"So, child, the world does not matter to me, and your faith does not matter to me either."
Hearing the God Sovereign's words, Chen Cheng recovered from his shock. Then he gave a cold laugh.
"If neither matters to you, why do you still interfere with our world?"
The God Sovereign sighed.
"Having you worship us is not interference. It is salvation. Do you understand what salvation is?"
"Spare me that nonsense. We don't need your salvation. We believe we can build a better tomorrow with our own hands."
Chen Cheng had thrown caution to the wind. Whether he lived or died was no longer up to him; it depended on the God Sovereign's attitude.
So he roared out the words and anger he had kept in his heart.
But the God Sovereign only gave a wistful smile. He pointed at the world he had spoken into existence, and its flow of time instantly accelerated—a thousand years passed in a glance.
As time went on, a sapient species rose above the myriad others. They used their minds to study nature, learned to survive within it, and eventually developed a civilization of their own.
Civilization advanced, and with time its people grew ever more intelligent. They even achieved the super-advanced technology of Old Ke's era. To them, the universe within their world held no mysteries.
Yet they were not the only ones growing. The world they lived in grew alongside them.
Just as their civilization reached its peak, their world finally developed a mind of its own.
The famous Boltzmann Brain had appeared. The world had truly produced a self-aware True Spirit, with the world itself as his body.
His birth was nothing less than a catastrophe for the entire world. Once he possessed intelligence, that intelligence drove him to want