"If you lose, you'll kneel down and kiss the tip of my shoe, then—call me mommy."
Gu An had just opened his eyes when a girl's cold, arrogant voice reached his ears.
He raised his head and saw a silver-haired girl with exquisitely delicate features.
Her ice-blue eyes were looking down at him.
The girl wore a silver-white coat over a dark uniform minidress fitted at the waist.
Black pantyhose wrapped around her long, straight legs, and her whole bearing radiated an aloof chill that kept strangers at a distance.
Yet the full curves outlined by her uniform were so striking that they were hard to ignore.
Gu An looked at her, then around him.
He was sitting in front of a silver platform, beneath a massive dome decorated with intricate star charts.
A holographic screen floated beside him, and identical World Creation Platforms stood in neat rows throughout the spacious hall.
This was unmistakably the familiar creation hall, yet another bedroom had somehow appeared in his mind, along with a phone he had still been holding before falling asleep.
And the beautiful ice-cold girl before him who wanted to be his mommy seemed absurd any way he looked at it.
"Gu An."
The girl folded her arms across her chest and lifted her smooth chin slightly. "Weren't you so confident when you were judging my plan just now? What, cat got your tongue?"
Before Gu An could speak, the fragmented images that had suddenly surfaced came together like a tide, forming a complete set of memories from his previous life.
He finally remembered.
He had once lived in another world.
Eighteen years ago, he had already reincarnated here, but the memories of his previous life had lain dormant until they suddenly awakened just now.
As for the eighteen years of this life, he remembered them just as clearly.
Linjiang City, First Middle School.
His name was Gu An, and he was eighteen years old. Today was the day he would awaken his first bonded world and formally create a world.
In this world where everyone created worlds, the evolution of civilizations, the propagation of life, and the fruits of cultivation would all feed back to their creators.
They would become great power belonging to the creators themselves.
Some created sword immortal civilizations, where the light of a single sword strike chilled nineteen provinces.
Some built magical planes and wielded earth, fire, water, and wind.
Others simply tended a spiritual herb garden and lived in comfort on the resources their world produced.
The girl standing before him, who looked like an elf of ice and snow, was named Lorina.
She was of mixed Western Continent and Great Xia descent, and had returned to Great Xia with her mother after her parents divorced.
Not only had she inherited the stunning beauty of her Western Continent bloodline, but she was also exceptionally gifted in the theory of world creation.
What she planned to create was a [Silvermoon Elf World].
In Gu An's memory, the scenes from Lorina's world creation simulations had been breathtakingly beautiful.
A silver moon hung high overhead, and cold mist drifted among ancient trees deep in the forest.
Elves who wielded nature magic were born one after another beneath the moonlight.
This system had kept her simulation scores firmly at the top of their grade.
Gu An had also taken first place quite a few times before.
It was just that they had all been in theory classes.
For today's creation ceremony, both of them were candidates the school had selected for additional, intensive training.
But there was only one share of the high-grade origin power at the very core of it all.
Who received the resource would depend on the school-wide evaluation ten days from now.
That was why, after looking over Lorina's plan, Gu An had bluntly pointed out that her silvermoon system consumed far too much in its early stages, and might not outperform his in an actual simulation.
Lorina, who had always been proud and arrogant, naturally refused to accept that and had walked straight over.
And so came the absurd wager Gu An had heard when he opened his eyes.
Gu An rubbed the space between his brows, finally making sense of the situation.
He hadn't expected that, just as his memories of his previous life awakened, his first challenge would be a fight for resources, with an absurd claim to seniority thrown in.
Gu An studied Lorina with a strange look.
That face, as exquisitely sculpted as a deity's, paired with that cold and arrogant expression.
If he really did as she asked...
He hurriedly cut off the dangerous thought.
Perhaps it was a cultural difference.
In this world, "call me mommy" in the mouth of someone of mixed heritage seemed to mean something a little different from a certain meaning it had in his previous life.
At least, none of the classmates watching the commotion nearby seemed to think there was anything wrong with Lorina's wager.
Some boys, eager to see the commotion grow, even started egging him on.
"Gu An, are you taking the bet or not? Even losing to Lorina would be a blessing for you!"
Gu An sighed.
This wager was rather childish. They were all adults; they should compete for resources with their real abilities.
Since when was it fashionable to be someone else's parent?
He cleared his throat, preparing to reason with this young lady.
A line of illusory golden text suddenly appeared before his eyes.
[Supreme Mythology World Creation System successfully bound.]
[Construct a mythological system, and it can be established as the world's actual governing laws.]
Gu An froze for a moment.
His memories of his previous life had just awakened, and his golden finger had already arrived?
The words on the tip of his tongue stopped short, and he instinctively looked at Lorina.
The girl still stood with her arms folded, though a hint of impatience had appeared in her ice-blue eyes.
No one around them showed any sign of noticing anything unusual.
Only he could see it.
Gu An turned his attention back to the lines of text, and a crazy thought surged uncontrollably into his mind.
A mythological system?
Would the Primordial World work?
[Mythological Chaos can be created.]
Then... what about Pangu?
[The corresponding Great Dao and gestation conditions can be established.]
Gu An's heart began to pound.
The "low-martial world construction plan" he had stayed up late preparing still lay quietly on the World Creation Platform.
But at this moment, all that remained in his mind was a vast, boundless expanse of chaos.
And deep within that chaos, the supreme treasure of the three realms, rooted in the void and bearing the god-demon who would split open the heavens.
The Chaos Green Lotus!
"Hey, are you going to take the bet or not?"
Lorina's icy voice rang out again, interrupting his thoughts.
Gu An raised his head and met the girl's intensely oppressive gaze.
A great man was born beneath heaven and earth, and with the entire supreme Primordial World in his hands, could he really be cowed by a little girl playing with silvermoon elves?
"Fine, I accept."
He looked at Lorina with a calm expression, his tone even carrying a touch of nonchalance.
"But the wager should be fair. What if you lose, Miss Lorina?"
Recalling the Western fantasy novels he had read in his previous life, Gu An looked at the beautiful girl before him and playfully imitated their manner of speaking, deliberately making "Miss" sound particularly gentlemanly.
Lorina looked as though she had heard the funniest joke in the world, and a vivid flash of disdain crossed her ice-blue eyes.
"There's no way I could lose to the likes of you."
She lifted her slender, swanlike neck, her voice brimming with absolute confidence. "But since this is a wager, you may make your demand."
"No matter what the condition is, I'll agree."
Gu An nodded, a warm smile curling at the corners of his mouth.
"It's simple. If you lose, you'll have to call me daddy."
The cold, haughty curve of Lorina's lips froze in an instant.
A classmate beside them, holding an insulated cup, spat out the water in his mouth and immediately broke into a violent coughing fit.
"You..."
An eerie, deathly silence fell over the hall.
Lorina's ice-blue eyes had remained unruffled all this time, as though she were looking at trash.
For the first time in her life, they widened slightly in utter shock.
"What did you say???"