The Origins of the Three Realms: The Eternal War and a Daughter's Declaration

“After Fuxi reincarnated into the human race, he ultimately came to comprehend the two Heavenly Daos of Yin and Yang, achieving inconceivable accomplishments in the art of formations. He is now the supreme formation master of the entire Three Realms.” Subhuti said. “Although his personal power is astonishingly great, because he has never managed to comprehend the Heavenly Dao of Life, he has been unable to awaken his past-life memories.”

Ji Ning sighed.

To have comprehended two Heavenly Daos and still be unable to awaken his past life… truly, the heavens teased him.

“In terms of raw strength, he was originally an Elder God. The divine body of an Elder God is incomparably mighty. Compared to the current Fuxi, his actual power is roughly equivalent,” Subhuti mused. “This reincarnation—whether it is good or bad for Fuxi—is hard to say.”

“The primordial era was immeasurably long. Some wholeheartedly pursued the Dao, while others engaged in life-or-death slaughter. Even the rise of the human race was marked by a series of wars… many great powers died. Even more Empyrean Gods died.” Subhuti shook his head, a look of pity in his eyes. “Because of ambition, several of the original Elder Gods perished. Even the most powerful faction of the primordial era collapsed with the death of the Ancestral Dragon, and the Dragon race has never recovered since.”

“The Ancestral Dragon perished?” Ji Ning cried out in shock.

The Ancestral Dragon was one of the Ten Elder Gods!

From what his master was saying, the divine body of an Elder God was incomparably powerful, a being on par with the Human Sovereigns and the leaders of the Daoist and Buddhist sects.

“It wasn’t just the Ancestral Dragon. Even Elder God Rúshōu of Metal died in the conflict!” Subhuti shook his head. “This is war. When there is no external threat, internal conflict is the most brutal and consuming.”

“Internal conflict?” Ji Ning was stunned. “Master, you mean…?”

“Internal conflict?” Even Red Snow, who had been calmly listening, was startled.

If the countless battles within the primordial world were called internal conflict, then…

“In the primordial era, the Divine Farmer was roaming the Chaos. While searching for various curiosities, he discovered a race of Chaos aliens.” Subhuti’s expression grew solemn.

“Aliens?” Ji Ning and Red Snow were shocked.

“The Chaos is boundless. You must understand, Pangu, Nuwa, and the other Elder Gods, True Gods, and Empyrean Gods were all born from the Chaos. It is only natural that other lifeforms could be born within the Chaos as well.” Subhuti sighed. “These aliens stumbled upon our world by chance. Fortunately, the Divine Farmer discovered them first, preventing them from infiltrating our world.”

“These Chaos aliens came with overwhelming force and utter madness, declaring war on our primordial world immediately.” Subhuti said, “You have probably heard of his name. He was called Luohou! The very first visitor from the Chaos.”

“The first?” Ji Ning and Red Snow immediately understood.

There would likely be other Chaos aliens who would come to the primordial world later.

“Luohou was incredibly arrogant. He said, ‘I, Luohou, have roamed the Chaos unopposed. Do you think I would fear you little creatures living in a single Chaosworld?’” Subhuti shook his head. “That was when we understood that there should be other powerful lifeforms in the Chaos. Luohou was probably just one of them. Because Luohou attacked without understanding our world, although he was ferociously mad, he was still defeated.”

“With a wave of his hand, he summoned a vast and mighty army.”

“His personal power was even greater than the leaders of the Buddhist and Daoist sects, or the Human Sovereigns. Only Mother Nuwa could match him! However, we had the advantage of many powerful experts, and we managed to kill him by overwhelming him with numbers.” Subhuti said, “After Luohou died, we used the shattered remnants of his divine body to refine many magic treasures. The Luohou Bow you use, Ji Ning, is one of them. Although most of the treasures refined from his corpse were initially of supreme-grade Pure Yang, over ninety percent of them later evolved into Innate Spirit Treasures.”

“The arrival of Luohou awakened the entire primordial world.”

“So… besides us, there were other lifeforms in the Chaos, and they were this powerful.”

“Thus, the primordial world stabilized. The previously ferocious wars of slaughter and conflict came to a halt. We even began to regret the ambitious infighting that had already caused the deaths of so many great powers. Because the human race had the three Human Sovereigns, and because we were no longer willing to fight among ourselves, the human race became the leader of the ten thousand races.”

“Time passed, and endless years went by.”

“Finally, another calamity arrived.” Subhuti’s expression turned somber. “Several great powers, including Mother Nuwa and myself, sensed an incredibly powerful force approaching our primordial world. We all traveled through the Chaos to investigate.”

“After traveling through the Chaos for over half a month… we finally discovered the source of that terrifying power!” Subhuti’s eyes held a trace of grief.

Ji Ning and Red Snow both listened intently.

“It was a massive, oval-shaped world—a Chaosworld just like our own primordial Pangu Chaosworld!” Subhuti declared gravely.

“What!”

“A Chaosworld just like the primordial Pangu Chaosworld?”

Ji Ning and Red Snow both cried out in shock.

Subhuti looked at them. “Since Pangu could cleave the heavens and earth to create the primordial Pangu Chaosworld, how can you be certain that another vast world wouldn’t appear within the endless Chaos?”

Ji Ning and Red Snow were struck speechless.

“Furthermore, that world also had Elder Gods. However, to distinguish them, we called them ‘Demon Gods’—Demons. They had Ancestral Demons, True Demons, and Heavenly Demons!” Subhuti said gravely. “That world was what we named the ‘Seamless Chaosworld.’”

“Seamless Chaosworld?” Ji Ning and Red Snow were stunned.

Seamless?

The Seamless Gate?

“Correct. The current Seamless Gate originates from this Seamless Chaosworld,” Subhuti nodded. “The Seamless Chaosworld and our Pangu Chaosworld… both Chaosworlds were constantly moving through the Chaos, and they were drawing closer. One day, these two Chaosworlds would inevitably collide.”

“As they drew nearer, we both sensed it through the fate of the primordial chaos. We understood that these two Chaosworlds would collide and merge into a single, massive Chaosworld.”

“The Seamless Chaosworld was different from ours,” Subhuti said. “In our Pangu Chaosworld, because Mother Nuwa was detached and aloof, internal conflicts were fierce, and we suffered heavy losses. However, in the Seamless Chaosworld, the strongest being was the Heartfiend Ancestral Demon. This great demon was immensely ambitious and had long since unified the entire Seamless Chaosworld. Thus, their power was incalculably great.”

“At that time, they had five Ancestral Demons: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, and Heart! They also had two beings at the level of Daofather leaders, comparable to Daoist Three Purities. In particular, that Heartfiend Ancestral Demon… his power was almost on the level of Pangu. Even Mother Nuwa was no match for him.”

“On our side, however, internal conflict had left us weak.”

“In particular, their True Gods outnumbered ours. We had lost too many of ours to infighting.”

“In truth, their strength was slightly greater than ours! With the ambition of the Heartfiend Ancestral Demon… naturally, he wanted to rule the merged Chaosworld. Our side of the Pangu Chaosworld naturally refused. And so—war was declared!”

“The war between the Pangu Chaosworld and the Seamless Chaosworld was world-shattering and heaven-destroying!”

“Just at the most critical moment…”

“A terrifying existence appeared—the Lord of All Demons!” Subhuti’s expression was incredibly grave. “The Lord of All Demons is the most terrifying Chaos alien we have ever encountered. The reason our two Chaosworlds were gradually drawing closer was because he was secretly guiding them.”

Ji Ning and Red Snow felt their hearts tighten.

“When the Pangu Chaosworld and the Seamless Chaosworld were both heavily depleted from fighting, the Lord of All Demons appeared with his grand army,” Subhuti said. “He is called the Lord of All Demons because his mastery over all things had reached an inconceivable level. First, the Dao of Puppetry in the current Three Realms originates from him!”

“The Lord of All Demons had a vast number of puppets under his command, many of which possessed the power of Daofather-level combat ability.”

“Secondly, the Lord of All Demons commanded a massive number of Mother Queens—the same kind you encountered in the Realm of Annihilation. These Mother Queens bred countless legions. When these legions combined, each one of them had the battle power of a Daofather.”

“As for the Lord of All Demons himself, his personal power was only on par with Daoist Three Purities or the Tathagata. However, he had even modified his own divine body. His body was extraordinarily unique and could not be killed!”

“With the sudden appearance of the Lord of All Demons and the strength of his army, which was not inferior to the total strength of a single Chaosworld…”

“It was at this most critical moment that Mother Nuwa broke through.”

“This was a qualitative breakthrough!”

“Mother Nuwa broke through to the Pangu level. She began a massive slaughter. The Lord of All Demons perished. The Heartfiend Ancestral Demon fled by merging with the Heavenly Dao. The Seamless Gate had already suffered heavy losses in the earlier fighting, and now they were being slaughtered en masse by Mother Nuwa. Only the ‘Windfiend Ancestral Demon,’ second only to the Heartfiend Ancestral Demon in the Seamless Chaosworld, managed to escape from Mother Nuwa. At the same time, the Windfiend Ancestral Demon also brought many of the Seamless Gate’s great powers with him. Fortunately, Mother Nuwa’s first target after her breakthrough was the Heartfiend Ancestral Demon. Otherwise, the Heartfiend Ancestral Demon would probably have been rescued by the Windfiend Ancestral Demon as well. That Windfiend Ancestral Demon’s escape ability was truly inconceivable.”

“Windfiend Ancestral Demon?” Ji Ning and Red Snow both committed the name to memory.

To be able to escape from Mother Nuwa and protect so many other great powers…

“The Windfiend Ancestral Demon is revered by the current Seamless Gate as the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons. His power is unfathomably deep!” Subhuti said.

“This earth-shattering, heaven-destroying war also caused the two Chaosworlds, which had already begun to merge, to shatter directly. The largest piece of wreckage became the Primordial Ruins. The rest transformed into the Heaven Realm, the Netherworld Kingdom, the three thousand major worlds, and the countless billion minor worlds.” Subhuti said, “After the Chaos alien ‘Lord of All Demons’ died, Mother Nuwa slew a portion of his remaining army. The rest were driven into the Primordial Ruins.”

“Those remnants pose no real threat to us. Their greater significance is as a warning.”

Subhuti’s expression was solemn. “Let us never forget… there are other lifeforms in the endless Chaos. We must never allow ourselves to fall into internal conflict again.”

“The Three Realms were established.”

“Later, because of a matter of utmost importance, Mother Nuwa ventured into the endless Chaos. She left and never returned.”

“After Mother Nuwa left, the Windfiend Ancestral Demon returned, bringing with him the great powers of the Seamless Chaosworld under his command,” Subhuti said, shaking his head. “This Windfiend Ancestral Demon was far too troublesome to deal with. The Seamless faction’s strength was, indeed, not weak. We were also worried about the threat of Chaos visitors, and the Windfiend Ancestral Demon didn’t have the confidence to defeat us either. So, the two sides negotiated a truce.”

“Since then, our side and the Seamless faction have coexisted peacefully.”

“Many lifeforms in the Three Realms have the blood of gods, while others have the blood of demons. In truth, we and the Seamless Chaosworld are both Chaosworlds, and our bloodlines aren’t that different. So, they are all collectively referred to as having the blood of Fiendgods.”

“Those born from the Chaos are also collectively referred to as Chaos Fiendgods.”

“To be more precise, those from the Pangu Chaosworld side should be called Chaos Empyrean Gods and Chaos True Gods. Those from the Seamless side should be called Chaos Heavenly Demons and Chaos True Demons.”

Subhuti said, “Over an immeasurable period of time, a succession of great powers were newly born within the Three Realms. The Three Realms flourished once more. However, not long ago, all the great powers were able to sense the fate of the primordial chaos. We all sensed that our side and the Seamless side would have to have one final war. No one could avoid it.”

“To try and avoid the war would only result in death!”

…

Ji Ning and Red Snow now understood everything completely.

So the Seamless Gate was from another Chaosworld.

“The guidance of fate is never wrong,” Subhuti said, shaking his head. “Although I have many doubts in my heart, it is clear that as long as we destroy the Seamless Gate, we of the Nuwa camp can survive.”

“Master,” Ji Ning couldn’t help but ask, “The Nuwa camp should be the side of the Pangu Chaosworld, and the Seamless camp is the side of the other Chaosworld. Then why were people like Source Elder hesitating?”

“Humph.”

Subhuti said coldly, “They are a bunch of fools! The Seamless Gate and we have coexisted in the Three Realms for endless years. Great powers have even befriended each other, forming deep bonds of friendship. Even among the ten thousand races, there are those with the blood of Fiendgods. In truth, the two sides have long since become one. Thus, people like Source Elder have always wanted the two sides to coexist peacefully. They see the Seamless faction as their own people and are unwilling to fight them.”

“But fate is never wrong.”

“I understand this very well.”

“If we destroy the Seamless Gate, we can live.”

“The Seamless Gate also understands that if they destroy us, they can live. Although there are many things we don’t understand about the trials behind this great calamity, the guidance of fate leads down the most correct path.” Subhuti looked at the two before him. “Ji Ning, Red Snow, your strength is still weak. You must train in seclusion. Even if this great calamity passes, who knows if another Chaos visitor, like the Lord of All Demons, will appear in the future, bringing another great disaster with them.”

“Understood.” Ji Ning and Red Snow both nodded solemnly.

Chaos visitors?

Other Chaosworlds?

Why had Mother Nuwa entered the endless Chaos and still not returned? All of this made Ji Ning and Red Snow realize that in the past, they had only been like frogs at the bottom of a well. In reality, the sky was far vaster than they had ever imagined!

…

After finishing the discussion on the origin of the Three Realms, Subhuti chuckled. “By the way, Ji Ning, I heard you now have a daughter. Bring her here for me to meet.”

“Yes, Master.” Ji Ning’s heart warmed at the thought of his daughter. He immediately moved his mind, transferring his daughter Brightmoon out of the Violetstone Bead.

“Huh?”

Baby Brightmoon, wearing a little bellyband and barefoot, was chewing on her fingers, curiously looking around.

“Father.” Brightmoon immediately hugged Ji Ning’s leg.

“Brightmoon, come. Kowtow and greet your Ancestral Master,” Ji Ning instructed.

Baby Brightmoon’s eyes widened as she carefully examined the white-haired, youthful-faced elder in the Daoist robe before her. She obediently knelt and kowtowed, saying, “Brightmoon pays respects to Ancestral Master.”

“Hahaha…” Subhuti was delighted by the sight. He laughed and said, “Your father is my disciple, so you can be considered part of Mount Innerheart’s lineage. Today, I shall impart to you a Fiendgod Body Refining technique and a Ki Refining technique.”

He pointed a finger from afar.

Instantly, a streak of light flew into baby Brightmoon’s brow.

“Thank you, Master.” Ji Ning was overjoyed. There were very few things that could still bring him joy now. The most important thing in his heart was this precious daughter. The rules of Mount Innerheart were strict, and Ji Ning dared not transmit any techniques to her himself. His other personal techniques were not particularly profound.

“If your daughter can transcend the tribulation and become a Celestial Immortal or Empyrean God, I will naturally give her another treasure. Alright, you may go.” Subhuti waved his hand. “Red Snow, you stay.”

“Yes.”

Ji Ning and Red Snow both replied respectfully.

Ji Ning immediately carried his daughter, who had already fallen into a deep sleep, out of the hall. The techniques Subhuti had imparted were too vast and profound, and Brightmoon’s ability to withstand them was limited.

…

In the days that followed, Ji Ning lived a peaceful life on Mount Innerheart with his daughter, Brightmoon. Only when he was with his daughter did the pain in his heart ease somewhat. Ji Ning’s heart grew calmer and calmer. He was silently making preparations, feeling that the day of his tribulation was drawing closer and closer.

“Father.” Barefoot and wearing a bellyband, baby Brightmoon came running over.

“Brightmoon.” Ji Ning smiled.

“Father, I heard you’re going to transcend the Empyrean Tribulation?” Brightmoon looked up at Ji Ning, then at Uncle White beside him. “Grandpa White, is my father really going to transcend the Empyrean Tribulation?”

“How did you find out?” Ji Ning asked.

“It’s all over Mount Innerheart,” Brightmoon said immediately.

“Those martial uncles of mine really do have big mouths.” Ji Ning shook his head helplessly. Then, looking at Brightmoon, he nodded. “Yes. Tomorrow, I will transcend the Empyrean Tribulation.”