Shennong teaches people to grow and trade. Generations later, Huangdi faces an enemy who turns the battlefield itself into a blind maze.
Fuxi gives people patterns for living. Then Gonggong's fury breaks the sky, and Nüwa must mend what no human custom can hold together.
Before crowns and armies, the first heroes answer colder questions: where to sleep, how to make fire, and how to leave a mark that lasts.