I Just Slept for a While

Chapter 3: I Just Slept For A While

With a single step, Pangu's aura surged. His body expanded to an immeasurable size, and he raised the Pangu Axe high in his hand before bringing it down with immense force.

The entire Chaos vibrated with this single axe strike.

Within the previously calm Chaos, Chaos Qi surged wildly. Countless things that existed within the Chaos were reduced to dust with this strike.

However, this axe strike was merely the beginning.

After delivering the first strike, Pangu's movements accelerated dramatically.

One after another, axe techniques filled with Dao Trajectory were unleashed from Pangu's hands. Each swing of the axe made the entire Chaos tremble.

Chaos does not keep track of years.

Therefore, there was essentially no concept of time.

Each of Pangu's axe strikes seemed slow, yet also seemed fast.

But whether fast or slow, Pangu ultimately completed seventy-seven, forty-nine axe strikes.

As the forty-ninth axe strike descended, the雏形 (chúxíng -雏形) of the entire world had become clearly visible.

Pangu's creation of the heavens required a total of seventy-seven, forty-nine axe strikes. The heavens and earth were initially formed.

However, everything was already destined. Pangu would never be able to deliver the fiftieth axe strike.

As the forty-ninth axe strike was delivered, the Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Pangu Axe, in Pangu's hand finally shattered under severe damage, splitting into three, transforming into three Innate Supreme Treasures: the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Chaos Bell.

Simultaneously, the Chaos Supreme Treasure above Pangu's head, the Jade Plate of Creation, also shattered with a boom under the dual effects of the backlash from creating the heavens and the damage sustained from previous battles with Chaos Demon Gods, scattering into the nascent world.

Finally, even the Chaos Supreme Treasure beneath Pangu's feet, the Thirty-Six-Petaled Green Lotus, transformed into countless streams of light and vanished into this world.

Pangu's expression was impassive, as if he hadn't seen the shattering of the three Chaos Supreme Treasures.

He reached out and took the three Innate Supreme Treasures that had evolved from the Pangu Axe.

With a wave of his hand, the Taiji Diagram immediately transformed into a golden bridge spanning the universe, stabilizing the rampaging Earth Water Wind Fire.

The Chaos Bell was casually tossed out, and its chimes immediately rang out, suppressing the great myriad.

At the same time, Pangu continued to wield the Pangu Banner in his hand, unleashing streams of Chaos Sword Qi, further perfecting the world he had created.

Gradually, under Pangu's efforts, this newborn world finally began to stabilize.

The clear rose, the turbid sank.

Pangu, who understood his own fate, sighed lightly and used his hands to support the sky, remaining thus for countless years.

Finally, after the Heaven and Earth stabilized completely, Pangu used his own body and the bodies of the Three Thousand Demon Gods to evolve into all things in the myriad worlds.

The air he exhaled transformed into the wind, clouds, and mist in the Heaven and Earth.

His voice became the thunder.

His Left Eye became the scorching sun, and his Right Eye became the bright moon.

His hair turned into the stars scattered across the sky.

Lastly, his Spine transformed into Mount Buzhou, supporting the Heaven and Earth.

Thus, Pangu finally perished.

However, Pangu was, after all, the one who opened up this world, and his legacy should not be severed.

Therefore, Pangu left behind a trace of his Primordial Spirit and a portion of his Heart Blood.

That Primordial Spirit split into three, and that Heart Blood differentiated into twelve.

Both the Bloodline and the Primordial Spirit were Pangu's legacy.

After Pangu's demise, immeasurable Heaven Opening Merit finally descended from the heavens.

Thirty percent of the Heaven Opening Merit converged out of thin air, ultimately forming a small pagoda with thirty-six layers.

This was precisely the first Postnatal Merit Supreme Treasure, the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda.

Another thirty percent of the merit transformed into three, following the three wisps of pure energy that Pangu's Primordial Spirit had become.

Another thirty percent of the Heaven Opening Merit differentiated into twelve, accompanying those twelve drops of Heart Blood.

Pangu's descendants should rightfully enjoy Pangu's遗泽.

As for the final ten percent of the merit, it transformed into a vast rain of light, nourishing the newly born Primordial Land.

The merit had all descended.

The three great Heaven Opening Supreme Treasures that had transformed from the Pangu Axe seemed to sense Pangu's demise and immediately scattered.

Among them, the Taiji Diagram and the Pangu Banner vanished without a trace, while the Chaos Bell merged into the Solar Star, which had transformed from Pangu's Left Eye, and disappeared.

The twelve drops of Pangu's Heart Blood were cast into Mount Buzhou, which had transformed from Pangu's Spine.

The three wisps of pure energy that Pangu's Primordial Spirit had become were cast into the Primordial Land.

At the same time, Shen Gui's Primordial Spirit, still in slumber, drifted towards the Northern Great Desolation, with a small pagoda resting upon the back of a phantom Small Turtle.

It was Pangu who used the body of the Shen Gui Demon God to evolve the world, and owed Shen Gui a karma. Therefore, he used the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda to repay this karma.

Of course, in reality, karma and such are all虚的 (illusory/unreal). For Pangu, how could he not leave some good things for his own little pet?

Then, that illusory Small Turtle directly sank into the earth of the Northern Great Desolation, like a stone sinking into the sea, without a sound.

When Shen Gui woke up again, he didn't know how many years had passed.

He only remembered that after he discovered he could become stronger just by sleeping in the chaos, he fell into a deep sleep. In the middle, he seemed to have woken up once because his head bumped into something, but he quickly went back to sleep.

So, what time is it now?

Has Pangu opened the heavens yet?

Can he survive the Great Tribulation of Heaven Opening now?

Shen Gui thought lazily, half-awake and half-asleep.

Then he felt something was wrong.

This place doesn't seem to be in the chaos!

This discovery almost made Shen Gui jump up.

However, he ultimately did not jump up. Instead, all the living beings in the Northern Great Desolation felt the earth tremble.

Shen Gui, who discovered he was not in the chaos, was a little stunned.

I just took a nap, what happened?