Boom! The world surged faintly, as though something had been born.
Winds rose and clouds churned, while countless Great Dao laws trembled and resonated.
Streaks of world-shaking rainbow light pierced heaven and earth, flashing across the firmament. That silhouette was wreathed in holiness, blue light shining in his eyes with the bearing of one looking down upon all creation.
Countless members of the Yi Mang clan set down their sculptures, swiftly knelt, and shouted without end.
"Mang!"
"Mang!"
"Mang!"
They cried out as they gazed upon their leader, whose entire body was wreathed in radiance, as though he were the sole true god in heaven and earth.
In this ancient, chaotic Primordial Universe, the concept of gods had never existed. Yet at this moment, the concept of gods seemed to be born.
"How interesting."
Xu Zhi took a bite of his apple and looked down at the fishpond below, smiling faintly. "He actually reached the first order. And this breakthrough caused such upheaval in the universe that it rivaled the energy vortex produced by a god's breakthrough on a single planet."
This was no blessing from heaven and earth, no unseen benediction, nor was it some absurd reward bestowed by the universe upon the first cultivator born into this world.
The universe had always been unconscious.
It was like Earth itself, merely existing there.
What he had caused was simply part of a natural phenomenon, like ancient humans seeing rain and thunder and assuming that the gods in the heavens were enraged, when in truth it was only nature.
Otherwise, the universe where Xu Zhi had rooted himself in a tumor would have long since been beaten to death by the Great Universe.
Such a commotion only occurred because the laws of this Primordial Universe were too unstable and too