Nuwa's voice cut off abruptly.
Her eyes, clear as autumn waters, stared fixedly at the Chaos Bead in Gu Changqing's palm, the vast spectacle of that world reflected deep within her pupils.
As the wielder of the Dao of Creation, the one who had molded clay into humans and refined stones to mend the heavens, Nuwa knew better than anyone what a terrifying power of creation was needed to develop a world to such a degree.
What stunned her even more was-
This was not development.
This was... creation!
In such a short time, Gu Changqing had actually used the Dao of Creation she had taught him as a guide to forcibly elevate a Lesser Thousand World to the level of a Great Thousand World!
The gulf between them was far greater than that between clouds and mud!
In a Lesser Thousand World, the laws had only just taken shape and all things had only just been born. At most, it was a reasonably complete little realm.
But a Great Thousand World...
That was a complete world with perfected laws, a Heavenly Dao of its own, and myriad things that multiplied and flourished without end!
From the Primordial World Heaven and Earth's first opening, after Great God Pangu's fall, as it evolved from Chaos to what it was today, the Primordial World Heaven and Earth had only reached the level of a Great Thousand World.
In other words, Gu Changqing was... replicating the Primordial World!
Of course, in terms of status, this Great Thousand World still could not compare with the Primordial World Heaven and Earth.
After all, the myriad things and living beings born in the Primordial World Heaven and Earth over hundreds of quadrillions of epochs represented transformations and sublimations that necessarily took time.
"You..."
Nuwa drew a