When heaven and earth have not yet appeared, the universe is still a mass of vitality, people call it the chaotic universe, at this time the chaotic universe is like an egg, so the ancients often said "heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate." ”
After a period of time, the first creature was born in the Chaos Universe, and his name was Pangu. Later, Pangu picked up the magic weapon in his hand and opened up Hongmeng, and this group of vitality was divided into two, and the two qi of yin and yang appeared. After another 1800 years, the yang energy rises and changes into the sky, and the yin energy descends and changes into the earth.
This is the mythical story of Pangu's creation of heaven and earth. At this time, there were no human beings in heaven and earth, only all kinds of divine beasts, because Nuwa Niangniang had not yet been born. Heaven and earth are first opened, divided into heaven and earth, the highest status of the immortals, is the ancestor of the heaven and the earth, and the ancestor of the earth is often said to be the ancestor of the earth.
Combined with some mythological books, we will find that there are four ancestors of earth immortals in heaven and earth, and their status is extremely high and their cultivation is unfathomable. These four ancestors of the earth immortals are Zhen Yuanzi, Hou Tu Niangniang, Taiyuan Virgin and Hongjun Ancestor.
We all know that Zhen Yuanzi is the ** of the ancestor of Hongyun, who has stepped into the realm of the innate saint with half a foot, and has a very high status in heaven and earth, known as the ancestor of the earth immortals. Judging from some mythological books, we can know that Zhen Yuanzi's status is above that of the Jade Emperor, the same generation as the Sanqing, and he only worships heaven and earth.
Zhen Yuanzi has the legendary innate spiritual root, which is the ginseng fruit tree. According to legend, Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit, smelling it, can have 10,000 years of cultivation, if you eat 9,000 years of ginseng fruit, you will become a congenital saint, with heaven and earth longevity, do not fall into the six reincarnations.
After the appearance of heaven and earth, yang energy rose and changed into heaven, giving birth to an immortal named Zhang Bairen, who was the ancestor of the heavenly realm. Zhang Bairen has cultivated since he was a child, and has experienced more than a thousand heavenly tribulations, each of which has a time of 129,600 years, and finally can cultivate into an innate infinite path, that is, to cultivate into an innate saint.
The yin qi descended and changed into the earth, giving birth to a goddess immortal, she came from the netherworld, and this immortal was the Houtu Niangniang. It is said that after the birth of Hou Tu Niangniang, she gave birth to all things in the world, became the mother of the earth, and was in charge of the earth, and later generations called her the ancestor of the earth immortals.
After a period of time, the Jade Emperor met Hou Tu Niangniang and became husband and wife, and from then on, the Jade Emperor was in charge of all things in heaven and earth. Because the Jade Emperor is the master of heaven and earth, but there are four heavenly emperors with very high status to assist him, that is, people often say the four emperors, and Houtu Niangniang is one of the four emperors.
The ancients often said that "Huangtian Houtu", in fact, it refers to the Jade Emperor and Houtu Niangniang, so they also tell people that the Jade Emperor's wife is the well-known Houtu Niangniang.
There is a theory that Yuan Shi Tianzun is the ancestor who presided over the heavenly realm, that is, the earliest ancestor of the heavenly realm. In the mythological book "The Legend of Differences", the book mentions the Yuan Shi Tianzun. I remember that the book said, "After the birth of the Yuan Shi Tianzun in the chaotic universe, he opened up Hongmeng and created all things in heaven and earth." Later, he met a goddess named Our Lady of Taiyuan, and they became husband and wife. ”
Yuan Shi Tianzun is the ancestor of the heavenly realm, so the Taiyuan Holy Mother is the ancestor of the earth immortals. However, judging from the content of "The Narrative of Differences", we can know that Yuan Shi Tianzun is also the ancestor of all gods, and Our Lady of Taiyuan is the mother of all gods. After these two immortals got married, they gave birth to two children, they were the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East.
In the list of gods, Yuan Shi Tianzun, he is the apprentice of Hongjun Ancestor, and he is also an innate saint who beheaded three corpses and became holy. At the time of the Zhuxian Array, Yuan Shi Tianzun entered the array alone, and Yuan Shi Tianzun said, "At the beginning of Hongmeng's judgment, I opened the world with the giant body of Pangu, how could I be afraid of this small Zhuxian Array?" From this point of view, we can know that the well-known Pangu is the incarnation of Yuan Shi Tianzun.
However, the master of heaven and earth in the list of gods is neither the Yuan Shi Tianzun nor the Haotian Emperor, but the Hongjun Ancestor from Zixiao Palace, so the Hongjun Ancestor is also an Earth Immortal Ancestor.
In the Ten Thousand Immortal Array, Hongjun Ancestor appeared for the first time, and the book said that Hongjun Ancestor was the master of the innate saint and the incarnation of heaven and earth. In the ninety-fourth chapter, the book said, "Heaven and earth are outside the Xuanhuang, and one gas turns into a Hongjun." "Therefore, Hongjun Ancestor is the incarnation of heaven and earth, and he is also the primordial god of heaven and earth.
Yuan Shi Tianzun once said that Hongjun Ancestor is the incarnation of heaven and earth, and he is also the master of heaven and earth, and swearing to heaven is swearing to Hongjun Ancestor, because Hongjun Ancestor knows everything about heaven and earth. In this way, the ancestor of the heavenly immortals and the ancestor of the earth immortals in the list of gods are the same person, and they are both Hongjun ancestors.