From the Lingxiao Palace at the summit of Tian, the Jade Emperor governs the celestial realm, issuing decrees that cascade through the divine bureaucracy to regulate heaven, earth, and the underworld.
Pangu grew between the primordial chaos for eighteen thousand years, pushing Tian upward and earth downward with his body until the two were fixed apart, then died so that his breath became the wind and clouds of the sky.
When Gonggong shattered one of the pillars of heaven and the sky cracked open, Nüwa smelted five-colored stones to mend the broken vault of Tian and cut the legs of a giant turtle to prop up the corners of the sky.
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