If the distance were great enough, one could see that the colossal vortex in the chaos was distinctly divided into clear and turbid currents, gradually separating into the two colors of yin and yang.
Clear qi dominated, bearing the countless living beings, shining with ten thousand zhang of radiance, illuminating all things so that life might flourish without end.
Though turbid qi was scarce, it could not be absent. It sank into the thick soil of the Nine Netherworlds, like dark shadows breeding beneath a lamp, clashing and surging against the brilliant vitality and light of the Yang World. Like twin carp biting each other's tails, yin and yang rooted in one another; if either were missing, heaven and earth would lose their balance.
The underworld was not far away. It was right before them.
Bai Yujun, swimming with a flick of her tail, raised a foreclaw and tore through the dimension, briefly opening a passage to the newly formed and still unstable underworld realm.
Within, turbid qi continued to sink, and the gray land was vast and tranquil.
Bai Yujun lowered her head and breathed dragon flame onto the dark earth.
Dragon flame filled with laws of destruction burned out an abyss. The opening on the surface was not wide, but the underground depths were immense. Even after she ceased breathing flame, it continued to blaze fiercely, becoming a place to cleanse and punish evil beings that harmed the laws of order. She did not completely copy the underworld hells of the primordial era; that set of rules was too old and could not be used. As for the details, she left them to the two Nether Dragons.
Her vertical pupils turned toward the side, and the two Nether Dragons flicked their tails and burrowed into the passage, entering