Chapter 121: Creation of Heaven and Earth, Destruction of the Universe

Wang Qiutong is definitely no ordinary woman.

She hides her true self well. Especially her eyes—they seem to peer straight into the human heart, giving Jiang Ming a sense that he has nowhere to hide.

With a flash of light, Jiang Ming appeared on the battle arena.

It was still the first round. He was facing Ran Xin, who was ranked nineteenth.

"Classmate Jiang!" Ran Xin cupped her hands with a bright, friendly smile, acting very courteous.

She was petite and delicate, with a sweet face that, with just a little bit of grooming, made her look like an incredibly exquisite sprite. One couldn't help but feel fond of her at first sight, yearning to hold her close and cherish her.

"Hello, Classmate Ran!" Jiang Ming greeted her in return.

She did not choose a weapon. He did not either.

Between them stood a barrier, blocking them for thirty seconds—a buffer period.

"First in the preliminary trials, first in the provincial exams, first on the Heavenly Ladder—Classmate Jiang, you have always been my idol. Could we exchange contact information?" Ran Xin blinked her large eyes, looking as if she were making a tiny plea that no one could bear to refuse.

"Of course, after all, we are about to become classmates!" Jiang Ming nodded.

Following this, the two exchanged contact information through telepathic transmission.

Ran Xin was delighted. She looked at Jiang Ming and said, "Classmate Jiang, you should know about my methods; they are very strong, yet also very weak. You are first on the Heavenly Ladder with an incredibly strong will, so I certainly cannot overcome you. Would you like to enter my world and experience it for yourself?"

She blinked her eyes again and again, looking like a pure little white rabbit opening its door to invite in the big bad wolf.

Jiang Ming’s gaze was deep, but he let out a cold snort in his heart: *As expected, there isn't a single pushover among those who can make it this far. Looking pure and innocent, she is actually a man-eating little fox.*

Enter her world?

Isn't that just asking him to walk straight into the tiger's den?

She even had to butter him up first. She claimed to be a fan. She claimed to be no match for him. She even put on a charming smile.

*What a cunning little vixen; she deserves a spanking.*

"Little succubus!" Qin Zhiyan snorted softly from the spectator stands.

"She really is a little succubus!" Lan Xin covered her mouth and laughed, then poked Long Aotian. "Tell me, do you think Brother Jiang will be seduced?"

"Brother Long certainly would be, but it's hard to say for Brother Jiang," Qiang Jiu interjected.

"Hmm, that’s a fair point!" Lan Xin agreed deeply.

"Why does no one believe in my character? Am I the type of person who can't walk straight once I see a beautiful woman?" Long Aotian scoffed, though he rubbed his chin, a strange glint flickering in his eyes.

*If it were me, could I resist?*

*Certainly!*

*After all, this is the entire Federation's martial arts arena; I can still distinguish what is important.*

"Brother Jiang definitely will!" Qin Zhiyan said softly.

"How so?" Lan Xin asked, confused. Long Aotian and Qiang Jiu also looked over.

"Brother Jiang has extraordinary strength and a will like iron. He loves to explore unknown powers. When he encounters such a magical ability as Ran Xin's, he will naturally want to try it out," Qin Zhiyan explained. "Brother Jiang appears easy-going, but he is proud to the bone. Nine times out of ten, he doesn't take Ran Xin seriously, so he will naturally go along with the flow to take the opportunity to comprehend the essence of her power."

"That is him being bold because of his high level of skill, but it is also possible he could capsize in the gutter!" Lan Xin frowned. "This concerns the final ranking of the grand exam. He should face every opponent with all his might; surely Brother Jiang understands the stakes!"

"Forget about the stakes, he has already fallen under her pomegranate skirt!" Long Aotian suddenly said.

Everyone looked over.

On the battle arena:

"Of course!" Jiang Ming replied with a smile. "How could I refuse an invitation from Classmate Ran?"

Ran Xin’s breath hitched, and her gaze suddenly brightened for a split second. A strange power rippled out, as if traversing through space and time, instantly reaching the depths of Jiang Ming’s mind.

It was shadowless and formless, impossible to guard against—even more eerie than soul power.

His survival instincts urged him to suppress this power, but Jiang Ming forced himself to hold back. This power wasn't as strong as he had imagined; he could suppress it.

Yet he did not move. The next moment, his consciousness plummeted, falling into endless darkness.

He could not sense up or down, north or south. There was only darkness around him. There was not a single glimmer of light, nor any sound; it was absolute, deathly silence.

Jiang Ming guarded his heart and mind, remaining unmoved. He didn't believe Ran Xin would stay hidden forever.

Just then, a soft light appeared above him. He looked up, feeling a slight sense of awe. A crescent moon had emerged, casting silver light that illuminated the surrounding darkness. Sitting at the very center of the moon, dangling her fair, slender legs, was none other than Ran Xin.

This entrance was truly stunning.

"Beyond the heart, there is nothing; within the heart, a universe!" Ran Xin’s voice was melodic. As she spoke, she descended in front of Jiang Ming.

The smile on her small face was exceptionally beautiful.

"Classmate Jiang, have you never heard this saying?" Ran Xin waved her hand, and the surrounding environment changed rapidly.

High mountains rose from the ground, transforming into dragon-like shapes that stretched into the distance. The earth sank, turning into lakes. Flowers, grass, and trees grew at a frantic pace.

Jiang Ming happened to be on a small island in the middle of a lake, standing inside a pavilion. Before him, the lake water rippled, lotus leaves swayed, and fish leaped from the surface, splashing in circles.

The scene was truly miraculous.

"Never heard of it!" Jiang Ming shook his head and sat down.

A pot of tea appeared on the table in front of him, curling with fragrant steam. He didn't stand on ceremony, picking up a cup and pouring himself a drink. He lifted it and took a light sniff, his eyes brightening. "Good tea!"

"Of course it's good tea!" Ran Xin moved and sat opposite him. "I really don't know if you are ignorant or just bold because of your skill. I invited you here, and you actually came. Classmate Jiang, I don't believe you didn't see through my little tricks!"

"What if I did, and what if I didn't? As the saying goes, 'Better to die under the peony flower, even as a ghost, one remains romantic.'" Jiang Ming poured her a cup as well. "How could I refuse a beauty's invitation?"

"Give it a rest!" Ran Xin curled her lips. "Someone like you is the proudest of them all. You’ve been through secret realms; what haven't you seen or experienced? How could you be easily seduced! I bet you just wanted to see what my power of the heart was about, right?"

"Mhm," Jiang Ming nodded.

"You really are confident!" Ran Xin frowned slightly. "Do you know that no one I have ever pulled into my heart realm has ever been able to break out? Most of them knew a little about me, so they were on guard and resisted the moment I attacked. If they blocked it, I found it hard to win; if they couldn't, it became my domain."

"That’s because they hadn't met me," Jiang Ming said, twirling his teacup. He looked around, letting his consciousness blend into this world—a world that was illusory yet felt incredibly real. He continued, "Since I entered your heart realm with such sincerity, could you tell me what the power of the heart is? How does it differ from telekinesis and soul power?"

"Entered my heart realm?" Ran Xin snorted. "Classmate Jiang, you are very dishonest!"

She explained: "The soul is the root, and telekinesis is the manifestation. Soul power and telekinesis can be considered two sides of the same coin. Soul power is internal, ethereal, and profound; telekinesis is external, practical, and used to manipulate all things. They can also be seen as Yin and Yang—soul power is Yin, telekinesis is Yang. The essence is the same, but the effects are not."

"As for the power of the heart?" Ran Xin tilted her little head, hesitating. "This is my innate ability. I know how it works, but not why. I treat it as a manifestation of the power of the will. It is not spirit, nor soul power, but it is more illusory and yet infinitely profound. Honestly, I don't even know if it is a type of soul power."

"Even you don't know?" Jiang Ming looked at her with a strange expression.

"Mhm," Ran Xin said helplessly. "I cultivate the soul as well. In my sea of consciousness, I can evolve many things, and even materialize them to change reality, but in the way of illusion, it is far from comparable to the power of the heart!"

"You've noticed it, haven't you? Here, I can open up worlds and create all things, even living beings!"

"I can even evolve a universe!"

"And it is incredibly real!"

"How incredible!"

"It is entirely idealistic—with a single thought, I can change the world and create a universe!"

"How magical!"

"Here, I am the Creator; I am the Master!"

"And here, I can change time!"

"A single instant outside is ten thousand years in here."

"It's just that with my ability, I can't maintain it for too long."

Ran Xin did not hide anything and revealed all the characteristics of the power of the heart.

"That is truly magical!" Jiang Ming’s heart stirred, and he couldn't help but ask, "Can you form a projection of your heart in the outside world to observe everything around you?"

"I can!" Ran Xin’s expression became strange. "Centered on me, I can project everything around me, but it’s in black and white, a total manifestation of the heart. No color, no sound, just like a three-dimensional black-and-white photograph. Unless one cultivates the soul path and has a powerful will, people outside cannot sense it at all."

"In the outside world, is there another realm of the heart? Can you walk through it like a parallel world?" Jiang Ming asked again.

"No!" Ran Xin was even more curious. "However, I vaguely feel there is a membrane between heaven and earth, but I cannot explore it."

"Classmate Jiang, how do you know all this?"

"The way of the heart is extremely rare!"

"I doubt there is a second one in the entire Federation to this day!"

She was genuinely curious.

"I deduced it based on what you said!" Jiang Ming stood up, raised his hand, and grasped the air, seemingly feeling the changes in the power here.

"Deduction? Bullshit!" Ran Xin snorted.

She stood up, clapped her hands, and laughed, "Classmate Jiang, the tea has been drunk, it’s time for a match. Let me see what you have that makes you so confident to willingly come into my sea of the heart."

As her voice fell, her figure disappeared without a trace.

The pavilion vanished as well.

The lake water turned into an abyss, causing Jiang Ming to fall involuntarily.

Above him, a great sun appeared, falling rapidly.

Below was the abyss; above was the falling sun.

The scene was terrifying, causing a sense of despair to arise in one's heart involuntarily.

Yet Jiang Ming had a strange feeling—wasn't this the exact scene that appeared on the Heavenly Ladder?

His body shook slightly, stabilizing itself. Powerful energy erupted, and he reached out a hand; his internal energy condensed into a long sword, extending rapidly. He paused slightly, feeling an incredibly powerful binding force. It seemed like a restriction of the rules, or the pressure of heaven and earth.

"Beyond the heart, there is nothing!"

"Within the heart, a universe!"

"Here, you are the Master!"

"But I can transcend!"

"Power amplification—ten thousand times!"

"Open for me!"

Jiang Ming roared, and the sword in his hand suddenly extended, reaching ten thousand miles away. With a single strike, the terrifying power split the heaven and earth in two, and even the sun was cleaved in half.

"The larger the heart, the greater the power, is that right?" he asked toward the firmament.

"Correct!" When Ran Xin’s voice sounded, a face as massive as a galaxy appeared in the sky.

It was none other than her.

Her eyes, turned into the sun and moon, stared at Jiang Ming with a strange look. "Many candidates have realized this, but almost no one could break the suppression and the rules here. But you, you did it with ease."

"I have broken the rules of two secret realm worlds!" Jiang Ming said. "How is a secret realm world any different from here? For me, this is even more advantageous because my heart is strong enough!"

"Is that so? The universe is collapsing; be buried with the entire universe!" As Ran Xin’s voice fell, endless galaxies evolved overhead, then exploded one after another, and an annihilation storm swept in.

The terrifying power fluctuations shook his mind.

*Using a magnificent scene to shake my mind? Once the mind is shaken, the power will be lost, and then I will be buried!* Jiang Ming realized her intention immediately.

It was clear that she was serious; she had even unleashed a lethal blow from the start.

"The universe returns to ruins, the Yellow Springs emerge. Jiang Ming, I will cast you into the eighteenth level of hell!"

Ran Xin attacked again.

Layers of space appeared in the dark depths below, evolving into countless vengeful spirits and ghosts, along with all sorts of terrifying punishments. At the same time, an endless suction force tried to drag him in.

Hell beneath his feet, the collapsing universe above.

Even if he knew it was fake, if he couldn't resist, he would still be buried.

"The heart, the heart—it truly is incredibly profound!"

"Then..."

"If your universe collapses!"

"I shall create heaven and earth!"

"Grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow!"

Jiang Ming’s heart radiated brilliant light; his infinite self-confidence allowed him to open heaven and earth and create a universe.

He grew rapidly in height. In the blink of an eye, he was ten thousand feet tall, but he didn't stop.

Jiang Ming felt that as his own power surged and his body grew, the pressure from this world became stronger and more terrifying.

"My heart is boundless, shoreless, endless, and without heaven..."

Jiang Ming’s heart shone even brighter, forcefully resisting the pressure from heaven and earth. His body continued to expand, finally reaching a scale of 129,600 kilometers.

His upper body was bare, his muscles knotted. His whole body was filled with explosive power.

With a slight movement of his feet, he trampled the eighteenth level of hell into nothingness.

"How can you reach this extent?" Ran Xin’s shocked voice came from the depths of the universe, followed by a cold snort. "The universe collapses, all things return to ruins! Classmate Jiang, you cannot escape the fate of death! Don't struggle; here, I am the Master, I am fate, I am the Creator, I am the end of everything!"

"But you met me, so you are nothing at all!" Jiang Ming’s voice boomed, echoing throughout the universe.

Yet compared to the magnificent world, he was still incredibly small. The destructive storm swept toward him rapidly.

"Axe, come!"

Jiang Ming roared, his hands grasping into the void, and an axe appeared out of thin air. In an instant, the power to split everything, destroy everything, bury everything, and open everything radiated from him, causing the entire universe to stall, as if it were about to stop functioning.

"What kind of divine ability is this that you've evolved?"

"The way of opening heaven?"

"Holy cow!"

"How can your heart be so big? Can your heart endure it? Where does your confidence come from!"

"Confidence is not blind confidence!"

"Even if it were self-hypnosis, you couldn't possibly do this!"

Ran Xin was in disarray!

"I am the Son of the Great Dao, breaking through the decaying universe to open up a new heaven and earth!" Jiang Ming’s entire consciousness sank into his own evolution.

At this moment, he truly felt as if he had become Pangu.

Born of chaos, he had a duty: to open heaven and earth, bury the old, and create a new future.

*You evolve a universe, then I shall become Pangu.*

*What power is better at dealing with the power of the universe than Pangu?*

"Opening heaven and earth, open, open, open, open, open, open, open..."

Jiang Ming gripped the great axe with both hands and, with each roar, swung it forward.

With one swing, the annihilation storm was destroyed.

Jiang Ming didn't stop. The second axe fell, and the axe light surged across billions of sea stars, splitting the universe apart.

The third axe was even more overbearing, severing all laws and reason.

The fourth axe’s power surged, annihilating all old order and burying all matter.

With the fifth axe, the universe fell into chaos, completely shattering all rules and turning everything into primordial chaos.

With the sixth axe, a crack was cleaved into the dark chaos—this was the line between heaven and earth.

Jiang Ming was tireless, unleashing incredibly terrifying power.

Another axe swung down, and the chaos was completely divided in two; thus, heaven and earth were formed.

The eighth axe bloomed with light, evolving endless rules that crisscrossed to build the framework of the world.

The ninth axe fell, cleaving out infinite vitality, allowing the barren world to sprout with life.

"How is that?" Jiang Ming recovered from his immersion, reached out, and grabbed Ran Xin from the void, placing her in front of him.

His gaze was indifferent, filled with a cold, merciless light.

"You, you, are you a god or a demon?" Ran Xin’s face was pale, her whole body trembling. "You actually broke my heart world, evolved a new one, and you—you, you, you occupied my entire heart. Jiang Ming, you are shameless!"

When she finished speaking, she erupted in anger.

"I have teeth, if you don't believe me, look!" Jiang Ming’s consciousness returned, and he suddenly grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.

Ran Xin froze, her face turning red—that was from pure rage.

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