The True God Yuwei, who presided over the Qi of Taicang, refused to heed the words of the Ancestral God Gu’ao. Using the mysterious qi Gu’ao had left her, she forged six Taicang Pillars and set them at the borders of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to stop the various clans from slaughtering one another.
Gu’ao said, “All beings under heaven fight and kill one another. The strong survive, and the weak perish. That is the Heavenly Dao! Defy it, and you will suffer its backlash.”
Yuwei said, “That is a false Heavenly Dao!”
Gu’ao said, “Though you rebel against it, this mysterious qi has already agreed to serve you. Use it with care!”
Yuwei said, “Thank you, Ancestral God. But even if you hadn’t given it to me, I would still have tried. I am a god. I will not let the Heavenly Dao crush me!”
Gu’ao said, “Child, if you insist on this path, you will taste all the world’s cruelty.” As he spoke, a mistlike stream of qi emerged from Gu’ao’s Tianming acupoint and entered Yuwei’s. She felt a deep chill. When the Ancestral God disappeared, she bowed respectfully in farewell. Only then did she truly become the True God of Taicang.
Once the Taicang Pillars were erected along the borders of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands, any clan that invaded another’s territory would lose all its magic and strength upon arrival, leaving them no choice but to turn back. Taicang believed this would stop the clans from slaughtering and invading one another. The pillars were indeed celebrated for hundreds of years, but in time, the clans grew restless. They began developing destructive weapons on a massive scale, hoping to destroy the Taicang Pillars. The True God of Taicang also suffered Heaven’s punishment for defying the Heavenly Dao and entered the cycle of reincarnation. For the first few thousand years, the immortals still recorded her whereabouts, but after several generations of Celestial Emperors, no one knew what she had reincarnated as.
The Dream Recorder in the mortal realm was none other than Taicang, trapped in an endless cycle of reincarnation. In this life, her name was Xie Yuwei.
