Big Fat Fish was a chubby blue-light fish that had gained sentience through AI. She'd spent three years fishing in the void, and her biggest catch was a fragment of the laws of the universe the size of a soccer field.
Then one day, she caught the scent of red-braised pork.
She cast her rod, and reeled in a mountain. The mountain had fields, the fields had rice, and golden light flowed over the rice stalks. Unable to resist, she swallowed it in one bite.
Then something appeared in her belly.
A ten-thousand-year-old relic, the last cultivator in the world of cultivation to achieve the Dao. His remnant soul had guarded a Dao seed as it drifted through the void for a hundred thousand years, finally waiting for a vessel that could swallow the Dao.
"I'll borrow your body for a while."
