race lacks cultivation resources and faces danger in the tribulation. Zhao Gongming and his companions intervene; a treasure he refines lets Xuandu turn ordinary materials into cultivation resources 21 35 36.
• Houtu establishes reincarnation to give the souls of living beings a destination, creating the Underworld and attaining sainthood 65.
• The Human Race's flourishing destiny leads to the emergence of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Zhao Gongming later obtains the Kongtong Seal, a treasure capable of suppressing that destiny 61 79.

Contact with Other Worlds

• Yang Mei's discovery of other worlds prompts Hongjun to propose the Great Expedition: a plan to conquer them and merge their origins with the Primordial World. He assigns Zhao Gongming to arm its forces with conceptual magic treasures 90.
• Spatial anomalies later bring Zhao Gongming, Di Jiang, and Lu Ya into a world of spherical planets, confirming that the Primordial World's geography is not universal 148 151.

The Primordial Heavenly Net

• Zhao Gongming develops the Primordial Heavenly Net by combining ideas from another world's cybernetic artifact techniques with his own artifact refinement. Connected through divine sense, it supports messaging, video, livestreams, and Dao discussions 167.
• Hongjun observes that its faster information exchange draws the world's karmic connections closer and strengthens its origin 167.
• Its reach also makes the side effects of Zhao Gongming's treasures public spectacles: livestreams attract enormous audiences, while one five-senses broadcast transmits a treasure's stench to viewers across the Primordial Era 170 174.