Human Race

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Human Race (人族)
Species/Race	Humans; later includes Witch-Human lineages that identify as human 355
Creator	Nuwa, who fashioned humans from kneaded earth 231
Ancestors	Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi, founders of fire-making, shelter-building, and clothing 9
Totem	Yellow Dragon, revered as Lord Totem and the Divine Dragon 260 512
Cultivation Traditions	Golden Core Dao, Witch Race body-tempering arts, Fuxi’s Qi Refining Art, and basic Interception Sect teachings 13 355 481 576
Original Homeland	Shores of the East Sea 9
Ancestral Land	Mount Shouyang, the race’s second birthplace and post-calamity homeland 479
Human Emperors	Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan 512 574 622
Status	Surviving and unified; Xuanyuan steps down and departs for Fire Cloud Cave in the latest documented events 622
First Documented Appearance	Chapter 9, “The Three Ancestors of the Human Race” 9

Power Progression

The realms below belong to named humans or documented groups, not to the race as a single cultivator.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Great Luo Golden Immortal — Three Ancestors	9	Suiren, Ziyi, and Youchao receive Heavenly Dao merit after spreading fire-making, clothing, and shelter-building throughout humanity.
True Immortal — first Golden Core students; Heavenly Immortal — Xuandu	13	Dozens advance during Supreme Pure’s sermon with spiritual energy supplied by Yellow Dragon. Xuandu achieves the highest breakthrough and becomes Supreme Pure’s disciple.
Middle Golden Immortal — Xuandu	24	Advances during the Three Pure Ones’ sermon on Kunlun.
Heavenly Immortal — post-calamity strength ceiling	433 434	A major regression: Lieshan is the strongest surviving human cultivator, while the teachers of the Golden Core Method have died.
Golden Immortal cultivators reappear	465	Fuxi’s successive reincarnations strengthen human fortune and help tribes rise. Golden Immortal guardians bring humanity above more than half the world’s races in strength.
Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal — Fuxi	478	Reaches this realm over ten thousand years under Yellow Dragon and Xuandu’s guidance, then leads campaigns to recover human territory.
Great Luo Golden Immortal — Fuxi	479	Receives the entire race’s fortune upon becoming co-ruler; his Primordial Spirit enters the River of Time.
Middle Great Luo Golden Immortal — Fuxi	482	Human population, territory, unity, and strength feed his cultivation through collective fortune.
Broad access to cultivation — Qi Refining Art	481	Fuxi’s new method lets even poorly gifted humans begin cultivating. Innate Pills or Innate Spiritual Veins can supply the energy needed for True Immortal breakthroughs.
Sub-Sage — Fuxi	512 528	His declaration as Human Emperor is later confirmed to have brought him to Sub-Sage with the aid of a Primordial Violet Qi fragment.
Additional Great Luo cultivator; Taiyi elders	533	Fuxi nurtures a new Great Luo pillar of humanity. More than a dozen accompanying elders have reached at least Taiyi.
Late Great Luo Golden Immortal — Shennong	569	His cultivation stalls despite prosperity in some tribes; Yellow Dragon investigates uneven conditions across the race.
Sub-Saint — Shennong; four new Great Luo cultivators	574	Shennong’s breakthrough resonance allows four long-stalled Taiyi humans to attain Great Luo and benefits hundreds of others.
Heavenly Immortal — Xuanyuan	581	Reaches this realm after a century of training under Guangchengzi.
Great Luo Golden Immortal — Chiyou	606	Leads the Witch-Human Jiuli army against Demon Core cultivators and kills Great Luo opponents.
Golden Immortal and Taiyi — Xuanyuan’s veteran generals	622	Veterans who began as ordinary humans have attained these realms by the end of Xuanyuan’s reign. Younger cultivators grow up within his established training system.

History

Creation and the First Tribes

Nuwa created humanity from kneaded earth. Humans were born with Dao bodies but lacked innate divine abilities, leaving them vulnerable to the Primordial World’s beasts. Entrusted with their protection, Yellow Dragon sheltered and guided the first communities along the East Sea 9 231.

Suiren learned to kindle fire by drilling wood, Ziyi developed woven clothing, and Youchao built shelters by observing animals. Once their inventions spread throughout the race, all three received vast heavenly merit and became its revered ancestors 9.

The Golden Core Dao

The Grand Pure Dao Venerable lived in the Suiren Tribe as an elderly healer, while Yellow Dragon taught medicinal-herb identification and preparation. Yellow Dragon’s observation that humans were intelligent but physically frail and lacked a cultivation path prompted the Dao Venerable to create a method suited to them 12.

Supreme Pure taught the Golden Core Dao, accepted Xuandu as his disciple, and established the Humanity Sect. Human leaders spread the method among coastal tribes over the following decades. The sect’s establishment redirected thirty percent of human destiny to Supreme Pure; he reassured Yellow Dragon that Nuwa had permitted his entry into human territory 13.

Southern Migration and Witch-Human Integration

An early population near Mount Shouyang suffered catastrophic losses during the Ten Golden Crows’ disaster: several million humans were reduced to several thousand survivors sheltered in naturally protected caves. Yellow Dragon declined excessive intervention, believing they should emerge and rebuild when the land recovered 231.

Later, the Three Ancestors arranged for Xuandu to take half the Human Race south. Although the region’s spiritual energy was poorer than that of the East Sea, fewer powerful rivals made it safer for ordinary humans. Yellow Dragon subsequently found roughly a million people living in dozens of riverside settlements there 260 278.

The Human Path of reincarnation opened rebirth into humanity to the spirits of other beings. Meanwhile, the Witch Race sought a future through cooperation and intermarriage with humans. Over more than one hundred thousand years, mixed descendants became important tribal warriors while continuing to identify themselves as human 299 304 355.

The Witch-Slaying Sword Massacres

Bai Ze discovered that human blood and souls could grant demons the ability to tear through Witch Race bodies. Di Jun authorized a secret operation against humanity, and disappearing border tribes were initially mistaken for migrants or victims of beasts. As the attacks widened, human investigators uncovered the Demon Race’s involvement and sought Witch Race protection 369 370.

The Heavenly Court collected human blood and souls for the Witch-Slaying Sword and rewarded the slaughter. Some demons also consumed those resources to purify their demon qi and advance. Tribulation aura obscured divination, delaying the Three Ancestors’ understanding and leaving Yellow Dragon unaware of the crisis 372 373 375.

Youchao and Ziyi detonated themselves and their merit treasures against the attacking Great Luo demons, while Suiren burned two opponents with his kindling flame. Witch forces arrived to protect survivors, Yellow Dragon confronted Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Zhenyuanzi secretly rescued entire tribes. Xuandu pleaded with Supreme Pure to save humanity 379 380 382 384.

Rebuilding at Mount Shouyang

After the Witch-Demon Calamity, Yellow Dragon and Xuandu returned Zhenyuanzi’s rescued humans to Mount Shouyang. The survivors reunited their fortune, but the loss of powerful cultivators and teachers left humanity exposed. Suishan managed the Ancestral Land, while Lieshan led settlers outward to create living space and keep danger away from the homeland 432 433 434.

Scattered communities survived through tools, cooperative hunting, animal domestication, and occasional trade with peaceful neighbors. Cultivation remained difficult: the Golden Core Method demanded exceptional aptitude, and humans nourished by acquired spiritual energy struggled to understand it 434.

Fuxi’s Unification

Fuxi’s repeated human reincarnations gradually transferred his innate divine and Demon Race fortune into humanity. In his culminating life, he developed written records, marriage ceremonies, rites and music, and organized ancestor worship. The Huaxu Tribe became a center of learning whose practices spread through visiting tribal envoys 465 477 478.

Fuxi recovered lost territory and was invited to Mount Shouyang as the race’s co-ruler. His Qi Refining Art subsequently opened cultivation to ordinary people. After taking control of human destiny through the Kongtong Seal, he declared himself Human Emperor before billions of humans; the Three Ancestors endorsed him 479 481 511 512 513.

Shennong’s Reforms and Expansion

Hong Yun became fully human through repeated reincarnations and was born into the Lieshan Tribe. As Lieshan, the future Shennong initially misunderstood ordinary human life because of his privileged upbringing. Yellow Dragon sent him to experience a remote tribe’s poverty, disease, and vulnerability without access to his cultivation 541 544 545.

Shennong identified the five grains, taught farming, developed agricultural tools, and compiled the Classic of Materia Medica. His reforms did not benefit every region equally: plains tribes wasted surplus grain, while mountain and forest communities lacked farmland or failed to use valuable herbs. Yellow Dragon’s investigation exposed these disparities 550 569.

After becoming Sub-Saint, Shennong oversaw expansion in four directions. Human territory doubled, scholars named the four great continents, and new settlements reached the East Sea, Kunlun, Longevity Mountain, and the north. He established inheritable medical and pill-refining traditions and distributed basic Interception Sect teachings 574 576.

Renewed Tribulation and Xuanyuan’s Reign

Following Shennong’s departure from active leadership, a demon-corrupted Nine Infants devoured the human population of Northern Kuru. Neighboring races then seized human lands while prayers received no answer beyond the Three Ancestors. Only two active Great Luo cultivators remained to oppose more than a dozen enemies of that level 579.

Xuanyuan and Chiyou emerged as defenders. Human Great Luo protectors sacrificed themselves for Xuanyuan, while Houtu and Xingtian intervened for Chiyou. Kunpeng then encouraged neighboring races to practice the Demon Core Method and hunt humans to cleanse its corrupting effects. The plan eventually undermined itself as its practitioners devoured one another, leaving territory open for human recovery 581 582 583 584 585.

Xuanyuan and Chiyou’s parallel campaigns eliminated hostile factions between human territories and unified Southern Jambu Continent. Xuanyuan targeted peoples responsible for harming humans; Chiyou attacked every being carrying demonic aura. Both stopped short of entering Northern Kuru, where Demon Saints would intervene 606.

Under Xuanyuan, administration, cultivation, and military organization became orderly and ordinary people lived in peace. At the end of his reign, he protected the Ancestral Land with a shield of human fortune, accepted the sages’ decree to step down, and made a final tour before entering Fire Cloud Cave 609 622.

Racial Traits and Abilities

Physiology and Adaptability

Humans combine natural intelligence and rapid reproduction with weaker bodies and cultivation aptitude than many Primordial races 278 304.

• Born with Dao bodies, but without innate divine abilities 231.
• Can flourish in regions with sparse spiritual energy when water, prey, vegetation, and safety are available 278.
• Compensate for physical weakness through tools, teamwork, domesticated animals, and learned cultivation 434.
• Ordinary communities remain vulnerable to beasts, venomous insects, injuries, and even common illnesses 545.

Cultivation Paths

Tradition	Applications	Limits
Golden Core Dao	Refines Essence, Qi, and Spirit into a golden core; offers a path toward Golden Immortality 12 13.	Exceptional aptitude is required in practice. Later generations struggle without teachers and innate spiritual conditions 434.
Witch body-tempering arts	Strengthens sinews, bones, blood, and qi; provides an alternative for humans unsuited to Golden Core cultivation 355.	Witch-Human descendants possess advantages ordinary humans do not fully share 355.
Qi Refining Art	Fuxi’s four-realm method gives ordinary humans access to cultivation and improves strength, speed, endurance, and combat power 481.	True Immortal breakthroughs require Innate Spiritual Energy, supplied through pills or spiritual veins 481.
Interception Sect teachings	Shennong establishes instructors and introduces basic methods across the four regions 576.	Most humans make only modest progress, though the teaching creates a lasting cultivation tradition 576.

Witch-Human Inheritance

• Mixed descendants possess Primordial Spirits and can cultivate Witch Race methods 355.
• Their lifespans exceed ordinary humans’, while reproduction is easier than among pure-blooded witches 355.
• Some inherit a degree of control over the world’s Killing Intent 355.
• Their body-tempering cultivation produces combat strength above ordinary humans of the same realm 355.

Blood and Soul Properties

• Human flesh, blood, and souls have a powerful restraining effect against Witch Race bodies when incorporated into demonic attacks 369.
• The Demon Race exploits this property to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword; harming Ancestral Witches requires vast quantities of human blood and souls 370 389.
• Human blood and souls can cleanse the madness and resentment accumulated through the Demon Core Method, making humanity a target for its practitioners 584 585.

Collective Fortune

Human fortune gathers from individuals and tribes, flows through worshipped statues, and empowers the race’s sovereign 482.

• Population growth, territorial expansion, unity, and increasing strength reinforce it 482.
• Sustained mass deaths weaken it and make the race more vulnerable to calamity 372.
• A sovereign bound to human fortune advances as the race prospers; Fuxi fully controls its destiny through the Kongtong Seal 474 511.
• The Three Ancestors’ lingering spirits can draw Great Luo strength from it within the Ancestral Land, but lack that power outside its borders 579.
• It forms a protective shield and transforms Xuanyuan’s departure bridge into a route for his final tour 622.

Culture and Institutions

• Foundational crafts: Fire-making, woven clothing, and shelter-building originate with the Three Ancestors 9.
• Written records: Fuxi replaces reliance on knotted cords with writing that preserves knowledge, experiences, and commands 477 478 512.
• Marriage and ritual: Fuxi formalizes witnessed marriage ceremonies, rites, music, and ancestor sacrifices to strengthen order and tribal belonging 478.
• Worship: Tribal shrines honor Nuwa, Supreme Pure, Yellow Dragon, Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi as humanity’s six most revered benefactors 512.
• Witch-influenced traditions: Some tribes add Witch figures to their totems and teach stories of Kua Fu chasing the sun, Houyi shooting the suns, and Chang’e flying to the moon 355.
• Medicine and pill refinement: Shennong expands the Classic of Materia Medica with tens of thousands of prescriptions and adapts pill formulas to ordinary ingredients 576.
• Imperial government: Xuanyuan organizes administration, cultivation traditions, and armies into a stable system; Jiuli retains comparatively primitive governance under its elders 609.

Territories and Major Settlements

Location	Significance
East Sea shores	Original homeland; later resettled under the protection of the East Sea Dragon Clan and Interception Sect disciples 9 576 579.
Mount Shouyang	Humanity Sect ancestral court, human sacred land, and post-calamity Ancestral Land 302 479.
Huaxu Tribe	Fuxi’s tribal base and the principal center for spreading writing, ritual, and social reforms 477 478.
Lieshan Tribe	One of humanity’s oldest and strongest tribes, second only to the Ancestral Land when Hong Yun is reborn there 541.
Youxiong Tribe	Xuanyuan’s home tribe; protected during his training but later forced to relocate after a Great Luo battle devastates the surrounding land 581 582.
Jiuli Tribe	Chiyou’s Witch-Human power base and army 585 606.
Southern Jambu Continent	Fertile, resource-rich foundation of human territory; unified through Xuanyuan and Chiyou’s campaigns 576 606.
Western Ox-He Continent	Western region named by human scholars; nearby settlements at Longevity Mountain prosper under Zhenyuanzi’s protection 576 579.
Northern Kuru Continent	Cold, spiritually sparse northern territory. Its human settlers are exterminated by a demon-corrupted Nine Infants 576 579.
Eastern Victory Continent	Eastern region containing Kunlun and the East Sea settlements; its humans retain protection during the renewed tribulation 576 579.
Fire Cloud Cave	Residence of Fuxi and Shennong after their reigns, and Xuanyuan’s destination upon stepping down 579 622.

Relationships

• Nuwa — Creator and revered Holy Mother; her creation of humanity is the karmic cause of her Sainthood 231 369 512.
• Supreme Pure Saint — Founder of the Humanity Sect and teacher of the Golden Core Dao. He shares human providence and warns other sages against interfering in imperial succession 13 528.
• Yellow Dragon — First protector, racial totem, and adviser to successive rulers. His involvement ranges from disaster relief to cultivation resources and reforms 9 260 477 569.
• Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi — Founders of civilization and defenders during the massacres; their lingering spirits later remain connected to the Ancestral Land 9 380 579.
• Xuandu — Human disciple of Supreme Pure, migration leader, intermediary in crises, and cultivation teacher to Fuxi 13 260 375 477.
• Fuxi — Reincarnated former Demon Emperor who unifies humanity, establishes its central institutions, and becomes Human Emperor 479 512.
• Shennong — Hong Yun’s human reincarnation; develops agriculture, medicine, cultivation instruction, and expansion across the four regions 541 569 576.
• Xuanyuan — Defender and later Human Emperor whose military and administrative systems consolidate the race 606 609 622.
• Chiyou and the Witch Race — Allies through bloodline integration and protection. Chiyou’s Jiuli warriors defend human settlements and help clear Southern Jambu’s hostile factions 355 581 606.
• Zhenyuanzi — Rescuer during the Demon Race massacres and continuing protector of western human settlements 382 576 579.
• Dragon Race and Interception Sect — Provide regional protection, especially along the East Sea; dragons also support southern settlements through rain and waterway restoration 278 579.
• Demon Race — Repeatedly targets humans for blood, souls, cultivation resources, and the Witch-Slaying Sword; later instigates attacks through neighboring peoples 369 370 584 585.