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Just as the disaster ended, a new event unfolded.
The scattered dust and debris of the previous fallen world started to coalesce at one point.
It was rather a slow process that seemed to be never-ending. But as time went by, more and more pieces were attracted towards the other material that was forming what seemed to be an orange crystalline shiny stone.
Two hundred thousand years later, everything had coalesced into a small fist-sized crystal.
'Now what?'
All these baffled Ye Chen who had been levitating near it as he watched the whole process be unveiled right from the start.
With no understanding of what was happening, he could only focus his mind on it and watch what would happen next.
A moment later, he could feel a pulse being generated from the crystal. Glowing strange symbols surrounded it before he felt more heat emanating from it, without a doubt, it was going to explode.
'No, let me make a run first!'
He made up his mind to move but he was too late to execute this because just then, he felt a slight tremor in the void before a surge of powerful energy ripples wash over him. A fire raged from the point of explosion before more streams of energy moved outwards at light speed.
It took another hundred years for the energy to dissipate.
Then came the creation process. Small wisps of dust started to coalesce together to form spherical shapes.
After countless years, skeletons of planetary bodies and star systems could be seen clearly. Then came the universe at once. Stars were shining once again.
Planets had new forms of life and other activities going on there.
'So, this is how creation came to be!' He mused over the idea of seeing how the world was created but then again, a voice interrupted him.
"You are as foolish as always! Do you think creation is that simple? Since when did you grow muddleheaded, that was Origin creation. The birth of Origin power."
"You caused all these remember...."
The voice said before trailing off again as fast as it had come.
'Strange! Who is this guy that always ridicules me?'
The guy was accusing him of all these right from the start.
Did he offend him in someway in his previous life or what.
And what was this creation thing about. He did not understand all that was happening around him.
Levitating in the void for countless years, witnessing all the cataclysm that drowned the whole universe, then a strange vice ridiculing him all the time.
And lastly the creation process. All these were just unfathomable as he did not even decipher what they had hidden inside themselves.
Was it some cryptic message left behind or this was the way of the Universe showing him some love and care by showing him this new released galactic Sci-fi movie?
But all those thoughts amounted to nothing as he levitated there stuck in the same position.
Eons passed as he watched civilizations advance and be vanquished by calamities then rise again. A loop of events that occurred across the whole Universe.
Advancements to further spaces and other galaxies. Wars at galactic levels involving many Galaxies.
End of life of stars and their aftereffects.
He was witnessing all this like a film in front of him playing at a fast pace.
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Then came the cataclysm again.
A new era of destruction had come again.
Fire rained down from the space higher above him. The searing heat almost melted him to bones but he did not feel all of this at all.
Space around coiled and distorted as the fire melted it step by step.
Stars were swallowed by the raging flames one by one.
Planets were swallowed to oblivion, erased from existence.
After thousands of years, the universe had become a void once again.
Only him and the eerie silence were the remaining presence of a once thriving universe.
The raging fire came towards him like the sand had and swallowed him whole.
His flesh melted under the heavy fire leaving him with bones only. He had become a skeletal figure.
The swirling fire calmed down when it had finally made it's way to the Origin Core.
The heat dissipated after integration and fusion of the fire and sand elements.
His skin regenerated with his robes once again as he watched all that happened to him in a strange manner.
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'That was really strange, how come am not burned again?'
"Chenzi you old bastard, how could you take the True fire for yourself! Don't you want others to have light in the coming years? You really baffle me every time!"
'Who the hell is this Chenzi guy?'
Ye Chen wanted to ask but he lost control of his body in a while.
His eyes turned bloodshot and bulged.
"Who is the old thing here. This True fire was mine until you stole it from me, how dare you accuse me of that. HEHEHE! Just wait and see when I make my comeback, I will chop each of you to pieces, one by one. Chop chop."
Chenzi or rather 'Ye Chen' said with an aggrieved tone as he demonstrated the notion of chopping something with his hands.
"Don' be a fool Chenzi! They know that you have hidden yourself in the mortal realm, they will come for you and in just ten years or so, you will be doomed I say. You rather come with me and hide in my hideout for some time, we are friends after all..." The other voice sounded very sincere.
But Chenzi still refused the offer as he sneered over it.
"How shameless, tsk. Weren't you the one who betrayed me by using your sister to seduce me. Your whole family is rotten expect Chu Chu and yet you took her away from me. You think I've forgotten all this even after you sealed my memories, hmph. Am not retarded as you might think. You can't cross over the mortal realm and now you want me to come with you so that you can finish what was unfinished. Good because in ten years, am sending him to you. And that will be the start of your nightmare, tell those oldie fogies and their alliance that am coming back and soon, you shall be the ones crying, hehehe!"
He went on and on with an aggrieved tone as if the way they had hurt him was too much to handle.
The voice left after this and then Ye Chen was able to wake up again.
He had no idea or recollection of what had just happened here.
It was like his mind was erased for a while.