He Was No Longer the Creator

A glint of light flashed in Jiang Yuu's eyes.

A vast and expansive River of Time appeared beneath His feet.

This is the River of Time throughout the entire Sacred River Heavenly Land.

It originated from an initial point, the place where the first light was born, and has continued to this day and into the future.

Jiang Yuu casually stepped into the dimension of time, venturing onto the River of Time.

This place is an insurmountable barrier for everyone on the Sacred River Heavenly Land; none of them have yet been able to traverse the River of Time.

For Jiang Yuu himself, this River of Time was gentle and quiet, and no matter how it was changed in His hands, it was very simple and easy.

He followed the course of River of Time, taking a single step and appearing at the very beginning of time.

That was at the beginning of creation, when the great Creator created the great world with the Four Cosmic Orders.

This is also the origin of the world being born in light.

He looked at "himself" standing before that primordial light that gave birth to the world.

The two "people" looked at each other and smiled, and surprisingly, they said the same thing in unison.

"The first step begins with creation."

From this moment on.

"The world is made of light, not of me!"

Instantly.

It's as if cause and effect, and time and space, have been reversed.

The very beginning of time, the origin of Land of Being, and countless concepts related to creation Fabled about the Creator along the River of Time were all replaced.

In other words...

Conceptually.

The original concept of the Creator bringing light and then using that light to create the world, the Sacred River Heavenly Land, has been replaced by...

A ray of Holiness light, amidst endless fixed numbers, became the most wondrous variable, born from endless "nothingness," and from it came the first world, the Prime Material World, and also the source of the Sacred River Heavenly Land of Land of Being.

And we can trace this concept further back.

Jiang Yuu saw His body, the body of the once thirty-six-winged Holy Angel.

In the beginning.

It was through his own body, in the midst of True Nothingness, that he sublimated the concept of something arising from nothingness into a true singularity born from a Land of Being.

His physical body, too, merged with the Sacred River Heavenly Land during the creation of the world.

now.

He replaced "his" existence with the first light.

The hazy shadow of light and shadow upon which His own existence depended rose up in an instant, no longer appearing in any dimension of creation, but returning to His own body, and with His entire body, He began to separate from the entire Sacred River Heavenly Land.

Without a sound or a sound.

Just like an equally vast "Land of Being"—Jiang Yuu's actual body was extracted from the original Land of Being, the Sacred River Heavenly Land!

However, this process of extraction involves many aspects, including the Four Cosmic Orders, the concept of "being" that constitutes countless Land of Being, and all existing "particles".

Like a double image, it appeared at the beginning of time, at the end of time, and at every point and every corner of time.

The Creator is Transcendence; the Creator is relinquishing Authority over the entire Land of Being.

However, from the very beginning of creation, replacing the artificial process of creating one's own "factual existence" with a natural process only allowed this process to last for a fleeting moment.

This means that Jiang Yuu's body, which seemed to overlap with the entire Sacred River Heavenly Land, was elevated by "an inch," meaning that the "double image" of the Land of Being was separated by an inch.

This "inch" of Transcendence is invisible to any living being, yet it has altered the lives of beings across countless timelines.

This change on the timeline is incredibly smooth.

After the appearance of the Heavenly Land World.

The Age of the Wild Giant.

A Wild Giant plays with his companions on the earth.

They playfully wrestled and embraced in the night sky.

In their murmured sleepiness late at night.

"Thanks to the Creator for the blessings..."

Under the influence of a mysterious Supreme power, it transformed into "Thank you for the blessing of the Light of Creation..."

The fact of His creation of the world was given a naturally born concrete form as the "Light of Creation".

The Age of Gods.

Every divine being born, at the moment of their birth, loudly praises.

That one sentence.

"By the Creator..."

In an instant, at the same moment, it transformed into "Thank you for the Light of Creation."

In the Divine Calamity Era.

On the land ravaged by the Old God.

Countless lives were lost in a lament of despair.

The existence of the Creator has quietly disappeared, replaced by the names of various deities and repeated personified yearnings for the Light of Creation.

Endless faith surged forth, about to be swallowed up by the name "Light of Creation".

At the very beginning of time, in that ray of light of creation, there seemed to be a small segment that would automatically be separated under such circumstances.

But at the source of time, Jiang Yuu calmly spoke.

"The Light of Creation, light is light, it is the source, the origin, the very essence of the Sacred River Heavenly Land, eternally without consciousness."

Instantly.

One possibility has been eliminated.

And that boundless faith, having lost its anchor, gradually dissipated over the endless passage of time.

Many years later.

The Prime Material World.

In a port city of the Fetrola Human Empire.

In a prestigious school near the coast.

In a bright classroom built atop a tall tower.

A young Mage is teaching a class of dozens of students of different races.

"Today's lesson is about the Prime Material Plane, and also the origin of the entire Sacred River Heavenly Land."

She smiled, picked up her pointer, pointed at the blackboard, and asked with a hint of encouragement.

Children, where did the world originate?

"Light originating from the hand of the Great Creator!"

The children answered in unison.

The teacher was extremely satisfied with the children's answers.

"Yes, it originated from..."

As if a computer had crashed, the young teacher's memories, soul, and knowledge changed in an instant.

"Yes, it originated from the primordial Light of Creation."

"The world originated from light."

"It was the first light that created all of this."

"Light gives birth to all things!"

The origin of time.

Jiang Yuu smiled as she watched as all concepts about the Creator were replaced on the timeline.

"The entire concept of creation has been replaced."

"I have taken the first step on my Path of Transcendence."

"Next step."

"It is the origin of all things, the beginning of life."

His eyes shone with divine light as he looked toward the moment the Wild Giant was born.