Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Nobody knows how lightning life really came about, just as nobody knows how organic molecules like the original amino acids were born out of the wild collisions and intense reactions of inorganic matter. In short, over the past hundreds of millions of years, intense energy fluctuations have been released and exploded in the form of lightning, relying on incredible coincidences, lightning has captured some unusual particles —— rare elements, such as argon, from deep in ancient giant stars or from outer space, and so on.

When a powerful lightning strikes through the core of the argon element, it is immediately vaporized by extremely high temperatures into a crystalline, perfectly intact plasma sphere, with negatively charged free electrons to form its outer layer, with positively charged ions to form its inner layer, the inner and outer layers to form a clear demarcation, yet allow energy to circulate and transform freely, just like the membranes and walls of biological cells, a large yin and yang capable of communicating with the heavens and the earth.

In other words, the odds of countless bursts of lightning coincide, creating the miracle of life, a gaseous, pure energy, plasma “cell”.

Of course, this “plasma cell” is not the same as a carbon-based cell in the sense of life, and it does not have so-called “genetic material”.

But the morphology of life is inherently colorful, and genetic information does not necessarily depend on genes to transmit it, defining the five main definitions of cells - capable of self-replication, capable of transmitting information, with metabolic mechanisms, capable of self-growth, with distinct boundaries separated from the outside world - these conditions, “plasma cells", are all satisfied.

Though initially, "life" can only last a few subtleties, in a brief and glorious lifetime it can also continuously extract energy from the outside, expand and even divide, it can stretch out the tentacles of lightning, adsorb the neutral elements around it, such as argon, helium, even methane, ethane, etc., and add its own energy response, glow in colour, and even divide itself into two different plasma cells, each carrying the same electromagnetic characteristics.

It can even transmit information by radiating electromagnetic wave energy into other plasma cells, so that the atoms in each plasma cell maintain the same frequency of oscillation.

If it's not a cell, if it's not a life, what's the point of defining life?

Li Yao noticed that this wonderful lightning elf has not been around for long, far less than the brilliant 100,000 years of human civilization, much less the civilization of Pangu or even the "black wall maker” hundreds of millions of years ago.

Their “history” is only about two or three thousand years old.

Two or three thousand years ago, two high-quality stars near an ancient giant star entered the end of their lives and began to blossom violently, at a time when the signs of a "supernova explosion” appeared.

Perhaps it was before the decline of the stars that the fierce mass and energy jets that were dying to infuse the atmosphere of the ancient giant stars with a whole new life force that led to the birth of these lightning elves.

They're irrevocable, “The Sun's Child."

Though only two or three millennia old, they have traveled beyond the hundreds of millions of years of carbon-based intelligent life.

Their lives are transient and extremely intense. Each lightning breaks through the dome of an ancient giant star and lasts only a few to a dozen seconds at most. In the dozen seconds of this lightning stone fire, billions of plasma cells are born in lightning, which is the river of their lives, which is their eternal home. They have to constantly absorb elements in the atmosphere in a dozen seconds, try new discharge structures and electromagnetic binding fields, try to make themselves and lightning last longer, even for a few seconds, and if they fail to do so, they will frantically divide and multiply, and try to "jump” onto another just born lightning before this lightning extinguishes.

“Survive, survive, survive! ”

Li Yao seemed to be able to hear the newborn plasma cells, in the arc of “crackling”, shouting an infinite desire.

That's right, the meaning of life is not just survival, but if it can't be done even in the first place, it can't be found any more.

Survival itself is the only meaning at the very source of any life that has just been born, especially at the source of such evil and cruelty.

Every brain cell of Li Yao is surrounded by lightning.

He “admired” this poem of life, which lasted thousands and hundreds of millions of years.

He “sees” that countless plasma cells grasp short, subtle lives, constantly adsorb and devour the surrounding elements, and try to form the bedrock of his life with a wide variety of elements and atomic shock frequencies.

99.99% of these attempts ended in failure, and the plasma cells that devoured the wrong elements and used the wrong frequency of oscillation were instantly extinguished, leaving no ripples, in exchange for 0.001% of the lucky ones, which lasted an extra 0.001 microseconds.

Prior to extinction, these fortunate people immediately used electromagnetic radiation to transmit new elements, vibration frequencies and other information to all of their "compatriots” within the same lightning bolt.

And these “compatriots", either frantically dividing up the number of plasma spheres in lightning in geometric order, or like moth flames, trying to jump out of lightning, rip waves in the ocean of methane and helium elements, find another newborn lightning, and gain a few more seconds or a dozen more seconds for the entire population.

This is the kind of crazy attempt, the struggle and sacrifice of tens of thousands of generations of "human beings" in a dozen seconds, gradually, the plasma sphere's survival time has increased from a few subtle to nearly a second, and the lightning they live in, unlike ordinary lightning, has been modified to last for minutes, tens of minutes or more, and they've even consciously lured several lightning bolts together, and in an incredible way, “braided” into an ingenious 3D geometry, everything, just to improve the survival time of lightning in the atmosphere, and the ability to transmit over long distances.

They're building their own Starship, Starship, they're lightning up and refining their own spaceship!

Li Yao “saw” and upgraded the lightning into “battleship” plasma cells. In the fierce battlefield of life, they gradually gained a high degree of self-organization, and their exploration of the entire planet unfolded, no longer confined to the most fierce part of the lightning, but managed the lightning, surrounded the magnetic field, spread to all sides of ancient giant stars.

Then they discovered where life could leap further into civilization, the most obvious erythema on the ancient giant stars.

The Great Erythema is an ultra-high cyclone over a thousand kilometres in diameter, often lasting more than a hundred years.

Within ultra-high cyclones, severe changes in air pressure can make lightning discharge reactions more violent, faster and more likely to change.

Super cyclones constantly stir the surrounding matter, even from the depths of ancient giant stars absorbing massive mass eruptions, like volcanic eruptions in the depths of the pristine ocean, bringing the earth's abundant energy and matter, becoming the first cradle of life, and also bringing richer elements to plasma cells.

The special substance that makes up the great erythema, "red phosphorus”, can release a rosy, unpredictable flame in the ultra-high velocity friction of lightning, becoming the carrier of “civilization”.

Yes, each bunch of "red phosphorous fire" can last only a few minutes, up to a few hours, measured in terms of human time scales as “instantaneous", but for a generation of plasma cells that can be inherited in a few subtle seconds, a bunch of flames has been burning long enough, just as it can sustain decades of immortal paper, to produce “books” and inherit “wisdom”.

In this way, plasma cells steer the lightning, looking for one big erythema after another, breeding and flourishing, building a true "lightning civilization”.

Their civilization, of course, is quite different from that built by carbon-based intelligent life, and at least Li Yao's reading 99 percent of the information is incomprehensible —— he has no idea what these plasma cells are doing, what they're building, what they're pursuing.

Conversely, if Lightning Civilization could observe the wine wealth of the human world, love and hatred, the rise and fall of nations, epic heroes, etc., they wouldn't understand what these highly self-organizing aggregates of carbon elements are doing, would they?

But there is something that all civilizations share.

Li Yao “saw” that the plasma cells, deep in the great erythema, proactively lit a bunch of red phosphorus fire, recording specific information with a flame that jumped indefinitely.

Perhaps that was their major research discovery, their knowledge of the heavens and the earth and the universe, their secret way of inheriting life, their way of constructing a more powerful Lightning Battleship.

It is also possible that it is a poem in which they sing “faith” and “love”, a glorious and useless boast, or even a curse of the religion of the superstitious sun, developed on the basis of their origins.

Likewise, just as they tried to transform their lightning in the past, now they started to transform their super powerful cyclones, precisely manipulating currents, charges and voltages, manipulating the clouds of helium and methane, manipulating the speed and angle of the storm just to make their great erythema bigger, more stable, last longer, and extract more elements from the depths of the ancient giant stars, carrying more magnificent red phosphorous fires.

Naturally produced erythema can only last for hundreds of years, but with their transformation, it can last three or five hundred years - almost forever on the scale of a lightning civilization.

Then, war.

War, especially civil war, is an indispensable part of the growth of all civilizations.

Two giant erythemas, billions of lightning bolts, the war between incalculable plasma cells has begun!