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Original Name:混元Gender:NeutralScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:421Chapters:126
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Biodata
| Feature | Information |
|---|---|
| Name | Hunyuan (混元) |
| Alias(es) | Origin Realm; Dao of the Origin |
| Occupation/Role | Major cultivation realm; threshold for the Primordial World's highest-tier combatants |
| Status | Active cultivation realm |
| First Appearance | Chapter 36 36 |
Nature and Position
Hunyuan is a major cultivation threshold rather than an endpoint: reaching it marks the beginning of a longer journey through increasingly difficult levels. In the Primordial World, Hunyuan experts are regarded as the pinnacle of combat power, while Sub-Sages are merely first-class experts by comparison 100 222 229.
- The Primordial Heavenly Dao restricts the number of Hunyuan experts because their destructive power can destabilize the entire world 166.
- A Hunyuan practitioner's advancement becomes exceptionally slow after entry; even minor breakthroughs can require hundreds of thousands of years or more 36.
- The realm is associated with a Hunyuan Dao Fruit, within which a Hunyuan Heart is contained; extracting such a heart signifies that a Hunyuan expert has fallen 215.
- In the Chaos World, Hunyuan is less restricted by world limits, but advancement to higher levels remains extraordinarily rare 36 166.
Attainment
| Route | Requirements and process | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Dual cultivation | Cultivate both the physical body and Primordial Spirit, perfect the relevant law, and condense a Dao Fruit. Zhu Jiuyin used the Law of Time, his Three Flowers, and his personal branch of the River of Time. | Direct attainment of Hunyuan through strength 88 101 102 |
| Body-and-spirit perfection | Nuwa and Houtu each cultivated their physical body and Primordial Spirit to the Half-Sage realm, then perfected their Sub-Sage cultivation before breaking through. | Attainment of the Hunyuan path 109 |
| Refining a Great Thousand World's origin | A cultivator with at least Quasi-Sage or Golden Immortal of the Origin foundations can attain Hunyuan by acquiring sufficient Hunyuan-level mana from a Great Thousand World's origin. | Zhu Jiuyin's avatar entered Hunyuan after refining 80% of Azure Cloud Great World's origin 166 |
| Cultivating in Chaos | A practitioner may risk entering Chaos, adapt to it, and cultivate there. | Possible route to Hunyuan, but with an extremely high mortality rate 175 |
Four factors are described as indispensable for attaining Hunyuan: innate foundation, destiny, merit, and opportunity 191.
Documented Stages
| Stage / designation | Known significance | Example |
|---|---|---|
| First Heaven of the Origin | Initial Hunyuan attainment. | Zhu Jiuyin reached it by merging with the Primordial River of Time and condensing his Time Dao Fruit 101 |
| Hunyuan Wuji Great Luo Golden Immortal | An advanced Hunyuan designation held by figures such as Hongjun, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Fuxi, Jie Yin, and the Three Ancestors of Humanity 229 234 | |
| Seventh Heaven of the Origin / Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin Taiji | A level equivalent to a Saint King in the Outer Realm. Zhu Jiuyin reached its early stage after refining three layers of the Time-Space Mirror's Chaos Restriction 229 | |
| Seventh Heaven and above | A profoundly rare level; the Chaos World has only 300,000 Chaos Beings, Chaos Demon Gods, and other experts at or above this level combined 36 |
Notable Attainments
| Practitioner | Circumstances | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Zhu Jiuyin | Attained Hunyuan through the perfected Law of Time, fusion with the River of Time, and formation of the Time Dao Fruit. | 101 102 |
| Nuwa | Achieved Hunyuan after dual cultivation of body and Primordial Spirit; later created the Hunyuan chapter of her Primordial Art of Creation. | 109 |
| Houtu | Became the second Ancestral Witch to attain Hunyuan and immediately understood her mission as controller of the Earthly Dao. | 109 |
| Dijiang | Benefited from the Time-Space Mirror's residual Chaos Law of Space; attained the Dao of the Origin after perfecting body and spirit. | 110 |
| Fuxi | Attained the Dao of the Origin five million years after Dijiang. | 110 |
| Zhu Jiuyin's avatar | Broke through after refining 80% of Azure Cloud Great World's origin in thirty years. | 166 |
| Minghe | Became the Underworld's seventh Hunyuan powerhouse. | 189 |
| Shennong | Reached Hunyuan when vast destiny converged upon him during his inauguration as Earth Sovereign. | 205 206 |
| Haotian and Yaochi | Broke through only after Hongjun's guidance and ten thousand cycles through the Six Paths of Reincarnation, which removed their obsessions. | 234 |
Hunyuan Traits
Dao Fruit and Hunyuan Qi
A Dao Fruit represents the practitioner's law comprehension and cultivation foundation. Zhu Jiuyin's Time Dao Fruit produced a unique Hunyuan Qi capable of drawing upon Chaos Primordial Qi and elevating his attacks to Chaos-level attacks 101.
- Zhu Jiuyin's Dao Fruit was formed from his perfected Law of Time and twelve-petaled Three Flowers 101.
- His Primordial Spirit and True Spirit became anchored in the Primordial River of Time after his breakthrough, making conventional destruction insufficient to kill him 101.
- The Hunyuan Heart is enclosed within a Hunyuan Dao Fruit 215.
Power Gap
The gap between Hunyuan levels is immense.
- A difference of three major realms can amount to dozens of times the power of the weaker practitioner 110.
- Hunyuan status alone does not place one near the highest powers; the Primordial World's great powers state that Hunyuan practitioners “cannot even see the heels” of Hongjun or the Underworld Emperor Zhu Jiuyin 229.
- The Chaos Spirit-Transforming Inversion Array can suppress Hunyuan practitioners by sealing the laws around them, preventing the projection of their Dao principles and reducing their combat power to less than one-tenth of its peak 215.
Trivia
- Hunyuan is described as both easy and difficult to achieve: world-origin refinement can produce a rapid breakthrough outside the Primordial World, while ordinary cultivation within it depends on scarce foundation, destiny, merit, and opportunity 166 191.
- Zhu Jiuyin's attainment of Hunyuan alarmed Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao because his dual cultivation foundation was judged to surpass that of Hongjun as a Chaos Being 102.
- The creation and distribution of Origin Hearts after the defeat of Outer Realm Hunyuan experts greatly increased the number of Hunyuan practitioners in the Primordial World 216 217.