Chapter 001: Pangu Opens the Sky and Changes Fate

  First there was Hong Jun and then Heaven, the gods and demons were before the Immortals and Buddhas. Pangu opened up the sky and separated the earth, Hong Meng divided and transformed into clear and turbid distinctions.

  The dragon and phoenix contend for dominance, losing the auspicious aura. The witch and demon fight again, giving birth to two calamities. Emperor Jun and Taiyi are called Heavenly Emperors, while the twelve witch ancestors are titled Earthly Sovereigns.

  When will the entanglement of cause and effect be solved? The witch and the demon fought, both suffering defeat. Gonggong's anger caused Zhounu to fall, and Nüwa rushed about to repair the sky.

  Fu Xi created the Eight Trigrams of the River Map, when will Jing Wei finish filling up the sea? Shennong saved the world by tasting a hundred herbs, Suiren brought fire to warm humanity.

  Xuanyuan wields his sword to slay Chiyou, the Dinghai Divine Needle calms the seas and skies. Cangjie's ingenious mind creates characters, Leizu raises silkworms and extracts silk from cocoons.

  Three August Ones and Five Emperors understood that the people of the world belonged to one family. The Three Religions wanted to pass through the tribulation of sealing the gods, and the Western Qi dynasty's songs of knives and soldiers appeared.

  The Western Bodhi cleverly calculates that all 3,000 worldly dusts will become Buddhas. The King of You's beacons and fire play with the feudal lords, just for a beauty to reveal her smile.

  Seven heroes vying for two weeks, how can Qin Huang unify the world? Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, who is real? The Weaving Maiden wailed and turned into a cuckoo.

  Laozi went west to transform into Buddha Chan, the Buddha shed his body and returned to Nirvana. The Duke of Sui saved a snake and obtained a precious pearl, Bian He presented jade but his body was mutilated.

  The divine and human are matched, heaven cannot tolerate it. The filial son is sorrowful and angry, saving his mother from the underworld. The spiritual stone has been nurturing the heart of the ape for ten thousand years, all heavens are shocked, the Buddha's way is calculated.

  Xuanzang traveled west in search of true scriptures, enduring fourteen years of hardship. He attained the right result and spread it throughout the world, passing it down for ten thousand generations in the divine land of China.

  The earth, water, wind and fire are transformed by creation, the six paths of reincarnation have no bounds. The descendants of Yan and Huang are not ordinary people, China is not just five thousand years old.

  Before the heaven and earth were opened, it was a vast gray space. This space had no distinction between heaven and earth, no distinction between clearness and turbidity, and there was not a single breath of life. Quiet, everything was so quiet, so oppressive, and this vast gray space was later called Chaos by posterity.

  In the midst of chaos, time is not recorded, and in an instant, it's hard to know if it's been a thousand years. Time has no standard in chaos, so you may think it's just a moment, but in reality, thousands of years have passed. However, the dormant chaos will eventually end, and with a sudden burst of thunder-like roar, the entire chaos begins to erupt violently, and the air waves transformed from the chaotic energy spread out like tidal waves.

  "Rumble... Rumble... The thunder is rumbling..."

  As the thunderous roar shook the air, the entire chaos began to churn. Strands of gray misty energy started to entwine and devour each other, shattering and regenerating in a cycle. Gradually, many centers of swirling chaotic energy began to form terrifying black holes, as endless chaotic energy was consumed by the voids. The entire space of chaos had begun to edge towards fragmentation.

  "Crack!"

  As a burst of light flashed by, a thunderclap rang out in the clear sky, and the entire chaotic space finally could not withstand it, instantly exploding open. In the originally dim and hazy chaos, along with the trajectory of the light, a terrifying rift began to appear, and wherever the rift passed through, black holes and chaotic air currents were torn apart and disintegrated. The shattered chaotic energy split into two extremes, clear and turbid, earth, fire, wind, and water. These two kinds of clear and turbid energies either rose or sank.

  As the crack grew larger, the outline of heaven and earth had already appeared. In the distance, in the center of heaven and earth, stood a sturdy giant about 10,000 feet tall, holding an axe in both hands, his entire body shrouded in auspicious clouds and mist, illuminating the depths of chaos.

  Suddenly, he saw that his eyes were wide with anger, and the originally simple and unadorned giant axe suddenly emitted a cold and stern blue light. The giant's naked body, holding an ancient and simple giant axe in the midst of chaos, either chopping or entwining, wherever it passed, the chaotic air currents entering the heavens and earth were all torn apart. And this majestic giant was none other than Pangu, who opened up the sky and earth.

  As the forty-ninth axe mark passed, the Heaven-Opening Axe could no longer withstand it and exploded with a loud bang. Pangu timely reached out and re-fused 99% of the Primordial Great Dao's rhyme and 70% of the remaining fragments into three objects: a diagram, a bell, and a banner - namely the Taiji Diagram, the Hunyuan Bell, and the Pangu Banner. The three treasures fell into Pangu's hands under the cover of the Daoist aura. Pangu held the Hunyuan Bell in his left hand, the Pangu Banner in his right hand, and stepped on the Taiji Diagram with his feet, surrounded by a halo of mysterious light, looking extraordinary.

  Pangu held the chaotic-colored Pangu flag in his hand, and in the initially opened up heaven and earth, he either hacked or strangled. He completely strangled the remaining chaotic air and merged it into the heaven and earth. Although the heaven and earth were still formed, the chaos was no more. However, Pangu saw that between the heaven and earth, fire, wind, and water were still raging, and from time to time, there would be a surge of chaotic air flowing in from the edges of the heaven and earth. He couldn't help but sink the Taiji diagram into the ground, forming a magnificent golden bridge connecting the heaven and earth. Under the golden bridge, the pre-heavenly yin-yang energies were circulating. As the yin-yang circulated, the chaotic air between the heaven and earth gradually calmed down.

  Pangu threw up the chaotic clock in his hand, suppressing the heaven and earth. With a series of long and majestic bell sounds of the chaotic clock ringing in this heaven and earth, the breath where the bell sound reached was completely calmed down, and finally stably existed in this heaven and earth. After doing all this, Pangu's face finally relaxed into a smile.

  Unfortunately, it was so difficult to open the sky and earth, but there it was so simple. The axe that opened the sky could not bear it, let alone the three treasures of opening the sky that were derived from it. With a loud roar, the originally calm heaven and earth suddenly appeared with cracks all over, apparently unable to bear the heavy burden of the chaotic air. Heaven and earth began to converge again in the middle.

  "Hah!"

  Witnessing the vast changes in heaven and earth, Pangu's complexion also changed involuntarily. With his feet on the ground and his hands holding up the sky, he transformed nine times a day, divine in heaven and sacred on earth. The sky rose one zhang (a unit of measurement) every day, the earth thickened one zhang every day, and Pangu grew one zhang taller every day. After 18,000 years, the sky reached its highest point, the earth reached its deepest point, and Pangu became extremely tall and large.

  At this time, Pangu's magical powers had also been exhausted, but after opening up the sky and earth, Pangu's Taoist practice had made great progress, and he had a bit of enlightenment in his heart, knowing the will of heaven.

  Originally, the mission of Pangu was to open up the sky and earth. In the midst of chaos, Mr. Pangu held the precious axe that opened up the sky and the lotus that created the universe, destined to be the one who would destroy the chaos. The axe that opened up the sky had the supreme divine power to open up the sky and earth, and the lotus not only contained infinite creation but also recorded the 3,000 great paths on its petals.

  As the pioneer of heaven and earth, who also holds the law of creation, it is necessary to sacrifice oneself in order to evolve the world's creatures and all things, after death, one will be revered by the world's creatures.

  In the clear and bright Pangu's mind, overlooking the boundless world under his feet, a loud roar rose: "The Great Way is above, now Pangu, willing to use himself to create all things!" As soon as the words fell, Pangu's expression froze instantly, apparently life had ceased at this moment.

  After Pangu's death, the gases in his mouth turned into spring breeze and cloud mist; his voice became thunderclaps in the sky; Pangu's left eye turned into the sun, shining on the earth; his right eye turned into a bright moon, bringing light to the night; thousands of strands of hair turned into stars, decorating the beautiful night sky; blood turned into rivers, lakes and seas, flowing endlessly; muscles turned into vast fields, providing for all living things; bones turned into trees, flowers and grass, for people's appreciation; tendons turned into roads; teeth turned into stones and metals, for people's use; essence turned into bright pearls, for people to collect; sweat turned into rain and dew, nourishing crops. When Pangu fell down, his head transformed into Mount Tai in the east, his feet transformed into Mount Hua in the west, his left arm transformed into Mount Heng in the south, his right arm transformed into Mount Heng in the north, and his belly transformed into Mount Song in the center.

  At the same time, the original Chaos Green Lotus that remained in Pangu's body also shattered due to the exhaustion of its infinite creative power. The lotus flower petals, which recorded the 3,000 Great Daos and the scene of Pangu opening up the sky, transformed into the Creative Jade Tablet. The remaining parts of the shattered Chaos Green Lotus transformed into numerous Pre-Heavenly Spiritual Treasures based on their size and the materials they combined with. These spiritual treasures included the Pre-Heavenly Five Directions Five Elements Treasure Flags (Central Wu Ji Huang Flag, Eastern Qinglian Treasure Color Flag, Southern Lidi Flame Light Flag, Western Su Color Cloud Boundary Flag, Northern Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag), the Creative Qiankun Ding, the Pre-Heavenly Lotus Platform, the Mountain and River Sheji Map, the Hetu Luoshu, and the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Books Red Embroidered Ball, among others.

  Pangu died, but with great love created the heaven and earth and all living things. The heaven and earth responded, and between them descended the 10,000-meter-long primordial yellow and purple Qi of the heaven and earth, as well as the primordial purple Qi of creation at the beginning of time. The Great Way allowed it, and the Great Way also descended with infinite pre-heavenly primordial yellow merit Qi. Since Pangu had already passed away, his pre-heavenly merits had nowhere to be entrusted, so one-tenth of his pre-heavenly merits combined with seven-tenths of the primordial yellow Qi transformed into the post-heavenly treasure, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Yellow Linglong Pagoda. This treasure is the first defensive treasure of the post-heavenly world, and placing it on top of one's head naturally makes all laws uninvadable, standing undefeated in battles with peers.

  And then there is the half-successful German Qi combined with three successful Xuan Huang Qi and Tian Di creation, the initial purple Qi merged to form the post-heavenly Gong De treasure. This treasure has no name, because the initial purple Qi penetrates heaven and earth, so this treasure can be called the Quantian Chi. This treasure is the first attack treasure of the post-heaven, its attacking power can only be compared with the pre-heavenly treasure Pan Gu Fan, and in suppressing the air transport on the Tian Di Xuan Huang Ling Long Pagoda, it is not inferior to the pre-heavenly treasure.

  Then three more Open Heaven Treasures flew in from the heavens, each absorbing half of the Pre-Heaven Cultivation Merit. It was precisely this half-layer of Pre-Heaven Cultivation that made the Three Open Heaven Treasures far superior to ordinary Pre-Heaven Treasures in suppressing the Qi Luck.

  At this time, Pangu's fragmented body burst out with a hint of mysterious energy, three pieces of Yuanshen and twelve drops of Benming Jing blood, among which the Yuanshen Jing blood was exactly what would later become the Xuanmen Sanqing and the twelve ancestral witches of the Wu tribe.

  Three Primordial Spirits each occupy one Successful Virtue, twelve drops of essence blood also absorbed three successful virtues, the remaining two layers of merit are merged into the initial opening of heaven and earth.

  Pangu's three primordial spirits absorbed the merits of their respective absorptions, combining with the clear energy of the opening heavens. Among them, the largest primordial spirit rolled up the mysterious and yellow Lingbao Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, and escaped together with the other two primordial spirits. Pangu's twelve drops of essence blood also absorbed the merits and disappeared into the earth.

  Then the two treasures of Taiji Map and Pangu Fan disappeared, along with the Hongmeng ruler. The Hunyuan Bell, however, flew directly into the sun star transformed from Pangu's left eye, following the guidance of the Heavenly Way. As a result, Pangu's broken body completely lost its vitality and gradually turned into Mount Buzhou, which was used to support the world he had created, leaving behind an indomitable and majestic mountain range for future generations.

  It turns out that Pangu did not expect that, shortly after the heaven and earth opened, when he transformed into the earth, a strange picture book flew out of an ordinary black hole in a certain place in the vast wilderness where the original had not yet calmed down, taking away most of the pre-heavenly five elements and all the remaining axe fragments of the opening sky, and the chaotic green lotus fragments hid in a mountain.

  Ps1: Cultivation level: Refining essence into energy - Refining energy into spirit - Refining spirit back to void - Heavenly tribulation number - Heavenly immortal - Golden immortal - Mahayana - Quasi-sage - Primordial chaos

  PS2: The Xuan Huang Qi of Heaven and Earth and the Xuan Huang Gong De Qi are two different concepts, do not confuse them. The Xuan Huang in the former refers to the mixture of clarity and turbidity of Heaven and Earth, a mysterious substance produced by the changes of Yin and Yang, formed after the interaction of Heaven and Earth, but due to its extremely special nature, it is not innate, yet similar to innate, with infinite uses, not inferior to most innate substances. While the Xuan Huang in the latter refers to the color of merit, as stated in the "I Ching": "The Xuan Huang, the mixture of Heaven and Earth, Heaven is Xuan and Earth is Huang."