On the Yuanling Continent, countless races stood side by side. The human race lived among beasts, eating raw meat and drinking blood, in a state of primitive ignorance.
And so
some built nests and invented martial arts;
some drilled wood to make fire, observed the stars and the earth, and established the system of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches;
some created music with zithers and lutes, and developed the yin-yang and eight trigrams;
some invented writing and spread civilization;
some walked a million miles on foot and tasted hundreds of herbs to save the people;
some commanded armies, guarded the frontier, defended humanity, and left a million corpses in their wake, with blood flowing for a thousand miles;
some built academies, selected worthy talents, established the Pillars of Heaven, mended the rift in the sky, cast the Three Cauldrons, and brought order to the world;
some...
