Nuwa

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Nuwa (女娲)
Alias(es)	Saint Nuwa; Empress Nuwa; Empress Wa; Great Goddess Nuwa; Holy Mother of the Human Race 36 793 999 1075 1156
Species/Race	Innate deity; identified with the Demon Race, with a serpent-bodied true form 999 1028
Gender	Female 15 377
Affiliation	Wa Huang Palace; Heavenly Dao Sages; Primordial Chaos Holy Land and Heavenly Venerable Mountain. In the later Primordial-era storyline, Beast Emperor Palace; briefly the Demon Heavenly Court 34 326 876 1051 1156
Occupation/Role	Creator and Holy Mother of humanity; Demon Race Sage. Later, Tongtian’s disciple, a ruler of the Beast Emperor Palace, and Daoist Yunfeng’s master 117 311 1001 1156 1169
Family	Heavenly Venerable Fenyan’s eldest daughter; Fuxi’s sister. Hongjun alleges that Fenyan killed her birth mother 794 906 1051
Residence	Wa Huang Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens; later a palace created by Tongtian and a cave abode in human territory 34 1001 1174
Status	Alive; emerges from seclusion in the latest supplied appearance 1174
First Appearance	Earliest supplied direct appearance: Chapter 9 9

Power Progression

The later Primordial-era storyline introduces Nuwa as a young innate deity again. Its lower cultivation ranks are recorded separately from her earlier Sage cultivation; the supplied passages do not establish a loss of power between these storylines 338 999.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Heavenly Dao Sage	9 34	Already a Sage when the Investiture conflict begins; her attainment of Sagehood is not shown in the supplied material.
Seventh heaven of Primordial Unity	326	Reveals her concealed cultivation at Tongtian’s request, greatly surpassing the other Heavenly Dao Sages.
Eighth heaven of Primordial Unity	331	Advances another heaven within a few decades. Receives a copy of the Reincarnation God-Slaying Scripture; its role in this advancement is not established.
Ninth heaven of Primordial Unity / peak Primordial Origin Realm	338	Displays her full strength while defending herself with the Red Embroidered Ball. Tongtian’s Dao-Unification cultivation nevertheless allows him to wound and capture her.
Primordial Unity Golden Immortal — later Primordial-era storyline	999	Retrospectively identified as her rank when she attended Shen Ni’s preaching; she was then too weak to enter the Beast Emperor Palace.
Daluo Golden Immortal	999	Reaches this realm through seclusion shortly before Shen Ni brings her to Tongtian.
Quasi-Saint	1016 1019	Advances while studying souls and creating living bodies. Her companions witness her growth from the early Quasi-Saint stage to the Primordial Origin threshold.
Primordial Origin Realm — breakthrough attempt	1018 1019 1020	Begins immediately after creating living beings, without stockpiling resources. Comprehends Creation and the Soul while Shen Ni prevents outside interference.
Early Primordial Origin Realm	1022 1023	Survives Heavenly Tribulation through vitality and Creation, becoming the Primordial World’s fifth Primordial Origin expert only ten million years after birth. Receives body tempering, Great Dao baptism, and rare access to the Great Dao Source.
Peak early Primordial Origin Realm	1139 1140	One step from the middle stage. Her soul attacks already reach peak-middle or potentially late-stage Primordial Origin power.
Middle Primordial Origin Realm	1169 1170 1171 1172 1174	Breaks through after teaching humanity and deepening her understanding of Creation. Survives a years-long destruction tribulation unharmed, strengthening her physique and Dao foundations.

Background / History

Investiture Calamity

After the Demon Race’s defeat, Nuwa withdrew beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and rarely involved herself in worldly affairs. She initially regarded the Investiture Calamity as unrelated to her interests and scorned Tongtian for renouncing his Sage Dao Fruit 9 15 32.

King Zhou’s temple worship drew her attention when the Kongtong Seal and Yin Shang’s fortune dragon reacted to interference. Although the calamity obscured divination, Nuwa recognized that a Sage had acted. Yuanshi later acknowledged responsibility for the earlier offense when seeking her cooperation 14 15 34.

Nuwa initially refused to attack Yin Shang: it had not offended her, and intervention would create unjustified hostility with Tongtian. She eventually demanded that Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti help her obtain the Eastern Emperor Bell before the calamity, securing their promise through a Great Dao oath backed by half the fortune of their two teachings 34 35.

She then ordered the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb to undermine Yin Shang. Tongtian detected their approach and sent Yu Hua to kill them before they could possess Daji. Nuwa attacked Yu Hua with the Red Embroidered Ball, but Tongtian protected him with the Eastern Emperor Bell and forced her to withdraw 35 36.

Her subsequent appeal to Hongjun failed to secure either Tongtian’s removal from the investiture or the weakening of Yin Shang. She left the strategic discussions because the bell mattered more to her than the war’s outcome. Later, promises of Human Dao fortune and fear of Tongtian’s growing superiority persuaded her to rejoin the opposing alliance, though Tongtian eventually frightened her away 37 38 81 113.

Nuwa accepted Tongtian’s final system of competitive Heavenly Court appointments while remaining detached from the settlement. His announcement that he had retrieved Xihe from the River of Time unsettled her by recalling her failure to protect the Demon Race during its catastrophe; she departed without confronting him 116 117.

Hidden Strength and the Holy Lands

When Tongtian proposed filling the Human and Earthly Daos’ Sage positions, Nuwa revealed her seventh-heaven cultivation. She subsequently reached the eighth heaven and received the Reincarnation God-Slaying Scripture. During this period, she showed greater warmth toward Tongtian and acknowledged that his conduct during the Investiture Calamity had changed her opinion of him 326 327 331.

That cooperation collapsed when Hongjun attacked Tongtian. Tongtian wounded Nuwa and took her hostage, prompting Hongjun to reveal that both of them came from the Primordial Chaos Holy Land and had been trapped inside the Primordial World by Pangu 338.

After arriving in the Shiva Holy Land, Tongtian kept Nuwa captive as insurance against Hongjun. She helped conceal their origins by posing as a wandering cultivator and presenting Tongtian as her disciple. Her knowledge of local factions helped sustain the disguise, and she later served as an elder of the Holy Land Interception Sect 341 342 532.

When Ye Qing destroyed the sect’s protective array and killed Chi Jiao and Li Jiao, Nuwa threatened him despite being bound and vastly weaker. Her invocation of Venerable Burning Flame and Venerable Brahma frightened him into retreating. When Holy Mother Feihong arrived, Nuwa denied recognizing either Feihong or Ye Qing 426 436.

During Tongtian’s absence, Nuwa left with an old acquaintance whom he believed to be Hongjun. She later appeared with Hongjun and Kunlun at Bai Zeyu’s husband-selection tournament, where Commander Huoyun’s deference exposed her high standing. The group negotiated permission to return to the Primordial Chaos Holy Land, and their avatars finally arrived there 532 793 811 813 816.

Back home, Nuwa turned Tongtian’s promise of five places in the Primordial World into a proposed contest among the Four Great Sacred Lands. She later took first place in the Myriad Worlds Arena, ahead of Kunlun, and received Fenyan’s order to wait for an opportunity to kill the figure suspected of being connected to Pangu and Luohu 816 876 894.

Nuwa and Kunlun attempted to save a wounded Hongjun at Heavenly Venerable Mountain. When his betrayal became apparent, she condemned him. Hongjun retaliated by alleging that Fenyan had killed both Pangu and Nuwa’s birth mother; she defended her father, but the accusation shook her 904 906.

Tongtian’s Disciple and Humanity’s Creator

In the later Primordial-era storyline, Tongtian summoned the newly advanced Daluo Golden Immortal Nuwa and accepted her as his disciple. He gave her a complete Primordial Chaos cultivation art and created a palace containing a miniature world for her practice 999 1000 1001.

Nuwa began creating unusual creatures, initially with little intelligence or cultivation ability. Recognizing her affinity for Creation and the Soul, Tongtian encouraged her to develop both. She eventually returned to the Primordial World for inspiration, studying wandering souls and making bodies that could restore them to living existence 1011 1012 1015.

After reaching the Primordial Origin Realm, Nuwa persuaded Shen Ni to rescue two Qilin elders whose simultaneous breakthroughs were interfering with one another. Although she considered their crisis self-inflicted, she judged that their future strength could help defend the world against outside threats 1022 1023.

Nuwa briefly joined the Demon Heavenly Court to repay the karmic debt associated with the Demon Race’s fortune. She immediately withdrew, transferring her share of fortune without accepting lasting duties. Di Jun and Taiyi abandoned a plan to exploit Fuxi after recognizing that it could provoke her into destroying the court 1050 1051.

Guided by her enduring mission to create humanity, Nuwa produced one million innate humans in eighty-one days, each born with Heavenly Immortal strength. She stayed with them for a thousand years before allowing their civilization to develop independently 1074 1075.

Her protection remained selective. She secretly rescued humans from a Demon Race Quasi-Saint and supplied defensive formations for their Ancestral Land, but rejected moving humanity into the Beast Emperor Palace. When Guiche deliberately slaughtered humans to provoke her, she annihilated his body and soul in a single move 1080 1082 1139 1140.

Nuwa subsequently settled among humanity and promised a century of cultivation guidance. She supplied techniques and patiently answered questions while insisting that humans obtain their own resources. Teaching humanity also deepened her understanding of Creation, leading to her middle-stage Primordial Origin breakthrough 1154 1155 1156 1168 1170.

She also accepted Daoist Yunfeng as a disciple. After surviving her destruction tribulation, she entered seclusion to consolidate her gains, hoping to become strong enough to help Tongtian. She later emerged as Duobao approached her cave abode and new tribulation clouds gathered; no further completed advancement is shown in the supplied material 1169 1172 1173 1174.

Appearance

• True form: Serpent-bodied, as identified through Di Jun’s divination 1028.
• Beauty: Already exceptionally beautiful; three transformations of her flesh and bones further enhance her appearance during the Shiva Holy Land storyline 375 376.
• Youthful presentation: In the later Primordial-era storyline, she blushes when she mistakenly interprets Tongtian’s interest as romantic 1000 1001.

Personality

Nuwa is proud, independent, and difficult to recruit through empty promises. She weighs karmic debts and political risks carefully, initially refusing to harm an unoffending Yin Shang. Her independence also appears in her momentary membership of the Demon Heavenly Court: she repays what she owes without allowing its leaders to impose further obligations 34 35 1050 1051.

Her temper can be fierce. The early narration explicitly characterizes her as petty, while her humiliation during the temple incident provokes a public outburst. In the Shiva Holy Land, grief for slain friends drives her to challenge Ye Qing despite the overwhelming difference in their strength 15 426.

The later Nuwa is playful and initially reluctant to endure prolonged seclusion, but becomes disciplined and ambitious. She enjoys creation more than conventional cultivation and wants to prove herself worthy of Tongtian’s confidence 1001 1015 1020 1173.

Her compassion is tempered by a strong belief in self-reliance. She refuses to kill beings for research, helps the Qilin Clan despite its faults, and protects humanity without sheltering it from every hardship. She also judges human progress primarily by cultivation strength, showing displeasure when its leaders emphasize civilization rather than their ability to survive 1012 1023 1082 1156 1157.

Abilities & Skills

Great Way of Creation

• Creates living beings; her earliest experiments are largely instinct-driven creatures with little intelligence or cultivation 1011.
• Combines Creation with soul knowledge to make bodies for wandering spirits 1012 1015.
• Creates one million innate humans, each beginning at Heavenly Immortal strength 1075.
• Uses Creation directly against destruction tribulation, emerging unharmed while gaining deeper comprehension 1171 1172.
• Cannot revive Guiche’s victims without violating Houtu’s established reincarnation rules; the dead must pass through the Six Paths 1139.

Great Way of the Soul

• Studies wandering souls without wanting to kill living beings for research 1012.
• Annihilates Guiche’s soul and body before he can deploy his abilities 1140.
• At peak early Primordial Origin cultivation, produces soul attacks comparable to peak-middle or even late-stage power 1140.

Great Way of Life and Potential

• Creation and the Soul complement one another, strengthening both her combat ability and survivability 1049.
• Tongtian identifies their eventual combination as the supreme Great Way of Life, giving her potential to reach the Supreme Realm 1012.
• Later assessments discuss possible God King or Godless Realm attainment, but these remain conditional prospects rather than achieved realms 1022 1152.

Vitality and Defense

• Possesses exceptional innate vitality, further enhanced by Creation 1022 1029.
• Survives her first Primordial Origin tribulation through resilience even when she cannot overpower it directly 1022.
• Resists both destructive lightning and the heart-demon component of her later tribulation 1171.
• Intercepts the later tribulation’s strikes to protect the world, although one stray bolt devastates a large area 1170 1171 1172.

Fortune, Divination, and Authority

• As humanity’s creator, retains its fortune as long as humanity survives, even if humans cease worshipping her 311.
• Commands the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb through the Demon-Summoning Banner 34 35.
• Divines Di Jun and Taiyi’s impending visit before they arrive 1050.
• Restrains a Demon Race Quasi-Saint in midair to let human cultivators escape 1080.
• Provides formations capable of resisting Quasi-Saints, but only within humanity’s Ancestral Land 1082.

Teaching and Cultivation Knowledge

• Provides humanity with Beast Emperor Palace techniques and answers cultivation questions individually 1168.
• Teaches Yunfeng the Great Dao of Power using knowledge gained from Shen Ni, although Creation remains her greatest specialty 1169.
• Understands the Shiva Holy Land’s factional structure well enough to help conceal her and Tongtian’s foreign origins 342.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Demon-Summoning Banner — Gives her authority over the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb; its power can threaten the Demon Race 34 35.
• Red Embroidered Ball — Used to attack Yu Hua and later to protect herself against Tongtian 36 338.
• Reincarnation God-Slaying Scripture — Receives a duplicated jade-slip copy from Hongjun; the method can overcome the barrier to Dao-Unification 331.
• Primordial Chaos cultivation art — A complete technique supplied by Tongtian, distinct from the Heavenly Demon Art 1001.
• Protective talisman — Gives it to Tongtian before leaving the sect; its later activation alerts him to her possible presence 532 807.
• Creation materials — In her youthful travels, most of her resources are materials for creating life and souls rather than conventional cultivation supplies or treasures 1016.

Relationships

• Tongtian — Initially an object of contempt and a political opponent; later a temporary ally, captor, and source of deep distrust. In the later Primordial-era storyline, he becomes her strict, protective master, whom she hopes to repay through her own strength 9 35 331 338 813 1001 1173.
• Heavenly Venerable Fenyan — Her father and the source of her powerful standing in the Primordial Chaos Holy Land. She defends him against Hongjun’s accusations, though the allegation concerning her mother leaves her shaken 794 906.
• Hongjun — Companion in their confinement and return journey; protects her during Tongtian’s hostage-taking. She later tries to save him before condemning his betrayal 338 339 816 904 906.
• Kunlun — Fellow returnee and political ally. Nuwa restrains his impulse to act while their avatars are too weak; they later occupy the top two arena ranks 793 794 894.
• Fuxi — Her brother. Di Jun and Taiyi consider using him to pressure her, then abandon the scheme; he later reports humanity’s cultivation achievements to her 1051 1156.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni — Senior martial brother and protector. Guards her breakthrough, honors her request to rescue the Qilin elders, and supplies knowledge she later passes to Yunfeng 1018 1023 1169.
• Yuanfeng — Senior martial sister who arranges protection for the young Nuwa. The two also train together against Shen Ni 1012 1049.
• Houtu — Junior martial sister and close colleague. Nuwa recommends reincarnation as her path and offers her a human merit opportunity; their loyalty coexists with competition over cultivation progress 1088 1089 1169 1172.
• Daoist Yunfeng — Disciple chosen for his talent and comprehension of Power. Nuwa enjoys teaching him, though her later seclusion leaves him unable to seek answers 1169 1173.
• Human Race — Her creation, revering her as its Holy Mother. She provides protection and instruction while demanding independent growth 1075 1082 1155 1168.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi — Seek her prestige and military backing for the Demon Heavenly Court. Her immediate withdrawal prevents them from binding her to their plans 1050 1051.
• Commander Huoyun — Defers to her lineage and helps arrange her return home. She later pressures him to serve Fenyan and publicize the contest for entry into the Primordial World 793 794 816.
• Feng Qi and Ao Xiang — Bodyguards assigned by the Phoenix Clan and Dragonfolk; witness her rapid advancement and remain protective of her 1016 1018 1019.

Notable Quotes

“Having Teacher Hongjun above us is enough. I have no desire to have Saint Tongtian above me as well.” 81

“Very well. I am willing to join the Demon Heavenly Court.”
“And now, I withdraw.” 1050

“This treasure is bound to me by fate.” 1050