“What would you do if your creation decided to turn against you one day?”

Hao Ren looked into the eyes of Raven 12345 as he asked this question. He had hesitated for a long time before speaking, but when he actually voiced the words, he felt no pressure at all. He waited for the true goddess before him to answer. The latter's beautiful, otherworldly eyes flickered with a mysterious light. After a moment, those eyes curved into a smile, and Raven 12345 said with a laugh, "What is your definition of 'turn against'?"

"That…" Hao Ren suddenly stammered. He suddenly realized that he had rashly asked a question without understanding many of the key definitions himself, or rather, without having a standard in his mind. "It's probably… like not believing in you, denying that you are their creator, or simply worshiping other gods, something like that."

"Oh, it seems that the 'creation' you are referring to here is those sentient beings." As Raven 12345 spoke, she snapped her fingers, and the surrounding scenery instantly changed dramatically. The withered Garden of Heaven faded away in an instant, and the starry sky and boundless space seemed to materialize from a dream. Hao Ren felt a sense of weightlessness. By the time he reacted, he was already standing in the vast expanse of space, and some planets were rapidly magnifying in his view. Although he could not feel his own movement, he realized that he was being rapidly transported through space by Raven 12345.

"Creations… Although I have not yet created a universe, I like to create some celestial bodies when I have nothing to do, such as stars and planets, as well as larger-scale nebulas. These can all be considered creations, but these things obviously will not have any idea of 'betraying' the creator," Raven 12345 shuttled through the stars with Hao Ren, gradually approaching a gray-blue planet. "And when I'm relatively free, I also create some life… sometimes from scratch, allowing life to evolve from single cells, and sometimes, as in the myths of humans, I directly create an entire ecosystem, planning everything at once and letting them reproduce and evolve. The former takes a long time to evolve into something decent, while the latter will become as lively as Earth in a short period of time. This is a very interesting job, not just a research project."

The surface of the planet rapidly magnified in Hao Ren's eyes. He saw that the planet was already full of life, and a civilization in a state of swords and magic was thriving on its surface. He could see warriors riding yalongs patrolling in the lower atmosphere, some tall demihuman races being driven by overseers to build city walls, and a magnificent tower in the north pole of the world. Several armies wearing different costumes were fighting near the tower, and the grand thunderstorms created by the mages were clearly visible even in space.

"Oh, the Northern Four Kingdoms are fighting for the 'Itania Tower'. They believe that this tower leads to the source of the world, and the power within the tower can fulfill any mortal's wish, even immortality. But soon they will find out that they are terribly wrong… This tower is just a weather controller, and it has been abandoned for a long time. All the equipment has been removed, and now only a stone shell remains."

This was the first time Hao Ren had observed a civilization from this perspective, and with a true god explaining it to him, a strange feeling welled up in his heart, but he quickly returned to his usual state of mind: "Did you create this place?"

"That's right, created it thousands of years ago, directly created the planet and the entire ecosystem," Raven 12345 said with a smile. "There is no earlier history, and no process of biological evolution. This 'worldview' may be a bit challenging for today's Earthlings to understand scientifically, but in fact, there is more than one such planet. The natives on these planets can still live very well. As long as they can develop smoothly, sooner or later they will supplement the knowledge they need on other planets."

Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345 curiously: "Does this have anything to do with my question just now?"

The goddess smiled: "Of course it does—the current mainstream ideology on this planet is atheism. They smashed my temple many years ago. Of course, even when the temple was still there, I never contacted them. After all, their development was going smoothly, so I didn't intervene. So strictly speaking, they don't even know I exist. The original temple was just a… heh, a strange thing."

Hao Ren almost fell headfirst from space.

"Incredible, isn't it?" Raven 12345 looked at Hao Ren's awkward appearance with a mischievous smile. "A world of swords and magic, but it promotes atheism more than many technology-oriented planets. The reason is very simple: they came into contact with supernatural forces a little early, and they have special racial talents, so from a very early age they have been able to control some natural forces on their own, wind, fire, thunder, and lightning… although very, very weak, they used this to get rid of their fear of natural forces early on. When the thunder of nature is just a slightly larger lightning spell in their minds, they no longer believe that there is a god living in the sky. They believe that it is a very powerful magician."

"…It's quite incredible." Hao Ren didn't know what to say, so he could only sigh.

"This is the interesting thing about Genesis, because it is difficult to determine how the things you create will develop. Sometimes two almost identical worlds will develop completely differently, and the 'intelligence' of creatures is the most common reason for this difference. After all, many races think about things differently."

Hao Ren was a little puzzled: "Didn't you show up to tell them about the true gods?"

"Why show up?" Raven 12345 crossed her arms. "They can solve the problems they encounter in survival on their own, so they don't need gods. There are no problems with the operation of this planet, so I don't need to show up. Since there is no need for contact between the two sides, am I just showing up to show off that I once created this planet? I'm very busy—and the Xiling Apostles hate worthless behavior."

What she said made so much sense, but even though it sounded like a matter of course, Hao Ren still felt incredible: after all, this was too different from the image of gods in many worlds. Raven 12345 saw the other party's entanglement, she just smiled indifferently: "Everything must have value. Some races establish contact with gods because they need it, and some races rely on atheism to maintain society because their stage of development has reached this point. The civilization on this planet may one day realize that there are true gods in this universe—for example, when they explore the depths of the universe and discover some traces of correction, or when they discover the artificial traces of their own planet. But that will be a long time later, and their understanding of gods will be very different from that of other races… But in any case, that is their own business."

Raven 12345 paused and shook her head slightly: "I created life not to have anyone worship me, and I believe that goddess in the Dream Plane is the same. Although she looks like a half-baked person, from your description, it can be seen that her purpose in creating life is very simple: on the one hand, it is to explore the universe, and on the other hand… she simply wants to make the surroundings more lively."

"I think I understand," Hao Ren heard something from Raven 12345's words. "It seems that for true gods, the 'betrayal' of mortals is a pseudo-proposition in itself… or rather, there is no such thing at all."

"Without expectation, there is no disappointment. Sometimes gods are not just tolerant of humans, they simply have different values, so they don't feel that humans have betrayed or offended them at all. In the end, religion is a social activity of human beings, and gods… are just forcibly pulled out by those guys to be mascots to liven up the atmosphere. If they feel too sorry, they will help them with some small things, like a nanny. That's how I see it anyway, the atmosphere in the star field is slightly different, we won't discuss it," Raven 12345 spread her hands with a wry smile. "Last year, on a whim, I coordinated the prayer information from the entire universe. Guess what was the most sincere and heartfelt sentence among them?"

Hao Ren shook his head, how could he know this.

"Thank you, goddess, for the ten-day holiday—that's it, said by a child," Raven 12345 didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "They have a grand ceremony once a year, and the school has a long holiday during the grand ceremony."

Hao Ren: "…That's too practical!"

"Most people are very practical, especially after they know that praying to God can't achieve the desire to conquer the world and live forever. They pay more attention to those very practical benefits," Raven 12345 waved her hand, suddenly pulling Hao Ren to fly to the side. "Let's leave here first, there's a dark elf down there who just assembled a telescope and is testing it for the first time today. He's looking this way."

Hao Ren was dragged far away before stopping, and Raven 12345 looked at the starlight on one side of the horizon. On the surface of the planet below, an elf was also holding the first telescope on this planet, looking at the same starry sky.

Raven 12345 thought for a while, rubbed her fingers gently, and the law of light was temporarily changed. The starry sky that could be seen on this planet suddenly became brighter and clearer. Although it was just a slight change that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, it was enough to give an observer a little surprise.

"Let him see clearly, it's not easy to get a sunny day," the goddess said with a mischievous smile. "Anyway, no one has accurately calculated the degree of interference of the atmosphere on starlight yet."