Pangu swung his axe and split the primordial chaos; three thousand gods and demons battled between heaven and earth.
His body held up the heavens and earth, separating the pure from the turbid; the myriad transformations of the primordial world began with the tribulation.
The Dragon and Han factions fought for supremacy, staining the sky with blood; the Dao and Demon factions waged a bitter war in the far west.
The war between the Wu and Yao clans split mountains and rivers; slaughtering witches and demons could not put an end to their hatred.
Houtu sacrificed herself to establish reincarnation; the Five Mystics of Youdu offered up their mountains.
Youdu held back the sea and blocked the Asuras; the six paths opened, and the Netherworld Bureau was founded.
The Black Serpent stole the medicine, throwing the Demon Court into chaos; the Imperial Medicine Eight Fasting Halls entered the Black Bird.
The Black Bird carried the medicine to aid Nuwa; she molded clay into people, awakening their intelligence.
The ten suns fell, and moonlight dimmed; both sides were gravely wounded, and heaven and earth grew dark.
The fortune of humanity began to soar. The Black Bird descended to teach Suiren and Chaohu.
The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors brought order to the world; at Zhuolu, mulberry trees withered and Mount Buzhou fell.
Yu the Great tamed the floods as raging torrents surged; one night, the Black Serpent gifted him the Dragon Ancestor's Pearl.
The pearl became a Dragon Gate, where carps leapt into dragons; the Dragon Clan helped Yu dredge the nine rivers.
When the Xia cauldron was first cast, a serpent was its design; after Taikang lost his kingdom, the Black Serpent perished.
The Black Bird wept, its tears staining the flowers of the other shore; flower and leaf were forever kept apart, awaiting a promised return.
When flower and leaf meet, they will return; this promise hangs eternally over the Netherworld.
The Investiture of the Gods was issued, and the Shang gave way to the Zhou; from then on, the Son of Heaven paid homage to the heavens.
Heaven decreed the rise of Western fortune, and the two sages broke free from the Daoist sect.
Hongjun ordered the sages into seclusion; they would not descend to the mortal world unless a great tribulation came.
All living things beneath heaven and earth look up to supreme benevolence; all things brought forth are made good.
To understand the workings of creation through the ages, one must read Records of Tribulations Across the Four Continents.
