[Unlike the fixed setup of traditional Primordial World stories, this one features a reimagined Primordial World. Everyone starts at the same cultivation level, making it a grand stage for ordinary people. If you have a dream, come join us. The protagonist is Zhang Shen, courtesy name Bairen, the one you're thinking of! (He will not awaken memories of a past life.)]
The way of Heaven diminishes what is excessive and replenishes what is lacking. The way of man diminishes what is lacking and offers it to what is excessive.
The Sovereign refined three thousand stars, rearranged earth, fire, water, and wind, extinguished the consciousness of chaos, and united with the Dao across the heavens. Three hundred cycles of the cosmos have passed since then.
By the Sovereign's design, there was no longer a universe, only the Great Thousand World, three thousand minor worlds, and the three realms of gods, humans, and ghosts, collectively named the Primordial World!
The newly formed Primordial World had just settled into place, with earth, fire, water, and wind reborn. The holy spirits of the divine and ghostly realms were still in their infancy, like fruit on a tree, quietly waiting for the day they would fall.
"Establish the Heavenly Court and the Underworld to govern the realms of gods and ghosts. Establish the Heavenly Emperor, the Three Pure Ones, the Four Imperial Lords, and the Five Elders of the Five Directions."
"In the three thousand human realms, establish mountain gods for the Five Sacred Mountains to suppress evil. Appoint one Heavenly Official in each realm to educate all living beings and spread the Dao among humanity."
"When the people of the human realm ascend, the myriad immortals will awaken and contend for the position of the common ruler!"
The Heavenly Dao is heartless, but people have feelings. The Sovereign uses himself as kindling, studies antiquity, and recreates the Primordial World. But who can say whether, after ten million cycles of the cosmos, a newborn cosmic will might bring another immeasurable calamity?
