"Before Heaven and Earth split from Chaos, Pangu came first; Taiji, Yin and Yang, and the Four Symbols hung suspended."
"Zi was Heaven, Chou was Earth, and Yin saw the birth of man; Youchao Shi, the sage, drove away the beasts' threats."
"Suiren Shi took fire, freeing men from eating raw food; Fuxi drew the trigrams before Yin and Yang."
"Shennong ruled the world and tasted every herb; Xuanyuan established rites, music, marriage, and bonds."
The first chapter of Investiture of the Gods began with a general outline poem, summarizing the entire worldview and the broad course of the whole book.
As Chen Luo held his brush and wrote on the New Page of Spring and Autumn, his heart remained uneasy.
Youchao Shi, Suiren Shi, Fuxi Shi, Shennong Shi, Xuanyuan Shi... These names had all appeared in the opening poem. To Chen Luo, these ancient sages were naturally familiar, but they were beings from another world.
Now that he had written them onto the New Page of Spring and Autumn, he had no idea what changes might occur.
That was not even the key point. The key was that the very first line of the opening poem mentioned a ceiling-level figure—Pangu!
Whenever people mentioned Pangu, they thought of the ancient god who had raised a giant ax and split Heaven and Earth. In many later novels, the Three Pure Ones of Investiture of the Gods were described as incarnations of Pangu, or as beings transformed from Pangu's soul...
Fabrications! All fabrications!
Many people might not know this, but in the original Investiture of the Gods, Pangu was none other than Laozi.
The opening poem made it perfectly clear: "Before Heaven and Earth split from Chaos, Pangu came first; Taiji, Yin and Yang, and the Four Symbols hung suspended."
In the