The Tale of Xingtian

In the Battle of Banquan, the Yan Emperor yielded and moved south, while the divine offices of the Central Plains were quietly reshuffled by the order of Heaven and Earth. Xing Tian, god of fire, upheld the oath he had sworn at the high terrace by the Chishui River. Refusing to flee south with his tribe, he stayed behind alone in the Central Plains, vowing to reclaim the legitimacy the Yan Emperor had lost.

The Great Wilderness stirred once more. Chi You forged weapons in Jizhou, and Kuafu, Feng Bo, and Yu Shi answered his call in turn. A band of rebels against the tide agreed to meet at Zhuolu and oppose the new heavenly order established by the Yellow Emperor. Their aims were all different, but they formed a brief alliance and ignited a war that swept across the Great Wilderness.

Xing Tian wielded no weapons to slaughter his foes. Instead, he relied on the way of fire to defy the grandly proclaimed rules of Heaven and Earth. The fierce battle at Zhuolu ended in the alliance's defeat, and at Mount Changyang, Xing Tian faced judgment from the Heavenly Court. His head fell, but his resolve remained unbroken. He made his breasts his eyes and his navel his mouth, then danced with shield and axe in hand.

He sought no power. He only wished to question Heaven and Earth: if the order is unjust, then fate itself can be defied.