Jiuding Samsara Chronicle

Before the creation of heaven and earth, the universe was just a mustard seed. There are two strands of Qi swimming in that mustard seed. A wisp of Qi that goes up is called Yuanchu Qingqi - it goes up and turns into the sky, the Tao, and the rules and order of the world. A wisp that goes down is called Jiezu's turbid air - it goes down and turns into the ground, into the abyss, into nothingness and the end that swallows everything. The two qi have been fighting for hundreds of millions of years, and each battle causes the universe to experience a "catastrophe" - the heaven and earth collapse, return to chaos, and then be reborn from nothingness. The gap between tribulations is called "reincarnation". In the third great catastrophe, Jiezu was unwilling to lose forever in the battle between purity and turbidity. He secretly sealed part of his soul - the most ardent desire - into a ray of pure air. It used the first true fire when the world first opened to refine this ray of true energy and desire into a mirror - The mirror waited for eighty-four thousand kalpas. During the long wait, it gradually fell into pieces. From every crack, a drop of copper juice seeped out. The copper juice fell to the ground and condensed into nine palm-sized copper pieces. The nine copper pieces reunited and became nine large tripods - Jiuding. No one knows the true origin of Jiuding. Folks only know that if you offer the most precious thing to Jiuding, your wish will come true. Then war broke out all over the world.