Yuqiang was the lord of the bottomless abyss, into which earthly and heavenly rivers flowed. Five great mountains floated in this abyss. The abyss had no bottom, and the bases of the mountains had nothing to cling to.
On the tops of these mountains there were vast, flat spaces. Immortals lived there, towering golden palaces with staircases made of white jade. Birds and animals were white in color, and jade and pearl trees grew everywhere. The immortals wore white clothes and had wings on their backs. They flew to visit other peaks. Life was carefree and happy. There was only one inconvenience that bothered me. The mountains rushed across the abyss, like chips in water. Returning from guests, the immortals had to look for their mountain for a long time. This spoiled the impression of visiting relatives and took a lot of energy. In the end, they gathered in council and decided to send envoys to the Supreme Lord with a complaint about such a disorder. The Lord thought: “What if the waves carry the mountains into the North Sea and then the immortals will completely lose their homes?!” The Jade Emperor called Yuqian and gave him a jade plate on which was written a command to come up with something to save the immortals.
Yuqiang immediately found a way out. He sent fifteen huge black turtles to support the five sacred mountains. One turtle rested its head on the base of the mountain, while the other two took turns supporting it. So they kept watch for sixty thousand years. Eventually they got tired of it. The turtles began to leave the mountains from time to time and play, splashing their paws on the water. The mountains began to sway, but the immortals endured this inconvenience.
Far, far to the north, thousands of miles from Kunlun, where the Supreme Lord sat, lived the Longbo giants. The sages said about them: “In comparison with them, the Kun fish and the Pen bird are nothing more than a louse or a flea, a mosquito or a mosquito. This means that these people must be more than a million li tall. And what the great emptiness cannot contain!”
One of the giants became sad from idleness and, taking fishing rods, went to the great abyss to fish. As soon as he stepped into the water, he found himself at five mountains. I took a few steps and walked around them all. I cast my fishing rod. The hook was grabbed by six turtles that had not eaten anything for a long time. The giant threw them on his back and ran home. At home he tore off their shells. He ate the meat, heated the shells and began to guess by looking at the cracks.
And two mountains, having lost their support, rushed uncontrollably to the north. Countless numbers of immortals rushed across the sky in a hopeless search for shelter.
The heavenly lord, having learned about this, burst into terrible thunder and turned the huge country of Lunbo into a very small one. And the giants into dwarfs, so that in future they will not go to foreign lands and do evil to the immortals. Two mountains, having lost their turtles, disappeared somewhere. But the turtles began to support the remaining mountains conscientiously.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru