Primordial World

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Primordial World
Original Name	洪荒
Nature	A supreme main world created from Chaos and the center of the later Cosmic Sea hierarchy. 170
Creators	Pangu and Shichen, with the Dao bodies and law powers of the Chaos Demon Gods contributing to its stabilization
Status	Extant; its heavens were breached by the aftershocks of the Chaos War but subsequently mended by Nuwa. It later became the central world around which Yang Mei arranged the Cosmic Sea. After suffering widespread devastation during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, it advanced through an influx of origin from the myriad worlds, with its spiritual qi beginning to evolve into Chaos Spiritual Qi. 137 170 203 209
First Appearance	Chapter 17 (provided context)
Connected Worlds	Countless parallel universes derived at its creation; later connected to the Cosmic Universe, Tianyuan Divine World, False Primordial World, and five further great universes. Yang Mei subsequently gathered myriad additional universes into the Cosmic Sea, arranging them in ascending hierarchies centered on the Primordial World. 17 106 115 170
Governing Daos	Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Human Dao
External Cultivation Institution	Chaos Academy, established within the Chaos Dao Court under Headmaster Hongjun. Students from the Primordial World may return home freely. 215

Power Progression

Stage	Development	Chapters
Newborn Heaven and Earth	Pangu split Chaos for ten Chaos Epochs while Shichen stabilized time, space, and the backlash of creation. The Dao bodies and laws of the Chaos Demon Gods completed the world's initial framework.	17
Main World Formation	The world became a main world one ten-thousandth the size of Chaos and derived countless attached parallel universes.	17
Merit Nourishment	Forty percent of the Great Dao's merit entered the Primordial World; Pangu, Shichen, and many high-ranked Demon Gods also donated their portions to it, greatly increasing its spiritual-energy concentration.	18
Heavenly Dao Development	The Heavenly Dao began taking shape as living beings multiplied and the world's fortune gathered. Hongjun's Immortal Dao became its principal cultivation imprint.	20 29
Perfected Heavenly Dao	Shichen's Dao Body merged with the Heavenly Dao, drawing in the world's Great Dao laws and perfecting its operation.	57
Three Dao Framework	Houtu established the Netherworld Underworld and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, allowing the Earthly Dao to take shape alongside the Heavenly Dao.	100
Near-Total Perfection	After the Sages returned to their positions and the laws of heaven and earth became complete, the world entered a near-perfect golden age.	106
Myriad-Heavens Center	Its barrier was opened to Chaos, and multiple great universes were connected to it, beginning an era of travel, Dao transmission, and expansion across the myriad worlds.	106 115
Heavenly Breach and Restoration	The Chaos War's aftershocks tore a hole in its heavens, but Nuwa repaired the breach with Five-Colored Divine Stones while the other Sages aided the survivors and the dead.	137
Cross-Realm Reflux	After forces from the Primordial World devastated the Cosmic Universe, they repaired its worlds, established Dao lineages, and built reincarnation passages. The returning origin of that universe's living beings began flowing back to Heavenly Dao Shichen.	168
Cosmic Sea Center	Yang Mei assembled myriad universes around the Primordial World into a layered Cosmic Sea, with higher-ranked worlds serving as its lower realms and lesser worlds arranged beneath other major universes. Space Dao Marks and ascension passages integrated this expanding hierarchy.	170
World Dao Weakening	The suppression of the World Demon God caused the World Dao to fall silent and weakened the myriad worlds, affecting the wider conflict involving the Primordial World's Three Teachings and Western Religion.	192
Tribulation Origin Accumulation	With every Grand Unity Golden Immortal and Sage drawn into the calamity, the origins of the fallen streamed into the Heavenly Dao Origin Space. The Primordial World's returned origin also enabled Chaos to begin producing a trace of new Chaos Origin.	200
Accelerated Cosmic Time	Shichen accelerated time throughout the Cosmic Sea. Several epochs passed rapidly within the Primordial World, while its inhabitants experienced the passage of time as normal.	206
Post-Investiture Advancement	After the Investiture of the Gods was completed, immense origins from the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds poured into the Primordial World. Its spiritual qi began evolving into Chaos Spiritual Qi, cultivation barriers weakened, and its advancement helped Chaos Spiritual Qi in the Chaos World evolve toward Chaos Origin.	209

History

Creation and Early Development

The Primordial World was created when Pangu's Dao Body wielded the Pseudo-Pangu Axe to split Chaos into heaven and earth. Shichen supported the undertaking by weaving the Law of Time into the newborn world's framework, diverting most of the backlash from creation and stabilizing the turbulent time and space. After ten Chaos Epochs, the Dao bodies of the Chaos Demon Gods and their respective laws entered the new world, completing its initial structure and preventing heaven and earth from merging again. 17

The creation plan arose after the Chaos Origin degraded into Chaos Spiritual Qi and could no longer sustain the birth of new origin. Rather than allow the Great Dao's creation tribulation to destroy the Demon Gods, Shichen proposed that they refine Dao bodies to bear their laws while preserving their true selves. Before creation, Shichen, Pangu, and Yang Mei jointly forged the three pseudo-treasures as Chaos Spirit Treasures capable of sharing the backlash. 13 14 16

The newborn world is one ten-thousandth the size of Chaos, though its scale remains vast enough that a Primordial Unity cultivator would require a full Chaos Epoch to traverse it from east to west. It became the main world and simultaneously gave rise to countless independent parallel universes attached to it. 17

Pangu's dissipating Dao Body transformed into much of the world's natural order: its eyes became the sun and moon, its blood became rivers and seas, its bones became mountains, and its skin became fertile earth. The Pseudo-Pangu Axe, Pseudo-Chaos Green Lotus, and Pseudo-Creation Jade Butterfly also disintegrated, producing numerous innate supreme treasures and spiritual treasures scattered throughout the world. 17

The Pseudo-Pangu Axe became the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Chaos Bell. The Pseudo-Chaos Green Lotus produced the Twelve-Rank Lotus Platform, Five Elements Flags, Qiankun Cauldron, and other treasures, while fragments of the Pseudo-Creation Jade Butterfly scattered into mountains, rivers, seas, and the world's distant reaches. 17

Pangu subsequently left twelve drops of essence blood in Mount Buzhou's Pangu Hall and divided the remaining Primordial Spirit of his Dao Body into three streams of clear qi. These acts eventually gave rise to the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones. At Pangu's prompting, Shichen named their creation the Primordial World. 17 34

After its birth, the Great Dao bestowed forty percent of its merit upon the Primordial World. Pangu and Shichen each transferred their own merit to the world, and most of the highest-ranked Demon Gods followed suit, enriching its spiritual energy and foundation. Before resting from the exertion of creating heaven and earth, Pangu entrusted the Primordial World to Shichen. 18

Creation also replenished the surrounding Chaos: the source power of the dissolved Dao bodies returned to it, increasing the density of Chaos Spiritual Qi, while the world's origin feedback clarified the Great Dao laws and helped Demon Gods overcome cultivation bottlenecks. The Great Dao adjusted the relative flow of time between Chaos and the Primordial World; several hundred Chaos Eras in Chaos corresponded to a little over ten thousand yuanhui within the new world. 18 20

Early Calamities and Struggles for Control

The world's vast origin, fortune, and potential attracted the attention of numerous Chaos Demon Gods. Hongjun, Yang Mei, Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Luo Hou, and others sent Dao bodies or incarnations into the Primordial World to secure its fortune. Later, Fate and Karma attempted to replace the world's Dao imprint with their own laws, while Karma gathered an alliance of Demon Gods to assault it from beyond its boundary. 18 30 31 32

Yang Mei defended the world against this attempted takeover. He exchanged a substantial portion of his Space Origin for the Great Dao Prohibition Decree, raising a spatial barrier around the Primordial World and preventing Fate, Karma, and their allies from forcibly suppressing its Dao of Strength and Dao of Time. 31 32

The defenders included the Creation Demon God, Chaos Demon Ape, Luo Hou, Star Demon God, and numerous allied Demon Gods. They deliberately kept their battles away from the Primordial World, while Yang Mei's barrier blocked the destructive aftershocks. The newborn Heavenly Dao trembled under the invading army's pressure, prompting Hongjun to investigate and prepare for the world's defense. 31 32

The Fierce Beast Calamity was among the first major disasters to afflict the world. Shen Ni and the Fierce Beast Clan devastated the Far West Lands, slaughtering innumerable innate beings and threatening to conquer the entire realm. The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans formed a temporary alliance to resist the beast tide, with Hongjun transporting their armies to the Far West Lands through the Pseudo-Creation Jade Disk. 20 21 23

Shen Ni acted as the Destruction Demon God's contingency and received a spirit fruit and a copy of the World-Extinguishing Millstone to accelerate his conquest. The millstone's attacks destroyed land, mountains, rivers, and armies, and its confrontation with Hongjun devastated hundreds of millions of miles of territory. Hongjun intervened to protect the Three Clan leaders and revealed part of his concealed cultivation when Shen Ni prepared an attack threatening most of the world's lifeforms. 21 25

The calamity also exposed the world's value to systems and transmigrators. Taotie's system secretly intended to use him to absorb the Primordial World's origin, but Hongjun and Shichen captured and investigated it. Shichen learned that such systems harvested world origins for the God of Systems, then chose to exploit their coordinates and rewards while preventing them from consuming the Primordial World. 23 28 45

After the Fierce Beast Calamity, the Innate Three Clans divided the world between themselves: the Dragon Clan controlled the Four Seas and scaled races, the Phoenix Clan ruled the feathered races from the south, and the Qilin Clan held the central lands and commanded the beast races. Their rivalry created the conditions for the Dragon-Han Calamity. 34 36

The Dao-Demon conflict further shook the Primordial World when Luo Hou led the Devil Race in an invasion from the west. Hongjun rallied the world's beings against the Devil Race, and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans again joined forces to defend their homeland. 38 39

Recognizing that the Primordial World would inevitably draw further systems and outside worlds, Shichen planned to expose its coordinates. His goal was to attract external worlds, secure their origin for Chaos, and identify the God of Systems behind the systems targeting the realm. The subsequent council adopted Karma's refinement of the strategy: present the Chaos World as the apparent target to attract stronger worlds and systems. 35 36 41

The survival of the Innate Three Clans after the Dao-Demon War and the intervention of a mysterious Dao voice revealed how far the world's history had departed from the expectations of its transmigrators. Di Jun, Fuxi, and Wu An responded with differing schemes involving Hongjun's coming lectures, while living beings throughout the world intensified cultivation to compete for opportunities at Purple Heaven Palace. 44

Heavenly Dao and Internal Conflict

As the world's inhabitants increased, its Heavenly Dao gradually formed. The Immortal Dao was imprinted into the Primordial World during its creation, and Hongjun later gained the Heavenly Dao's recognition through the merit he earned in the Fierce Beast Calamity. 29

Once the Heavenly Dao began forming, the Demon Gods could no longer freely plant new contingencies within the world. Their overwhelming power risked disrupting its Heavenly Dao, and Pangu would object to forcibly introducing further contingencies after living beings had arisen. 29

Shichen later merged his Dao Body with the Heavenly Dao, perfecting it and strengthening the operation of the world's laws. The union caused the world's Great Dao laws to become clearer, increased its spiritual energy severalfold, and enabled many cultivators to advance. Heavenly Dao Shichen subsequently treated the deaths of living beings during major conflicts as a means of returning origin to heaven and earth, as their dispersed origins nourished the Primordial World and fed back into Chaos. 57 61

The appearance of Pangu and the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods during the union publicly demonstrated that they had survived creation. This revelation overturned the assumptions of many transmigrators and caused their systems to enter dormancy or emergency shutdown for self-preservation. 57

Hongjun's final lecture completed the dissemination of the Immortal Dao throughout the world. Its law became exceptionally active, and the gathered fortune strengthened Hongjun and other associated powers. Before the next calamity, Heavenly Dao Shichen initially instructed Hongjun to target transmigrators especially while limiting the reduction of other life to preserve the world's strength; the Disaster Demon God then deliberately spread Tribulation Qi. 60

The Witch Clan's expansion, the conflict between the Dragon and Phoenix Clans, and the establishment of the Heavenly Court, Demon Court, and Immortal Court led to widespread disorder. Di Jun established the Demon Race and Heavenly Court in the name of preserving the order of heaven and earth, but the competing courts and the hostility between witches and demons intensified the world's conflicts. 61

During the Witch-Demon Calamity, Heavenly Dao Shichen opened a crack in the world's barrier and allowed an outside universe to enter, regarding the conflict and its casualties with detached indifference. 61

The Primordial World's tribulations were not always allowed to proceed unchecked. During the Witch-Demon Calamity, Pangu descended in his true form, reprimanded the Twelve Ancestral Witches for their brutality, and forced the withdrawal of the tribulation despite Heavenly Dao Shichen's desire for the world to absorb more origin from the conflict. 97 98

The world's anomalies also became prospective vessels for the Demon Gods' Dao bodies. Hongjun proposed occupying systems within those anomalies to nurture Dao bodies, suppress the divinity accompanying higher cultivation, and gather intelligence on the God of Systems. Shichen subsequently opened access to the Primordial World's coordinates for another outside world. 70

Earthly Dao, Human Dao, and the Myriad Heavens

Nuwa created the Human Race from Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Lights Divine Water, establishing a race that would later gather the fortune of the Human Dao. She vowed to protect humanity for one hundred thousand years after her creation of the race. 86

Her insight into creating a new race had earlier been prompted by the Creation Demon God, who observed humanoid mortals in another world and considered their resemblance to Pangu significant to the Dao of Creation. 54

Houtu and Minghe later transformed the Sea of Blood into the Netherworld Underworld. The Six Paths of Reincarnation emerged there, the Book of Life and Death became its treasure of authority, and the Earthly Dao took shape. Minghe became the Fengdu Emperor and a Sage of the Primordial World, while the Netherworld Underworld became the strongest force within the realm. 100

After several thousand yuanhui of Human Race development, Heavenly Dao Shichen proclaimed the rise of the Human Dao. The Human Race was tasked with establishing the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to perfect the Human Dao and compensate for the Primordial World's deficiencies. The resulting contest for the Human Dao's fortune helped initiate the Myriad Realms Investiture Calamity. 124 125

The Primordial World later opened fully to the myriad heavens. The Chaos Dao Court removed the barrier between the Primordial World and Chaos, while the Cosmic Universe, Tianyuan Divine World, and False Primordial World were attached to it and their passages opened. Five additional great universes later appeared around the world, further consolidating its position as the center of connected realms. 106 115

Preparations for these connections began earlier. Shichen and Pangu compelled the Tianyuan Divine World's Heavenly Dao to surrender eighty percent of its origin and accept the Primordial World's mark, then tasked the Star Demon God with relocating it and its subordinate worlds and opening an ascension passage with a True Immortal threshold. Later, the damaged Cosmic Universe was relocated beneath the Primordial World with a Great Golden Immortal ascension threshold; Shi Hao, Ye Fan, Wushi, and the masked woman subsequently arrived in the upper realm. 35 85

The opening of the myriad heavens allowed Primordial Golden Immortals and Quasi-Sages from the Primordial World to enter Chaos. Shichen also placed Hongmeng Purple Qi in the three connected great universes, enabling beings below Sagehood to accumulate merit through cross-realm activity and pursue Sage positions. The Heavenly Court, Netherworld, Dragon Palace, Undying Volcano, and other factions mobilized into the newly accessible worlds. 106 107

During the Chaos War, its heavens were split by the battle's aftershocks. Chaos gales and the waters of the Heavenly River poured through the breach, devastating the land and killing countless living beings. Nuwa refined Five-Colored Divine Stones and repaired the heavens, while the Three Pure Ones guarded her, the Western Religion guided the dead, and Houtu opened Reincarnation for the victims. 137

The Primordial World is a realm inhabited by numerous living beings. By the events of Chapter 89, conflict is widespread: beings fight daily over fortuitous opportunities, resulting in countless deaths. 89

Duobao, despite admitting that he is not native to the world, swears that he has never intended to destroy the Primordial World or harm Tongtian. 89

Cosmic Sea Era

After Primordial World powers inflicted severe damage upon the Cosmic Universe, the Space Dao Venerable compelled them to repair it and elevate its status through Dao teachings. The Three Pure Ones established their teachings there, while the Netherworld's representatives constructed a reincarnation passage for its dead. The origin reflux from the universe's living beings subsequently began gathering within the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao Origin Space. 168

Competition over scattered Chaos treasures had already engulfed the Primordial World and spread into other universes. In the Cosmic Universe, the Star Demon God introduced Chaos Origin both to provoke competition and to raise the world's rank. Its potential to free Heavenly Dao Sages from their Sage positions made it especially desirable to the Three Pure Ones, contributing to a melee among the Primordial World's major powers. 159 163 165 166

The Heavenly Dao also rewarded beneficial changes to outside worlds. After Tathagata transformed the Weird Universe into the Western Bliss Realm, the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao recognized his deliverance of its inhabitants and bestowed immense merit. The Karma Demon God instructed the Western Religion to raise the status of worlds and gather more essence for the Dao Court. 159

Yang Mei later returned from the Chaos Void with myriad gathered universes and arranged them around the Primordial World as the Cosmic Sea. High-ranked universes became direct lower realms of the Primordial World, while weaker worlds were organized beneath Tianyuan Divine World, False Primordial World, and other worlds of suitable rank. 170

Yang Mei embedded Space Dao Marks throughout the Cosmic Sea, ordered Disaster to spread Tribulation Qi across its worlds, and opened ascension passages for beings who reached the pinnacle of their native realms. This transformed the Primordial World from the center of several connected great universes into the apex of an organized, multilayered myriad-heavens system. 170

The appearance of the Space Dao Marks immediately prompted the Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, and other factions to search across the connected worlds. Those who obtained and comprehended the marks would form connections with Yang Mei, allowing him to gather fortune through them and increase the worlds' Origin Weight while further accelerating the tribulation. 170

Final Investiture Calamity and World Advancement

The World Demon God's defeat and suppression in the River of Time caused the World Dao to fall silent, weakening the myriad worlds. Shichen identified this change as a sign that the war between the Primordial World's Three Teachings and the Western Religion was approaching its final stage. 192

By the later calamity, the Primordial World's order of heaven and earth had completely collapsed. Opposing factions fought across both the main world and the Cosmic Sea, and the Primordial World suffered particularly severe slaughter as the principal battlefield. The Ancient Heavenly Court deliberated over how to respond to the widespread casualties. 197

Heavenly Dao Shichen planned to merge the Three Talents and recover the origins of the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds to enter the Chaos Realm fully. He opposed attempts to make the Human Dao independent, declaring that such independence required a price. Zulong and Dijiang, concerned by the Human Race's gathering fortune, temporarily cooperated to attack Fuxi and force both him and Nuwa into the calamity. All Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Sages in the Primordial World were consequently drawn into the tribulation, and the Human Race became a target of multiple factions. 200

Countless deaths continually sent origin into the Heavenly Dao Origin Space. The Primordial World's feedback also replenished Chaos sufficiently for a trace of new Chaos Origin to appear. In the Time Temple, Shichen's Eleven-Colored Dao Wheel became more solid and the barrier to the Seventh Heaven of the Chaos Realm began to loosen, though his remaining human emotions continued to fade. 200

The devastation extended throughout the world and its lower realms. The Four Seas ran red with blood, Mount Sumeru was ruined, and Jie Yin and Zhun Ti fled with surviving disciples. The Dragon Clan, Interception Sect, Ancient Heavenly Court, Immortal Court, Netherworld forces, Innate Three Clans, and other factions fought across the Primordial World and Cosmic Sea. Di Jun and the Immortal Court aided weaker races, but even protective forces were repeatedly pulled into the slaughter. Combatants disregarded the Dao Court's prohibition against destroying worlds, annihilating cities, races, sacred lands, and entire realms. 203

In Chaoge, Di Xin learned that only fifty thousand Human Immortals and above remained available for battle. He ordered humanity's cultivators and willing members to join the front lines, rejected Wen Zhong's plea that he preserve himself, and declared that he would live or die with his people rather than allow humanity to become sacrificial prey to the Heavenly Dao. Shichen nevertheless regarded the survival of Chaos and the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods as more important than the lives of the myriad worlds. 203

Shichen subsequently accelerated time across the Cosmic Sea. Ten thousand years passed throughout the myriad worlds in a finger snap, while several epochs rapidly elapsed within the Primordial World. Fate accelerated alongside time, battles concluded rapidly from the perspective of observers in Chaos, and generations passed from birth to death. The affected inhabitants perceived no abnormality and experienced their lives normally. 206

After the Investiture of the Gods was completed, the Cosmic Sea trembled and immense origins poured from the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds into the Primordial World. Its spiritual qi began evolving into Chaos Spiritual Qi, an ancient aura filled the world, and previously obstructive cultivation barriers became easier to overcome. Countless cultivators advanced, while the Chaos World likewise underwent a transformation as its Chaos Spiritual Qi evolved toward Chaos Origin. 209

Chaos Academy Era

Shichen and Hongjun had planned Chaos Academy as a route for cultivators from the myriad worlds to receive instruction from the Dao Court. The proposed admission threshold was Primordial Golden Immortal for other worlds and Great Golden Immortal for Primordial World natives, provided they could withstand the Chaos Gale. Instruction in divine abilities was to depend chiefly on merit and achievement. A Resource Exchange Pavilion connected to the worlds was also proposed, using origin as currency. 148

By the academy's opening, beings from the Primordial World had arrived within the vast Chaos Dao Court and encountered the many laws gathered there. Shichen prohibited fighting within the academy, distributed its regulations, and confirmed that students could return to the Primordial World whenever they wished. Hongjun became its first headmaster, while the Chaos Demon Gods selected students, often choosing beings connected to their earlier contingencies in the world. 215

Pangu reunited with the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches, but declined to instruct them through lectures. He directed them to study under Hongjun and proposed visiting periodically to teach through combat instead. The academy thus established a continuing connection between the Primordial World's inhabitants and the Demon Gods' higher cultivation system. 215

Order in the Primordial World

Haotian regards order as necessary to preserve the stability of heaven and earth. He wishes for the Primordial World’s inhabitants to follow order and develop peacefully rather than remain consumed by conflict. 89

Order Demon God grants Haotian the Great Dao of Order after he expresses this wish. She describes the Dao as the true Dao of rules, capable of placing all things and living beings under a single command. 89

The Primordial World's earliest governing framework was the Immortal Dao, which was imprinted during its creation and became suited to the cultivation of its living beings. This framework developed into a complete Heavenly Dao after Shichen's Dao Body merged with it. 29 57

Di Jun's Ancient Heavenly Court was established to preserve the order of heaven and earth under the River Diagram and Luo Book. Later, Hongjun planned a separate Heavenly Court of Order, led by Haotian, to govern the order of the myriad realms alongside Di Jun's court and administer the 365 righteous divine posts required by the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. 61 125

The establishment of the Netherworld Underworld and the Six Paths of Reincarnation completed the Earthly Dao's foundational role in the world's order. The rise of the Human Dao further broadened this structure, placing the Human Race and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors within the long-term governance of the world. 100 124

When the Chaos Dao Court opened the Primordial World's barrier, Shichen also imposed new rules governing travel and cultivation across the connected worlds. These included rewards for finding worlds and establishing Dao lineages, while the Chaos Demon Gods received formal Dao Court titles according to their standing. 106

Yang Mei expanded this order into the Cosmic Sea by assigning worlds to a ranked hierarchy, embedding Space Dao Marks throughout them, and opening ascension routes from lower realms to higher ones. Those who comprehend his marks may enter his lineage, creating direct links between the Cosmic Sea's rising powers, their worlds' Origin Weight, and the Primordial World's central order. 170

The Dao Court's governance included restrictions on destroying complete worlds. Shichen warned Di Jun and Hongyun against casually destroying such worlds and tied possible early admission to Chaos Academy to sufficient merit. During the later calamity, however, factions openly disregarded the prohibition, and the Primordial World's order collapsed under widespread warfare. 156 197 203

Tribulation management also served the collection of origin. When Hongjun asked whether the Myriad Realms calamity's casualties should be limited, Shichen instructed him to spare no cost, reasoning that worlds could produce new inhabitants and that the Demon Gods required World Origin. He also stated that the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao remained suppressible because it was his own Dao Body that had merged with it. 148

The Human Dao's position within the governing structure remained contested. Heavenly Dao Shichen sought the merger of the Three Talents rather than an independent Human Dao, while other major powers feared that humanity's rising fortune could diminish the Netherworld's importance. The resulting attacks on Fuxi and Nuwa brought humanity's leading representatives directly into the calamity. 200

The completion of the Investiture of the Gods assigned divine offices through both voluntary participation and recommendations. It was immediately followed by the concentration of the myriad worlds' origins into the Primordial World and the world's advancement. In the subsequent academy era, Haotian appeared as a Heavenly Emperor, while Hongjun took responsibility for cultivation instruction as Chaos Academy's headmaster. 209 215

Relationships

• Pangu — Co-creator of the Primordial World, whose Dao Body formed much of its natural environment. He left his essence blood and Primordial Spirit at Mount Buzhou, entrusted the world to Shichen after its creation, and later intervened directly in its tribulation. He subsequently reunited with his descendants at Chaos Academy and proposed teaching them through combat. 17 18 98 215
• Shichen — Co-creator and stabilizer of the newborn world. His Dao Body later merged with its Heavenly Dao, becoming Heavenly Dao Shichen and perfecting its laws. He also treats the realm as the strategic center for attracting worlds, systems, and origin. During the final Investiture calamity, he prioritized Chaos and the Demon Gods over the myriad worlds' inhabitants, accelerated time throughout the Cosmic Sea, and later established the rules of Chaos Academy. 17 57 35 168 203 206 215
• Heavenly Dao Shichen — The world's perfected Heavenly Dao manifestation. It governs the operation of heaven and earth, absorbs the origin left by deceased beings, and seeks to use cross-realm origin reflux to advance further. It later planned to merge the Three Talents, opposed an independent Human Dao, and received the origins of those killed in the widespread calamity. 57 61 168 200
• Chaos Demon Gods — Their Dao bodies and law powers helped stabilize heaven and earth at creation. Various Demon Gods later sought to influence, protect, invade, or exploit the Primordial World because of its vast origin and fortune. At Chaos Academy, many selected students connected to contingencies they had previously placed within the world. 17 18 31 32 215
• Yang Mei — Was entrusted by Pangu and Shichen to look after the Primordial World during their absence. He expended Space Origin to establish a barrier protecting it from Fate and Karma's invasion, then later gathered myriad universes into the Cosmic Sea centered on the Primordial World. 30 31 170
• Hongjun — Spread the Immortal Dao within the Primordial World, gained Heavenly Dao recognition through merit, rallied its inhabitants against the Devil Race, and oversees major calamities as Dao Ancestor. He later became Chaos Academy's first headmaster, receiving many of the world's beings as students within the Dao Court. 29 38 125 215
• Haotian — Wishes to establish order throughout the Primordial World in response to its wars and loss of life. Hongjun selected him as the protagonist of the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, and Yang Mei granted him the true inheritance of the Dao of Space. He later attended Chaos Academy as a Heavenly Emperor. 89 170 215
• Duobao — A non-native who explicitly vows not to destroy the world. He later acts within the Human Race and becomes the teacher of the Earth Sovereign. 89 126
• Order Demon God — Seeks to spread order through Haotian by passing down the Great Dao of Order. 89
• Tongtian — Questions Duobao about whether he would destroy the Primordial World. He also leads the Interception Sect in competing for Human Dao fortune and participation in the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. 89 124 126
• Houtu — Established the Netherworld Underworld and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, helping form the Earthly Dao and governing the reincarnation of the world's dead. 100 137
• Minghe — Became the Fengdu Emperor and a Sage of the Primordial World after helping transform the Sea of Blood into the Netherworld Underworld. 100
• Nuwa — Created the Human Race, helped initiate the Human Dao's rise, and later mended the Primordial World's broken heavens. She was subsequently forced into the Investiture calamity while defending Fuxi from Zulong and Dijiang. 86 124 137 200
• Di Jun — Established the Ancient Heavenly Court to preserve order, then led its expansion into the worlds connected to the Primordial World. During the later calamity, his court cooperated with the Immortal Court to aid weaker races. 61 107 203
• Creation Demon God — Connected the Cosmic Universe, Tianyuan Divine World, and False Primordial World to the Primordial World, opening the beginning of its myriad-heavens era. She also helped defend it against Fate and Karma's alliance and inspired Nuwa's pursuit of race creation. 104 106 31 32 54
• Disaster Demon God — Was ordered by Yang Mei to spread Tribulation Qi throughout every world of the Cosmic Sea, extending tribulations across the hierarchy centered on the Primordial World. Earlier, he had deliberately unleashed Tribulation Qi within the Primordial World at Heavenly Dao Shichen's request. 170 60
• God of Systems and its systems — Their systems target worlds for origin harvesting and repeatedly selected hosts within the Primordial World. Shichen and Hongjun instead seek to supervise, exploit, and trace these systems without allowing them to consume the world's origin. 23 28 45
• World Demon God — Covets the Primordial World as part of her ambition to surpass the other Demon Gods. Her later absorption of borrowed Dao powers and corruption by Dao Mist create a potential danger tied to the God of Systems' backup plan. After Pangu severed much of her origin, Shichen suppressed her in the River of Time to remove the God of Systems' copied laws and origin. The resulting silence of the World Dao weakened the myriad worlds and affected the final stages of the Investiture calamity. 29 187 190 192
• Fuxi — Human Emperor and a representative of the Human Race's gathering fortune. His attempted seclusion ended when Zulong and Dijiang attacked him, forcing him and Nuwa into the calamity amid the dispute over the Human Dao's independence. 200
• Di Xin — Led the Human Race and the Three Teachings in resistance during the final calamity. He chose to fight alongside his people and rejected humanity's reduction to sacrificial prey for the Heavenly Dao. 203
• Star Demon God — Was tasked with relocating the Tianyuan Divine World and Cosmic Universe beneath the Primordial World's hierarchy. He later introduced Chaos Origin into the Cosmic Universe to raise its rank and provoke competition among the Primordial World's powers. 35 85 163
• Hongyun — A transmigrator whose restraint and preservation of his original nature earned Shichen's recognition. After Shichen altered his Heavenly Mandate and removed his destined tribulation, he committed to serving the Dao Court and contributing to the Primordial World. 156
• Reincarnation Demon God — Agreed to establish Reincarnation within the Primordial World with Shichen's approval. The completion of the Six Paths of Reincarnation later perfected the relevant law and helped him enter the Chaos Realm. 91 100

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