Houtu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Houtu (后土)
Alias(es)	Lady Houtu; Ancestral Witch Houtu 394 435
Species/Race	Ancestral Witch; descendant of Pangu’s bloodline 431
Gender	Female 383 396
Affiliation	Twelve Ancestral Witches; Witch Race; Earthly Dao; Underworld; Chat Group 383 432 433
Occupation/Role	Founder of reincarnation and the Underworld; leader of the Witch Race 431 432 433
Cultivation	Seventh level of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal—the latest explicitly stated level 434
Residence	Pangu Hall; Six Paths Reincarnation Hall; later claims the Thirty-Fourth Heaven 383 437 459
Status	Alive following the Ancestral Witches’ rebirth 432 465
First Appearance	Chapter 383, “Revealing Information,” in the supplied context 383

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Peak Daluo Golden Immortal	392 396	Advances from the middle stage after observing Chen Yu’s law-based transformations. Her Great Dao of Earth reaches minor accomplishment.
Primordial spirit formation	405	Absorbs one-third of the origin essence obtained from the Three Pure Ones, assisted by the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel. Overcomes the Ancestral Witches’ lack of primordial spirits.
Primordial Golden Immortal	416	Has reached this realm by Chen Yu’s return to Pangu Hall after a thousand years of climbing Mount Buzhou.
Dao attainment / Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal	431 432 435	Establishes reincarnation and brings forth the Earthly Dao. She and the other Ancestral Witches are subsequently reborn.
Seventh-level Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal	434	Explicitly displays this cultivation when confronting Hongjun in Chaos; he evades her attack and concedes.

Background / History

Learning the Witch Race’s Future

Houtu reveals the Chat Group to her siblings after its arrival causes a fluctuation in her aura. Zhu Jiuyin cannot detect its workings, but reasons that anything capable of entering Pangu Hall must have Pangu’s permission. Chen Yu then shares prehistoric-themed novels, exposing a tragic possible future for the Witch Race 383.

Rather than treating that future as inevitable, Houtu asks the group for ways to protect her race. She passes along suggestions for combination techniques and seeks opportunities to earn merit. Li Changshou recommends repairing the western earth veins, while discussions about Mount Buzhou prompt her to search for gifts or answers left by Pangu 386 387.

Hosting Chen Yu

Houtu interrupts her climb of Mount Buzhou to welcome Chen Yu to Pangu Hall and compensate him for his advice. She discourages Dijiang from accompanying her because Chen Yu is too weak to safely withstand an excited Ancestral Witch’s attention 390.

She takes Chen Yu to the Ancestral Witches’ treasury and lends him two Jade of Creation fragments containing the Laws of Soul and Reincarnation. Although she initially lacks a primordial spirit to study them directly, observing his transformations lets her deepen her understanding of Earth and Reincarnation 391 392.

Seeking Pangu’s Help

Houtu guards Chen Yu during his early climb of Mount Buzhou, then rejoins her siblings near the summit. There she discovers that the Nuwa she previously met in the Prehistoric World is also the Nuwa in the Chat Group 394 395.

Reaching the summit before the others, Houtu suspects that the destruction of the Western Continent has weakened Pangu’s will. She prays about the world’s condition and the Witch Race’s future, with her siblings, Nuwa, and Fuxi joining her plea. She later delivers Pangu’s gifts—the Twenty-Fourth Grade Creation Azure Lotus and a Jade of Creation fragment—to Chen Yu 396 400.

Overcoming the Lack of a Primordial Spirit

The Ancestral Witches compel the Three Pure Ones to exchange primordial spirit origin for Ancestral Witch blood essence. Before absorbing it, Houtu uses the Chat Group Mall to inspect the origin and discovers Laozi’s hidden soul imprint. She removes it with the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel 404.

Houtu successfully forms a primordial spirit, then offers the remaining origin to her siblings. Zhu Jiuyin consumes the remainder to form his own. Houtu credits Chen Yu’s proposal with allowing her to achieve this without waiting for the future opportunity Pangu had mentioned 405.

Establishing Reincarnation and the Witch Race

With Hongjun occupied in Chaos, Houtu acts on the plan to establish the Underworld. Above the Blood Sea, she declares six reincarnation paths and dissolves her Ancestral Witch body around the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel. Her siblings also merge their bodies into reincarnation to strengthen the emerging Earthly Dao 430 431.

The Heavenly Dao clashes with the Earthly Dao until the Great Dao intervenes. After the Twelve Ancestral Witches are reborn, Houtu establishes the Witch Race under a mandate to guard the Earthly Dao and protect the Prehistoric World, using Pangu Hall to suppress its fortune 431 432.

Building the Underworld

Houtu appoints Chen Yu as the Fengdu Great Emperor, making him the Underworld’s second-in-command. Its establishment brings Great Dao and Earthly Dao merit: Houtu receives 50%, Chen Yu receives 30%, and the Underworld receives 20% 433 434.

She recruits officials, appoints ten Great Witches as the Ten Yama Kings, and directs her eleven siblings to lead the Witch Race in clearing earth veins. When the resulting influx of dead souls overwhelms the Underworld, she supports Chen Yu’s proposal to bring in temporary workers from other worlds 435 436 437.

Strengthening the Earthly Dao

Houtu and Nuwa prevent Hongjun from retaliating against Chen Yu after he disrupts Hongjun’s plans. She accepts three top-grade innate treasures to settle the associated karmic ties and passes them to Chen Yu. She also approves his proposed earth-vein protection regulations 453 454 455.

After claiming the Thirty-Fourth Heaven, Houtu establishes the Earth Vein Creation Array to stabilize the Prehistoric Continent. The stronger Earthly Dao gives her greater confidence against Hongjun. She later obtains Hongyun’s Hongmeng Violet Qi in exchange for an Earthly Dao fruition position and negotiates a three-thousand-year loan of the Jade of Creation for Chen Yu’s use 459 463 465.

Appearance

• Described as a stunning woman with beautiful eyes, delicate dark brows, and a lovely smile 383 387 392.
• After forming her primordial spirit, her formerly cold, weighty gaze gains a compassion described as embracing all things 405.

Personality

Houtu’s compassion is closely tied to her cultivation. Recalling battlefield corpses and souls wandering without a destination accelerates her comprehension of Reincarnation. She ultimately gives up her original body to establish an ordered cycle of life and death 392 431.

She is protective without dismissing weaker people’s contributions. She asks mortals in the Chat Group for advice, lends Chen Yu valuable fragments she cannot yet use, and postpones her own mountain climb to guard him 387 392 395.

Her gentleness does not prevent retaliation. She punishes Chen Yu for disrespectful remarks, reacts with killing intent to Laozi’s tampering, and attacks Hongjun without waiting for his consent to a sparring match. Her earlier beating of Chen Yu is nevertheless measured enough not to truly injure him 394 404 434.

As a ruler, she delegates work and expects initiative. When Chen Yu brings her the Underworld’s workload crisis, she asks for his proposed solution rather than solving everything herself. She also refuses his initial plan to fill every post with outsiders, directing him to recruit local cultivators 436 437.

Abilities & Skills

Earth Laws and Physical Cultivation

Houtu cultivates Pangu’s Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and, after obtaining a primordial spirit, develops both her physical body and law comprehension 393 420.

• Reaches minor accomplishment in the Great Dao of Earth through Chen Yu’s transformations 392.
• Leaves forces in Chen Yu’s bruises that purify his Divine Power when he wears them away 394.
• At seventh-level Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, delivers a punch that would severely injure Hongjun if it landed; he avoids it 434.

Reincarnation and Soul Power

The Law of Reincarnation reaches minor accomplishment during her first opportunity to observe Chen Yu using it 392.

• Reincarnation power soothes and purifies souls, dissolving negative emotions 405.
• Uses her body and the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel to establish reincarnation in the Blood Sea 431.
• Sets destinations according to beings’ conduct during life 431.

Moral category	Reincarnation destinations
Virtuous	Heavenly God Path, Human Realm Path, Asura Path 431
Wicked	Hungry Ghost Path, Hell Path, Beast Path 431

Earthly Dao Authority

Houtu can communicate with the Earthly Dao and arrange recognition for outsiders 436 437.

• Secures legitimate identities for Yan Lingji and Chen Yu’s other companions 436.
• Offers Earthly Dao Saint positions and leadership of reincarnation paths to suitable recruits 435.
• Establishes the Earth Vein Creation Array, stabilizing the continent’s foundations 463.
• Exchanges an Earthly Dao fruition position for Hongyun’s Hongmeng Violet Qi 465.

Underworld Governance

Houtu establishes the Underworld’s offices and infrastructure while leaving daily administration to Chen Yu 433 434 436.

• Creates a manifestation in the form of an old woman and names her Meng Po 436.
• Appoints the Ten Yama Kings and seeks powerful candidates for the Five Ghost Emperors and Six Paths Lords 436 454.
• Establishes Ghost Gate Pass, Yellow Springs Road, Naihe Bridge, Three-Life Stone, Meng Po’s Soup, Fengdu City, the Ten Halls of Yama, Wrongful Death City, the Eighteen Levels of Hell, and Avici Hell 433.

Formation Bypass

Pangu teaches Houtu a special method for entering Chen Yu’s Three Immortal Islands without alerting their formations 435.

• The method relies on Pangu’s instruction; she acknowledges that entering normally would require considerable effort 435.
• Refuses Chen Yu’s request to teach it to him 435.

Equipment / Items

• Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel — Innate Supreme Treasure; removes Laozi’s soul imprint, assists primordial spirit formation, and becomes reincarnation’s core 404 405 431.
• Jade of Creation fragments — Her two early fragments contain the Laws of Soul and Reincarnation; she lends them to Chen Yu and later receives them back 391 392 393.
• Pangu Jade Marrow — Cultivation resource; sends drops to Nuwa and Chen Yu, with Chen Yu’s gift repaying his World-Purifying White Lotuses 429.
• Twelve ninth-grade Purifying World White Lotuses — Received from Chen Yu and distributed among the Ancestral Witches to address baleful-aura erosion 422.
• Pangu Hall — Ancestral residence and the treasure used to suppress the Witch Race’s fortune 383 432.
• Jade of Creation, borrowed from Hongjun — Obtained through a Hongmeng Violet Qi exchange and passed to Chen Yu; the agreement requires its return after three thousand years and the surrender of another fragment 465.

Relationships

• Pangu — Father God and bloodline progenitor. Houtu seeks his guidance, carries out his instructions, and dedicates the Witch Race to protecting his world 387 396 400 432.
• Chen Yu — Adviser, cultivation partner, protected guest, and later Fengdu Great Emperor. Their exchanges help Houtu comprehend laws and acquire a primordial spirit; she entrusts him with Underworld administration 392 405 433 434.
• Dijiang — Eldest brother. Supports her advancement and later leads earth-vein restoration at her request 396 404 436.
• Zhu Jiuyin — Second brother and fellow primordial-spirit pioneer. Helps assess the Chat Group and develops his spirit using the origin left after Houtu’s success 383 405.
• Xuanming — Elder sister. Houtu seeks to improve her law comprehension through Chen Yu, but the proposal stalls because it would require him to refine Xuanming’s armor 401.
• Nuwa — Chat Group companion and political ally. They jointly protect Chen Yu and recruit for their respective Dao factions, while occasionally competing for candidates such as Hongyun 395 435 453.
• Laozi / Taiqing — Hostile counterpart. Secretly contaminates the primordial spirit origin traded to her; Houtu detects and removes his imprint 404 405.
• Hongjun — Rival and negotiating partner. Concedes rather than sparring with her, later settles Chen Yu’s karmic ties through treasures, and loans the Jade of Creation 434 453 465.
• Zhen Yuanzi — Earthly Dao recruit whose Book of Earth supports earth-vein work. Seeks Houtu’s help with Hongyun’s cultivation difficulties 435 445 465.
• Hongyun — Recruitment candidate who ultimately accepts an Earthly Dao fruition position in exchange for his Hongmeng Violet Qi 435 465.
• Minghe — Neighbor at the Blood Sea and prospective recruit. Houtu identifies a suitable reincarnation path for him; he later becomes Lord of the Asura Path 435 465.
• Xingtian — Great Witch fiercely protective of her reputation. Reports Chen Yu’s disparaging remarks, prompting ten years of punitive training 395 416.

Notable Quotes

“If all my elder brothers and sisters are unwilling to go, it doesn't matter. I'll go by myself.” 387

“I am willing to use my Ancestral Witch body and the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel to establish reincarnation, so that souls may have somewhere to rest and somewhere to return, and so that life and death may be ordered.” 431

“The Thirty-Fourth Heaven shall belong to me. If you need anything in the future, come find me in the Thirty-Fourth Heaven.” 459