When Yao Ziyan returned to the room with pastries again, she saw Luo Chuan staring blankly at a light screen.
She set down the pastries and curiously glanced at it twice.
The light screen displayed scattered bits of information, seemingly related to the legends from earlier. Some of them were even connected by lines.
Yao Ziyan's eyes grew dizzy from looking at it, and she quickly withdrew her gaze.
"Luo Chuan, what are you doing?" Yao Ziyan asked as she ate.
"Recording and analysis." Luo Chuan casually picked up a pastry and put it into his mouth. "And I found something I hadn't noticed before."
"What is it?" Yao Ziyan held a cup of fruit juice as she drank, one cheek slightly puffed out, making her look rather adorable.
"Here." Luo Chuan pointed to a certain area on the light screen.
Yao Ziyan looked in the direction of his finger. The information displayed there included things like "Primal Demigods, Epochal Changes, Dark Prison, partial sealing"—details from the story she had just told.
"What did you find?" Yao Ziyan's starry-sky-like, dazzling purple eyes fixed tightly on Luo Chuan. "I'm very..."
"Stop. That's enough."
Luo Chuan raised a hand and pressed it against the girl's cheek, cutting off her next words. "I'll tell you."
Yao Ziyan shook her head and broke free from Luo Chuan's hand.
By now, she could not even be bothered to take issue with Luo Chuan's actions. She simply waited quietly for what he had to say next.
"Primal Demigods—this was the name in the story for the creatures born amid the aftershocks of the universe's beginning." Luo Chuan spoke slowly. "They were the most native lifeforms in this world. You could even say they were incarnations of the world's most fundamental rules, born with power akin to