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Primordial World
The Crab King's Quest in the Primordial Era
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Primordial World |
| Alias(es) | Honghuang; Primordial Wilderness; New Primordial World |
| Species/Race | Great thousand world |
| Status | Extant; remade into the New Primordial World and later evolved beyond one thousand laws 159 174 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Newly opened, incomplete world | 21 | Only one yuanhui had passed since Pangu opened heaven and earth. The sun, moon, and stars remained sealed, preventing the Heavenly Dao from manifesting completely. |
| Era of Giant Beasts | 35 | The Gods and Devils’ aura dissipated; the Sun Star, Moon Star, 365 primary stars, and 480 million auxiliary stars became visible. |
| Heavenly Cycle completed | 110 | The Era of Giant Beasts ended and the Era of Ferocious Beasts began. The Heavenly Dao emerged, the cosmic cycle became complete, and a new kalpa started. |
| Great thousand world of 49 laws | 160 | The original Primordial World is identified as a great thousand world governed by forty-nine laws. |
| New Primordial World — 55 laws | 159 | Xuanji used the Great Crab Unification Art to merge the Primordial World into himself and remake it with a stronger Heavenly Dao. |
| New Primordial World — 59 laws | 164 | The destruction of the Demon Realm advanced the world by four additional heavens and fifty-nine rules. |
| Great thousand world of 65 laws | 174 | After devouring more than ten minor thousand worlds and one middle thousand world, it advanced to sixty-five laws. |
| Supreme great thousand world — over 1,000 laws | 174 | After devouring no fewer than ten thousand minor and middle thousand worlds across an immense span of time, it entered the ranks of the supreme great thousand worlds of Chaos. |
Background / History
The Primordial World was opened by Pangu after he obtained the Pangu Axe and the Jade of Creation. To gain sufficient power for creation, Pangu killed the three thousand Chaos Gods and Devils and absorbed their origins. The exertion exhausted him, while the Pangu Axe split into the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Chaos Bell. 21
After Pangu’s death, the resentful Gods and Devils used their corpses to seal the sun, moon, and stars. Their purpose was to keep the world incomplete, prevent the manifestation of the Heavenly Dao, and ultimately return heaven and earth to chaos. They descended through innate spiritual objects to enact this destruction. 21
In its early age, the world had no visible celestial bodies, but its spiritual resources were extraordinarily abundant. Vermilion Fruits, lingzhi, and other spiritual treasures could be found in great quantities, while Mount Buzhou contained visible mist-like spiritual qi and natural treasures thousands to tens of thousands of years old. 2 9
The Gods and Devils’ aura later spread through the world, beginning the Great Beast Calamity. Living beings below the Primordial Spirit stage could not resist it and were transformed into giant beasts, permanently limiting their future cultivation. 21 22 Once the celestial seals weakened and the stars returned, the Era of Giant Beasts developed into the Era of Ferocious Beasts, accompanied by the emergence of a complete Heavenly Dao and a new cosmic cycle. 35 110
Xuanji eventually merged the Primordial World into his body through the Great Crab Unification Art, remaking it as the New Primordial World. Its Heavenly Dao became stronger, its laws rose from forty-nine to fifty-five, and its living beings received an opportunity to comprehend newly manifested Great Dao principles. 159 160
The New Primordial World later reached fifty-nine laws and began devouring worlds in Chaos. It integrated foreign laws, beings, cultivation systems, and more than a million planes, ultimately exceeding one thousand laws and becoming a supreme great thousand world. 164 174
Cosmology
Heaven, Earth, and the Celestial Bodies
- Mount Buzhou — The first mountain created when Pangu split heaven and earth; it supports the heavens, anchors the earth, and contains vast ranges rich in spiritual treasures. 9
- Sun, Moon, and Stars — Initially sealed by the corpses of the Chaos Gods and Devils; their later emergence enabled cultivators to draw upon celestial power for Golden Core and Primordial Spirit cultivation. 21 35
- Primordial Membrane — A boundary separating the Primordial World from Chaos. Living beings may cross it if they can withstand Chaos Qi. 79
- River of Fate — A vast cosmic river connected to creation, heavenly secrets, and the worlds of the myriad heavens. Even Sages are insignificant before it. 80 105
World Hierarchy
| World Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Divine kingdom / plane / Sumeru dojo / devil realm | Lower forms of worlds or subsidiary realms. |
| Small chiliocosm | A true world of the myriad heavens aligned with the River of Fate and possessing its own Heavenly Dao. |
| Middle chiliocosm | A world beyond the level normally attainable by divine kingdoms or ordinary inner universes. |
| Great chiliocosm | The highest ordinary world classification; the Primordial World began as a forty-nine-law great thousand world. |
| Supreme great chiliocosm | A great thousand world with more than one thousand laws, the level later attained by the Primordial World. 128 141 160 174 |
Heavenly Dao
The Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao could not fully manifest while the sun, moon, and stars were sealed. The completion of the cosmic cycle marked its emergence and began a kalpa in which the struggle over the world’s protagonist would unfold. 21 110
After Xuanji remade the world, he became its Heavenly Dao. He later merged with the Heavenly Dao Mystic Wheel, gaining authority over the world’s workings and the Six Paths of Reincarnation. 159 168 169
- The Heavenly Dao governs the world’s laws, worldly advancement, and karmic order.
- It can reject individuals, turning them into targets of all beings in the world, as occurred to the Netherworld Daoist. 164
- Its Six Paths of Reincarnation can reincarnate deceased beings while erasing their former memories. 168
- World advancement benefits both the Heavenly Dao and its inhabitants; conversely, Primordial Unity Sages can aid a world’s advancement by harmonizing it with the mysteries of Chaos. 191
Inhabitants and Major Eras
| Era / Event | Consequence |
|---|---|
| Great Beast Calamity | The Gods and Devils’ aura transformed much of the world’s life into giant beasts and destroyed their prospects of pursuing the Great Dao. 21 22 |
| Era of Giant Beasts | Giant beasts ruled the wilderness after the celestial bodies began to return. 35 37 |
| Era of Ferocious Beasts | Ferocious beasts, led by Shen Ni and the Twelve Ferocious Beast Kings, dominated heaven and earth. 110 |
| Rise of innate factions | Dragons, phoenixes, qilins, the Three Pure Ones, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Hongjun, Luo Hou, Dijun, and Taiyi emerged as major forces. 110 |
| Wu–Demon conflict | The Wu and Demon Races became dominant powers, with the Human Race caught between them. 161 174 |
| Integration of foreign worlds | Alien beings, magic, battle qi, technology, plane controllers, and acquired Sages entered the world after its expansion through devouring other worlds. 174 |
Relationships
- Pangu — Creator of the Primordial World; opened heaven and earth after absorbing the origins of the three thousand Chaos Gods and Devils. 21
- Chaos Gods and Devils — Pangu’s enemies; after their deaths, their resentment led them to seal the celestial bodies and seek the world’s return to chaos. 21
- Xuanji — Master and later Heavenly Dao of the New Primordial World; merged the world into himself, remade it, and guided its expansion through Chaos. 159 169 174
- Nuwa — Created the Human Race within the world and became its first Sage after the New Primordial World reached fifty-nine heavens. 170
- Houtu — Helped complete the Six Paths of Reincarnation through the creation of the Asura Race. 172
- Ice Great World — A two-thousand-law great thousand world that approached the evolved Primordial World from Chaos. 174
Trivia
- The Primordial World’s early lack of a sun, moon, and stars contradicted He Yu’s knowledge of later myths. 2 9
- In the context of Chaos, the Pangu who created the Primordial World is described as only one cell of a far greater True King Pangu. 175
- The world is said to lie at the center of the myriad heavens and worlds; its destruction would affect all worlds connected to it. 175