Desolate, silent, dim.
It's not entirely accurate to say this is a dead realm, for chaos here includes both life and death, vitality and death intertwine without any conflict, miraculously transforming one into the other.
Life turns to death, death turns to life.
Here, it's not just life and death; almost everything in the world can be seen in its endless miniature form. Yin and Yang rotate here, Qian Heaven and Kun Earth hang inverted, form and formlessness converge, as if nothing is distinguished from one another.
The limitless heaven and earth, formless and shapeless, creation in myriad phases—a symbol of the Dao of all opposing forces, including the endless universe Origin Dao of Creation, alongside the Void Dao that bears all, and the Time Dao witnessing everything.
Amidst that nebulous shapeless gloom,
