The Chronicle of Pangu Creating the World

Pangu: The Creation of Heaven is an epic heroic novel rooted in ancient Chinese creation myths. It focuses on Pangu’s creation of Heaven and Earth, the seminal event at the dawn of Chinese civilization. With sweeping prose, it depicts the creation epic of the Primordial World as it passes from chaos into order, bringing to life a cast of heroes among the primordial gods and living beings who defend Heaven and Earth.

After countless eons of chaos, primordial energy sank into the depths and gave birth to the essence of the primordial spirit, which eventually took the form of the giant Pangu. Wielding the Heaven-Opening Axe, he split apart chaos: the light and pure rose to become Heaven, while the heavy and turbid settled to form Earth. But Heaven and Earth were unstable after their separation, so Pangu used his towering body as a pillar, holding up the sky and standing upon the earth. Before his primordial energy ran out, he transformed himself into all things in the Primordial World: his eyes became the sun and moon, his hair the stars, his blood the rivers, and his bones the mountains. Even his breath became wind, thunder, clouds, and mist. Only his heart remained, condensing into the Chaos Pearl, hidden in the depths of Guixu. It carried the will that had opened Heaven and guarded the foundations of the Primordial World.