Yuan Hao continued his actions, pointing his finger towards the sea to the west of the Tianyuan Continent. The seabed trembled, and countless islands began to appear densely packed together.
Looking at the dense archipelago on the western sea of Tianyuan Continent, Yuan Hao nodded in satisfaction. He pointed his finger across the ocean around Tianyuan Continent, and with each point, an island was created.
Subsequently, Yuan Hao created a vast, continuous glacier on the sea north of the Tianyuan Continent, far from the mainland. The further north one goes, the lower the temperature becomes; on the northernmost ice plains, there are even icy winds that can freeze one's soul year-round.
On the southern ocean of the Tianyuan Continent, Yuanhao built a landmass formed from cooled magma. This landmass is covered with volcanoes, and flowing magma is everywhere; volcanic eruptions can occur at any time.
As for the eastern part of Tianyuan Continent, Yuanhao didn't change much; it was just a boundless ocean with a few scattered, super-large islands.
Observing the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm from the void, one would discover a colossal continent situated on an endless ocean. The sun, moon, and stars revolve around it, and it possesses mountains, rivers, and the four seasons.
Perhaps, the only thing missing is that little bit of vitality!
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Chapter Four: The Creation of Life
"Next, I should inscribe the laws I have comprehended into the core of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm." After saying that, Yuan Hao flashed into the Heavenly Dao Space.
After entering the Heavenly Dao Space, Yuan Hao sat cross-legged above the now significantly shrunken lake of Origin Energy. Strange fluctuations emanated from Yuan Hao, as he merged the laws he had comprehended with those of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm.
The Heavenly Dao Divine Wheel behind Yuan Hao's head began to slowly rotate, its radiance growing ever more dazzling. Within the Heavenly Dao Space, chains of rules began to emerge, continuing to thicken and enlarge.
"It has reached its limit; the laws can no longer merge. Before a world advances to the Lesser Thousand Worlds, there are no bottlenecks. Now, the laws of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm should have reached the limit that the Lesser Thousand Worlds can bear."
Yuan Hao stood within the Heavenly Dao space, clad in a golden divine robe, a six-pointed divine wheel hovering behind his head. All living beings and spirits appeared around him, praying and kneeling before him, an unparalleled majesty emanating from him. Yuan Hao's expression was solemn; through his identity as the Heavenly Dao, he communicated with a supreme consciousness.
"The Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm has been upgraded to a plane today! May the Great Dao bear witness!"
"allow!"
A majestic voice resounded in Yuan Hao's mind: the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm has advanced.
At the same time, boundless void power surged towards the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm. This enormous amount of void power, however, caused no damage to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm whatsoever, and was quickly converted into source power.
The source energy lake within the Heavenly Dao Space began to boil, the barrier of the Heavenly Dao Space began to expand, and the growth rate of the World Tree within it also began to accelerate. After the void power outside the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm stopped flowing into the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm, the volume of the Heavenly Dao Space had expanded dozens of times.
Beyond the Heavenly Dao Space, the Tianyuan Continent has also expanded to some extent. Above the East Sea, several large islands have expanded and connected, forming a massive island resembling a small continent. Meanwhile, within the starry sky of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, some of the illusory stars have begun to solidify into celestial bodies.
Within the Heavenly Dao Space, Yuan Hao spoke again: "The Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm has been upgraded to a world today! May the Great Dao bear witness!"
"Granted!" the authoritative voice replied.
Once again, endless void power surged towards the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, this time on a scale even greater than before. The world barrier of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm began to expand outwards, until it thinned and became somewhat unstable, at which point it began to strengthen the world barrier and cease its expansion.
Within the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, the area of the Tianyuan Continent has expanded considerably once again. Combined with these two expansions, the Tianyuan Continent's area has increased at least several times, and the Origin Mountain Range at its center has become even more majestic and expansive.
The countless stars began to move towards the edge of the starry sky, slowly filling the vast void created by the expansion of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm. More than 108,000 stars were evenly distributed across the starry sky, revolving according to specific orbits.
The entire Zhou Tian Star Array has now been successfully formed; they are now all true primordial stars, no longer mere illusions. Beside each primordial star, countless tiny points of light revolve around them—the countless stars born from the Zhou Tian Star Array. Currently, they are only illusions, but as they assist the Zhou Tian Star Array in its operation, absorbing a certain amount of void power and converting it into source energy, they will slowly become the true countless stars in the sky.
In the Heavenly Dao Space, Yuan Hao looked at the current Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm and felt a sense of pride. All of this was created by him.
"After the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm was upgraded to a minor world, not only was the source power not consumed, but it also increased significantly. What an unexpected surprise!"
"Next comes the most important step: creating life. After creating life, it will take a long time for them to grow, so that the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm can evolve into a Lesser Thousand World."
When Yuan Hao left the Heavenly Dao Space, he also took a large handful of leaves from the World Tree. The immense life force on the World Tree greatly aids in the creation of life.
Yuan Hao began to ponder over the sky above the Tianyuan Continent what kind of beings he should create.
"I want to create more ethnic groups, so that no one group can dominate. This way, the different groups can compete with each other and grow together, which can quickly drive the world's evolution."
"Let's start with plants!"
Yuan Hao took out several leaves from the World Tree, which transformed into clusters of green light in his hands. With a wave of his hand towards the Tianyuan Continent below, the green light clusters shattered into countless specks of light, drifting towards the Tianyuan Continent and the surrounding oceans.
As soon as the green light spots touched the ground, they merged into it, and after a short while, a small patch of emerald green grass sprouted from the ground. After all the light spots had merged into the Tianyuan Continent, the originally barren land of the Tianyuan Continent was slowly covered with a touch of green.
In the ocean, as the green light spots transformed from the leaves of the World Tree merged with the sea, seaweed began to grow, and various kinds of algae appeared on the surface. Single-celled organisms also appeared in the sea at the same time, and they began to evolve rapidly, as if they had been put on fast-forward.
Various multicellular organisms and mollusks began to appear in the ocean, and they all began to evolve rapidly after their appearance.
Following the grass, various plants, including trees, and microorganisms gradually appeared on land.
These microorganisms, like the creatures in the ocean, began to evolve rapidly. Insects slowly appeared, and then some reptiles that fed on insects were born. As the number of reptiles increased and their size grew, mammals, at the top of the food chain, began to appear one after another. It wasn't until a certain point, with the appearance of the first animal to crawl onto land—a giant sea turtle several meters long—that the rate of evolution of life in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm returned to normal.
"My World Tree was separated from a World Tree that had reached its peak, and it contains the complete genes of countless powerful beings. As it grows, this information will be unlocked step by step. Let's create the few intelligent life forms that have already been unlocked first. The source power generated by intelligent life from birth to death is much greater than that of these beasts. The stronger the being, the more it generates."
"Let me think about it. Let's create humans first!"
After speaking, Yuan Hao teleported to the eastern part of the Tianyuan Continent. In the south of the eastern continent, near the Origin Mountains, Yuan Hao found a valley.
The valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one exit on the east side, which is encircled by a small river. On the opposite bank of the river lies a vast plain.
This is the territory that Yuanhao specially chose for the soon-to-be-born human race. Here, they can obtain water and enough food, and there will be no large beasts to threaten the survival of the newborn human race.
Yuan Hao took out a few drops of source energy and a few leaves from the World Tree, and divided them into tens of thousands of equal parts. They were combined in pairs to evolve into human bodies, with half male and half female.
Yuan Hao took out two more World Tree leaves and two drops of Source Power, merging them together to form a male and a female human.
The two newborns were vastly different from their kin; their appearances were the best among all humans, and they opened their eyes immediately upon birth. They knelt before Yuan Hao, their faces filled with terror, no longer daring to gaze upon this deity whose face was obscured, a golden divine wheel appearing behind his head, and around him, countless beings worshipping him.
With a wave of his hand, Yuan Hao caused the tens of thousands of humans who had been born earlier to open their eyes and kneel down before him. Yuan Hao said to the man and woman before him, "You are the elder brother, named Fuxi, and you are the younger sister, named Nuwa. You are the first leaders of the human race. Do you understand?" After glancing at Fuxi and Nuwa, who were nodding frantically, Yuan Hao turned and left.
Fuxi and Nuwa were created by Yuanhao with great care, for which he even spent two drops of source power and two leaves from the World Tree. Although their strength may not be very great due to the limitations of their world level, their potential is limitless.
Fuxi and Nuwa were born with great wisdom. After Yuanhao left, they first gathered the human race to build a vaguely shaped statue of him, and then led the human race to worship it every day.
After the statues were built, Fuxi taught people to hunt and swim, thus obtaining abundant food. Nuwa then taught the human race to make clothes from leaves and animal skins for protection, and to build houses from stones and trees for habitation.