[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky":3,"chapter-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-470":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Sparked the Hundred Demon Night Parade in Tokyo",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2326688,4550,"Chapter 470: Before Chaos, the Five Primordials","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-470",470,"\u003Cp>Kawanabe Taka was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound is familiar, like flowing water, rustling and splashing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It simply appeared before him out of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Primordial Five Tai?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In China, people know the myth of Pangu splitting the heavens and earth; it is said that in the era of Pangu’s birth, heaven and earth had not yet formed and the universe remained in complete chaos, with no distinction between sky and land, all shrouded in darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, Pangu slashed through the chaos with his axe, prying it apart—his hands lifted the chaotic mass to become heaven, while his feet crushed the chaos beneath to form the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could say that all existence originated from chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First came chaos, then the separation of heaven and earth—this is the origin of the world as commonly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To all living beings, the primordial state of the world was chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But is this truly the case? The answer is no; Chinese mythology records that before chaos came the Primordial Five Tai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world’s true origin was not chaos; before chaos existed the Primordial Five Tai, even more ancient than chaos itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What are the Primordial Five Tai?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to records: Tai Yi, Tai Chu, Tai Shi, Tai Su, and Tai Ji—these are the Primordial Five Tai, after which chaos emerged, and only then did heaven and earth separate, giving birth to all cosmic realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, is there a connection between “Tai Chu” in the Primordial Five Tai and the “Tai Chu Era”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tai Chu Era gave birth to life; more precisely, it birthed the first living beings of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The early phase of the Tai Chu Era corresponds to “Tai Chu” among the Primordial Five Tai; the early, middle, and late phases of the Tai Chu Era are respectively “Tai Shi,” “Tai Su,” and “Tai Ji.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This era is called the “Tai Chu Era,” not the “Tai Ji Era,” “Tai Shi Era,” or “Primordial Five Tai Era,” for one reason alone: the first living beings of the world were born during the Tai Chu Era, while the preceding “Tai Yi Era” held no life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, it cannot be called the “Primordial Five Tai Era,” and since the Tai Chu Era marks the earliest epoch from which life’s origin can be traced, it was named “Tai Chu,” not “Tai Shi,” “Tai Su,” or “Tai Ji.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These smaller epochs are classified within the Tai Chu Era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the focus is not on that—the key point is: according to Chinese mythology, before chaos came the Primordial Five Tai; but is “Tai Yi” among them truly the absolute beginning of the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The absolute beginning was nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing existed: no air, no space-time, no time, not even the Dao—all was void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eons of nothingness, it transformed into Tai Yi, giving rise to space-time, time, the Dao, and so on—only then did life emerge in the Tai Chu Era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kawanabe Taka stared ahead, his expression subtly altered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already knew the origin of the world, so the transformation before him instantly revealed his location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did the Wheel of Reincarnation bring me… to the primordial nothingness of the world’s origin, or is it now showing me the evolution of the world, beginning from that primordial void?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed straight ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was forming before him—drops of water were gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were not water, but the Dao, time, and air, taking the shape of droplets before Kawanabe Taka.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So the River of Time takes the form of a river, not a mountain range or a train, because during the Tai Yi Era, all forms were water.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Kawanabe Taka recalled a folk saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Water is the source of life; all things in the world depend on water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems the ancients were not mistaken—perhaps the deeper meaning of “water is the source of life” refers precisely to the evolution of Tai Yi, the world’s primordial state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he pondered, the droplets before him began to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, the evolution of the Tai Yi Era should have been an immensely prolonged process, but now it was accelerated a trillionfold, unfolding so rapidly that the human eye could perceive every change instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One drop after another converged, forming small puddles, then small ponds, then small pools, slowly evolving into streams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this continued, it would eventually become a river.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps further evolution would transform the river into other forms, but Kawanabe Taka had not yet confirmed this—the world still remained in the state of the River of Time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in his view, the River of Time could no longer evolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The River of Time had been severed, rendered incomplete, unable to evolve further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the River of Time could be restored, perhaps evolution might resume—but what it might become, Kawanabe Taka could not fathom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the droplets became small puddles, Kawanabe Taka saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The puddle resembled a mirror, as if it did not contain water at all, but instead held an entire cosmos—the true heavens and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Tai Chu Era…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kawanabe Taka’s deep eyes gleamed—so this was the “Tai Chu” of the Primordial Five Tai, the early phase of the Tai Chu Era? The world within the puddle was the Tai Chu Era itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems Chinese mythology is not as commonly believed or imagined.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the heavens and earth of the Tai Chu Era, he thought of the chaos that followed the Primordial Five Tai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recall that Chinese mythology speaks of Pangu splitting heaven and earth—but if the Tai Chu Era already contained heaven and earth, how could there be a later act of Pangu cleaving the cosmos?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps Pangu’s act of splitting heaven and earth did not create the world itself, but rather forged new realms, like the Immortals or Supreme Beings, effortlessly crafting entire worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps Pangu split the heavens and earth of the late Tai Chu Era, which had already shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kawanabe Taka did not forget: the First Holy Spirit once destroyed the primordial realm of the Tai Chu Era due to his obsession with cleanliness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s hesitation, Kawanabe Taka stepped closer to the puddle, and the Tai Chu world within reflected into his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was merely a small puddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet within…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens were boundless, the earth endless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vast and eternal, the land teemed with immortal substances; merely breathing here for a few days could extend one’s life by centuries; beings born here naturally possessed immense lifespans—living a few thousand years was considered short, while tens of thousands was commonplace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine herbs grew everywhere, yet even dogs refused to eat them; sacred and celestial herbs blanketed mountains and valleys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Towering Tai Chu mountains rose, ancient pines stretching for countless zhang, some peaks spilling colossal waterfalls that thundered across millions of miles, even shattering open new worlds upon impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The destructive force was like the collision of the Dao itself, comparable to the birth of earth, wind, water, and fire, or the evolution of chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Birth and death, endless cycles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If any being witnessed this, they would curse in outrage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was terrifying! They had spent lifetimes fighting, battling, enduring blood and hardship to reach their current realms, yet could only carve out minor celestial domains dependent on the world’s foundation, never knowing if they’d ever create a truly independent world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet here, a single waterfall from the Tai Chu Era had shattered open countless worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was creation so easy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where were earth, wind, water, and fire?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was cosmic law?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Immortals would be baffled—those who reached Immortality were all supreme rulers of their eras, forged through blood, fire, and countless trials of life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frankly speaking, no one dares claim they achieved Immortality effortlessly; each had paid an immense price to attain such transcendent power—the ability to create independent worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in the Tai Chu Era, the power they so proudly claimed as their greatest achievement was commonplace—a single waterfall could accomplish it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was utterly demoralizing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>",1328,"2026-06-20T17:56:09.718Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9b1e359daef243d06b3645e10f2687930b46f56d5ddde2d67625b2e325992fb7","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-471","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-469",477,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-cover.jpg"]