The lines of Bird-Worm Seal Script were drawn in a very peculiar way. In particular, the character for "heaven" looked to Chen Jue like an alien wearing a spacesuit.
On closer inspection, its variant form was even very close to the character "ying," meaning "glimmer."
"Mandated by heaven, may he enjoy longevity and eternal prosperity."
"In the thirty-sixth year, Mars Guarding the Heart, after which the Ancestral Dragon died and the land was divided... It seems the earliest source of ancient rulers' imperial authority wasn't as simple as people imagine... The divine right of kings... And those ruins and murals in Second Home... That enormous Jianmu stump... Phoenix Bird, Vermilion Bird, Bai Ze..."
Thoughts raced through Chen Jue's mind. He felt he had already begun to touch upon the secrets buried in the long river of history.
Perhaps, to the humans of ancient Earth, the gods who lived in the "Heavenly Realm" were the founders of the prehistoric civilization from Second Home.
The ruins those "gods" had left in Second Home showed that several powerful beings among them had, for some reason, fought an unprecedented war. In the end, part of their original world had been destroyed, and only a small number of survivors had been forced to leave Second Home after leaving behind those mural-covered ruins.
The murals happened to correspond to many of Earth's ancient myths: from the Yellow Emperor's Battle Against Chi You to Nüwa and Fuxi creating humans, then Gonggong breaking Mount Buzhou, Nüwa mending the heavens with Five-Colored Stones and reforging the moon, and severing a giant turtle's four legs to erect pillars supporting the heavens.
Then came the ancient Heavenly Emperor Zhuanxu ordering Wu Gang to chop down the giant tree on the moon, and commanding the two gods Chong and Li to push