Palace of the Azure Dragon

Long ago, the heavens were held up by four great pillars, until calamity struck and the pillars fell. The sky ripped open, and the lands of China were torn asunder by uncontrollable wildfires and torrential flooding. Upon seeing the suffering of mankind, the Goddess Nuwa could not stand idly by. She gathered five colored stones and smelted them together to create a patch for the sky. Nuwa imbued the five-color stone with all her might, creating the Godstone and sacrificing her very divinity for man, and with her task complete, she fell into a deep slumber. But without the Goddess's careful watch, the Godstone shattered, its fragments scattering across the world. The Godstone was a primal thing, and its fragments were no less wild. The fragments drew the energies of the world like a magnet, transforming their surroundings into holy mountains and spirit glades brimming with demons and ghosts. The spirits' movement woke Nuwa from...