(Also known as: The Mythic Era: My Seeds Created a Myth; The Retired Life of a Behind-the-Scenes Creator God)
I am Taiyi, the only true god in the world.
But even gods were once monkeys. My power lets me create one [Seed of the Supernatural] every ten years, each capable of changing the world.
I gave monkeys eternal life, only to watch them go mad in eternity. I created the strange beasts of mountains and seas, ruling the primeval wilderness. I kindled the [Light of Evolution] and ushered in the age of humanity with my own hands. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were my experiments; I guided the rise and fall of mythology from behind the scenes.
After lying low for ten thousand years, I took the form of the wandering scholar Taiyi and strolled through the Spring and Autumn period.
One day, the young Kong Qiu stopped me and asked where humanity came from. On a whim, I bestowed upon him a [Seed of Origin], beginning my life as the teacher who taught the teacher of all ages to read.
What I taught him wasn't the books of sages and worthies, but how to encode the laws of the universe with written characters and create a cultivation system based on ‘true qi’!
When purple qi streamed three hundred li eastward beneath the brush of Confucius, the entire mythic age had only just begun…”