Act of Creation

"What… what is this…?"

In the chaotic world in front of him, other than the giants, there were no specific reference points. Yun Su felt lost as if he was looking up at the endless starry sky.

The giant dragged a huge axe in his hand and slowly walked to a slightly different place.

Compared to the chaotic turbulences elsewhere, there seemed to be more turbulences surging here. It was much more intense, ferocious and dangerous.

The giant stood in the chaos of the void. He swung his giant axe and slowly raised it above his head. As he did so, a movement began to appear in the chaos.

Yun Su looked at it with the profoundness of looking out at the stars. Even without a reference point, he felt shaken. It was an undescribable throbbing as if the giant was a universe.

The Void, chaos, turbidity, the giant, and the axe in the giant's hand all seemed to hint to Yun Su that this was the Chaotic World, and the person in front of her was Pan Gu, the God of Creation, who was about to create the universe?!

The giant raised his axe with an indomitable determination and slashed at the void's chaos.

Boom…

A silent bang resounded in Yun Su's mind as if he was standing in the depths of a billion galaxies. A sound like the sound of a heavenly drum came from the other side of the starry, waking him up.

Countless ignorances, countless unknowns, and countless uncertainties were shattered by this sound.

The axe seemed to strike the heart, the spirit, and the mind. It seemed to hide a curse but it also seemed to be mixed with a wisp of divine sound. Countless barriers in the heart were broken by the axe and everything became clear.

The giant who seemed to be Pan Gu slashed through Chaos with his axe. For the first time, the mysterious world behind this vortex had a different color.

A stream of clear Qi rose slowly.

A stream of foul Qi slowly sank.

If the sound of the huge axe cutting through the chaos just now was like the sound of a heavenly drum that cut away the confusion in Yun Su's heart, leaving behind only the purest and most primitive sound, then this clear and turbid qi, were like two bolts of lightning striking his entire body.

Whether it was his body, mind, or the small Essence Soul person sitting on the cloud platform in the sea of consciousness, or his soul, they were all illuminated by the clear and turbid Qi.

As an observer, Yun Su was shocked beyond expectations. The countless perceptions from stories that had been passed down from generation to generation were collapsing and rebuilding. The feeling that he was witnessing a legend and history arose.

After entering the Soul Formation realm, there were many things that he didn't understand. When that huge axe struck open the chaos and out came the clear and turbid Qi, he understood everything.

'If I understand it, I understand it. It's profound and mysterious. I can't put it into words but I understand it.'

The usage of magic power and spell techniques that had originally troubled him seemed to have a logical pathway under that axe that split the clear and turbid Qi.

As the clear and turbid Qi separated, the clear Qi became higher and the turbid Qi became lower as he understood more and more.

Yun Su even felt a sense of anticipation and excitement. What kind of supreme opportunity would being able to completely observe the creation of the universe be?

After obtaining immortality for nothing and stepping into the Soul Formation realm after getting a thousand years' worth of cultivation, could it be that he was going to pry into the great secrets of the world and cultivate from the same starting point as the legendary Three Pure Ones?

If it were anyone else, they might have felt proud and empty at this moment but Yun Su did not feel empty at all. If the Three Pure Ones really existed and the legend was that they were created by Pangu, why did they not feel empty after witnessing a successful creation of the world? Instead, they established sects and were free?

Oh no!

Suddenly, Yun Su turned pale with fright. He saw that the chaos that had been separated seemed to be being stirred by a huge force that could destroy the universe. The endless clear Qi was crushed with a bang and the turbid Qi below was also destroyed. The situation that was originally chaotic was destroyed in the blink of an eye.

The chaos closed. The giant in the middle raised his head and roared when he saw this. He struggled violently and the divine light on his body exploded. Purple qi rose and endless divine flames ignited. He carried his axe and rushed into the gap that was about to close.

Using his head, shoulders and legs to fight back, the giant tried his best but he was still crushed bit by bit. The flying flesh, bone, hair, scalp, and brain matter fell away and turned into giants again. They rushed into the crack and continued to push against the upper and lower ends of the chaotic crack.

The head was gone, the feet were gone, the neck was gone, and the legs were gone. To Yun Su's astonishment, thousands of giants of the same size appeared from various parts of the giant's body but without exception, they were all crushed by the combined forces of the two ends of the chaos. Before long, they were reduced to dust.

The towering axe was also broken by the immense force of Chaos closing. The body of the axe cracked and splattered everywhere.

The billion-foot-tall body turned to dust. A billion rivers of blood flowed out, scattering everywhere like galaxies. Yun Su saw the giant die. The blood formed a pool. After an unknown amount of time, some turned into huge birds, some into long insects, some into phoenixes, and some into huge trees that fled into the chaos and disappeared.

Then, the mysterious world behind this vortex produced a strange trembling, as if it was crying. When this trembling came, Yun Su could not help but feel extremely sad and had the urge to cry.

Even though they didn't know each other, they were affected by some strange atmosphere. It transmitted an even stranger kind of great sorrow. It was strange and indescribable as if it hid some kind of great fear.

'So it's over?'

Yun Su had guessed the beginning. He did not expect the ending to be like this. He had actually witnessed a failed attempt at creation. A feat that had just begun failed just like that.

The countless mysterious things in his mind still seemed to be chaotic and disorderly. He had only resolved some of the confusion after his cultivation had soared a few days ago. Coupled with some mysterious rules and comprehensions, he was still far from what he had imagined.

Yun Su felt an unprecedented regret. When the giant failed and collapsed, he wanted to rush up and help. How could it fail just like that?

It wasn't an illusion. He really witnessed a failed attempt to open the sky. And it failed at the beginning.

Yun Su felt some pity for the giant. He admired him for daring to create. The grief, indignation, regret, pain, and anger that drifted from the giant's death were all very clear. He did not look like a Pan Gu without a body. Instead, he looked like some mysterious and completely inexplicable creature that would also be angry and happy.

This time, he was not mentally prepared at all for the travel into the Great Void. It was a pity that he had failed.

The Pan Gu was gone. The Creation had failed. The Heaven-Opening Axe had crumbled into slag.

Yun Su shook his head and turned toward the vortex. He understood that the time for travelling was about to end.

A huge opportunity had failed in such a hurry. Yun Su turned around and bowed in the direction of the giant's death.

"Death by creation is a glorious defeat."

With that, he prepared to leave.

'Eh, what's that?'

Yun Su's nonexistent body trembled as he looked into the distance in disbelief.

He saw a stream of light approaching. In the blink of an eye, it was floating in front of him. It was a cracked axe blade.

It was not the body of the axe but the sharpest part of its blade. It was made of some unknown material. It floated there like a fish, constantly changing shape.

In the vortex, a strange suction force came. At the same time, the entire endless chaos world felt an irresistible repulsion.

Finally, the transformed axe blade transformed into a stream of light that dissipated, leaving behind a three-foot-long sword.

Yun Su grabbed it. Since he was already here, he had to bring back a token of witnessing the attempted creation. Otherwise, when he woke up, he would probably think that everything he saw was just a dream. He wanted to use it as a witness.

He fell into the vortex and returned to the endless void. Some mysterious fluctuation came. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in reality.

Yun Su suddenly stood up and looked at the nameless ancient sword in her arms. His mind was in a daze as if he had a dream. He swam in the Great Void for countless years and then saw creation.

Creation had failed.

The nameless ancient sword in his hand seemed to be the only evidence other than Yun Su.