Primordial World

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Background / History

The Primordial World originated through countless reincarnation cycles. Hongjun repeatedly revised and expanded what had once been a mythical world, arranging for each completed cycle to strengthen it. He established the Heavenly Dao and adopted the identity of its spokesperson, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, to guide the world's development. 1

Before the world's formation, Hongjun created its predecessor, Chaos, and placed three thousand Chaos Demon God eggs throughout it. Each egg embodied one of the Three Thousand Great Daos; Pangu, who mastered the Law of Strength, received a portion of Hongjun's origin and was positioned at the center. 1 2

Pangu eventually split Chaos to establish heaven and earth. His battle with the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods nourished the forming world, while the destruction of the Chaos Green Lotus and Jade Disk of Creation scattered their fragments into it as innate treasures. Pangu then stabilized heaven and earth, differentiated Yin and Yang, fixed the four poles, and transformed his body, blood, Primordial Spirit, and organs into much of the world's terrain, celestial bodies, and life. 8 9

After hundreds of kalpas, the Primordial World fully stabilized. The former Chaos Heavenly Dao began transforming into the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, while Hongjun personally maintained the world with Heavenly Dao-level power rather than immediately exploring it. 10

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races later became the dominant powers within the world. Their population growth and consumption of spiritual energy eventually placed the entire Primordial World under severe strain, prompting Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao to intervene. 38 40

Structure and Conditions

• Heavenly Dao — The Primordial World's Heavenly Dao developed from the Chaos Heavenly Dao and represents the collective will of the beings within the world. 3 10 47
• Spiritual-energy cycle — Spiritual Qi enters the world when Chaos Qi is converted through its world barrier. This conversion rate is fixed and is only sufficient to sustain one reincarnation cycle. 38
• Cultivation burden — Golden Immortal-level cultivation methods commonly involve opening inner worlds, which consume enormous quantities of Spiritual Qi. The energy used to create these inner worlds does not return to the Primordial World when their creators die. 38
• Physical decline — Repeated Great Tribulations fragment the world, while excessive Spiritual Qi consumption causes it to shrink further. 15 38
• Celestial dependence — The Sun and Moon Stars are essential to the world's stability. Drainage of their origins risks their collapse and, ultimately, the disintegration of heaven and earth. 27 38 44
• Great Dao limitation — Although Hongjun can act with overwhelming authority within the world, the Great Dao cannot create something from nothing; its apparent omnipotence consumes its own energy reserves. 39

Inhabitants

• Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods — Their powers and bodies contributed to the world's formation after their conflict with Pangu. 8 44
• Reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods — Several survived Pangu's era by reincarnating into the Primordial World, though the Heavenly Dao regards them as outsiders it ultimately intends to eliminate. 21 30
• Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races — The three innate races became the world's principal powers during the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Calamity. 10 11
• Innate Gods and Devils — Beings born from the essence of heaven and earth, including powerful cultivators who emerged after the world stabilized. 10 38
• Transmigrators — Outsiders from other worlds repeatedly appear within the Primordial World, often accompanied by systems carrying resources from other Great Daos. Hongjun considers their presence capable of increasing the world's energy across reincarnation cycles. 13 49

Major Arcs

Creation of Heaven and Earth

Pangu's opening of Chaos created the Primordial World, but the process required the deaths of Chaos Demon Gods, the shattering of supreme treasures, and Pangu's eventual transformation into all things. 7 8 9

Stabilization and Early Development

Following the Fierce Beast Tribulation, the world developed into an age of myriad races, led by the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans. Hongjun stabilized the newly formed heaven and earth before descending to experience the world directly. 10

Spiritual-Energy Crisis

A prolonged peace between the three innate races allowed their populations to grow into the trillions. Their cultivation and reproduction drained the world's Spiritual Qi and the Sun and Moon Stars, leaving the Primordial World overcrowded and increasingly unstable. 38

Withdrawal of the Three Races

Hongjun became a Saint and forced the three races to confront the consequences of their expansion. After the Dragon Race's failed rebellion, its elites were destroyed and its surviving members were restricted from reaching the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm without sufficient merit. 40 48

The Phoenix and Qilin races were relocated to a newly opened world at the boundary between Chaos and the Primordial World. There, their stronger members refine Chaos Qi into Spiritual Qi and return it to the Primordial World, while limited populations remain behind to guard the Undying Volcano and auspicious lands. 49

Trivia

• The Primordial World was not initially created as a finished setting; Hongjun describes it as the result of repeated revisions and additions across innumerable reincarnation cycles. 1
• Its decline is not solely caused by destruction during tribulations: inner-world cultivation permanently removes Spiritual Qi from the world's natural cycle. 38
• Hongjun considers a world without conflict stagnant, believing that complete peace would prevent meaningful change and growth. 38