Sky Stairs

According to tales, people of the ancient time could follow the sky stairs step by step to reach the sky, at the same time the gods in the sky could also use the sky stairs to go down to the human world.  However, it was not easy to know where these connections to the sky hall was and, even if one had such information, it was just as, if not more, difficult to climb such connections.  Like Brocode Hill v. 2.0, everyone knew it was directly below the Sky King, its highest point reached the sky hall; however, the hill had weak water circulation at the bottom and it was surrounded by hot fire mountains; an average human could not go up.

Brocode Hill v. 2.0's surrounding area of an unknown distance was occupied by many gods and goddesses like Westqueenma lived West North corner of Jade Mountain, while Westqueenma's husband, Eastkingpa, lived at East North corner; this was only one area of land.   Brocode Hill v. 2.0's had many magical flowers, rare seeds, unique beasts, valuable pets; so many that it was hard to count.  Among the valley of mountains, there was one extra big and extra tall mountain which shone on the sun, sparkled like gold, ascended straight into the sky; the tip of the hill was unseeable for obvious reasons, its two sides also stretched and expanded to an unknown somewhere, almost half the sky was covered by this great mountain.  This was the "Sky Pillar", its surrounding three thousand (3000) you*, located at the North front of Brocode Hill v. 2.0, was shiny and full** in all four directions.  Below the mountain was a room called "Return Room", its surface area is one hundred elephant***, managed by the Divine Nine.  The mountain also had a big bird named "Hopebe", facing the south direction, this bird's right wing when spread fully could cover all of Westqueenma's place, while it's left wings could cover all of Eastkingpa's place.  Hopebe's back had a small tiny patch of featherless place, someone calculated this featherless patch was nineteen thousand you.  According to talks, Westqueenma and Eastkingpa borrowed this big bird's wings as the location for their annual rendezvous.

Ascending from east of Brocode Hill v. 2.0's, the side facing was a big town, upon entrance two kinds of magical trees would appear.  One kind was called Sand Sweet Tree, it was shaped like Tong, had unreal yellow flower and depthless seeds  with a peculiar taste of extreme bittersweetness; the other was called Pretty Elegant**** Tree, enormously big and tall; its stem, leaves, and flowers are all made of Jade, fresh and cute as a little green onion; it chimes crisply when small wind blew by, soothing to the ears.  According to talks, Brocode Hill v. 2.0's five surroundings, each side had special trees.  East had Sand Sweet and Pretty Elegant; West had Pearl tree, Jade tree, Star tree and the tree that cannot die; South had only Plumtree; North had clear green tree***** and another pretty tree******; Centre had one type of wooden tree, tall thirty-five rulers and wide as fifteen round tables.

This Eastside town was called Addition Town, there were nine towns in the Town, each town on top of the one preceding it, it's height reached eleven thousand you one hundred fourteen steps two rulers and six inches.  The heaviest one had four hundred and forty town doors, each town door had a width of four you, it was truly marvelous.  The largest palace in town was one hundred meo*******, it was named side palace.  Another one, fully decorated with jade, extremely pretty, and equipped with tricks, it can spin to the left and to the right, thus it was called spinny room or starry room.  Among the over four hundred town doors, there was a full center door, that was the west door, inside there was a plantation, it was the sky king's vegetation, surrounded with yellow water, it flowed threely******* and returned to the original spot, never losing or gaining a drop.  The name of these water was the holy water, an average human upon drinking it will never die.  Westqueenma's never dying medicine was made from these water.

From the nine addition town onwards, ascend another eleven thousand you one hundred fourteen step two ruler and six inches, was the Mountain of Cool Wind.  A normal human to ascend to this point must have taken some sort of medicine, and could have a long life.  another eleven thousand you one hundred fourteen steps two ruler and six inches was What's Up Mountain.  If one is able to ascend to this point, not only would one never die, one would also open its god power, could blow wind and call rain.  From What's Up Mountain, another eleven thousand you one hundred fourteen steps two ruler and six inches, called Above Sky, was where Sky king resided, non-angel could never arrive.

Although it was extremely difficult to climb the sky stairs; however, during the ancient time period, the sky and the land was not that far apart, because of this the sky above and the ground below mingled occasionally.  Afterwards, because the sky stairs were so convenient, a mean god beast took advantage and sneakily went down and caused chaos.  It took the Yellow King a lot of efforts to return the peace; tired of wars and politics, he gave the throne away to Tip Top and left to travel and play.

Tip Top learned from the god beasts wild change lesson, felt that gods and humans without division, living together, always resulted in less desired results and so Tip Top commanded Heavy and Light to cut off the path between the sky and the land.  Man could not ascend to the sky, similarly, gods could not descend to the land.

Heavy and Light followed their commands, both put out their two hairy gigantic arms, one pressed the sky up, pushed up with his best efforts; the other one applied pressured to the land, pressed down with all his might.  This way, the sky and land that were originally not that far apart became very far away from each other.

From the moment that the path connecting the sky and land was cut, the gods above could occasionally still travel down, the man on the ground, on the other hand, was unable to travel up again.

*Go back to Axeman (story one) for the definition of You.
**Shiny and full like the tummy of a chubby toddler after a full meal
***Go back to Axeman (story one) for the definition of one elephant.
****The two words preceding tree in the original text means pretty like jade or elegant use of language but it could also mean stray.
*****This translator debated using jade white stone tree or yellow white stone tree before deciding on clear green tree.  Do your own research for how this translator arrived at the three translations.
******The word in the original text preceding tree meant a specific type of pretty jade.
*******One meo is sixty square elephant.
********This translator's play on words.  It flowed in three ways.  Translator used threely to catch people off guard and reading freely.