Wu Tribe

Biodata

Background / History

The Wu Tribe is one of the three great powers of the Primordial World, representing the Clan of Earth alongside the Demon Race as the Clan of Heaven and the Human Clan as the Clan of Humanity. It governs the land under the Dao Ancestor’s division of authority, while the Demon Race rules the heavens 11 27.

Its conflict with the Demon Race escalates when Dijun’s Golden Crow sons enter Wu territory, kill a Great Wu, and devastate the earth. High Shaman Houyi retaliates by shooting down nine Golden Crows, prompting Dijun, Donghuang Taiyi, Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and other leaders to confront one another. The sides avoid immediate war, but their enmity becomes irreconcilable 10 11.

Chen Yang later accompanies Pingxin—Houtu of the Twelve Ancestor Shamans—to Buzhou Mountain and lives among the Wu Tribe. There, he studies its body-tempering traditions, forging methods, battlefield Killing Intent, and military structure. His collaboration with the tribe produces the Battlefield Killing Formations and Totem Cultivation Method, substantially improving Wu military power 33 35 39 40.

Before the final war, the Wu Tribe accepts Chen Yang’s alliance proposal: Wu warriors serve as generals for Human Clan armies within Battlefield Killing Formations, addressing the tribe’s shortage of lower-ranking troops. Despite this reinforcement, Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin expect the tribe to face extinction and arrange for young clansmen, elite descendants, and bloodlines to survive through reincarnation, concealment, and integration with humanity 47.

During the final Wu–Demon war, the Wu Tribe initially gains an advantage through its strengthened High Shamans, Totem System, battlefield formations, and the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation. Its Pangu True Body ultimately clashes with the Demon Race and causes the Primal Chaos Bell to strike Buzhou Mountain, collapsing the pillar of heaven and devastating both the battlefield and the Wu Tribe’s formation 48 50.

The war devastates the tribe but does not eradicate it. Nearly seventy percent of Wu clansmen, including many Human-Wu, perish; however, surviving Primordial High Shamans such as Houyi, Xingtian, and Jiufeng preserve a substantial foundation. Pingxin divides the survivors between the Land of Reincarnation and Black Tortoise Continent, with Xingtian taking most of the clansmen and the Ancestral Witch Hall to Black Tortoise Continent while Houyi helps administer Reincarnation 51 64.

The tribe subsequently rebuilds through continued cooperation with the Human Clan. The Human Clan supplies elite Human-Wu to replenish Wu numbers, while Chiyou’s position as the Human Clan’s Earth Sovereign transfers ten percent of Human Clan Fortune to the Wu Tribe 64 65. Chen Yang later refines the Divine Totem System for the survivors, allowing their bloodlines, battle forms, and cultivation potential to evolve collectively 253 254.

Society and Culture

Body-Tempering Tradition

The Wu Tribe traditionally does not cultivate Primordial Spirits. Its members focus their cultivation on the physical body, allowing body, essence, qi, and strength to advance together rather than through separate systems 10 33.

• Each primordial Wu member possesses a body-tempering method derived from the Great Paths in their bloodline. 33
• Postnatal Wu practitioners cultivate inherited methods corresponding to their awakened bloodlines. 33
• High Shamans possess physical bodies comparable to the eighth level of the Nine-Turn Profound Art. 33
• Wu members can use blood sacrifice and heartblood to refine certain treasures formed from Pangu’s flesh and blood. 10 32
• Their weapons are forged to be durable, sharp, and saturated with murderous intent. 33
• Wu bodies can absorb Baleful Intent, resentment, death aura, and other energies as nourishment for body tempering, an innate racial talent regarded as among the Primordial World’s greatest. 252
• The Divine Totem System later grants Wu cultivators Godheads that serve as an additional survival foundation if their physical bodies are destroyed, without replacing their body-centered path. 254

Known body-tempering arts include:

Martial Culture

Battle and slaughter are central to Wu society. Large armies drill against captured beasts and Demon Race prisoners, while elite warriors—including High Shamans—spar with real weapons and accept severe injuries as part of training 33.

• Wu warriors naturally gather Killing Intent when fighting or assembling in large numbers. 33
• This Killing Intent increases their courage and combat ability while restraining certain Demon Race divine abilities. 33
• The greater the number of Wu fighters in battle, the more Killing Intent accumulates. 33
• The tribe also shelters humans and Human-Wu within its territory, training some of them as soldiers and later helping many return to the Eastern Sea Coast. 33 40
• After the great war, the tribe remains strongly associated with Human-Wu communities. Elite Human-Wu assist Houyi’s branch in managing Reincarnation, while further Human-Wu periodically join the tribe to restore its population. 64 65

Military Formations

Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation

The Wu Tribe’s supreme formation is the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation, which uses the Twelve Ancestor Shamans’ power to manifest Pangu’s True Body. It is regarded as theoretically equal to the Demon Race’s Cosmic Star Formation, which gathers Pangu’s Primordial Spirit through the stars 28.

During the final war, the Ancestor Shaman Banners preserve the auras of all twelve Ancestor Shamans, including the absent Houtu. Through accumulated Killing Intent and faith, the formation successfully recreates Pangu’s image and power 50.

The collapse of Buzhou Mountain destroys the formation and damages the Ancestor Shaman Banners, inflicting severe backlash on the participating Shamans 50.

Battlefield Killing Formations

Chen Yang develops battlefield formations after observing how the Wu Tribe naturally gathers Killing Intent in war. The formations convert battlefield Killing Intent, enemy blood, and vitality into strengthening war clouds 33 35.

• Heaven-Covering Formation — Enhances an army’s offensive strength, unifies its forces, and lets its commander unleash a strike far beyond their normal power. 34 35
• Bird-Flitting Formation — Improves military mobility and speed. 35
• The formations allow weaker soldiers to support powerful Wu commanders effectively. 34 47
• Pingxin estimates that the formations can raise the Wu Tribe’s overall strength by more than thirty percent. 35
• Their effectiveness depends on warfare and slaughter; greater casualties generate more Killing Intent and energy. 35
• During the final war, Xingtian leads Wu forces through the Heavenly Dipper Formation and Earthly Fiend Formation, gathering immense Baleful Intent to slaughter Demon Race troops. 48
• The formations remain useful to Human Clan armies and later Wu reinforcements because they turn the participants’ collective numbers, blood vitality, and fighting spirit into military power. 35 81

Totem Cultivation Method

Chen Yang adapts visualization, formations, faith techniques, and Wu battle stances into the Totem Cultivation Method. Practitioners receive body inscriptions that absorb spiritual energy, temper the body, strengthen their foundations, and embody a corresponding Great Path 39 40.

• Xingtian’s essence blood and battle stance allow the Little Shaman Zhan Tian to become a Postnatal High Shaman. 40
• Little Shamans and Human-Wu use the method to break through cultivation bottlenecks. 40
• Wu battle stances are manifestations of the Great Paths within their users’ bodies. 40
• The tribe creates twelve Ancestor Shaman Banners bearing the Ancestor Shamans’ battle forms and gathers faith through worship. 40
• The method’s success makes it a major reason the Wu Tribe’s surviving members become qualitatively stronger after the Wu–Demon War. 81

Divine Totem System

Chen Yang later fuses the Totem System with his Godhead System to create the Divine Totem System, a cultivation method tailored to the Wu Tribe’s body-tempering nature and Killing Intent 253 254.

• Wu Kui is the first major successful practitioner. His Totem Godhead merges into his heart, accelerates his body tempering, and purifies his bloodline toward a High Shaman level. 254
• The system allows Little Shamans to become High Shamans and enables some Postnatal High Shamans to awaken Innate Daos. 254
• Wu battle forms begin evolving toward Ancestor Shaman forms, raising the prospect that future descendants can regain purer bloodlines and more complete Great Dao inheritances. 254
• A surviving Godhead gives a Wu cultivator a chance of continued existence even after the loss of the physical body. 254
• Xuanming condenses a Godhead, completes her recovery, and advances to the Primordial Unity Realm. 254

Key Figures

• Dijiang — Leading Ancestor Shaman; commands the Wu Tribe, negotiates its alliance with the Human Clan, and leads the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation in the final war 11 47 50.
• Zhu Jiuyin — Ancestor Shaman who defends Houyi after the Golden Crow incident and organizes efforts to preserve the tribe’s descendants before the final war 11 47.
• Pingxin / Houtu — Ancestor Shaman associated with Earth and Reincarnation; Chen Yang’s teacher and the primary intermediary between him and the Wu Tribe. She protects the tribe’s postwar survival through the Land of Reincarnation and remains its principal connection to Chen Yang 26 33 64.
• Zhurong — Fire Ancestor Shaman, master forger, and outspoken advocate of destroying the Demon Race 31 33 35.
• Houyi — Primordial High Shaman and archer who kills nine of Dijun’s Golden Crow sons with the Sun-Shooting Bow and Arrows. After the war, he helps manage Reincarnation, returns to cultivate in the Ancestral Witch Hall, leads part of the tribe’s Buzhou resettlement, and approaches the Primordial Unity Realm 10 11 64 252 255.
• Xingtian — High Shaman of War; tests the Heaven-Covering Formation, provides essence blood for the first Totem Cultivation Method trial, and supports Chen Yang’s innovations. He leads the principal postwar branch on Black Tortoise Continent and later acts as a Wu representative among the Hundred Clans Alliance 34 40 64 74.
• Xuanming — Ancestor Shaman who discovers part of Wangshu’s origin and later battles Xihe during the final war. She survives the catastrophe, recovers in secret, condenses a Godhead, reaches the Primordial Unity Realm, and oversees the tribe’s staged return to Buzhou 31 48 253 255.
• Chiyou — High Shaman who participates in testing Chen Yang’s battlefield formations. As the first Human-Wu, he is later selected for reincarnation as the Human Clan’s Earth Sovereign, allowing a portion of Human Clan Fortune to remain connected to the Wu Tribe 34 64 87 97.
• Gonggong — Ancestor Shaman who survives the collapse of Buzhou through his Water Grand Dao but remains severely injured and hidden with the recovering tribe 253 254.
• Shebi Shi — Ancestor Shaman who survives through deathly energy after losing most of his body; his recovery remains incomplete 253 254.
• Wu Kui — Postnatal Wu and an early successful practitioner of the Divine Totem System; his Totem Godhead demonstrates the system’s capacity for bloodline purification and accelerated cultivation 253 254.

Relationships

• Demon Race — Mortal enemy and rival for dominance of the Primordial World; the Demon Race rules the heavens while the Wu Tribe governs the earth 11 27.
• Human Clan — Ally and closely associated people; the Wu Tribe shelters human survivors, trains human forces, and later commands Human Clan armies in the final war. After the war, the two peoples exchange Human-Wu population, resources, administrative support, and Fortune through the Earth Sovereign 40 47 64 65.
• Chen Yang — Ally, innovator, and honorary brother to Zhurong; his formations, Totem Cultivation Method, and Divine Totem System greatly enhance Wu military strength, postwar recovery, and future bloodline potential 35 40 253 254.
• Eastern Sovereign — Former trading partner who acquired most of the Wu Tribe’s spirit treasures and spiritual roots in exchange for the means or knowledge connected to the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation, contributing to the growth of Penglai Immortal Mansion 35.
• Pangu — Ancestral source of the tribe’s identity, bloodline-based cultivation, special treasures, weapons, and supreme formation. The Ancestral Witch Hall is said to have formed from Pangu’s heart 10 50 255.
• Land of Reincarnation — Postwar refuge and administrative responsibility. Pingxin places a branch of the Wu Tribe there, while Houyi and Human-Wu assistants help process souls and maintain the developing reincarnation system 47 64.
• Hundred Clans Alliance — Xingtian represents the Wu Tribe in an alliance formed to confront Demon Cultivators, though most of the tribe remains in seclusion rather than resuming open competition for Primordial World supremacy 74.

Final Wu–Demon War

The Wu Tribe enters the final conflict fully mobilized, led by the Ancestor Shamans and reinforced by Human Clan armies. Its individual experts exceed those of the Demon Race, but its smaller population remains a critical weakness 47.

• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin reach the Primordial Unity Realm, while several other Ancestor Shamans stand at Half-Step Primordial Unity. 48
• Wu-led Human Clan formations force the Demon Race into retreat despite enormous human casualties. 49
• The Tribe manifests Pangu’s True Body through the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation. 50
• Donghuang Taiyi’s desperate use of the Primal Chaos Bell ends with the bell being knocked into Buzhou Mountain, collapsing it. 50
• The collapse destroys the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation, damages the Ancestor Shaman Banners, and inflicts severe backlash on the Shamans. 50
• The conflict continues after Buzhou’s collapse, with surviving Wu and Demon forces suffering immense losses over centuries of fighting. Nearly all Human Clan soldiers who joined the war also perish. 51
• More than sixty percent, and nearly seventy percent, of the Wu Tribe—including many Human-Wu—die in the catastrophe, ending its former position as an openly dominant primordial power. 64
• Nevertheless, its surviving High Shamans, concealed Ancestor Shamans, preserved bloodlines, and alliance with the Human Clan ensure that the Wu Tribe endures rather than becoming extinct. 64 253 254

Postwar Recovery and Return

Following the war, Pingxin divides the tribe between the Land of Reincarnation and Black Tortoise Continent. Xingtian leads the larger branch and safeguards the Ancestral Witch Hall, while Houyi initially oversees the Wu settlements assigned to Reincarnation 64.

The Black Tortoise Continent is particularly suitable for the surviving Wu. It absorbs the Primordial World’s filth, resentment, death aura, and Baleful Intent—energies harmful to most races but usable by Wu bodies as cultivation resources 252.

The revelation that Xuanming, Gonggong, and Shebi Shi survived the ancient catastrophe further restores the tribe’s hidden foundation. Xuanming recovers most fully, reaches the Primordial Unity Realm through the Divine Totem System, and becomes a central protector of the renewed tribe; Gonggong and Shebi Shi remain deeply injured 253 254.

On Chen Yang’s advice, the Wu Tribe begins a gradual return to the Buzhou Region rather than risking a full migration at once. Houyi leads Godhead-bearing clansmen back in stages, Xuanming remains in seclusion within the Ancestral Witch Hall, and Buzhou City again becomes a Wu stronghold. No major power openly obstructs the resettlement because Buzhou is the tribe’s ancestral territory, Pingxin governs Reincarnation, and Chen Yang’s alliance deters aggression 255.