When heaven and earth first took shape, spiritual energy spread far and wide,
while I was nothing but a bamboo spirit.
The Valley of Immortals had begun to take shape in the hazy age before chaos was divided. Then Pangu split the primordial chaos, creating heaven and earth and separating the clear from the murky. A streak of blue-white light fell into the valley. After ten thousand years, the earth cracked open and a tiny bamboo shoot emerged, growing rapidly in the wind. Within days, it had reached a height of six zhang. Under the moonlight, its trunk glowed with a blue-white light,
