Saint

Biodata

Power Progression

The following advancements document Ye Xuan’s passage from Quasi-Saint to Human Dao Saint; they are not presented as universal requirements for every route to sainthood.

Nature of Sainthood

• Longevity: Saints are described as enduring countless tribulations, existing alongside the Dao, and lasting as long as heaven 8 55.
• Power disparity: Even formidable Quasi-Saints are compared to ants before a Saint. Ye Xuan fully appreciates this distinction only after his own ascension 233.
• World-forming consciousness: A Saint’s sea of consciousness develops beyond the Quasi-Saint’s small world into a true great world 233.
• Exalted standing: Disrespecting a Saint is treated as a serious offense. Kong Xuan maintains outward deference to Zhunti despite distrusting him 88.
• No absolute invulnerability: Saints can be injured, weakened, restrained, and potentially killed. Hongjun explicitly warns that the altered Investiture tribulation may cause even Saints to fall 55 85 315.

Paths to Sainthood

Distinction from Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal

• Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals cultivate and rely upon the laws of Chaos, whereas the Saint Realm described in the realm explanation relies upon the Heavenly Dao 78.
• At the time of that explanation, nobody has successfully cultivated the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm. Its difficulty drives cultivators toward Hongjun’s path 78.

Nuwa’s Unfulfilled Human Dao Path

When Nuwa created humanity, the Human Dao will approached her with goodwill. She later recalls that she might have become a Human Dao Saint had this continued. After the Human Dao will unexpectedly withdrew, she instead used the Heavenly Dao origin source and became a Heavenly Dao Sage 626.

Known Saints

The Six Saints of the Primordial World

These six answer Hongjun’s summons to the Purple Cloud Palace as his disciples 54.

Other Figures in the Saint Count

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun — Teacher of the six Saints and source of their Violet Qi. He previously declared that the Primordial World could support no more than seven Saints 54 78 231.
• Houtu / Lady Houtu Pingxin — Identified as the eighth Saint. Her merger with a Great Dao incarnation and subsequent absence from the Primordial World are treated as reasons she did not truly violate Hongjun’s stated limit 231.
• Wuming / Ye Xuan — The ninth Saint and a Human Dao Saint. His ascension openly challenges the apparent seven-Saint limit 231.

Abilities & Limitations

Saintly Might

Saintly power can suppress weaker cultivators through its presence alone.

• Nuwa’s passage through the Primordial World makes countless beings tremble and prostrate themselves 2.
• Zhunti effortlessly disperses the pre-Saint Ye Xuan’s sword Qi with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree 91.
• As a Human Dao Saint, Ye Xuan immobilizes Haotian Shangdi and the Holy Mother of Yaochi 613.

Dharma Bodies and Heaven and Earth Manifestation

Saints employ enormous manifestations of their cultivation, although this ability begins developing at the Quasi-Saint realm 309.

• Zhunti: A golden body with twenty-four heads and eighteen arms, each bearing a treasure 5 309.
• Nuwa: A divine manifestation with a snake tail, gauze robes, a lotus throne, and surrounding treasures 5.
• Ye Xuan: Two Saint Dharma Bodies divided according to Yin and Yang, nourished respectively by sinister forces and righteous energies such as merit 233 256.

Inner-World Manifestation

A Saint can project the world within their sea of consciousness into the outside world.

• Zhunti’s Buddha Kingdom in the Palm manifests an elaborate Buddhist world populated by arhats, venerables, attendants, and innumerable disciples 314.
• Ye Xuan’s early Saint inner world instead nurtures his two Dharma Bodies, showing that these worlds differ between cultivators 233 314.

Heavenly Calculation and Concealment

Saints can investigate heavenly secrets and conceal information, but neither ability is infallible.

• Zhunti obscures heavenly secrets to hide his manipulation of the Human Emperor; Nuwa identifies his power after hearing Ye Xuan’s thoughts 1.
• The approaching tribulation disorders heavenly secrets, obstructing even Saint-level divination 9 231.
• Ye Xuan’s mask and cloak block Zhunti’s probing, including his examination of karmic connections 90.
• Nuwa cannot locate the Ancestral Dragon after he enters Ye Xuan’s system space 8.

Vulnerabilities and Unequal Strength

• Injury: Ye Xuan injures Zhunti during their Chaoge confrontation—the first injury Zhunti has suffered since becoming a Saint 315.
• Karma: Although Saints are described as untouched by karma, the projected original future shows tribulation karma gravely weakening Nuwa 55 85.
• External control: Hongjun uses Saint-Slaying Pills to control Saints in visions of the original tribulation’s outcome 85 445.
• Matchups and treasures: Ye Xuan’s treasures counter Zhunti’s methods, but initially leave him without an easy way to decisively defeat him 314.
• Differences within the realm: Zhunti recognizes Yuanshi as substantially stronger than himself. Taishang’s later intervention suppresses both Ye Xuan’s Kongtong Seal and Yuanshi’s Pangu Banner 320 622.

Role in the Investiture of the Gods

Fracturing of the Six Saints

Taishang Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Zhunti, and Jieyin join forces to compel Tongtian to sign the Investiture agreement. Zhunti’s schemes against Nuwa and Yuanshi’s attempted attack on the Human Emperor deepen the split, bringing Nuwa and Tongtian closer together 6 39 54.

Wuming’s ascension introduces a Saint aligned with the Human Clan. Yuanshi fears that this new power will disrupt the tribulation he has arranged, while Tongtian welcomes a potential ally 231.

Opposing Camps

The division becomes unmistakable after the Chaoge confrontations. At the later East Sea standoff, Tongtian’s arrival again places three Saints on Ye Xuan’s side against Taishang, Yuanshi, and Zhunti 329 622.

Projected Original Outcome

The futures shown to Minghe, Tongtian, and Zhenyuan depict the course the tribulation could have followed without the Human Emperor’s intervention, rather than completed events in the altered timeline 84 334 445.

• Tongtian’s Interception Sect is devastated by the other Saints’ coalition 84 85.
• Hongjun restrains the Saints through Saint-Slaying Pills and enforced withdrawal from worldly affairs 85 445.
• Nuwa bears a disproportionate burden of tribulation karma, loses strength, and retreats to Wa Huang Palace 85 334.
• The supposed victors also lose their freedom, exposing the limits of the Saints’ independence under Hongjun 85 445.

Notable Quotes

“All beneath the Saints are ants.” 233

“On the day I became a Saint, I said that the Human Clan was under my protection.”
— Ye Xuan 314