Chapter One Hundred Seventy-Nine: Marrow Becomes Mineral Deposits — Storing Precious Treasure

Volume Five: Body-Perish Dao-Transformation — Myriad Realms First Born

Pangu's bone marrow — the deepest, most vital part of his bones, where his blood had been born and his life-force had concentrated — seeped out from his dissolving bones and spread through the earth. It became the rich mineral deposits that would one day fuel civilizations: black stone, earth oil, rare ores, and the deep crystalline structures that would become gems.

The marrow of his long bones — his femurs, his humeri, the great pillars of his limbs — became the vast oil fields and coal seams, the energy reserves that would power the industrial ages to come. The marrow of his flat bones — his skull, his ribs, his pelvis — became the scattered deposits of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, the gems that would adorn crowns and inspire legends.

But the most precious transformation was his spinal marrow. That column of pure life-force, which had connected his brain to every part of his colossal body, did not become any single substance. Instead, it diffused into the world as a subtle presence — a quality of richness, of potential, of hidden depth — that would make certain places feel sacred, certain mountains feel alive, certain valleys feel blessed.

Marrow becomes mineral deposits, storing precious treasure. The deepest wealth of the world came from the deepest part of the creator — his very core, given freely, hidden away until the world was ready to find it.