That happened a long, long time ago.

When the Creator Goddess first set out to explore the Dream Plane universe, she was still completely ignorant of the darkness and terror lurking in the depths of the cosmos. Although she was born powerful, her lack of knowledge and experience made this goddess seem too naive. She traveled the world with Lockmarton, the demigod creature she created, visiting one strange planet and space after another. There's no need to dwell on the journey, as everyone knows what she eventually encountered—

The Mad Lord.

No rational individual could coexist with the Mad Lord. In fact, the Mad Lord couldn't coexist peacefully with anything other than itself. The war between the Creator Goddess and this savage creature was inevitable. From the day they appeared in the same universe, this war had already begun, and it was destined not to end quickly.

In that battle, which the Ancients called the "War of Epoch's End," the Creator Goddess personally wielded her sword and entered the Mad Lord's domain. She destroyed most of the Mad Lord's physical structure and severely damaged the latter's core, ultimately using a powerful seal and prison system to permanently suppress this terrifying enemy in the depths of the universe. She seemed to have won, but in reality, she had only gained a temporary advantage. The war entered its second phase—the war continued on a new battlefield: the Creator Goddess herself.

The Mad Lord's form of existence determined that this terrifying primordial being could almost never be completely destroyed, and it certainly wouldn't be limited to a single form of existence. During the war, some of its power had actually escaped and attached itself to the Creator Goddess's body and the two divine swords in her hands. However, the Creator Goddess was unaware of all this. She didn't sense anything amiss from her brief emotional changes because the battle had exhausted her. She just wanted to return to the Origin Star as soon as possible, which made her miss the best opportunity to completely eliminate the Mad Lord's infection.

Actually, she wasn't careless. The intuition of a True God still made her somewhat suspicious of the Mad Lord's seal. She suspected that she hadn't really completely sealed that monster, so she cut off her own memories on the Origin Star, turning herself into part of the seal. All indications showed that her decision to "cut off her memories" actually meant that she was aware that the Mad Lord's activities were still continuing. Unfortunately, cutting off her memories didn't allow her to escape the fact that she was being eroded.

In the long years that followed, the Creator Goddess, having recovered her initial memories, resumed her activities. She created life, visited planets, and explored the universe. By launching Seeds of Origin into the stars, she built a vast life system. Countless planets gave birth to flourishing life, and the Firstborn within these planets became the beacons and eyes in the stars. They used the psychic network to transmit all kinds of interesting things happening in the universe back to the Origin Star—however, the Mad Lord's power also lurked deep within every creation of the goddess, and it continued to spread with the expansion of this life network.

But the most deadly erosion was still on the Creator Goddess herself.

Initially, these erosions were very slight. The Creator Goddess's own power naturally suppressed the Mad Lord's power. In this invisible war, the Mad Lord was defeated countless times, but as life in the universe multiplied and the Firstborn's psychic network grew, the Mad Lord's power also strengthened little by little. It could be defeated countless times, but as long as it won once, it could completely turn the situation around.

Before the Godslayer War occurred, this balance was broken.

The Creator Goddess began to exhibit some strange words and deeds, conduct some inexplicable research projects, and disappear from the guardians' sight from time to time. At first, she didn't even realize her own anomalies, because many things happened after her subconscious was affected, but the situation finally deteriorated to the point where it couldn't be concealed. She found that she was missing many periods of memory, sometimes even several days of memory blanks, and every time after a trance, she would always find that she had somehow made a pile of inexplicable things. The Guardian Giants would often come to confirm some things that she had never ordered—those loyal giants insisted that they had received orders directly from her.

The Creator Goddess finally realized that there was a "shadow" in her temple.

"The memories inherited from the Godblood are incomplete. Most of the time, they are just fragmented clips. I'm basically watching the life fragments of another person, guessing the truth of the past from those pictures," Vivian said slowly, leaning against the head of the bed. "The Creator Goddess discovered her own anomalies and gradually recalled the things related to the Mad Lord. This is a sign that the seal is loosening—the loosening of the seal led to the leakage of the Mad Lord's power, but conversely, it also made the Creator Goddess aware of the truth. On the day she completely confirmed the abnormality of her soul, 'reality' was distorted, and she herself split into two."

"It's difficult to describe the splitting of a god to you. I can only say that for a brief period of time, there were two Creator Goddesses existing simultaneously on the Origin Star. They existed simultaneously, simultaneously issuing diametrically opposed orders to the outside world, and even simultaneously standing in front of the Guardian Giants. However, apart from herself, no one could detect this. The instructions received by the Guardian Giants were a random possibility of the orders issued by these two Creator Goddesses, and if new possibilities overturned the previous 'divine revelation', then the reality of the Origin Star, or even the entire universe, would be immediately reset, collapsing into a new worldline... It was a crazy state, the entire universe was..."

Vivian was a little lost for words at this point, but Lily immediately reacted: "Quantum state! The entire universe showed quantum effects on a macroscopic level because two managing gods appeared at the same time?!"

"The world of gods is really f***ed up," Nangong Sanba muttered to himself, "... Don't even watch gods sneeze, let alone fight..."

Vivian glanced at Lily in surprise, but at least remembered that this was a dog who had graduated from Peking University four times, so she finally restrained her surprise and continued: "In short, the Creator Goddess still took effective measures at the last moment—I mean the normal one. I don't understand what method she used, but she dragged the Origin Star out of the quantum superposition state and cut out the part of herself that was being eroded. She should have realized that the Mad Lord's loss of control was already a fact, and that she herself had become a springboard for the Mad Lord to escape, so she decided to destroy herself before the situation deteriorated further. However, there are big problems with a True God destroying herself. This requires special skills, and the Creator Goddess didn't have this skill, so she could only borrow a knife to kill... herself."

Hao Ren realized what had happened next: "She threw that eroded 'self' to the Godslayer Race?"

"That's right," Vivian nodded. "She interfered with that eroded 'self' in reverse, and then let it descend on the Godslayer Race's kingdom as some kind of avatar, and replaced the leader of this race. She chose the Godslayer Race for a reason, because this race was never her designed people from the beginning, but something created by the Mad Lord through her—because she had been unconsciously fighting against the negative erosion in her body, the Mad Lord's power had different residual effects in each Seed of Origin. When the Creator Goddess was in the upper hand, almost one hundred percent of the life nurtured by the seeds was 'clean', but when the Mad Lord was in the upper hand, the life nurtured by the seeds would be completely fallen. In the process of the birth of the Godslayer Race, the Mad Lord's power interfered with them by more than ninety percent, which is why the Godslayer Race has a greedy and dark nature that is completely different from other races in the Dream Plane, and an essence that will fall with a little guidance. This race was originally the 'back door' for the Mad Lord to completely escape, but now it has been used by the Creator Goddess in reverse..."

"What a tragic 'use'," Hao Ren sighed. "The only time the Creator Goddess successfully tricked the Mad Lord was to kill herself."

"In any case, the Creator Goddess completed her self-destruction before the Mad Lord completely escaped, and incidentally destroyed the biggest dark chess piece left by the Mad Lord. From her personal point of view, she really lost a lot, but from the overall survival of the Dream Plane, it can only be said... this is a worthwhile deal," Vivian sighed again. "Unfortunately, the final development of the matter still deviated from the Creator Goddess's expectations. She didn't expect that the Firstborn would lose control after her 'source of infection' disappeared. Although the Mad Lord's seal has temporarily returned to stability, the era of life she created was destroyed in an instant..."

This is really a heartbreaking result.

"I'm done," Vivian breathed a sigh of relief after finishing a long story. "In short, this war between the Creator Goddess and the Mad Lord has never stopped—even today. In different dimensions, in different forms, the two forces are constantly fighting, and if we want to find the Creator Goddess, there are many things to consider."

Hao Ren handed over a glass of water: "Drink water—what you said is really big news. To be honest, I'm a little confused. By the way, how did you suddenly recover these memories? Is it really related to my stimulation on the Red Moon?"

"Your stimulation on the Red Moon?" Vivian held the water cup to cover half of her face, looked at Hao Ren with wide eyes, and her voice sounded muffled. "I know you touched another illusion... what did you do on it?"

Hao Ren spread his hands: "Just touched the crystal at the bottom of the Red Moon. But I did enter an illusion that was different from the previous style. That illusion looked like an unknown alien planet, anyway, it's definitely not the Origin Star, and then I also entered the second layer of space of the illusion, and saw a figure suspected to be the Creator Goddess sealed on the Crystal Throne... Of course, it may not be a seal, maybe that's the normal use of the Crystal Throne?"

"What a mess."

"Ahem, let me explain to you in detail," Hao Ren coughed awkwardly and straightened his posture. "But compared to Vivian's big news, the things I saw shouldn't be so shocking, but I always feel that the things I saw have some connection with what Vivian mentioned..."