God Said, Let There Be Light

"God said, let there be light, and there was light!"

As Xiang Dong chanted softly, a ball of light appeared above him. Looking at it, he came up with a new way to play.

Under his mental control, the ball of light became a faceted, diamond-shaped sphere. Each face refracted light differently, scattering it at different frequencies and producing light in every color.

As the ball spun, the dazzling spots of light spun with it. Add some upbeat music, and wouldn't it be just like being in a disco?

In fact, that was exactly what Xiang Dong had in mind.

"Great. Now I'll have mood lighting when I dance on someone's grave."

With the mood already set, Xiang Dong couldn't resist swaying along. He rolled a leaf into a microphone, held it to his mouth, and sang at the top of his voice.

"Let's sway together, sway together, forget all our troubles and sway together..."

"I'm gazing into the distance, above the moon..."

After singing a few songs to his heart's content, Xiang Dong had another idea. The light in his hands became a thin sheet, forming a screen of light.

"If I remember right, the three primary colors of light are red, blue, and green. A display works by having photons collide to form a point of light, which then moves at high speed to form a line. The points and lines combine into a picture."

Xiang Dong had encountered the basic principles before, but he had never put them into practice. For an ordinary person, actually doing it with only that basic knowledge would be quite difficult, even with access to online resources.

Xiang Dong lacked those resources, but he had something more advanced: the Light Principle, a Primordial Spirit, and Divine Sense.

So, with a single thought, he made thousands of attempts in a very short time and found the pattern.

The transparent light screen's background turned black, and countless specks of static flickered across it.

People from the eighties and nineties would surely be familiar with this kind of static. It was what appeared when a television had no signal. It used to be annoying to look at, but now it gave him quite a sense of accomplishment.

Now Xiang Dong had to give it a signal and stabilize the static until a picture appeared.

Just like that, a giant appeared on the light screen.

It was Pangu opening the heavens, a scene from the memories Xiang Dong had gained after receiving the heart's blood and jade marrow. Now he was simply projecting the image in his mind into visible form.

Could he only project the memories in his mind, the things he had seen and heard himself?

Not necessarily. After all, Xiang Dong had the Creation Principle as well as the Light Principle.

The Creation Principle could create objects out of thin air, awaken living beings, make something from nothing, and even alter reality. So changing what played on the light screen was no problem at all.

Whatever he wanted to watch, he could direct himself; whatever rumors he wanted to spread, he could make up himself; however he wanted to court death, he could boldly air other people's dirty laundry.

"Heh heh heh!!!"

At that thought, the bright smile on his flower disk grew even brighter.

It was just that the smile was becoming increasingly dangerous, even perverted.

Great God Pangu: I didn't give you the Light and Creation Principles so you could use them like this! ψ(｀∇´)ψ

Nuwa, who had been silently watching with her Divine Sense all along, felt an uncanny chill run down her spine. She couldn't shake the feeling that Xiang Dong was definitely cooking up no good.

She had noticed when Xiang Dong woke up, but he had been immersed in his own world and hadn't noticed her. She hadn't shown herself right away either, choosing instead to focus on observing him.

Her brother had said that Xiang Dong was a source of danger and that they had to stay away from him and have nothing to do with him.

It wasn't that she didn't believe her brother. She simply had her own ideas, so she wanted to observe Xiang Dong and reach her own conclusion.

"Oh, it was you. You didn't eat the sunflower seeds I gave you, and you even grew them in Xirang. No wonder I feel especially strong."

As Nuwa was thinking, her concentration slipped for an instant, and Xiang Dong caught her presence.

As Xiang Dong gained mastery of the Principles, his cultivation and realm had also improved without him realizing it, and his perception had grown much stronger.

The moment he saw Nuwa, Xiang Dong understood what the endlessly renewing soil beneath his feet was.

Primordial Xirang, also known as Nine Heavens Breath Soil, was Nuwa's supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure. It was inexhaustible, could never be used up, and renewed itself endlessly.

It was said that when Nuwa used a gourd vine to create the first batch of primordial humans, Primordial Xirang was the main material. Xiang Dong felt somewhat rueful that it was now beneath his own feet.

Nuwa explained, "When my brother sent you flying to Buzhou Mountain and you exploded and died, the sunflower seeds left in my palm began to grow. At that moment, I seemed to have found my Dao."

That was why she had kept Xiang Dong. She wanted to find her own Dao through him.

"Hmm..."

Xiang Dong propped up his flower disk and fell into thought. These innate divine beings of the Primordial World were deeply driven to pursue their own Dao and become sages.

That pursuit could even be called an obsession. For its sake, they could abandon morality and shift their bottom lines at will, and even if their bodies perished and their Dao fell, they would have no regrets.

Xiang Dong didn't understand their pursuit, but he had always felt something special toward Nuwa, or rather, he saw her through a built-in filter. So he didn't want her to follow the same path as before.

"Then, did you find your Dao?"

Nuwa shook her head. The feeling had vanished in a flash, and she hadn't managed to grasp it.

Once a fortuitous opportunity was missed, it was missed.

Xiang Dong thought seriously for a moment, then spread his hands and shouted.

"God said, let there be light!"

His flower disk shone with brilliant light, which slowly gathered into a tiny golden sun. As the sun landed, it shrank rapidly, finally becoming the size of a pea.

The moment the pea touched the Xirang, it began to grow rapidly, becoming an entirely green plant with a leaf atop its head, two beady eyes, and a tubular mouth that served as a launching port... a Peashooter.

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, not bad, not bad. Yoshi, yoshi!"

Looking at the Peashooter he had created, Xiang Dong was very pleased. He gave its big, round head a good rubbing.

The Peashooter nestled obediently beside Xiang Dong like a puppy, its beady eyes squinting into two tiny black dots.

"That just now was... creation?"

Nuwa had clearly felt it. Just as Xiang Dong created this peculiar Spirit Plant, the feeling that her Dao Path lay right before her appeared again.

This time, Nuwa held fast to that flash of inspiration before it could vanish.

Her Dao had to do with creation, and also with living beings.

With this act, Xiang Dong had directly and forcefully pushed that door open for her. The favor was too great.

"Yeah." Xiang Dong proudly puffed out his chest. "I just comprehended it. Impressive, isn't it?"

"Very impressive. I've never seen such a peculiar living being before," Nuwa praised him sincerely.

Meanwhile, Fuxi, having found nothing on Buzhou Mountain, prepared to return home!