Human Race

Biodata

Power Progression

These milestones track the race’s documented collective strength and leading defenders, rather than a cultivation realm shared by all humans.

Racial Traits

• Weak at birth, strong in potential: Lu Chen describes humans as naturally weak but possessing innate intelligence, exceptional learning capacity, and immense potential 41.
• Innate Dao-compatible form: Human form is described as the shape of an innate Dao physique. In the Primordial Era, this advantage provoked resentment from powerful ancient races 210.
• Diverse constitutions: Human cultivators include ordinary physiques, the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, innate Dao embryos, and the human king body 21 151 298 431.
• Physique is not destiny: Lu Chen ultimately becomes an emperor with an ordinary body, while Ye Fan’s Human Sacred Body grants him exceptionally abundant life essence 431.
• Race-specific medicinal limits: The Demon God Flower benefits Demon Race younglings but is useless to humans 41.

Cultivation and Heritage

Human Body Secret Realms

• Human cultivation develops through the Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform Secret Realms 15 22 168.
• Earlier secret realms continue growing after a cultivator enters later ones. All five reach complete perfection only at the pinnacle of Quasi-Emperor 22.
• Each heaven of the Immortal Platform represents a gulf comparable to an entire preceding major secret realm 168.
• Cultivation methods, secret techniques, talent, and physique can create enormous differences in combat strength between cultivators of the same realm 21.

Mother Scriptures

• Taiyin Ancient Scripture and Solar Ancient Scripture — Humanity’s two mother scriptures, coveted by the Myriad Dragon Nest 268.
• Dongfang Taiyi cultivated both, but their conflicting powers contributed to his disordered state. Purple Mountain’s transformed Yin-Yang Eyes offered him a way to comprehend the Dao and resolve that conflict 145.
• The Myriad Dragon Nest preserved him in divine source after failing to extract the scriptures from his consciousness; attempts to force the issue threatened to make him self-detonate 268.

Imperial Inheritances

• Human Great Emperors left supreme Dao lineages considered superior to the inheritances of Saint Kings and Great Saints 266.
• Twelve human emperors appear as Dao-mark lightning during Lu Chen’s tribulation: Wushi, Ruthless, Taiyin Human Emperor, Sun Human Emperor, Hengyu, Void Emperor, Jiuli Great Emperor, Taihuang, Divine Continent Great Emperor, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor 216.
• Holy lands preserve inherited Saint Weapons and other ancestral treasures capable of securing their continued prosperity 101.

Institutions and Territory

Major Human Powers

Human Race Ancient Road

• Numerous smaller routes from different star domains converge at Human Race First City, the first major stronghold of humanity’s Emperor Road 292.
• Entrants come from Ancient Life Stars as well as smaller worlds and heavenly domains created by Sages 291.
• The First City’s lord serves as a guiding envoy, directing outstanding talents through the pass and toward subsequent trials 292.
• Most entrants have reached the Saint domain; Half-Saints such as Lu Chen are unusual 291.
• Competition is lethal, and reaching the road’s ultimate end grants qualification to contend for the imperial throne 291.
• Lu Chen eventually completes the Human Race Ancient Road and follows a Guide Envoy into the Ultimate Land 337.

History

Primordial Subordination and Rise

In the Primordial Era, humans were a minor race whose powerful cultivators were far fewer than those of the dominant primordial clans. Most survived as vassals of royal clans; some clans treated them as livestock or food 145 210.

More than a million years before Dongfang Taiyi’s awakening, a great upheaval changed heaven and earth. The Primordial Myriad Races disappeared from public life, with some surviving underground in divine source. Humans and demons became masters of the land, and successive human Great Emperors secured humanity’s rule over Big Dipper 77 145.

Return of the Primordial Myriad Races

The revived ancient races challenged humanity’s territorial dominance and demanded cultivation resources. Human sects near their sleeping grounds were destroyed or forced to relocate, while even holy lands possessing Emperor Weapons initially chose self-preservation 200.

Humanity’s apparent lack of Saints encouraged radical clans to threaten extermination. Lu Chen’s defeat of Yuan Gu gave human spectators hope, and Wei Yi’s subsequent intervention forced the ancient races to reconsider whether human prodigies could be attacked without retaliation 195 198.

Destruction of Spirit Valley

Spirit Valley used Zi Tiandu’s death as a pretext to test humanity’s hidden strength. Other royal clans and several imperial clans supported the probe, hoping to determine whether a wider assault was possible 209 210.

Lu Chen enlisted Dongfang Taiyi to destroy Spirit Valley and buy time for younger human talents to mature. The royal clan and its three Ancestor Kings were eliminated overnight. Radical clans fell silent, and openly active ancient races became more restrained, fearing that humanity concealed an unrivaled Great Saint 210 214.

Jade Pool Assembly and Qixia Plain

The Wushi Bell’s prolonged ringing created uncertainty over whether Great Emperor Wushi remained alive, deterring an immediate declaration of war. Primordial Imperial Clans then called the Jade Pool conference to force humanity to reveal its strength 253.

At the gathering, an Ancestor King humiliated human cultivators before Lu Chen killed him. The dispute later resumed on Qixia Plain after Ye Fan defeated and killed Yuan Gu. Ancient Kings used the duel as another opportunity to pressure the Human Race 254 256 262 263.

Jiang Taixu, Dongfang Taiyi, Gai Jiuyou, and other hidden human experts appeared in succession. Their combined presence made the cost of war unacceptable even to primordial imperial clans, leading to negotiations 264 267 269.

Qixia Agreement

The agreement prevented an immediate large-scale war and created a period for the races to recuperate and rebuild 269 270.

Immortal Road and Forbidden Zones

At the later gathering in Dark City, other races proposed removing humans from Big Dipper because humanity’s population greatly exceeded theirs. Lu Chen killed the advocates and defeated two Great Saints, ending open discussion of expulsion 351.

During the dark turmoil, Gai Jiuyou, the Mars Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, Shennong, Yellow Emperor, and Emperor Weapons fought the Forbidden Zone Supremes. Stone Emperor was the only Supreme to survive that conflict 361.

Humanity later gained stronger defenders in Lu Chen and Ye Fan. Their campaigns culminated in the eradication of the Six Life Forbidden Zones; neither Heavenly Emperor chose to perpetuate those zones’ methods of survival 412 431.

Notable Members and Defenders

• Lu Chen — Human prodigy from outside Big Dipper who consistently sides with humanity in racial conflicts; later becomes Chaos Heavenly Emperor 252 412.
• Ye Fan — Human Sacred Body who kills Yuan Gu, founds Heavenly Court, and eventually becomes Heavenly Emperor Ye 262 371 431.
• Dongfang Taiyi / Human Demon — Primordial human Great Saint rescued from the Myriad Dragon Nest; destroys Spirit Valley and kills the Fallen Heaven King 143 214 268.
• Jiang Taixu / Divine King Jiang — Emperor Hengyu’s descendant and a leading present-age Saint defending humans on Qixia Plain 264 266.
• Wei Yi — Tianxuan survivor who protects Lu Chen from an Ancestor King; later appears among humanity’s Great Saints 198 269.
• Gai Jiuyou — Senior protector whose strength compels the primordial Great Saints to abandon their contempt for humanity 269.
• Gu Tianshu — Great Saint guarding Wushi’s tomb in Purple Mountain; participates in the Qixia negotiations 269.
• Undying Old Man — The Northern Region’s foremost Great Bandit and one of the hidden experts revealed at Qixia Plain 256 269.
• Qishi Mansion’s Old Mansion Master — Long-retired human Saint who emerges to support the race’s negotiations 269.

Relations with Other Races

• Primordial Myriad Races — Former overlords and later competitors for Big Dipper’s territory and resources. Their factions range from negotiators to clans seeking humanity’s extermination 210 269.
• Demon Race — Fellow post-Primordial masters of the land. Relations include both conflict and cooperation: Nangong Zheng fights the Peacock King, while the Peacock King shelters Lu Chen and Ye Fan 32 35 77.
• Black Tortoise Demon Saint — An allied defender who fights beside Lu Chen and Jiang Taixu, but is explicitly distinguished from a Human Race Saint 262 266.
• Eternal Kingdom powers — Their invasion of primordial territories diverts pressure from humanity, although they themselves treat outsiders as inferior lifeforms 251 253.

Notable Quotes

“This is the era of the Human Race. Even if your Primordial Myriad Races awaken, humanity's glory will endure!”
— Lu Chen 195

“Today, we old relics will win a stretch of peace for the younger generation.”
— Gai Jiuyou 269

“There is no need to speak of awe. Let all living things coexist, and that will suffice!”
— Gai Jiuyou 269