The Primordial Era: Skies Beyond

An extra story for Coffin Shop No. 444: Xing Yuan became the Primordial Beginning, establishing order over the chaos of reincarnation, and the Myriad Worlds entered an unprecedented golden age. Yet the Way is never constant; stillness, taken to its extreme, gives rise to change. When the cold gaze from the "Alien Firmament" fell upon them once more, it brought not destruction, but an entirely different form of existence: "mechanical immortality," built on absolute rationality and mathematical logic, set against the ultimate collision with the "chaotic path," rooted in emotion, evolution, and uncertainty.

Meanwhile, within the Primordial Realm, newborn beings of chaos began to awaken to self-awareness, searching through their primordial ignorance for the meaning of "I." Across the Myriad Worlds, undercurrents surged beneath the golden age. Forbidden research into the aspect of "returning to stillness" never ceased, and ambitious individuals sought to imitate Xing Yuan, carving out a "new path" and challenging the established order.

And Xing Yuan, the Primordial Dao Lord enthroned at the summit of order, was maintaining the grand balance when, deep within his will, fragments of emotion and memory from his past, belonging to the "human" he once was, quietly began to revive under the nourishment of the Primordial Origin. How would the human echoes of his divinity affect his judgment in this struggle over a new era, one that would impact countless forms of civilization and concern the very nature of existence?

Would he embrace all paths and guide them to converge? Would he unleash divine punishment to preserve the purity of the Primordial Beginning? Or, between the chill of reason and the warmth of chaos, would he find a... third path beyond understanding?

The old legends have become eternal; a new epic begins here. Beneath an even more boundless firmament, this is a magnificent poem about the meaning of "existence."