"Did I miss something?" Looking at Pagliu's fading figure, Miss Fairy Dragon asked innocently.
"No, you came at just the right time." Chen Rui smiled at Lola, then turned his gaze to Ben Hong. "Ben Hong, I have a question. I want an answer."
"Please ask, my lord."
"Just how many days did the Creator spend creating this world? You once told me that the Creator spent three days destroying everything that originally existed, then another three days creating everything that exists now. But today, someone told me that the Creator took seven days to create the entire world."
"Someone merely told you that?" Ben Hong's eyes had brightened slightly when Chen Rui began his question, but after hearing that last sentence, they dimmed again, as though he were disappointed.
"I want to know the real answer."
"It is said that the universe was originally a chaos. The Creator spent three days destroying all things that were unfit for life, then another three days creating the vast universe centered around this main plane."
Chen Rui frowned. This was no different from what he had heard before. Then Ben Hong changed his tone. "In truth, there was another day between destruction and creation. This day stood between destruction and creation, between 'nothing' and 'something,' revealing the supreme mystery of embracing both 'something' and 'nothing.'"
Something and nothing?
Chen Rui suddenly thought of the most famous Taoist classic from his previous life, the Tao Te Ching. Its opening contained a line: Nothingness is named the beginning of Heaven and Earth; being is named the mother of all things.
The way of being and nothingness was the gateway to probing the universe's boundless mysteries—the mystery within mystery, the gate of all wonders.
The Tao Te Ching probably had nothing to do with this,