The voice was like lightning, piercing through the soul of Yun Ming and awakening his dormant consciousness.
"Hmm."
With a muffled groan, Yun Ming slowly opened his eyes.
He remembered that he had been bracing himself against the Creation Light. But before the Sky Support World and the Creation could determine a victor, his vision blurred and his consciousness vanished. How had he arrived in this unknown realm? Looking at the strange surroundings, Yun Ming could not help but feel confused.
"No, Lily!"
After the initial confusion, Yun Ming thought of his beloved within the Sky Support World. He wanted to investigate the situation, but for some reason, his Spiritual Power and divine energy, which usually obeyed his every command, were completely silent; he could not mobilize even a fraction. He could clearly sense the Atlas Divine Spear and his God Core within his body, yet they felt isolated, offering no response. Fortunately, the Sky Support World appeared undamaged, so Ya Li should be safe.
This discovery caused Yun Ming to furrow his brows, a rare look of bewilderment appearing in the depths of his eyes.
Something was wrong! Very wrong!
He carefully examined the realm he found himself in. Yun Ming reached out, grasping at the surrounding specks of light. It was fine; he could still control his physical body, but the light specks were like a reflection of the moon in water—visible but untouchable. He could feel neither light, nor heat, nor matter. The surroundings looked like a starry sky, yet it was not; it was like the Void. One had to know that even within the Void, there were various frequency energy fluctuations and drifting rocks; matter, energy, and motion were everywhere, yet here, it seemed as if nothing existed at all.
"Where on earth is this?"
After a bout of exploration yielded nothing, Yun Ming muttered to himself. His strength surpassed that of an ordinary God King; logically speaking, there was no place in the vast universe he could not go. He did not even fear the black holes in the Void within a certain distance, so what was going on with this place? Why could it completely suppress his power? Where exactly was he? Just then, the voice that had previously awakened Yun Ming sounded once more.
"This is the World of Nothingness!"
"Who's there!"
The sudden movement made Yun Ming shudder. When he was unconscious, the voice had seemed ethereal, and after waking up, there were no living beings in the surrounding space, so he had thought it was just a hallucination. Hearing it again now gave Yun Ming a start.
Yun Ming's challenge was like a switch, causing this static, void world to undergo changes other than his own presence. Countless specks of light began to aggregate and shift.
It was water, it was wind, it was fire, it was light, it was darkness. It was only for an instant, but Yun Ming felt as if every natural phenomenon and all things in the world had passed before his eyes. Finally, the light specks coalesced into a shape, and a human figure appeared before Yun Ming.
Seeing this person's appearance, Yun Ming paused. Aside from a set of black robes and a different expression, the face, height, and other external features were identical to his own.
"Why does your Excellency choose to appear in my likeness?" Yun Ming asked in a deep voice.
The black-robed 'Yun Ming' heard this and smiled, explaining.
"This is how you see me, but it is not a transformation I initiated."
This answer left Yun Ming stunned. What did that mean? Was his appearance a projection of his own heart?
The black-robed 'Yun Ming' saw through Yun Ming's confusion and, without playing coy, continued.
"I have no form. When people see me, they only see the image of me that exists within their own hearts."
"You see yourself only because you are the one who resembles me the most."
The answer from the black-robed 'Yun Ming' plunged Yun Ming into deep thought, his mind racing.
According to what the other side said, the previous manifestations of all things in the world might also have been just one of the many faces people could see him as.
No form, form born from the heart, the myriad phenomena of the world, resembling him the most... wait, why did this feel a bit like that legendary figure? Once this thought appeared, Yun Ming felt the fog dissipate, as if he had been enlightened.
Yun Ming stared at the other person, dumbfounded, and said in disbelief.
"Could it be that you are...?!!"
The black-robed 'Yun Ming' wore a smile, revealing his identity.
"I have no form and no name, though you all have given me a title called..."
"Creation God."
Boom--
When he truly heard that the person opposite him was the Creation God who had opened up the world, Yun Ming felt as if he had been struck by Destruction Divine Lightning; his head was buzzing. The origin of all things, the source of the world—he was actually still alive!!!
"But in the legends, you were not..."
Yun Ming spoke subconsciously, but halfway through, he realized it was too rude to say this to his face and hurriedly stopped.
"Not dead?" The Creation God did not mind Yun Ming's impoliteness and smiled as he continued.
Yun Ming did not speak again, silently acknowledging that was what he meant.
"Living in this World of Nothingness forever, life and death are not much different."
When saying this, although the Creation God still wore a warm smile on his face, his tone hid a sense of desolation.
"The World of Nothingness?" Yun Ming whispered.
Perhaps because he had been lonely for too long, the Creation God seemed exceptionally calm regarding Yun Ming's questions, showing no impatience at all.
"Are you interested in hearing my story? Once you hear it, you will understand everything."
Yun Ming: "Of course, it would be my honor."
The Creation God's eyes grew distant as he recalled the past.
"At the beginning of time, everything was chaos, and nothing existed..."
"In the end, I was trapped here until today."
Following that, the Creation God told Yun Ming everything about his experiences, from his birth to the creation of the world, and finally how he came to this World of Nothingness.
In general, the accumulation of this chaos was too dense, granting him, the True Creation God born in response to the times, overly powerful strength. During the process of creation, he accidentally opened a path to a higher dimension. Although ninety-nine percent of his physical body had transformed into all things in the world, under the influence of survival instinct, a wisp of his true spirit entered here before the rest dissolved. Just like that, he survived and even gained a chance at transcendence.
However, he had not expected that the path ahead would be severed; he could not advance further. When he wanted to retreat, the entrance had already closed, and he could not get out, so he had been trapped here ever since.
"So the World of Nothingness is a path to higher dimensions that wasn't fully opened," Yun Ming summarized.
The Creation God replied.
"Yes."
After hearing the cause and effect regarding the World of Nothingness, Yun Ming's heart sank, but a second thought made him feel something was wrong.
"The entrance is sealed, and even you cannot open it, so how did I get in?"
"Did the aftermath of the battle outside loosen the entrance to the passage?"
The Creation God had only managed to open half the passage by accident while creating the world; Yun Ming would not be so arrogant as to think he was comparable to him back then, so it seemed there was only one possibility. He had happened to open an entrance that already existed.
Seeing that Yun Ming had not lost his composure upon hearing he was trapped, and had so quickly identified the crux of the problem, the Creation God smiled even more brilliantly, a look of satisfaction appearing in the depths of his eyes. He was worthy of being someone who had walked the Path of World Creation; he was indeed extraordinary, though his guess was...
"Not entirely; you could say you were brought in by me on purpose."
Yun Ming: '.(*￣︿￣)'
What is that supposed to mean! In other words, he shouldn't have been trapped here in the first place, right!
Creak, creak--
It's hardening! His fists are hardening! As expected, he had been too polite earlier. This old immortal didn't seem to deserve it. Yun Ming narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth curling up in a classic smile that hid a dagger.
"So why did you bring me in here? You had better give me a proper reason, otherwise."
Yun Mouren would definitely have to trade a few blows with him!!!
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