Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Beyond that, there are countless strangely shaped carbon-based intelligent lives, and even Li Yao's difficulty in distinguishing whether it is carbon-based, silicon-based or other forms of life, have fallen into different test levels.

What impressed Li Yao was an intelligent life of brain deformity expansion.

Their body, as if it were only a huge and unparalleled brain, far stronger than the Pangu brain, is stored in a saucer-like pharmacopoeia, relying on space-defensive magic and psychomagnetic fields, adsorbing a variety of robotic arms and plug-in pharmacopoeia units, mounting on the saucer, combining themselves into a variety of forms, making it the most perfect combination of biology and machinery.

However, such a perfect creation fell in front of the black stargate and turned into a gray-white statue.

Moon watchers said that once there was an extremely intelligent race that had evolved to the forefront of a hundred ancient civilizations, perfectly solving every problem thrown by its ancestors, passing the ultimate test without flaws, and eventually being ruthlessly wiped out by its ancestors.

This intelligent race cried out before its demise, saying that the original ancestors had left no precious inheritance, that it was just a cruel death trap, and cautioned the later not to throw themselves away.

To think of it, this brain deformity swells, the flesh and blood completely degrades, but it is a race replaced by steel steel, what the moon watchers call the "perfect clearer."

And these images, the message appearing in Li Yao's mind is also obvious, which is a warning, a warning, and a threat.

Original ancestors seem to be telling the tester in this way that its treasure is not easy to get, and the cost of failure is enormous, so it is best for the tester to think in a state of extreme calm, whether the direction should be changed and return home.

This is the last chance to give up the test.

Unfortunately, Li Yao's dictionary does not contain the word "give up” at all.

Crossing the extinct scrolls of countless civilizations, crossing the remains of countless civilizations smarter, stronger, braver, kinder or colder than he is, Li Yao is moving faster and faster and piercing the center of the dark abyss.

Giant warriors broke apart, mustard battle suit and crystal armor were turned into powder, flesh and flesh were disintegrated and disappeared, even the bloody Heart Demon and Lu Light Dust were swept away by a powerful force, so that Li Yao could no longer reach them - think of them as independent individuals by carrying out some procedure of the "ultimate test”, preparing three tests simultaneously for Li Yao, Blood Heart Demon and Lu Light Dust.

They must complete the test on their own.

Li Yao became more and more fierce and more resolute in his war will - no matter the blood demon, Lu Qingdust, the way of extermination, Dragon Lotus Zi or anyone else, he couldn't have been faster than him. He must have been the first to clear the gate!

Finally...

The stars dissipate and the darkness crumbles, revealing faint light within his vision. Although the light is a little blurred and distorted, it is already barely possible to distinguish the overlapping landscape.

Everything in front of him was a big surprise to Li Yao, staring at him.

Through the black stargate, walking through the remains of countless civilizations, back in time and space, he seemed to have fallen into a rolling pristine ocean.

The sky is filled with intense clouds and manic thunderbolts, lightning strikes the sea like a golden blade, stirring the ocean with waves and fluctuations, the plate movement at the bottom of the sea is extremely intense, orange magma and black columns of smoke erupt from time to time in tearing cracks, like strange shapes of ancient creatures with teeth dancing claws.

At this time the ocean, silence and noise coexist.

Silence is due to the fact that the first real lives have only just been born and have not yet mastered the ability to devour and communicate.

The noise was caused by the eruption of volcanoes beneath the sea, the constant collision of ocean currents and waves, the never-ending thunderous roar in the sky and the rise and fall of the continent, all of which awakened the ocean's original life and presented billions of possibilities for a great explosion of life.

Li Yao was in the ancient ocean, but found himself losing his body and becoming an ancient fungus.

No, it's inappropriate to describe it as "an archaeal fungus," in fact, he feels like he's turned into a collection of archaeal fungus of the same nature, a fungus carpet hundreds of meters in diameter, attached to the bottom volcano, living off the heat of the magma.

But on the other hand, his consciousness is not just concentrated on a fungus blanket, but can expand thousands of miles to the bottom of the ocean, even swimming through the lightning bolt, the unpredictable sky, like standing at the “third party" angle, quietly watching how the world's original creatures evolved.

“No way. Again? ”

Li Yao really wanted to close his tongue, but now he not only didn't have eyes and tongue, he didn't even evolve the flagella that could be waved, he just stunned to think, “Is this the ultimate test, like some kind of 'game' with consciousness, how exactly did it count? Now he's just a slow peristaltic fungus blanket, not even half the objects that can communicate, where is the original ancestor, what are the rules! ”

This idea, which just flashed through his consciousness, had a crystal clear stream of light gold information that slipped out of his sight, like a waterfall, providing him with countless data and options.

Li Yao instantly understood.

This is the “first question” of the ultimate test, and the tester has to manipulate these primitive blankets, re-evolve the evolutionary path, evolve into a carbon-based intelligent life that can communicate with the original before it can be handed down to the original.

Each of the archaea in the original blanket is constantly growing, dividing, and dying. In the course of countless divisions and deaths, there is a minimal chance of variation. The tester must choose the “right” variation direction, and the “failed” variation must be eliminated in order to make the entire population stronger and eventually ignite the fire of wisdom.

Of course, there must be different understandings of what is “right” and what is “wrong”, different testers.

And losing millimeters, falling thousands of miles, at the time of the birth of the first life, every tiny variation in direction will determine how strange or wise and strong the intelligent life that is ultimately born is.

Li Yao couldn't think more, the direction of hundreds of millions of mutations exploded in his sight.

Ultimate testing concentrates hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary long rivers in just a moment, so every second there are countless different directions waiting for Li Yao to choose.

Some variations can lead to longer life for archaea, at the expense of slower division.

Others, in the opposite direction, cut the lifespan of archaea by half, but the rate of division accelerated by 50 per cent.

Some variations can turn archaea into spherical, spiral, rod-shaped, disc-shaped, and irregular states, while others can evolve archaea into Li Yao's favorite flagella, enhancing mobility and ability to devour food.

Some variations change the extracellular membrane structure of the archaea, making the archaea more suited to the surroundings of the submarine volcano, but there are other changes that increase the strength of the flagella and the overall strength of the blanket, allowing the blanket to march away from the submarine volcano towards the wider seabed.

Every second, there are hundreds of pale golden options floating in front of Li Yao's sight. Many times, he doesn't even have time to think about it and can only screen and trade-off by intuition.

Li Yao instinctively screened out those variations that prolonged the life of the archaea, while retaining the ability to "split more often”.

Only more divisions can bring more evolutionary possibilities, and this is not the time to talk about longevity and stability at all.

Subsequently, he ruled out a change in the outer membrane structure to absorb more variations in the thermal energy of the magma.

Li Yao knew very well that life was inert. If the ancient bacteria evolved into structures that were perfectly suited to the volcanic environment of the seabed, they would stay here forever. They would always keep simple and low-level structures, and it would not be possible to march into the wider ocean, thus evolving more, more complex and more advanced structures.

Born in euthanasia, dying of worry, any life is like this, too adaptive to the shape of the environment, is a gentle homeland that kills people without blood, only moving forward forever, forever and environmentally, fighting against the heavens and the earth, marching towards the cruel unknown, is the truth of life!

At this time, a new direction of mutation passed away from Li Yiu Yiu.

Li Yao's consciousness almost shrunk to the tip of the needle, lightning grabbed this option.

That's it!

After a long competition and evolution, there is finally an archaea in his flora that mutates the ability to carry genetic information with "deoxyribonucleic acid”!

Until then, all archaea used “ribonucleic acids" to store and transmit genetic information.

Li Yao knows very well that while “ribonucleic acid" is also a long chain molecule ideal for carrying information, it is far less “deoxyribonucleic acid” in terms of the amount and stability of information stored!

Only by evolving “deoxyribonucleic acid" can the capacity of genetic information explode exponentially, completing the leap from "too ancient life” to “ancient life”!

Boom!

Just after he chose to replace the vast majority of the functions of "ribonucleic acid" with “deoxyribonucleic acid," the entire original ocean was devoured by the golden light sphere, as if there had been an astonishing explosion.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding environment became completely different, the eruption of undersea volcanoes gradually calmed, the earth's crust and weather dramatically stabilized, and more and more ancient marine life evolved, with a variety of multi-cellular advanced life like trichlorfon, parrot nuts and crustaceans, swimming between the anemones, seagrass and colorful jellyfish.

Once again, Li Yao faced life-and-death choices.

The golden stream of information tells him that, according to the mutant genes he now has, he can choose to evolve into the top predators in the ancient ocean, such as trichlorfon, parrot snail, or crustacean, and, of course, to become the secondary predators, thereby compensating for other evolutionary directions.