Pangu Creates Heaven and Clears the Board (Part One)

(I coughed up blood. I clearly clicked publish immediately for this chapter yesterday—why was it still sitting here now? Speechless. Note: these words don't count toward the cost.)

The battle between Pangu and the Primordial Chaos Demon Gods had already reached a white-hot stage. Pangu was fighting five alone, and the time to reveal the answer had come.

For the seventy-eighth time, Pangu swung the Pangu Axe, launching the first wave of a new assault. The remaining five peerless experts were unwilling to show weakness, and they too attacked Pangu in succession.

Just as the attacks from both sides collided, Yuan Tian, watching from the sidelines, clearly saw a Chaos Origin Stone about half the size of Pangu's thumb. Like Luohou before it, it "drilled" into the narrow crack Pangu had opened. The instant it entered the crack, a mysterious force split the Chaos Origin Stone into five pieces of varying sizes.

I forgot to mention that Pangu was at least ten thousand li tall at the moment, an absolute giant. In other words, that Chaos Origin Stone was not as small as one might imagine.

It had to be said that Luohou's luck earlier had been remarkably good. At the very least, he had not been split into five pieces. Otherwise, with his severely injured body, he would not have needed to think of a way to reincarnate and cultivate anew—he could simply have vanished into ashes and smoke. That would have saved him some trouble, though the ending of the Primordial Wilderness would have changed as well.

Although Yuan Tian saw the Chaos Origin Stone enter the crack Pangu had opened—the "future" Primordial Wilderness—he did not connect that utterly ordinary-looking stone in the Primordial Chaos with something famous in the Primordial Wilderness.

This Chaos Origin Stone, split into