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Chapter 1 - The Big Bang

In a void filled with nothing but chaos, nothing made sense. Up was down, down was right, right was nothing.

In this void of endless chaos, a being made up of pure chaos drifted.

If one looked at him, they would see nothing but endless depth. No colours. No shape. Just nothing.

In the endless void, only a few words echoed.

"What the...?" A voice sounded, filled with endless confusion

"Where am I?" The voice of Wang long echoed infinitely. Upon hearing no response, Wang Long looked around curiously at the surrounding void, only to notice out of the corner of his eye, the state of his body. Wang long turned his gaze to his body, raising his formless hands.

"Ha....hahaha" his laughter boomed.

"I'm dreaming! Of course it makes sense now! That heart attack must have made me pass put, not die!" He said with joy, deluding himself.

After comforting himself, Wang long laid back in the void, slowly drifting "guess I'll enjoy this cool void while I can..."

Wang longs eyes shoot open, filled with disbelief

"Wait..." Wang Long paused for a few moments

"Cool... its cool... wait... IS THIS NOT A DREAM?!" Wang Long boomed, shaking the very fabric of the chaos.

Wang Long looked around in disbelief, trying to find anything to help explain the current situation.

Upon finding nothing, he sighs "damn".

Wang Long looks into nothingness, straight head as he lies back "I wonder how mom is doing? Probably planning everything..."

Wang Long endlessly rambled to himself for an unknown amount of time, attempting to stay sane.

Upon running out of things to talk to himself about, he found himself just drifting In the void of chaos.

"God this is boring" Wang Long said as he raised his morphing hand.

Upon seeing his hand, he thought of an idea to cure his boredom at least for a while. "I wonder if I can shape my own body?"

As Wang Long drifted in the empty void of chaos, he attempted every way to manipulate his body to form a faint human outline.

As Wang Long attempted to manipulate the chaos that his body was made of, he faintly managed to create a hand outline though it was quite unstable.

"Yes! I did it! It's possible, it may take time but it's doable!" This realisation gave Wang Long all the determination he needed, causing him to diligently work on forming his chaotic form.

A long, long time later...

Ding!

After an endless time, a faint sound rang out besides Wang Long, startling him. After a moment of shock, Wang Longs eyes light up as he spots the screen of light.

"Finally! Something! This endless nothing is so boring! A system!"

Wang Long looked expectantly at the screen as a loading wheel spun.

"System loaded"

...

"Congratulations host! You have been designated as the host of the God's system"

Wang Long stared at the screen of light with a broad smile "Finally a system! What do you do?" Wang Long asks enthusiastically.

Even though Wang Long waited for moments, the screen did not respond.

The lack of any real response, made Wang Long roll his eyes and click his tongue. "What more could I expect from a dumb system that takes years to do anything".

Ding

"System fully operational, would you like a tutorial?" the screen says, noticeably less robotically than before.

Wang Long quickly turned back around and bows "you are the best system!"

Wasting no time, Wang Long clicks the accept button, radiance spilling out causing Wang Long to squint habitually from the blinding light.

After a few short moments, Wang Long opens his eyes to see the screen has become a panel with a start button and big words saying "Initiate creation?"

Without any hesitation, Wang Long immediately clicked the start button, wanting to end the eternal boredom from the endless time he drifted in the sea of chaos.

The instant the button is pressed, all chaos within an indetermined range trembles, being drawn in by a tremendous force.

Wang Long watches with eager anticipation, waiting eagerly fir anything to happen as he stares at the center where all the surrounding chaos gathers.

Minutes pass continuously as chaos condenses, forming a dense blob of chaos.

As the vortex of chaos finally subsides, the blob slowly shapes itself into the form of an axe being approximately 3 meters long witht he axe head being 1 meter long, the cutting edge being 80cm Long.

Wang Long picked up the massive axe, expecting to struggle but to his surprise, it felt weightless.

"Oh yeah... there is no gravity in this place.." Wang Long laughed nervously, secretly happy that there was no one to see his foolishness.

Wang Long coughed lightly to ease his embarrassment, happy that at least no one saw his embarrassing statement.

A few moments later, after easing his own embarrassment, Wang Long took a long look at the massive battle axe. The axes wood like shaft swirled with complicated, intricate golden patterns.

The patterns were very changing, with a few symbols being consistent.

"Great... God's... axe?" Wang Long said with confusion.

"Wait? How can I read this? Are these even words?" Wang Long said with some confusion.

Wang Long shrugged "guess it's the systems doing or something..... I can't be bothered to think about it much"

Wang Long carefully took a few swings with his formless hand, the axe weightless in his hand.

"System?" Wang Long casually called out, only to be met with no response

"HEY SYSTEM!" Wang Long bellowed, frustrated by the system.

After a few more attempts, Wang Long gave up. "Dumb system..." Wang Long swung the axe a few more times, wondering what to do now.

Wang Long suddenly had an idea, thinking back to a tale about a certain god. A tale of a god splitting primordial chaos to create the world.

"Oh great god axe...I beseech you, split this chaos and form a world" Wang Long roared, swinging the axe seriously with all his might then suddenly....

Nothing happened...

Wang Long looked at the axe in confusion "um.. that should've worked right?"

After a few more attempts, Wang Long tried multiple different methods but none could produce result.

"Oh screw this! I give up! Stupid damn axe" Wang along huffed. In his frustrated, he decides to calm, sitting cross legged with his vague human form, the giant axe resting on his lap.

"What was that story again? Something something split the world with an axe... something about yin and yang...I think" Wang Long pondered.

"Well yin and yang are like order... order is the opposite to chaos... maybe I'm supposed to create that yin and yang? From chaos?"

After a little while of pondering, Wang Long found a direction to go. He sat cross legged and decided to imitate what the cultivators of earth would do in the movies.

He slowed his breathing, shut his metaphorical eyes and tried to feel the chaos he managed to manipulate inside him.

After many many attempts...

"DAMMIT! HOW THE HELL DO I DO THIS?!" Wang along shouted angrily however his gaze was immediately attracted to a few particles of chaos inside of him that reacted, dissapearing as quickly as they appeared.

"Wait...what was that?" Wang Long questioned curiously, searching every particular of chaos within himself but found nothing.

"Curious..." Wang Long thought back to the little spark like particles. "Maybe I'll get angry?"

"Hey youstupid system! What the hell do I do?!or are you completely useless!" Wang Long shouted with no response from the screen, annoying him slightly.

"WHAT IS THE POINT OF YOU DAMMIT!?" Wang Long shouted, noticing within him, some chaos splitting into a still, unmoving black particle and a bright one.

Wang Long beamed with joy, realising this is the yin and yang spoke of in the movies and books, the thing that allows universes to exists and work. He immediately started starting to curse the system repeatedly, getting angrier as the system ignored him.

As enough of the yin and yang formed within him, he quickly picked up the axe before slicing a wide horizontal arch in the Chaotic Void, pouring all that built up yin and yang inside of the axe, causing the golden patterns to light up with heat and light as the blade violent and frozen, becoming a deep black ice colour.

Once the axe was covered, Wang Long loudly roared "THIS TIME WORK AND SPLIT THIS DUMB CHAOS!"

With all the energy in his body, Wang Long swung the axe, endless darkness and light swirling like a drill as it poured out of the axe.

This time, there was a result....

BOOOOOM!!!

As the swirling light and dark shot out, turning into a blinding light, the surrounding chaos scattered instantly, leaving only a boundless light, keeping the chaos at bay in a spherical shape.

Wang Long looked on with eager excitement as he watched this scene, it at least being better than the endless nothingness.

...

After an unknown amount of time, the light died down, leaving only a golden halo in the void, light and dark entwined inside the halo, swirling in a circular manner.

"Wow...."

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