Chaos was like an egg.
Neither the passage of years nor direction was known.
Then one day, Chaos underwent a startling change, and being arose from nothingness.
Clear qi rose to become the sky, and turbid qi sank to become the earth.
Heaven and Earth had just opened. Though yin and yang were distinct, and above, below, left, and right could be distinguished, there was no life to speak of.
Only a thirty-six-petaled Chaos Green Lotus, nurtured by Heaven and Earth, stood between them!
No one knew how many years had passed, or how long the Chaos Green Lotus had grown.
At last, one day, the Chaos Green Lotus fully bloomed!
The Progenitors of the three clans-Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Ancestor, and Primordial Qilin-were born within the thirty-six-petaled Chaos Green Lotus.
At that moment, Heaven and Earth truly gained living beings!
For every foot Phoenix Ancestor flew, the sky rose a foot!
For every ten feet Ancestral Dragon swam, the sea widened ten feet!
With every step Primordial Qilin took, the land grew a little vaster!
The Three Progenitors fashioned the initial shape of Heaven and Earth.
During this time, a great multitude of Xiantian beings began to gestate between Heaven and Earth.
Wind, rain, thunder, lightning, and the changing seasons also began their cycles between Heaven and Earth.
All living things began to move through the newly opened Heaven and Earth, and this world gradually began to flourish with life.
There was no knowing how high the sky had risen, how much thicker the earth had grown, or how vast the sea had become.
The Three Progenitors, possessed of great magical power and extraordinary origins, finally exhausted their strength on their respective paths to Attaining the Dao.
They had been born to open Heaven, and in the end, they died