The Secret Cosmos

Condensed blurb: A mysterious tale from six hundred million years ago, before the Phanerozoic began, when Earth was still in the great eon of the Cryptozoic. · Plain-language blurb: In the distant, ancient Cryptozoic, so old that it left behind no geological evidence of life, demons, monsters, ghosts, and gods once ravaged the world. Our earliest ancestors huddled around the hearth each night, trembling. No one knew whether, when the sun rose again, it would be a tribesman or themselves who had died. They feared, reproduced, struggled, fought, and passed on what they knew... In the depths of their suffering, they did everything they could to seek a future that was just a little better. That’s right! Even if the future is only a little better, it’s still worth watering with blood. · Blurb in the style of a dramatic ballad: I once saw the five lakes and four seas nourish the land, Pangu’s continent teeming with people, who could have guessed it would all lie desolate in the blink of an eye? I watched the people gather, watched civilization rise, watched it fall into ruin! In this wasteland, where no one remains, I slept long and deep, and saw ten thousand years of rise and fall. Who knew the white bones piled high in the theater, ghosts weeping at night in Yunmeng Marsh, owls nesting on Mount Buzhou! How can anyone quench the blood burning in their hearts? Where are the spears of old? Come! Come! Come! I refuse to believe the starry sky will never change! I’ll compose a song, “The Fall of All Life,” and fight the gods until the end!