"Once upon a time..."
Li Wei shook her slightly numb right palm, baring her teeth in a thoroughly unladylike grimace.
She had to admit, the bald head was genuinely hard.
"Cut the long long ago crap! Spit it out—what do you have to say?"
Dizang gave a dry chuckle twice, rubbing his bald head.
Then he reined in his habit, cultivated over countless years, of rambling off-topic, and did his best to concisely recount everything he knew.
As it turned out, a long, long time... Ahem.
Anyway, it was before the birth of chaos, before yin and yang first separated.
Within the endless void, a great many old fogies were born without consciousness.
At first, they were merely simple condensations of energy, with everything following instinct alone.
Later, the old fogies began attracting one another, gathering together and instinctively devouring each other.
Once only the strongest few remained, they seemed to have reached some sort of critical point.
With a thunderous boom, they exploded because they had eaten too much and were "full."
And because the power of the "explosion" was so immense, it carved out a vast stretch of "heaven and earth" within the chaos.
The "scraps" and "organs" they blasted away slowly formed what was known as "life," as well as the first "myriad things" within that "heaven and earth."
But that "explosion" had not taught those instinct-driven beings any lesson.
For countless years afterward, whenever the old fogies recovered their breath, they would pick another fight and explode once more.
During that time, countless "heavens and earths" were born, and countless "heavens and earths" were destroyed!
Until one day, by a twist of fate, a life-form called "humanity" appeared.
"Humanity" seemed to be especially favored by "heaven and earth," blessed with its finest spiritual essence.
They soon