Time went back to a short while ago.
Unlike the chaos outside at this moment, Ryan's creation of the world was still continuing within the moon.
At the moon's core, chaotic Time Sequence was released. Just as at the beginning of creation, time had no measure at this moment.
This was a trait Ryan had deliberately preserved. In his view, both orderly and chaotic spacetime had their value. So long as they could be controlled, they had a reason to exist.
Thus, in the newly born world, the deeper the region, the more chaotic the Time Sequence. The shallower the region, the more Order held the upper hand.
Yet at the very core, it was orderly like the outside world. That would also be Ryan's future residence.
At this moment, within the nascent realm, Ryan had no body. His spirit floated at the root of the world. The matter decomposed from his divine body merged with the source power in the Life Treasure Bottle, giving birth to a substance that was both incorporeal and corporeal.
He used this substance to form earth and water. They were the world's most fundamental materials, but Ryan needed something else to separate them.
"Let there be a firmament between the waters, to divide the waters from the waters," he said.
Thus, the spiritual world gained a firmament, dividing the waters below it from the waters above it.
He called the firmament Sky. There was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
With light and darkness, and with the sky, the world still needed a solid foundation to bear it. Thus, Ryan's spirit moved to the very center of the water, which was also the center of the world.
"Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry land appear," he said.
Thus, the water gathered in one place. He called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters he called seas.
"Let the earth produce grass, plants that bear seed, and trees that bear fruit, each according to its kind, with fruit containing seed!"
Thus, the earth produced grass and plants that bore seed, each according to its kind. It also produced trees that bore fruit, each according to its kind, with fruit containing seed.
There was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
The land had appeared, and the oceans had been separated. With the aid of the Life Treasure Bottle, Ryan began with the simplest plants and created beings evolved from Spirituality.
He could feel that the battle outside was growing more intense, and the birth of the children of the Twin Gods of the Night was accelerating as well. But he paid none of this any mind. After all, within this realm of chaotic Time Sequence, he could easily stretch one day into seven.
Ryan's spirit gazed up at the empty sky. He condensed the concepts of the moon and celestial bodies. The spiritual world did not need a sun, but it had more than one moon.
He said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the sky to divide the day from the night. Let them serve as signs to mark the seasons, days, and years. Let them shine in the firmament of the sky to illuminate the earth!"
Thus, he created one great light, dividing it into seven. He also created the stars, corresponding to the seasons, days, and years.
He placed these lights in the firmament of the sky to illuminate the earth, govern the day and night, and divide the light from the darkness.
There was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
The celestial bodies had appeared, and Ryan's reserves were nearly exhausted. But apart from what he had obtained in this world, he still had what remained from his previous life.
The outside world did not yet have stars, but their sources were already gestating. When he created the stars, he began drawing in the corresponding sources from the world. This absorption would not stop until the true star gods were born.
Drawing flowers, birds, fish, and insects from his memories, Ryan once again poured out the liquid in the Life Treasure Bottle. He still could not create beings alone in reality, but within the realm of Spirituality, he was the sole supreme being.
"Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let winged creatures fly above the earth and across the sky!" he said.
Thus, he created the great fish and every kind of living creature that moved and teemed in the water. He also created every kind of winged creature, each according to its kind.
He blessed them, allowing them to reproduce among themselves. Thus, they gained the ability to reproduce and gradually multiply.
There was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
Primitive life had appeared. Next came the most difficult part.
Ryan had once wanted to create humans, but that exceeded his abilities. In his memories, there were no humans composed purely of Spirituality.
Thus, he abandoned his original idea and mixed his own flesh and blood with the source of life. He divided them into good, evil, superior, and ordinary. He would use them to create life separately.
He said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures, each according to its kind: livestock, insects, and wild beasts of the earth, each according to its kind!"
Thus, he created the wild beasts of the earth, each according to its kind; the livestock, each according to its kind; and every kind of insect on the earth, each according to its kind.
He said, "Let Me create them in My image, according to My likeness, so that they may rule over the life in the sea, in the sky, on the earth, and everything else that exists within the realm!"
Thus, in his own image, he created divine life. He created them in his image. As Spirituality and matter were opposites, the divine beings dominated by the feminine emerged in female forms.
He blessed them and promised them eternal life. He commanded them to govern the order of this world in his stead.
There was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The devouring of the many sources by Spirituality was nearing its end. Spacetime and Spirituality were the foundations of this world's existence, while Order and Chaos divided the inside and outside of the world.
Ryan stood at the root of the world and molded a new body for himself. He had seized most of the power of the Life Treasure Bottle. What remained was source power corresponding to matter.
From then on, the bottle's liquid could act only upon matter, not Spirituality. All spiritual life in the world was governed by the master of Spirituality.
The world grew increasingly enraged. Of course, "enraged" might not be an appropriate anthropomorphic term. It was merely instinctively trying to prevent the loss of its authorities. The birth of the Twin Gods of the Night was also nearing its end, but Ryan had reached the final day of creation.
He removed the Divine Office of Prophecy. He removed the Divine Office of History. Finally, he took out the three Divine Decree Stone Tablets.
He cast all three into the source of the newborn realm, and Spirituality digested them in an instant.
Thus, the time and Fate of the Khaos world were shaken, and their source power poured endlessly into the newborn realm. Transformed by the power of Spirituality, the Divine Decree Stone Tablets were reborn in the world.
From then on, the Khaos world no longer had a predetermined Fate. What Spirituality did not interfere with was predetermined; what Spirituality interfered with was the unknown.
Extending his hand, Ryan picked up the first tablet. Just as before, a maxim was engraved upon it—Know Yourself.
Ryan preserved these words, but wrote new content above them—Know the World, Then Know Yourself.
He used the authority of Memory to engrave upon the tablet everything he had witnessed since the beginning of creation. He bestowed History upon it, carving it in the new script belonging to the spirit world.
Thus, the embryo of a powerful Divine Artifact was born. It symbolized the world's past—the eternal and unchanging truth.
Reaching out again, Ryan picked up the second tablet. It bore a line of text as well—Nothing in Excess.
He kept these words and added a new maxim—Nothing in Excess; Let Law Be Its Measure.
He carved the Calendar upon it, along with every rule between the realms. Its contents would change as the realm was perfected. From this moment onward, it was the Codex of Creation.
Finally, he picked up the third tablet. "Promises Bring Pain"—that was what was written upon it.
He erased those words and extracted the source power belonging to the most ancient script. The tablet was not yet ready to emerge, so Ryan set it aside.
At this moment, several Divine Artifacts were gestating at the root of the world. Some belonged to life, while others belonged to time. They were creations that had arisen spontaneously from the sources. Ryan glanced at them, then allowed them to continue gestating.
Next, he reached beyond the world and intercepted some flecks of blood that had fallen from Sky Father before sitting down at the center of the realm.
The heavens, earth, and all things had been created. He named this realm the spirit world.
There was evening, and there was morning—the seventh day.
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At the same time, outside the spirit world, the newborn realm had stabilized. In the sky of the Underworld, the figure of Lady of the Night quietly appeared.
"I'm a step too late."
Her black dress swayed gently as invisible power erupted. In the next moment, before this supreme figure, the entire Underworld Soil began to tremble faintly.
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