I Am Heaven

The year 2021.

A fine day in early April.

A man was on his way home from work when a truck hit him out of nowhere.

He was crossing the street when he saw the sudden appearance of a truck that seems like about to lose control and rapidly shortened its distance from him.

When the truck hits him, his body bounced away and hit the pavement.

The man was in a daze when it happened. His mind didn't even have time to register the pain of being hit by a truck.

Even when he was slowly losing consciousness, the man still felt like it was just a dream.

When the man was about to lose consciousness completely, he felt like he saw a light that shines on him.

There was something that feels like the light was reaching out to him to approach the light. So he did and moves toward the light.

As he was getting covered by this overwhelmingly gentle light, the man felt warmth all over his body, or perhaps all over his soul. This made the man enters a state similar to enlightenment but it was his life that he started to think of.

Slowly, memories of the past washed through his mind.

The memories began when he, Wang Tian, was just a baby who grew up to become a teenage boy, then an adult until finally died from being hit by a truck.

And as if to remind him of all the nice things in his life, Wang Tian saw the scenes in his memories and was reminded of the time when he was reading novels about cultivators, and immortals, while thinking about how great would it be if those worlds exist.

He would love to try living in that kind of world.

A Cultivation world.

Something happened when his thoughts reach that part. The memories stopped like it was on pause.

The warm light that surrounded his soul exploded in various colors while Wang Tian was at the center of them all.

In this state, Wang Tian slowly feels like these various colors of light were an extension of him. Like a body part. It was a strange experience to say the less.

As Wang Tian was feeling out these newfound feelings, at the outermost part of these lights where he could sense the end of it, a transparent sphere formed, like a barrier. The sphere was enclosing the rays of light from all directions. Wang Tian could feel it encapsulating him.

Suddenly, a thought formed in his mind.

World Creation. Create a world.

And as if to respond to these thoughts, the rays of light moved across each other, they gathered in some places and started transforming into other physical matter.

The first to materialize was a huge continent.

A large amount of soil appeared, and greenery grows from the soil. Some green turns into trees and formed a forest, and some turns into flowers and weeds of all kinds.

In some places, the soils gathered and mountain peaks rose from the gathering of the soils.

Bodies of water also appeared around the continent.

After a while, everything came to a standstill and a voice echoed throughout the newly formed continent.

"Heaven."

The voice seemed to penetrate every inch of the continent. Marking the continent as Heaven. After that, the continent moved upwards. It went higher near the edge of the sphere before it stops.

Meanwhile, a huge yellow star materializes.

"The Sun."

The Sun also went near the sphere. But instead of stopping, it moves along and circles around the sphere.

"The Moon."

Not long after the Sun appeared, the Moon materializes and follows along the Sun's trajectory but didn't go near the Sun. The Moon maintained a distance far from the Sun.

"Three Thousand Realms."

After Wang Tian said the word, a barrier appeared in the area below Heaven and three enormous thick bubbles appeared near the barrier, and countless other smaller bubbles scattered under the three bubbles. Inside each bubble, heaven and earth were materializing. Every bubble was a world of its own.

After the realm bubbles appeared, they took a huge section in the middle part of the sphere.

"Endless Realm."

Another barrier appeared and separated the bubbles from the Three Thousand Realms and the Endless Realm.

Just below the barrier, an endless amount of bubbles, smaller than the bubbles from the Three Thousand Realms, materialize and filled the last empty section of the sphere. These new bubbles look fragile, just a touch and they could pop away from existence. Similarly, heaven and earth formed inside these new bubbles.

After it was done, Wang Tian willed for the realm bubbles to not move and anchor themselves in place.

"Life."

When he was about to watch the process, he suddenly felt tired and lightheaded. He went back to the continent immediately. When he looked at the continent, something seems to enter his mind.

[I Am Heaven.]

After he said that, he lost consciousness.

...

An unknown amount of time passed.

Heaven's consciousness was stirred and he woke up.

Countless voices echoed in his mind. It was akin to a buzzing noise since so many of them were there.

When Heaven was fully awake, he went to see the other realms.

Living beings had developed in every realm. To the point where each realm was almost filled to the brim. The realms were crowded.

Heaven frowned.

Things weren't supposed to be like this.

Heaven gathered every strength he had regained from when he was in slumber.

[Death.]

Heaven had expected to go back to slumber when a vast amount of energy suddenly appeared from each realm and flows to him.

Filled with newfound strength, Heaven went to check each realm.

It was chaos everywhere.

Every living being who had lived for thousands of years died suddenly. The only ones left are those who were below one hundred years old. Even those who were almost a hundred years old had aged. They had lost their vitality.

Heaven watches as each realm was enveloped in chaos.

After a while, he went back to the continent.

Different from the other realms, the continent wasn't crowded. There were only a handful of creatures in it and they were living in their separate domain. Not interfering with each other.

Nothing interesting could be seen on the continent, Heaven could only go to the other realms and watch the action there.

And so he did.

He went to see the realms one after another.

They were all still in chaos from the death of so many living beings. Heaven just watched and moved on to another realm, but everything is just the same.

Hundreds of years passed.

Heaven had long stopped looking at every realm. He just went back to the continent and looked at the continent's creatures in a daze.

Suddenly, focus returned and Heaven went to look inside every realm.

It was different from hundreds of years ago.

The living beings now lived in a new era. A new prospering era.

Like the previous time, Heaven only watches as the living beings live their lives. Then he went back to the continent and slumbered, again. Just before he went to slumber, Heaven feels like he forgot something.

More time passes unknowingly when he was in slumber.

One day, Heaven jolted awake as if he remembered something.

He immediately went to look at the living beings in every realm.

After scanning every living being he finds suitable, he gave them something.

Something that he had missed.