When Hongmeng first began, it was the first primordial insect, born alongside Pangu. Every fifty years, it would fall into a slumber of random length. It was invincible while asleep, but after waking, it always missed the changing tides of history.
It ventured through chaos with Pangu, helped the Primordial Qilin clan flourish, accompanied Houtu as she comprehended reincarnation, and protected King Zhou as he upheld the position of Human Emperor... It woke again and again, witnessing friends and family part, civilizations rise and fall. Hongjun regarded it as a thorn in his side, while later generations came to regard it as a great omen, saying that disaster from Heaven was sure to follow in its wake.
Amid the ebb and flow of countless ages, this naive little caterpillar held fast to the purest desire to protect, battling fate through cycles of sleep and waking. From the creation of Heaven and Earth to the late Qing resistance against Japanese invaders, it laid its plan over countless millions of years. In the end, it transformed itself into the Dao, becoming the eternal guardian of Huaxia.
A lonely epic of an insect, a legendary tale of protection spanning countless ages.
