据说，古时，羲和的十个太阳儿子在天空中放出炽热的光球，将大地烤得干涸无比。农作物枯萎，民众忧愁不已。山间猛兽趁机跃下，争夺各自的猎物。

就在这危难之际，一位英雄后弈出现了。他瞄准那灾星，用箭射向它。当第九支箭命中目标后，它反弹回去，他迅速将箭对准天空的一块，不断射击。那一刻，当他的尖端飞入云霄时，他发现灾害已经消散，无需再担心，便踏上了归途。

随后，那天空爆发出巨大的轰鸣声，如同震撼山川般响彻四方。一大片天体坠落下来，大地颤栗不已。在此情境下，女娲 goddess of creation, shocked by the sight, flew up to the heavens and spent several days and nights searching for red, yellow, blue, white four colors of stone. Finally, she discovered a pure green stone in a crystal-clear spring.

She dug a round pit and used divine fire to smelt the stones. After five days and five nights of intense heat treatment, the colorful stones turned into liquid form. She poured them into a large cauldron aimed at that massive hole in heaven. With all her might, she splashed it down. Instantly, golden light radiated from it as if filling every corner of heaven; that gaping hole was instantly repaired.

Nowadays people can often see vibrant clouds on the horizon – these are said to be remnants left behind by girl Pan Gu's patching up of the sky after its collapse during those ancient times