"Boom."
A thunderous rumble seemed to echo between heaven and earth, as endless visions manifested within the small world — as if a deity transcending all living beings was walking forth from the heavens, approaching Baixuan.
Within the small world, all the Pokémon, mutated creatures, and even Angel Zixin couldn't help but gaze at Baixuan, wrapped in a layer of mysterious light. Their eyes were mesmerized, as if completely lost in its radiance.
Outside the small world, across the Earth, a golden light tore through the clouds between heaven and earth.
Boundless spiritual energy gathered in the sky; pristine white lotus petals like snow drifted down, falling onto the land, into rivers, onto mountains, into cities....
In the void, what sounded like sacred, grand prayers arose.
*The great Lord of Nature.*
*Eternal, holy, great, transcendent — You are the wielder of nature, the deity above all living beings.*
The worshippers of the Nature Goddess in the other world were praying.
They were children of nature, holding the most loyal reverence for it.
The great Nature gave them birth, and they would worship Nature all their lives.
*Heaven and earth, all things, the cycle of the four seasons.*
*The blazing sun, the morning star, the high-hanging moonlight.*
*You are the birth of all, the end of all.*
*You are eternity, reincarnation, the four seasons, all things, all life, truth.*
*We are forever loyal to You.*
The voices in the void faded away, but the visions between heaven and earth had not yet ended.
The spiritual energy, dense to the extreme, turned into droplets of rain and began to fall. Sacred and wondrous gentle light accompanied the rain as it descended together.
The earth began to shift. Seedlings sprouted from the ground, grew rapidly, and finally bore fruit in abundance.
All manner of heavenly materials and rare treasures radiated with renewed vitality under the rain's nourishment.
Dragons and phoenixes danced; cranes flew in attendance.
From a higher-dimensional perspective, countless chains of law began to break free from their constraints.
Countless wills celebrated, praised.
Across all of Huaxia, everyone felt a strange energy flowing through their bodies.
It wasn't spiritual energy — but it made them feel more at ease than spiritual energy ever could.
Even the Dao that had previously ignored them began to show traces of itself; countless people fell into enlightenment at this very moment.
The spiritual energy across Huaxia's lands surged in an instant. Plants, races, things that had not existed in this world before began to be born upon this land.
Not just Huaxia — the entire world could witness this breathtaking vision.
But the clouds and rain in the sky only covered Huaxia.
"What's this?"
Countless people stood frozen in shock. While feeling the changes in their bodies, they were also frantically searching for answers.
The internet, at this moment, was in an uproar.
"What's this? Can anyone tell me what happened?"
"What are those voices between heaven and earth?"
"I don't even speak that language, so why can I understand its meaning?"
"Lord of Nature, wielder of all things."
"Eternity, reincarnation, the four seasons, all things...."
"What on earth is this?"
"Is this the descent of a god, or the birth of a god?"
"...."
Their doubts went unanswered in the end.
Imperial Capital General Spirit Qi Bureau.
"Is it him?"
"Who else could it be besides him?"
This kind of disturbance — besides that person, who else could possibly cause it?
"My System... the reward after it was recycled?"
Uchiha Ten gazed at everything unfolding in the sky, his thoughts churning.
"Those mysterious words, were those prayers directed at a deity...."
"Could Bai Di already have worshippers?"
"Worshippers from another world?"
"Eternal, holy, great, transcendent, the wielder of nature, the deity above all living beings."
"That's quite an extravagant divine title."
Even the Christian God in Western mythology only warranted such descriptions, give or take.
But in a way, Bai Di and God weren't all that different anymore.
"If that's the description of him, then heaven and earth, all things, the four seasons, the blazing sun, the morning star, the high-hanging moonlight — are those his authorities?"
"Not just Earth, but the sun, moon, and stars all included?"
Liu Suifeng ultimately abandoned the line of thought.
Let the higher-ups worry about it. He couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
Inside the small world.
Angel Zixin had somehow broken free from the trance, but she still stood dazed gazing at Baixuan.
He was so close, yet she couldn't help but feel an overwhelming sense of distance.
As if they were inches apart yet worlds away.
The feeling Baixuan gave Zixin at this moment was nothing short of divine.
Unlike the divine titles granted to third-generation god-bodies and civilization-god figures in the Super God Universe, what Zixin beheld now was a deity from the realm of pure imagination.
She shouldn't have been given to fantasies like this.
For her, Queen Kai'Sa was more than enough to fulfill every requirement a god demanded.
But Baixuan at this moment gave her precisely that feeling.
Great, holy.
As if he wasn't a living being at all, but rather some great will made manifest.
"Is this what a mystical-system deity looks like?"
Zixin felt a profound shock, her voice slightly dazed as she spoke.
She felt her worldview crumbling just a little — an urge to transfer from the science division to the mysticism division.
"But not every deity's birth happens the way mine does."
"It's simply that heaven and earth are cooperating with me."
A voice tinged with a light laugh rang beside Zixin's ear. It turned out that while Zixin had been lost in wonder, Baixuan — who had been quietly absorbing the [Complete Nature Goddess Authority] — had already awakened.
But even though Baixuan was merely explaining, Zixin's face couldn't help but flush red.
Something was very, very wrong!
His face, voice, tone — none of it had changed in the slightest, yet Zixin couldn't stop herself from feeling shy.
It was as if something had been added to Baixuan, making him appear utterly perfect in Zixin's eyes.
Appearance — perfect!
Voice — perfect!
Temperament — perfect!
Eyes — perfect!
Everything, everything about him was so perfect!
Zixin couldn't help but cover her face with her hands, but then couldn't stop herself from peering at Baixuan through the gaps between her fingers.
She met his gaze — his expression caught between helplessness and amusement — and couldn't help but squeeze her eyes shut.
A moment later, she opened them again.
Angels yearned for perfection, and right now, Baixuan seemed to be the very embodiment of it.
Zixin thought that if it weren't her standing here but some other angel sister — even Sister Yan wouldn't be able to resist Baixuan's charm.
She couldn't refuse the angel genome's yearning and admiration for perfection.
Baixuan looked at Zixin's flustered state and could only give a helpless shrug. After fusing with the [Nature Authority], he had been continuously evolving toward the concept of perfection itself.
This time, because of the fusion with the other world's [Nature Goddess Authority], his [Nature Authority] had been developed more deeply, and the whole person had naturally grown closer to perfection.
This perfection wasn't limited merely to human or angel aesthetics — it was something conceptual.
There was an upper limit to appearance; once you broke past that limit, it became strange instead.
Baixuan's features hadn't changed. What had changed was how people perceived him.