Mysterious Womb Azure Bright Heaven.
As the Cave Heaven ruled by Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord, its seasons turned and its days and nights alternated no differently from those beyond its borders.
In this era, after Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord took command of the authority of primordial qi, he had been nourished by the primordial qi of the world and become one of the foremost existences among the many Cave Heavens of this realm.
Across the vast land rose layer upon layer of towering mountains, while rushing rivers ran like the veins of this Cave Heaven...
The intelligent beings within were also of the Human Race, yet they were wild and primitive, clad in animal hides, dancing ancient sacrificial dances and worshipping totems.
It was clearly still a primitive age!
And in the azure sky, the great sun hung high.
Yet within the boundless, resplendent light of that great sun was a Three-Legged Golden Crow, bound so tightly in layers of runic chains that it could not move.
Its dazzling, gilt-like wings, vast enough to blot out the heavens and the sun, were held fast, unable to spread.
Even its mournful cries were constrained by those runes, unable to leak out in the slightest.
Great God Golden Crow, who manifested outwardly as Yang and stood at the summit of the world, was thus shackled upon the canopy of heaven, becoming the primary source of illumination within the Cave Heaven.
Beyond that vaulted sky stood an immense Divine Court, exceedingly similar to the Ninefold Heavenly Palace of the outside world, yet carrying several more traces of primordial qi and vitality.
Imperial Lord-rank deities were already the pinnacle of this realm's Divine Path system, beneath only the Heavenly Venerables, commanding authority over origins.
By analogy to the imperial courts of the mortal world,