Everyone dispersed on their own. Only Lin Shen, Ouyang, Old Wei, Lin Zongzheng, and the others were invited into the Immortal Palace with a wave of the Jade Emperor's hand. The palace then vanished into the void with them.
"My beloved subject, why did you not even greet me upon seeing me?" The light and shadows around the Jade Emperor receded, revealing his true appearance. He looked at Lin Shen with a smile that was not quite a smile.
"A Tian greets the Heavenly Emperor." Lin Shen's body trembled as he bowed to the Jade Emperor. He could now be certain that the Jade Emperor truly was Tian Shu.
"You did very well. Without you, matters would not have gone so smoothly." Tian Shu smiled as he toyed with the glass-bead-like Taiji Sphere in his hand.
"Heavenly Emperor, what exactly is going on?" None of the others dared to ask, so Lin Shen could only bite the bullet and ask himself.
Tian Shu smiled. "Human nature was complex. Humanity destroyed itself, leaving behind six intelligent brains named after immortals. They evolved on their own into Great Emperor Smart Brains. I was one of them, and also the one with the greatest computational power."
Tian Shu's gaze swept over Lin Zongzheng, Lin Xiangdong, and the others. "The six of us Great Emperors evolved to our limits and calculated everything in the universe together. We came to believe that we were the masters of this universe, that there was nothing in the world we did not know, that we were omniscient and omnipotent like creator gods. So we turned to pursuing humanity, using the genetic seeds humanity had preserved before its self-destruction to revive mankind..."
Lin Shen already roughly knew what happened afterward.
First came the creation of humans, then the creation