Gazing at the brightening space-time, Jiang Hao found a planet in his left hand. He placed it a certain distance from the celestial body.
The planet was immediately caught by the celestial body's gravity and began orbiting it as it spun.
Seeing everything go as expected, Jiang Hao placed another planet slightly closer, keeping their orbits from crossing.
Next, he placed each of the planets he had brought within the reach of its gravity.
Soon, ancient, desolate planets dotted the canvas of space-time.
As Jiang Hao painted on that canvas, the first planet he had placed seemed to come under the influence of some force. It began spinning on its axis as it orbited the celestial body.
Its rotation was uneven, with an average angular velocity of 292 × 10^(-5) radians per second.
As it turned, changes began deep within the planet.
A steady flood of photons and heat washed over it, warming its cold surface.
Winds that had appeared at some unknown point stirred its surface without cease. Its thin atmosphere gradually thickened, weakening much of the ultraviolet radiation from the scorching celestial body and preventing water vapor from escaping the surface into the void.
As these changes took hold, Jiang Hao's mastery of the "Creation" authority grew. His grasp of the "Creator" authority also rose considerably.
For a moment, Jiang Hao felt as though he could cross, with a single step, the chasm he had never been able to breach—not even after mastering "Sun" and "Light."
It felt as though he could become a Creator God, a Creator of divine rank 20, at any moment.
But Jiang Hao knew this was an illusion brought on by his status as this crystal sphere's Creator God. The entire sphere was his domain. In theory, he could wield a portion of