Tang Mei stared at Zhang Tie in a daze, unable to understand why he was so agitated.
Indeed, Zhang Tie had not been this excited in a very long time. Yet now, he could not help it, because the history of the Gods' War that had vanished into the river of time—the history of the struggle between humans and devils—had suddenly become crystal clear to him.
Zhang Tie was still muttering excitedly to himself, practically dancing with joy. "Gonggong rammed Incomplete Mountain, breaking the pillar and tearing the earth's tether. The sky tilted toward the northwest, and the land sank in the southeast. The sky was incomplete in the northwest; thus the sun, moon, and stars went there. The earth was incomplete in the southeast; thus floods and dust gathered there. The conflict between Gonggong and Zhurong was not a struggle between a Water God and a Fire God, but between two utterly irreconcilable factions that had split from the same race. At that time, Incomplete Mountain stood upon the planet's northern magnetic pole—its axis of rotation. When Incomplete Mountain collapsed, it caused the planet's magnetic poles to shift and its rotational axis to change. That was why people on the ground saw the sky slant northwest, the earth cave in southeast, and the sun, moon, and stars racing in the same direction..."
At that same moment, Zhang Tie finally understood why, in Western legends, the incarnation of the so-called Devil Satan was a great serpent; why those so-called dragons with reptilian traits in Western tales symbolized evil; why the Devil Race could produce mixed-blood families with humans; why Adam and Eve fell after eating the fruit in the Garden of Eden in the Bible; and why the Hua Clan regarded Nuwa and Fuxi as the ancestors of their people...