Now that I had given the underworld a rule, it was time to put a soul on the plane of life so the cells would gather and form a vessel for it.
But there was a problem. Where could I get soul? I can ask my mother to give me some souls, but I can't just use a soul that I can't control.
I control everything inside my domain except the creature that lives inside it, whether it is living or dead.
I can control their fate and kill them whenever I want, but I can't make them obey me entirely.
Well, as a master of the domain, if I show them my power, they will treat and worship me as their god and creator.
But that will only allow me to control them to a certain extent due to their faith in me. Minds were fickle and full of unpredictable thoughts.
No matter how much they trust me, I won't be able to entirely control them even if they treat me as their god.
Strictly speaking, if you look at it from their perspective, I'm really their god because, to them, I am the one who created everything in the domain.
There were three categories of creation. First, external. Second, indirect. Lastly, direct.
"External" was anything that came from outside the domain. Those things weren't created by me directly or indirectly.
For example, the things that my mother gave me were: genes, the world's origin, elements, and energy beads.
The indirect were the things that I didn't personally create, but instead were created by the domains of natural evolution and natural creation.
For example, nebula, unique bloodline (chapter 9), sub elements that were created due to the battle of the main elements.
The direct were the things I personally created. Even if I use external means to create them, they will still fall into the category of direct.
For example, the plane of life, the two bridges, the underworld, heaven, hell, the plane of reincarnation, and rules
A flash of inspiration appeared in my mind at that moment. If I can't use other souls, why can't I use mine?
If I am using my own soul, I can control them perfectly, but how should I do it? I have no idea.
I recalled billions of pieces of knowledge injected into my brain. After a while, I came up with a feasible plan.
I won't know if it works if I don't try. I knew that removing part of my soul was painful.
However, I will still do it to reach the top and make my mother proud. Everything had a cost in exchange for the chance to rise to the top.
I will experience pain and suffering along that road, but this was just the first step. I still have countless steps to make.
It's now or never. Removing part of a soul was a long process. How about half of it? I don't know how long it will take.
I gritted my teeth before I started splitting my soul in half. The pain, it hurts so much.
The painful sensation wasn't coming from the physical body but directly from the soul.
In just a few seconds after I started, beads of sweat started to appear on my face and body. To me, every second felt like an eternity.
An eternity that is full of pain. I gasped for breath. It was so painful that I couldn't even properly breathe. I want to stop. I want to give up.
However, I want to make my mother proud, which made me continue and not give up. There was a saying that said "no pain, no gain."
So this is what it means. I finally knew what it really meant.
Time passes by like an eternity, second by second, minute by minute. My time perception became dull. All I knew was to continue.
My efforts were paid off until this moment. My soul was finally split in half. I wanted to shout and roar to celebrate my success, but I passed out.
...
As I woke up, the after effects of splitting my soul hit me like a tsunami.
A severe headache directly from the soul, a sensation of weakness and incompleteness.
I took a look at my wrist watch and saw an hour had passed since I lost consciousness, which was equivalent to 10 hours in my domain.
I struggled to get up from the space where my body freely floats around.
Besides me, there was a ball of light that gave me some kind of connection and familiarity. It was the other half of my soul.
I checked myself to see if my memories were missing something. Fortunately, there wasn't any problem.
It didn't get caught up in the process of dividing the soul into two.
Just to be sure, I used some of my divinity to erase my memories that might be recorded on the other half of my soul.
Fortunately, it didn't show any reactions, which means that there weren't any memories recorded in it.
I manipulated it and made it appear above the puddles of blood. The soul was like a magnet; the cells started to fly towards it.
The ball of light was slowly being covered by dense red cells till it was completely covered and its light couldn't even be seen anymore.
The ball of cells was getting bigger and bigger till all the cells that were born before were already included in it.
It looks like the cells weren't enough to form a creature. I took out the world's origin and started igniting it.
Visible to the naked eye, cells started to appear in the barren before they started gathering into the ball of cells, which made it bigger and bigger.
2 inches.
5 Inches.
9 Inches.
It only stopped when it reached a diameter of 1 meter (39 inches). There wasn't any movement on it. It looks like the cells still weren't enough.
I ignited the world's origin frantically as cells and the ball of cells began to spread and increase in size, respectively.
3 meters.
5 meters.
10 meters.