The Nine Cauldrons of the Human Race

When the floodwaters recede, the youth Cang Yi crawls out of the mud, a pattern left by Pangu appearing in his palm. He passes through Fuxi's sacred grounds, witnesses Kua Fu chasing the sun and Jingwei carrying stones in her beak, and joins Hou Yi in drawing the bow that shoots down the sun. Then, amid upheaval in the Moon Palace, he loses his companions. The gates of Kunlun Mountain open, and the Weakwater, volcanoes, Xing Tian, and the River Chart follow one after another. At last, Mount Buzhou collapses and water pours from the heavens, ushering in the Flood Era. Gun plugs the rift in the earth's veins with his own flesh and blood, leaving Yu the words, "It is better to channel than to block." Yu spends thirteen years opening waterways across the nine provinces, while Cang Yi exhausts every divine power between Tushan and Yique. In the end, eight divine materials are gathered, but the ninth is something that must be offered by a person. On the day the Nine Tripods are cast, Heaven's mandate withdraws, and the human way is born.