Chapter 2213 - 2206: Am I Awesome or What?

"What is this place?"

In a daze, Zhang Menglong felt his consciousness drifting to an ethereal place, a time far removed from now, and he vaguely guessed that this might be the most primitive essence of a world.

This was an exceedingly ordinary-looking person, so much so that Zhang Menglong found it difficult to describe its ordinariness with a single word. He stood on a barren land, sensing that something was missing from this world.

Then, he picked up a handful of yellow earth from the ground and molded it into a shape similar to his own.

"My God, Nuwa?" Zhang Menglong immediately thought of the Huaxia legend of Nuwa creating people, which was exactly akin to the scene before his eyes!

However, the clay figure did not immediately possess life; the person gently scored his wrist with his finger, releasing a drop of golden blood that fell onto the earthen figure.

At that moment, the earthen figure suddenly came to life!

He slowly stood up and, with an unfamiliar yet curious gaze, surveyed this world and then looked up at the being who had created him.

Their mouths moved slowly, seemingly engaged in communication, but Zhang Menglong couldn’t comprehend the content of their exchange; it was a language utterly beyond his understanding.

After some unintelligible chatter, the life creator molded and animated a second lump of clay in the same manner.

"This time, is he making a woman?" Zhang Menglong speculated. The first person he saw seemed like a creator, first creating a man and then a woman. At the moment of the woman’s birth, the man displayed an expression of extreme joy, even kneeling and desperately kowtowing, as though declaring his sincere devotion.

The man and woman quickly left the creator, and time seemed to fast-forward; they began mating and reproducing, their population growing rapidly, gradually establishing a civilization.

Watching this scene, Zhang Menglong suddenly pondered: If everything before him truly represents the essence and history of the world, why does it so closely resemble human myth? Could it merely be a coincidence?

The river of time continued to flow; the civilization created by the creator grew significantly, building temples and altars in his honor, becoming his devout followers. The creator seemingly had an infinite lifespan, persisting timelessly as generations came and went!

"Hmm? Why did they suddenly start fighting?" Without knowing which era history had reached, the creator suddenly began a war with the civilization he had created, their conflict shattering the sky and cracking the earth.

The creator’s power was incredible, yet he struggled against the immense civilization, ultimately slaughtering his own creations and abandoning his own being in a state nearing death.

As he lay dying, he once again picked up a handful of yellow earth; this time, he took a drop of his own blood and a drop of the blood from his created humans. The two drops merged, prompting a strange chemical reaction.

This time, the humans he created were far weaker yet marked by purity, lacking ambition and desire. The creator showed a satisfied expression, then slowly closed his eyes, his body gradually transforming into mountains, rivers, and merging with the land.

...

Zhang Menglong abruptly awakened from slumber, unaware of how long he had been asleep, but feeling as though he had watched a lengthy film.

He didn’t understand why he saw these things, but he speculated that what he saw was definitely related to those two golden figures, perhaps representing the creator and his first batch of life!

Thinking this, Zhang Menglong felt his conjecture very reasonable.

The creator created those humans, but they ultimately betrayed him; such hatred is indeed irreconcilable.

Could it be the Will of the Soul in this space was left by the creator, and the soul within his own body and the luminous giant he saw were the first humans created by the creator... Ancient Humans...

Due to betrayal, the creator subsequently created a second batch of humans, this batch being New Humans.

Zhang Menglong’s speculation gradually formed a closed loop, revealing he had uncovered a semblance of the world’s essence.

Yet he still did not know why the Ancient Humans betrayed the creator.

It was an era entirely unfamiliar to him, not belonging to him; such gratuitous contemplation offers almost no conclusion.

However, at this moment, Zhang Menglong seemed able to sense his own body and soul.

"Why so weak?" Zhang Menglong was startled by the fragility of his Soul Power.

In his expectations, his soul, having absorbed the Soul Power of the two golden figures, should undergo a transformation; yet it seemed even weaker than before arriving in the Supreme World, akin to a newborn infant.

Zhang Menglong slowly stood, feeling his body slightly stiff and fatigued. If he had merely dozed off, he shouldn’t feel this way; hence, his slumber must have lasted quite a long time.

He swallowed a few elixirs, causing his strength to recover slightly.

Seeing Zhang Menglong rise from the ground, the Realm Breakers hiding under the light of the Ancient Tower looked at him like they had seen a ghost.

They naturally had noticed the young man earlier, wielding a dazzlingly radiant sword amid a swarm of bats, obviously a Divine Weapon intended for combating life forms of the soul, with some even coveting it.

But hadn’t he fallen to the ground? They thought Zhang Menglong’s soul was injured, his demise only a matter of time, and some even suggested seizing his weapon to lessen their burden.

Yet for reasons unknown, during Zhang Menglong’s unconsciousness, his body was surrounded by that group of bats, preventing anyone from approaching, thus abandoning the idea.

Unexpectedly, after nearly half a year of unconsciousness, he awakened again!

As Zhang Menglong stood, the surrounding bats simultaneously roused from slumber; when Zhang Menglong attempted to attack them, a bat, like a compliant butterfly, landed gently on his shoulder, even fawningly rubbing against him.

Surprisingly, Zhang Menglong faintly felt a sense of goodwill and closeness from them!

"What is going on?" Zhang Menglong was also surprised; had absorbing the Soul Power somewhat imparted the essence of the bats to his own soul, making them see him as kin?

"Look, those bats aren’t attacking him!" The Realm Breakers exclaimed, pointing at Zhang Menglong in astonishment.

"Um..." Zhang Menglong glanced at them and cheekily remarked, "Buddies, aren’t I awesome?"