Nine Heavens, Ten Earths, Three Venerables, Nine Currents.
This, Zheng Xiu speculated, was the original form of the Path Map.
'It's like the first great fire worshipped by the primitive people who devoured raw flesh and blood in ancient times.'
'Or the ancient people, wandering anxiously beneath the rolling thunder.'
'The surging floods.'
'The merciless natural disasters.'
'The powerlessness, gratitude, confusion, and ignorance Humans feel when facing nature ultimately transform into reverence and worship.'
'Humanity desires to conquer nature. Once they realize they can't win, they can only try to become it.'
'Or perhaps, among the Ten Earths, it's the posture of a beast on the hunt that makes Humans instinctively imitate them, longing for that pure, predatory power.'
'Emperors, Generals, Usurpers... or the various occupations and identities of the common folk...'
'At the end of the day, it's all a form of 'desire'.'
