Primordial Laws

The “Dao City” in the starry sky, “Zuzhou,” the ancestral land where cultivation first sprouted, “Shecang Ancient Marsh,” the origin of the waters of the vast universe, and the forbidden zone of the dark void, the “Battle Axe Void.” There is also the Heavenly Realm, hidden in the macroscopic world, and the shadowy netherworld, hidden in the microscopic one. The microscopic world of Earth… Under the microscope—a Buddha relic the size of a bean, like a pale-red planet, its towering mountains and dried-up ancient riverbeds densely covering it—desolate and vast, magnificent to behold. Filled with awe, the researchers observed this microscopic world closely. Before long, they made a stunning discovery. An ancient bronze warship, its form long out of date and its appearance bizarre, lay moored in the dried-up ocean of this pale-red planet, rusted all over, its masts and canvas still clearly discernible; how many years it had lain stranded there, no one could say. Zooming in, they saw that the ship was strewn with bones—skeletons of humans clad in armor, phoenix corpses, python skeletons—and vast grave-fields and stele forests covered much of its deck. Though it was only 460 nanometers long, it was so magnificent and mysterious.