Primordial World

Biodata

History

Pangu created Heaven and Earth shortly before Li Yi arrived. The world was then in the Beast Calamity Tribulation: Fierce Beasts born from lingering resentment and foul blood carried Fiendish Qi across the land. Li Yi killed the Beast King Qiongqi, while the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans killed the other kings. Beast Emperor Shen Ni went into hiding, bringing the calamity close to its end 2 5 7.

Li Yi and Yuanfeng subsequently pursued Shen Ni through the Primordial World and the Thirty-Three Heavens. His final self-destruction failed to kill them, and his death ended the Beast Calamity Tribulation. Heavenly Dao Merit descended upon those who had fought the Fierce Beasts, with Li Yi receiving an immense share 10.

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans became the dominant powers after the Beast Calamity. Their competition for resources and rulership developed into another calamity, with Demon Ancestor Luohou secretly encouraging the conflict. Following their devastating final battle, the clans’ ancestors swore vows of withdrawal and atonement, ending their struggle to rule the world 11 12 13.

During the later Dao-Devil War, Demon Ancestor Luohou’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation engulfed Demon Mountain. Li Yi helped defeat Luohou, then competed with Hongjun to teach the world’s cultivators and gain authority through their karmic ties 15 25 31.

The rival Dao discussions spread cultivation knowledge previously guarded closely by individual beings and clans. Li Yi’s lectures on Yingzhou Island eventually attracted nearly thirty thousand attendees and covered the Great Firmament, Quasi-Saint, and Formation Daos. Tongtian’s breakthrough and the audience’s growing recognition of Li Yi as Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor shifted Heavenly Dao Authority away from Hongjun 25 32 34 36.

The Witch and Demon tribes subsequently emerged as rival powers. Di Jun and Taiyi founded the Demon Court, but its attempt to subordinate Li Yi ended in defeat outside Penglai Island. Li Yi spared its leaders in part to preserve the balance ahead of the Lich Calamity 56 62.

Nuwa later created the Human Race at Buzhou Mountain. Humanity’s birth brought an unprecedented descent of Heavenly Dao Merit and a struggle over the new race’s future, in which Li Yi became Human Dao Sovereign 72 73 76.

Li Yi infused the first ten thousand humans with his Chaos Demon God Essence Blood, becoming their Father God and greatly improving their innate foundations. The Heavenly Dao attempted to stop him with Purple Cloud Divine Thunder, but the Chaos Gourd swallowed the attack. Li Yi and Nuwa ultimately became the world’s first and second Sages through Great Dao Merit, jointly holding the position of Human Dao Sovereigns. Hongjun became the third Sage with Heavenly Dao support, but Li Yi destroyed him in their subsequent battle in the chaos; the Heavenly Dao later restored him 74 75 79 119.

After settling humanity near Buzhou Mountain, Li Yi sent an External Incarnation made from the Yin-Yang Daoist’s Chaos Demon God body to lead it. Known as Huang, this incarnation taught fire-making, farming, animal husbandry, writing, and marriage. Humanity multiplied into several hundred million people, and Huang united its tribes in establishing a Divine Dynasty. Laozi’s competing attempt to establish the Human Sect failed after the Great Dao recognized the superiority of Li Yi’s three cultivation methods, and the Heavenly Dao withdrew its support for Laozi’s claim 79 81 82 84 88.

Humanity’s rise strengthened the Human Dao and changed the territorial balance of the world. The Witch and Demon tribes each yielded a hundred million li of territory to the Human Race. Tongtian subsequently founded the Interception Sect under the Human Dao and became a Sage, opening a cultivation path to beings whose weak origins and lack of methods had previously excluded them from the immortal Dao 95 98 119.

After another failed confrontation with Li Yi, Heavenly Dao Hongjun accelerated the Lich Calamity to replenish the Heavenly Dao’s fortune. Conflicts between the Witch and Demon tribes intensified as both expanded into the world’s limited heartlands. Li Yi did not attempt to prevent their inevitable war, instead arranging for surviving witches to enter the Human Dao’s protection and for Tongtian’s Interception Sect to receive part of the Demon Court’s role and fortune 105 106 107.

The tribes’ final battle brought the Witch Tribe’s Twelve Capitals Gods and Demons Formation against the Demon Tribe’s Zhou Tian Star Formation. The witches manifested a Pangu True Body, while the demons drew upon the power of countless stars and their vast numbers of cultivators. The Demon Tribe eventually gained the upper hand, and Houtu’s compassion for the battlefield’s wandering souls led her toward establishing the Earthly Dao. Li Yi interrupted Hongjun’s attempt to control that process and protected Houtu as she established the Earthly Dao and opened the Nine Nether Underworld 121 122 123 126 127.

Houtu and the other eleven Ancestor Witches remained in the unfinished underworld to complete its operation and atone for their slaughter. Hong Yun founded the Witch Teachings to shelter the surviving witches under the Human Dao and Earthly Dao, receiving the Great Dao’s recognition. Li Yi then competed directly with Hongjun to absorb the Lich Calamity’s Tribulation Fortune 133.

The ensuing confrontation exposed Huang’s identity as Li Yi’s incarnation and revealed the extent of Li Yi’s arrangements for humanity. Li Yi ultimately swore a Great Dao oath to oversee the Heavenly Dao without appropriating its authority. The Great Dao revoked Hongjun’s position as Heavenly Dao Representative, reducing him to the Sage realm, and Li Yi destroyed him. Blood rain spread across the Primordial World as Li Yi became Heavenly Dao Overseer 138 141.

Cultivation and Cosmic Order

• Cultivation scale — The world contains realms from Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation through Heavenly Immortal, Great Firmament Golden Immortal, Quasi-Saint, and Sage. Serafino’s starting realm was weak by its standards despite sounding impressive to Blue Star observers 52 63 76.
• Higher realms — The stated cultivation hierarchy continues beyond Sage to the Heavenly Dao Realm and Great Dao Realm. Quasi-Saint corresponds to Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal, while Sage corresponds to Primordial Unity Great Firmament Golden Immortal 2.
• Origins and limits — A being’s origins can constrain cultivation. Li Yi’s Chaos Demon God origins leave him without the Heavenly Dao limit that applies to beings born after creation 2.
• Changing innate foundations — Innate beings generally began at the Celestial Immortal realm, but beings born in later eras had considerably weaker foundations. By the time Tongtian founded the Interception Sect, even becoming an immortal was beyond the reach of many newly awakened creatures without access to cultivation methods 52 95.
• Paths to Sagehood — The commonly recognized approaches include Force-Proving Dao, Three Corpses Severing, and Merit Sainthood. Li Yi taught cultivation through laws, whereas Hongjun promoted the Three Corpses Severing Method, which required Innate Spiritual Treasures as vessels. Hongjun deliberately withheld the means of uniting the Three Corpses, intending to leave other practitioners trapped below Sagehood 25 35 36.
• Fortune, karma, and merit — Defeating Fierce Beasts can yield their fortune; preaching creates karmic ties that can increase Heavenly Dao Authority; and major deeds such as humanity’s creation draw Merit 6 25 73.
• Calamity cycles — Struggles over resources and dominance produce world-spanning calamities that obscure Heavenly Secrets and entangle even Quasi-Saints. The Lich Calamity was ordained by the Great Dao rather than created solely by Hongjun, although his interference accelerated it. Its accumulated Tribulation Fortune could be absorbed by the Heavenly Dao or contested by Li Yi 12 13 105 106 133.
• Heavenly Dao and Human Dao — Heavenly Dao power can enable Sagehood but may bind its recipient to the Heavenly Dao’s will. Li Yi’s recognition as Human Dao Sovereign gives him a competing source of authority 72 76 77.
• Human Dao development — Humanity’s collective vows, civilization, cultivation, and growing fortune strengthen the Human Dao Will. It can support Sagehood and accept sects such as Tongtian’s Interception Sect. Its emergence placed it alongside the Heavenly Dao, although it was initially weaker 84 88 98 119.
• Earthly Dao and reincarnation — Houtu established the Earthly Dao and created the Nine Nether Underworld as a separate world beneath the Primordial World’s land rather than an ordinary physical underground region. Guto Xuefeng recognized it as the true underworld spanning the myriad worlds and understood that its creation extended across past, present, and future 126 127.
• Sages and restoration — Sages are described as undying and eternal, vastly surpassing Quasi-Saints and capable of reforming through the Heavenly Dao or Human Dao after death. Morning Star Lord reported eight Sages when explaining the world’s powers to Guto Xuefeng. Sages were also expected to withdraw from worldly affairs rather than interfere excessively in the world’s development 116 119.
• Great Dao supervision — The Heavenly Dao must operate within rules governing karma and cannot freely kill beings unconnected to its disputes. Excessive violations can bring punishment from the Great Dao. Its representative’s authority is likewise revocable: the Great Dao accepted Li Yi’s oath, removed Hongjun, and recognized Li Yi’s supervisory role 74 102 141.
• Combat and treasures — The world’s strength rests on sophisticated divine abilities, Spirit Treasures, and formations as well as cultivation realms. Even a Lower-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure was assessed by Li Yi as comparable to another world’s Creation Divine Artifact. Guto Xuefeng’s combat methods, despite his high realm in the Xuanhuang Realm, proved crude against ordinary battlefield opponents in the Primordial World 25 111.

Notable Locations

• Penglai Island — Li Yi’s Daoist abode, protected by an Innate Formation. He found the Pure World White Lotus there 4. It stretches hundreds of millions of kilometers in length and breadth and contains numerous Immortal Herbs, Spiritual Veins, and gestating treasures. It is one of the three legendary Immortal Islands, alongside Fangzhang and Yingzhou, whose Heavenly Secrets conceal them from those without sufficient fortune 3 4.
• Yingzhou Island — Site of Li Yi’s public Dao discussions, which drew cultivators seeking instruction in the Quasi-Saint and Formation Daos 25 32. Located in the East Sea, it was previously discovered and sealed by the Yin-Yang Daoist and became Li Yi’s second Daoist abode after the former’s death 27.
• Buzhou Mountain — Site associated with the Beast Calamity campaign and the creation of the Human Race 6 72. Li Yi settled the newborn humans nearby, and the region beneath the mountain beside the East Sea subsequently became humanity’s heartland 79 94.
• Western Land — Site of Luohou’s Demon Mountain and, later, a dispute over Hong Yun’s followers and Daoist grounds 15 53. Luohou’s detonation of its Spiritual Veins left much of the region barren, although Hong Yun’s Daoist grounds possessed an unusually rich Spiritual Vein. The Western Land later became the center of the Witch Teachings sheltering the surviving witches 52 53 133.
• Purple Cloud Palace — Hongjun’s Daoist abode in the chaos above the Thirty-Three Heavens. Its interior contains a blessed realm rich in Spiritual Qi. It served as the site of his Dao discussions and the base from which he directed later efforts to strengthen the Heavenly Dao 27 105.
• Kunlun Mountains — Daoist grounds of the Three Pure Ones. Tongtian sent his Spirit Treasure Avatar from his abode there to participate in the National Destiny Ranking Trial 36 64.
• Demon Court — The ruling center established by Di Jun and Taiyi, gathering the Ten Demon Sages and numerous Demon Tribe cultivators. Its Demon Emperor Palace served as a command center during the escalating conflict with the Witch Tribe 56 106.
• Nine Nether Underworld — A world opened by Houtu through the Earthly Dao, stabilized with three Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures supplied by Li Yi. The twelve Ancestor Witches operated its unfinished structure while working to complete it and atone for their actions during the calamity 127 133.

National Destiny Trial

Li Yi chose the Primordial World despite its reputation as an unexplored, dangerous training world; Dragon Nation’s instructors knew of no earlier entrant who had survived there for an hour. His progress overturned their expectations and placed Dragon Nation first in the initial National Destiny rankings 1 8 24.

Other nations later used Re-Rank Training Cards to send contestants into the same world with powers retained from earlier trials. Their prior reputations did not translate into success: several struggled or were defeated soon after arrival 51 52 55.

The Third-Day Ranking Trial allowed contestants to summon representatives from their training worlds. Serafino brought the Earth Spirit Tiger to Eagle Nation’s plaza, while Tongtian sent a Spirit Treasure Avatar on Li Yi’s behalf. The Primordial World’s inhabitants initially appeared far more ordinary to Blue Star observers than their actual power warranted 64.

The Xuanhuang Realm’s Guto Family targeted the Primordial World after Tongtian’s appearance drew its attention to Blue Star. Guto Xuanling intended to capture Li Yi and eventually devour the world, assuming it was comparable in rank to other great worlds the Xuanhuang Realm had consumed 89 120.

By the fourth day, all other nations’ entrants into the Primordial World had died, leaving Li Yi as its sole surviving trial participant. When he evaded the National Destiny summons, the game announced that its initiating deity would enter personally to capture him. Guto Xuefeng then crossed through a world passage, and his experiences were broadcast across Blue Star’s skies 108 110 111.

Guto Xuefeng’s arrival exposed the gap between the Primordial World and outsiders’ expectations. A Witch Tribe fighter nearly killed him, and a Demon Tribe cultivator subsequently explained that the apparent world-ending battle he had witnessed was merely a routine skirmish. Morning Star Lord’s account of thousands of Great Firmament Golden Immortals in the Demon Court, Quasi-Saints above them, and undying Sages beyond those overturned Blue Star’s understanding of the trial world’s scale 111 112 114 116.

The broadcast later showed the final Witch–Demon battle, Houtu’s creation of the underworld, and Li Yi’s confrontation with Heavenly Dao Hongjun. The Chaos Gourd’s appearance led Blue Star and the Guto Family to identify Li Yi with Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor, the Primordial World’s first Sage. After removing Hongjun, Li Yi transported Guto Xuefeng directly before him 121 122 127 129 130 141.

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