DREAM BACK IN CHAOS (Pillow Book Extra)

chapter -1

At the dawn of the Age of Chaos, Heaven and Earth was a formless mass resembling a hen's egg. Inside the egg gestates an ancient God. The first of all Gods, his name, Pan Gu.

God Pan Gu could not endure the drizzling primal chaos after opening his eyes, so he transformed his hand into a giant hatchet and cleaved the forsaken mass of Heaven and Earth into two, separating them. From then on, the world of the Eight Realms had a Heaven and an Earth.

As separating the Heavens and splitting the Earth was a matter that required extreme effort, God Pan Gu exhausted all of his primal strength. Shortly after Heaven and Earth were separated, he perished. His spiritual essence returned to Heaven and Earth and the First Gods were born.

The most powerful amongst them, Father God and Mother God, possessed spiritual knowledge. Upon taking physical form, they assumed the role of creation God Pan Gu left behind.

Following the law of the Heavens, they shifted the Four Seas, built the Six Universes and formed the Eight Realms, allowing this formless world to complete the demarcation between Heaven and Earth. Gradually the sun, moon and stars evolved, and there was night and day, four seasons, mountains, valleys, rivers and seas, grassy plains and forests.

The world of the Four Seas and Eight Realms was born.

Following the birth of the world, came the five races of the Gods, Demons, Ghosts, Monsters and Humans brought forth by the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth. The five races coexisted within the Four Seas and Eight Realms with male and female as life partners, continuing the cycle of life.

When it came to the last 150,000 years since the birth of the five races, everyone was in fact getting by fairly harmoniously. But as the population of each race became larger and larger, it wasn't long before their individual territories were no longer sufficient to sustain them. As a result, the curtains of the acts of war between the five races were drawn.

To say the war was between the five races was far-fetched. In reality, it was more like the war between the three races of the Gods, Demons and Ghosts. The Monster and the Human races were significantly weaker, and had to rely on the other three races for survival.

As the seemingly endless war dragged on, starting and stopping sporadically, the two weaker races simply had no power to discourse. This was especially true of the human race; they were always the first to become the sacrificial offering to the war.

By this time, Father God was already in his twilight years, spending much of his time worrying about the war between the five races. But he was powerless to stop the neverending skirmishes.

After deliberating for a time, he built a school named Water Marsh in the wilderness on the eastern side of Kun Lun. Father God networked with talented individuals of the five races to attend his Water Marsh School in order to nurture their talents further.

He had hoped that by letting the powerful clans of each race socially mingle, they could forge a better understanding of each other, potentially reducing future conflict between the five races.

At the same time, Father God believed in the laws of Heaven and destiny. In the primal chaos outside the Four Seas and Eight Realms, an earthen pot of demonic flowers had grown out of Pan Gu's immortal remains after years of fertilization by the essence in his blood.