"What a remarkable way to identify, categorize, and express common principles!"
A flash of insight crossed Daoist Yin Yang's eyes. "Perhaps this is the key.
You have already expressed many specific common principles and established the use of civilization.
But what of the Fundamental Principle that governs all specific principles?
Have you gained any insight into the most fundamental laws of existence and change in all things under Heaven?
Can you 'express' them in a simpler, more essential, and more encompassing way?"
"The fundamental 'substance'? A more essential expression?" Fuxi fell into thought. This was a level he had never considered in depth.
The specific things and systems he had invented seemed to be based on applying one or several "common principles." But if he traced those "common principles" further back, abstracted and unified them... what would he find?
Unbidden, his thoughts turned to the indistinct Eight Trigrams Birthmark on his chest, present since birth.
That familiar-looking pattern, those eight simple symbols that seemed to contain endless transformations...
"Sir, I..." Fuxi was about to tell him about the birthmark and the hazy feeling in his heart when a violent pang suddenly seized him!
It did not come from within himself, but from his unseen, close connection to the destiny of the entire Human Race!
He sensed that some distant place was suffering a great calamity, stirring a violent upheaval in Human Dao Destiny and even causing Celestial Phenomena to change!
Almost at the same time, Daoist Yin Yang abruptly raised his head. His gaze pierced through the thatched hut and looked southwest, his expression shifting.
"What a powerful aura of calamity! Water and fire are out of balance, the Earth Veins are in turmoil... It's a catastrophic flood!
It's not confined to one place. It's spreading far and wide. Countless