The Xia Lands.
The Comet flickered.
That dark Comet revolved above the summit of Unclarity Mountain. Chaos reached its peak, and every measure in the west lost its meaning: a single step spanned a thousand miles, the heavens sank low and the earth rose high, water burned hot and fire turned cold. [Unclarity]
This supreme demonic path descended upon the world, inverting everything and resonating with the location of the Great Western Abyss.
A golden sun was sinking within the abyss.
Perfectly round, this sun was pale white throughout, with flowing gold along its rim. At its core, the form of a three-legged Golden Crow could be seen. With this as their pivot, countless calendrical graduations extended outward.
Beside the golden sun, surging primordial chaos ceaselessly eroded and wore away its radiance.
"It has begun. Inverting light and shadow, turning noon into night."
Yang Zhongzhou stood in the Great Void beside the Great Western Abyss, gazing toward Unclarity Mountain.
Wind and sand raged beneath a high-hanging Black Sun. A Blue-Yellow dharma form seemed to sit upon a golden sheep, wreathed in primordial chaos, contending against a boundless sea of calamity.
Behind that being lay an infinitely vast kingdom of deities. The Black Sun hung high, and the Azure Moon sank into the earth, as though primordial chaos were spreading between heaven and earth, dissolving the boundaries of all things.
"He has attained it."
His heart shuddered.
The nurturing earth fruit position!
Throughout history, many great figures had detested this path and disliked cultivating it, but none had ever called it weak-not even nurturing earth in its present form, which had broken free of Sheji and returned to its primordial roots.
Of the five virtues, earth virtue was the most exalted.
The vast prospects and far-reaching influence of this nurturing earth