Human Race

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Human Race (人族)
Alias(es)	Humanity; humans
Species/Race	Human
Affiliation	The Present World; the Human Realm
Occupation/Role	Ruling race of The Present World and its principal military power
Status	Extant; dominant across The Present World and a major force in the heavens 2546 2577
First Appearance	Chapter 99

Background and History

Creation and the Ancient Era

According to the True Word Steles revealed in Divine Firmament Land, humans were originally created by great Demon Race powers in the Demon Race’s own form, but without demon traits or innate gifts. They served the Demon Race’s Heavenly Court as administrators and vassals, while their Dao Veins were sealed and their lifespan restricted. Some humans with innate Dao Veins were selected by demons to help govern humanity. 1837

The Human Race’s later history is not defined solely by this origin. A later account stresses that the Demon Race created the first humans, but humanity also remade itself through its own civilization, struggle, and choices. 2502

During the Ancient Era, the Demon Race ruled heaven and earth, while most humans could not cultivate and were regarded by other races as food. Suiren, the first Human Emperor, rose to protect humanity alongside eight worthy ministers. 1338 1632

Humanity’s rise depended on collective innovations rather than innate talent:

• Cangjie’s writing enabled people without direct perception of the Great Dao to study and transmit its principles. 1632
• The Vein-Opening Pill gave ordinary humans a path to cultivation, overcoming the limitation of sealed or blocked Dao Veins. Its early history was blood-stained, but later generations improved its materials, safety, and output. 1633
• Qi-and-blood Pulse-Opening and Military School arts allowed the strength of ordinary people to be organized on a vast scale. 1758

Yu Beidou recounts that Suiren killed his teacher Bu Lian, fabricated Bu Lian’s final divination, and used it to justify a decisive war against the Demon Race. Humanity won that war, expelled the Demon Race from The Present World, and began the Remote Antiquity Era as the world’s ruling race. 1339

Expansion and the Human Realm

The second Human Emperor, Youxiong Clan, constructed the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons, severing the Demon Race’s direct route to counterattack The Present World. He also bound humanity to resist the Demon Race collectively, declaring that those who defied the agreement would be opposed by all under heaven. 1769 2250

In the Middle Antiquity Era, Human Emperor Lieshan entered the Demon Realm through the gate, slew great demons, and founded Sui Ming City, named for Suiren. The city became the first great Human Race city in the Heavenly Prison world and has never fallen; it is also called the Unfallen City. 1769

The Human Race and Aquatic Race had previously fought together against the Demon Race, but their relationship deteriorated after the external threat receded. Lieshan later drove the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Race into the Cang Sea, solidifying humanity’s position as master of the world while creating the long-term divide between the Human and Sea races. 1100 1824

Ancient sages also implemented the Grain Rain Plan, secretly scattering human communities across the myriad heavens and worlds before the decisive war against the Demon Race. The humans of the Floating Continent descended from these survivors; despite their separate development, they are stated to have no essential difference from humans of The Present World. 2040

Physiology and Identification

Humans generally share a near-human form with the Aquatic, Sea, and Demon races, a resemblance that has enabled contact and confusion between races for millennia. 99 1773

• Aquatic Race distinction — Aquatic people possess permanent traits such as scales, barbels, or shells, which manifest their innate talents. 99
• Demon Race distinction — Demons possess demon marks and a demon aura; their marks are innate dharma seals tied to their Supernatural Powers. 1822
• Cultivation anatomy — Human cultivators possess structures including the Heaven-Connecting Palace, Five Palaces Sea, and Star-Hidden Sea, unlike the Sea Race’s single sea of consciousness. 880
• Age and cultivation — Human vitality and blood generally begin declining after fifty. Those who have not reached Divine Presence by sixty are ordinarily considered unlikely to cross the divide between humanity and heaven. 1864

Society and Civilization

Humanity is divided among nations, sects, clans, schools, armies, and organizations, yet retains an overarching Human Race identity despite differences in language, custom, and political allegiance. 1784

National systems have become a major engine of Human Race development: states gather resources, produce powerhouses, and channel the momentum of Humanity’s Torrent. 1209

Human unity is strongest on racial battlefields, not in ordinary politics. Nations frequently wage war against one another, and appeals to shared humanity can be used either as genuine solidarity or as a weapon of coercion. 1492

The Human Race’s legal and moral traditions formally recognize ordinary people as deserving protection. Han Gui’s laws were founded first to protect mortals, while the Legalist spirit remains influential in the laws of the various states and the Three Punishments Palace. 2107

Cultivation and Martial Development

Humanity’s cultivation culture emphasizes acquired achievement over fixed talent.

• Vein-Opening Pill — Opens a cultivation path for ordinary people and remains an irreplaceable foundation of the Human Race’s extraordinary civilization. 1633
• Daoist Arts — Originated through imitation of spells and Supernatural Powers, then developed into a broad system for applying the Dao and the rules of heaven and earth. 1919
• Supernatural Powers — Human cultivators may discover Divine Ability Seeds within their Inner Palaces, but most cannot obtain one; no single technique is universally accessible to all humans. 881
• Military cultivation — Military formations and collective martial methods allow ordinary people and cultivators to transform into coordinated battlefield strength. 1758
• Human potential — Human cultivation incorporates the essence of many races through the Vein-Opening Pill system, allowing people to seize what Heaven does not grant them naturally. 2503

Wars and Frontiers

Theater	Human Race role	Documented significance
Demon Realm / Heavenly Prison	Maintains cities, armies, and the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons blockade.	Sui Ming City anchors Human Race territory in the Demon Realm; the long-term objective of the gate is to keep Demon Race invaders outside The Present World, where they are weakened upon entry. 1769 1864
Frost Wind Valley	Fights the Demon Race along the Border Wasteland frontier.	The Human Race holds the Life-Death Line to protect fertile lands and hundreds of millions of people behind it; the boundary was carved through generations of warfare. 1661
Lost Realm and Cang Sea	Conducts campaigns against the Sea Race and contests control of sea domains.	Human armies destroyed multiple Sea Nests and later assaulted the Saha Dragon Domain, demonstrating large-scale coordination between military formations and True Lords. 1916 1943
Yu Abyss	Defends the Human Realm against the Asura Race.	Human Race True Lords and armies operate from the Great Wall, using scouting, traps, and coordinated retreats against Asura kings. 2250
Divine Firmament World	Fought the Demon Race and allied races for control of the newly opened world.	Human gods and armies entered the Divine Firmament War under commanders including Jiang Wang, eventually gaining decisive dominance and pursuing the retreating allied armies. 2789 2857
Devil World	Launches the Demon-Purging War under the Demon-Execution Edict.	Yujing Mountain mobilized Human Race factions to cleanse devil soil, establish Punishment Lightning gates, and transform the Devil World into an Immortal World. 2875 2876

Relationships

• Demon Race — Humanity’s original creator and its oldest existential enemy. The Human Race overthrew the Demon Race’s Heavenly Court, expelled demons from The Present World, and continues to fight them across the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons. 1837 1864
• Aquatic Race — Ancient comrades-in-arms against the Demon Race. Their alliance endured into later eras, though many Aquatic communities became self-governing or were absorbed into Human Race political systems. 1824 1100
• Dragon Race and Sea Race — Historical enemies following the Dragon Race’s expulsion into the Cang Sea. The Sea Race regards Human Race civilization as a source of oppression, while the Human Race treats the Sea Race as one of its foremost external threats. 1952 2321
• Devil Race — A principal enemy descended from the ancient conflict surrounding the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons and the Devil Ancestor. The Human Race’s Demon-Purging War is directed against the Devil World. 1631 2875
• Asura Race — One of the four greatest threats to Human Race sovereignty, alongside the Demon, Devil, and Sea races. 2321
• Floating Continent Human Race — Descendants of humanity’s Grain Rain Plan. They share the same origin as The Present World’s humans and later align with them in the Divine Firmament War. 2040 2405

Notable Quotes

“The Human Race does not let talent define one's life!” 1156

“What heaven would not grant, humans would take for themselves.” 2503

“Only those who are alive have the right to record history.” 894