There are seven holy seats under Hongjun, all ordained by Heaven. They are the Three Pure Ones of the Primordial World: Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Jiaozhu; the Western duo, Jieyin and Zhunti, who broke away from Daoism and proclaimed themselves Buddhists; Nuwa, the Holy Mother of the human race; and the seventh junior brother who came after humanity, whose primordial spirit was that of a Teng Snake. He was their youngest apprentice and was hailed as the Sage of All Ages, for he was the very embodiment of fate. The Dao within him surpassed even that of Lady Houtu, so he called himself the Reincarnator of Ten Thousand Generations, transcendent beyond this world. Yet such an immortal, indestructible being came to possess the Creation Jade Disc, which the other senior and junior brothers coveted. It was the treasure Hongjun had before transforming into the Heavenly Dao. Thus greed stirred in the hearts of the sages, and the story began.
