"Prefatory note": Today's two updates are combined into one. Tomorrow is a day off; the day after tomorrow will be the final installment of the "Showdown at the Pinnacle of the Mortal Realm" series. The main text follows.
An intangible, ethereal yet all-encompassing innate aura arose from the Daoist's Crimson Palace, then seeped out of his body, spreading rapidly until it filled the entire Five-Elements Dharma Realm. Upon encountering the acquired Five Elements aura within it, this innate aura immediately gave rise to acquired myriad phenomena, a Great Chiliocosm.
This was a world with a round heaven and square earth. The lofty sky resembled a domed tent, covering the wilderness on all sides; the earth resembled a chessboard, crisscrossed by mountains and rivers.
The clear heaven was yang, its phenomena ever-changing: sunshine and rain, rising clouds and falling sunset hues, howling winds and roaring thunder, flying snow and descending frost. Sun and moon alternated, day and night followed their order, the northern pole occupied the center of heaven, and the Dipper turned as the stars shifted.
The turbid earth was yin, its phenomena still. The land was square and curved, high in the middle and low on either side, with a groove running down its very center. It looked like a chessboard, yet also like an open book. And upon this book of earth, vitality flourished:
Seas surrounded the land on all four sides. Green peaks stood in the east, snowy mountains in the west, a great river in the north, and rainforests in the south. There were also volcanoes, peach groves, impact craters, glaciers, battlefields, burial mounds, wild forests, marshes, caverns, deserts, secluded valleys, gravel wastes, fertile plains, lava-
All manner of terrain existed in countless forms, with nothing missing. There were howling yin winds, furious waves that thrust