Jiang Chen's eyelid twitched.
The Creation God?
Good grief. He had just complained to himself about how absurd the system's trial was, and now a projection of the Creation God herself had descended?
Wasn't this a little too grand?
"Um..."
He chose his words carefully and asked, "Did your projection descend because I... completed the Creation First Trial?"
The Creation God Projection nodded slightly. A glimmer of approval flashed through her eyes, vast as a sea of stars. "Yes. You devoured the core of Sea God Island's Divine Power. The First Trial is complete."
She raised a hand and tapped the air. A pale golden speck flew from her fingertip, becoming an ancient rune that drifted toward Jiang Chen.
"This is your reward for the First Trial: the Creation God Canon First Layer, and... the Seed of Divinity."
Jiang Chen reached out instinctively. The instant the rune touched his fingertip, it turned into a warm current and poured into his body.
A vast torrent of information exploded in his mind.
Countless golden words, diagrams, and patterns of law flooded in like a tide, intertwining, merging, and rearranging within his consciousness.
It felt as though someone had crammed an entire library into his head. There was so much information that his temples throbbed.
"Hiss—"
He sucked in a sharp breath and clutched his head. He gritted his teeth and endured it for a full ten seconds before he finally managed to absorb the torrent.
When he opened his eyes again, the world looked entirely different.
The once-chaotic void had grown clear to him. He could see the true nature of its countless tiny motes of light.
They were faint strands of the power of laws, like the underlying code of this world, laid bare before his eyes.
"The Creation God Canon