After pondering, Chen Yi raised his eyes.
He didn't know how many days he had stood before the Ancient Chaos.
To humans, it would be neither a short nor a long period of time.
God focused on the Ancient Chaos when suddenly, he saw something overflowing from within it.
It was like a wisp of pale white sphere, escaping from the Ancient Chaos and streaking towards the vast and boundless land.
The whole process was almost unobstructed.
Evidently, ever since the Ancient Chaos had receded to the world's edge, such escapes of pale power had been continuously occurring.
Perhaps, among these thousands of escapes, some pale power had crossed the seas to land and subsequently changed the life form of a certain tribe, leaving traces over time.
"Why escape... Can the Ancient Chaos not contain all of the pale power?"
God analyzed.
Looking at the current situation, yes.
Otherwise, in the previous prehistoric downpour, the Ancient Chaos could have accumulated power to an extent that even he could not stop it now, instead of being easily detonated by him.
"Since your power can transform life,"
Chen Yi spoke to the Ancient Chaos:
"Why shouldn't I make use of your power for my purposes?"
The Ancient Chaos was unresponsive; it possessed neither reason nor wisdom—having only power that it continuously produced but could not control itself—as well as a primitive instinct to seek benefit and avoid harm like a paramecium.
He intended to try to create or transform some sort of life, forming the embryo of a rational being, just as the Ape-man had been to the Logos people.
Afterward, he would have the Logos people lead these early lives, making the Logos people realize that their civilization needed witnesses and that their existence could not be in vain.
"And in the process, as civilization develops, my presence will also become more stable."
Chen Yi had already made arrangements for what would follow.
For this, he had no interest in the multitude of entanglements on the earth.
Whatever entanglements were among the Logos people, as long as they didn't push this newly born civilization into an irreversible doom, he had no need to care.
Then, God Will set his gaze towards the direction of the core of the Ancient Chaos.
Under the layers of darkness, what kind of form did the core area of the Ancient Chaos take?
If he wanted to make use of the power within this Chaos, he had to understand its composition and the rules of its operation.
He took a breath and stepped into the Ancient Chaos; whether it was the dangers of entering or the outcomes after reaching the core area, everything was unknown.
The unknown always brought fear but also curiosity.
God slowly approached the Ancient Chaos, and driven by the Primordial Will, the Ancient Chaos began to retreat, attempting to avoid him, not allowing him close.
However, Chen Yi had enough patience, and his approach was much faster than the retreat of the Ancient Chaos.
A figure radiating light flashed over the water surface; from high above, this point of light was so insignificant, but the heavy darkness refused the light.
As the light drew closer, the Ancient Chaos became increasingly restless, with darkness lashing the seawater, making the entire ocean unsettled.
The violent reaction of the Ancient Chaos was futile.
No matter how much it wanted to repel Chen Yi's approach, the distance between it and him inevitably shrank.
Finally, at a certain moment, Chen Yi came upon the Ancient Chaos.
God lifted His foot, and with a single step, He entered into the layers of darkness.
In an instant, darkness came from all directions, and everything before His eyes suddenly fell from daylight into eternal night, surrounded by a boundless expanse of blackness.
As the light pushed deeper, the surrounding darkness retreated rapidly, as if in fear, or as if it were yielding a path.
God stared directly ahead at the layers upon layers of blackness, continually advancing into the depths.
As He drew closer to the heart of the dark Chaos, God began to see pale forces coalescing into spheres and fleeing outward. Often, before reaching half the distance, they would be engulfed by the black Chaos, compressed, either sent back into the depths or dissipated into nothingness.
God didn't know how long He had walked.
It felt like an instant, and yet as though many years had passed.
God kept His gaze forward, feeling a sudden premonition.
That premonition was like a Trojan horse entering a winding course leading from darkness to light.
Star Space.
After traversing a certain stretch of darkness, a starry sky appeared before His eyes.
Countless stars scattered like fine sand, the Star Dome trembling and bearing down from all directions, its brilliance unimaginable.
The Chaos and blackness that had enveloped Him not long ago, now seemed like mere illusions, replaced at this moment by a nightscape ablaze with competing stars.
Layers of starry heavens twinkled within the night, an infinite tranquility spilling from their luminance. The light from tens of thousands of light-years away, endless dust, twisted like in a Van Gogh painting, spiraling, their bright colors intertwining.
The sight before His eyes seemed like a majestic miniature universe.
Chen Yi looked on in astonishment, never having imagined such a scene within the Ancient Chaos.
"This seems like a domain where celestial bodies congregate."
Here, endless proliferation, savage growth, and great beings... Everything with vitality and the desire to survive is unwelcome.
Only stillness, obliteration, emptiness; only the radiance cast by countless celestial bodies is the eternal resident of this place.
Chen Yi scanned the surroundings, and in a daze, He had already stepped into the brilliance of the stars.
He tried to approach these shining stars.
The arrival of an outsider did not stir much disturbance in the vast Celestial Kingdom. The stars moved in their regular, slow patterns, seeming less sensitive to the enveloping Ancient Chaos, and lacking the instinct for profit and avoidance of harm.
As Chen Yi drew closer to a star, He saw that its emitted brilliance initially showed another color. As time passed, that color slowly faded, finally becoming pale.
God observed other stars; the brilliance of each was distinct. Their radiance started as a riot of color but faded to pale as time went on, as if they were transforming into a unified form.
Beyond that, God discerned that each kind of brilliance symbolized different forces, such as red light containing extreme heat, while light blue radiated coldness.
"No wonder that upon reaching the outside world, pale forces pool into rain, affording life various forms of transformation."
Chen Yi watched as the radiance continually escaped into the space beyond the stars. Observing carefully, He startlingly realized that the deeper into the starry sky, the more dazzling the brilliance.
And at the very heart of the starry sky, emanating brilliance was doubtlessly the most resplendent, the pale force it turned into after fading was also the most immense.
God made a decision; He would head toward the deepest part of the starry sky.
At the moment of this decision, it was as if the entire starry space had listened to His will.
The stars slowly parted to either side...
As if the cosmos itself slowly opened its fathomless eyes.