Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Whether it's trilobites, parrot spirals, or crustaceans, they're the undiminished ocean superiors.

Trilobites and parrot spirals, with hard crustaceans and relatively “big and unfriendly" bodies, are the most horrific killing machines in an age when the vast majority of marine paleozoa are much bigger than plankton.

Not to mention the stubborn crustaceans, which, in addition to being hard crustaceans, have the ability to move quickly, collide directly and sweep away all prey.

But Li Yao did not hesitate to rule out these three seemingly enticing evolutionary options.

Because he knew perfectly well that no matter how powerful the trichlorfon, the parrot snail and the crustacean seemed, they were eventually eliminated in the long river.

Too large a size means that their survival requires more energy, and they must spend most of their time preying and digesting.

Too hard crusts, on the one hand, deter their ability to mutate further and, on the other, immerse them in the illusory sense of security, depriving them of the need for evolution.

A life without a sense of crisis and a sense of progress, destined for a life without a future, could never ignite the fire of evolution, but would become a fossil hundred million years later.

Therefore, Li Yao eliminated all the top predators, but chose a blind little silver fish as the carrier of his own consciousness.

Small silver fish, but their average size doesn't exceed half a centimeter, it's like a silver glittering worm.

This little silver fish has virtually no preying power, but rather the best food for top predators like parrot snails, trichlorfon and beetles, who have no resistance but to be slaughtered when the top predators roam around them.

But they have the greatest advantage: unparalleled reproduction and survival.

Their life cycles are extremely short, and they mate and reproduce almost every second of their lives, and they have evolved into primitive female males and females, who can eject thousands of dusty seeds of life every time they eject, with the chance to survive as long as they absorb the heat close to the surface.

And their unique digestive system, which turns virtually everything from plankton on the surface to the corpses of top predators, from primitive fungus blankets on the seabed, or seagrass and anemones, they can even attach to ancient jellyfish, forming harmonious and orderly symbiotics with jellyfish, relying on jellyfish to digest food residues to survive.

At the beginning of life, quantity is a key indicator far more important than quality.

Li Yao's consciousness is committed to this small group of silver fish, and he is eager to choose the direction of variation that will increase the number of the population.

He refused to expand the size of the small silver fish, ruled out the possibility of covering the sturdy crustacean on the surface of the small silver fish, and of course did not hesitate to obliterate the seemingly aggressive teeth that grew sharper. In fact, the self-destructive variation gave the small silver fish stronger digestive absorption and reproduction capabilities, as well as, of course, subtle perceptions of the planet's magnetic field, and stronger long-distance capabilities.

So, in just a moment or billions of years of evolution, the little silver fish and its different species gradually spread across the ocean, from the dark, icy Arctic to the sunny equator, and all the waters shined with the light of the little silver fish.

Three-leaf worms were covered in mud sand at the bottom of the sea, parrot snails became empty, formerly known as male temporal crustaceans, and after evolving more and more sturdy crustaceans and sharp teeth, as well as a larger body size, they were gradually dragged by their own heavy "armor, shields and blades”, unable to keep pace with the agility and speed of a new generation of marine life, and eventually devoured by the stomach they wanted to fill, becoming the failure of evolution.

A new ocean superior has emerged.

They're either streamlined, faster, more agile sharks.

Alternatively, you can freely change the color and shape of your skin, grow eight tender hands, and even use water jets to speed up octopus.

Even jellyfish that have evolved to become highly poisonous.

The vast majority of ocean masters use small silver fish as one of the main dishes in their recipes.

There is a species of whale surrounded by star spots that can devour tons of small silver fish in a single breath, and has evolved an organ specifically for filtering sea water and absorbing small silver fish.

But no matter how massive they are, they cannot reduce the overall quantity of small silver fish, but rather make them the basis of the entire food chain, on which countless species depend to survive.

Li Yaoqian felt that the time was ripe.

Marching, marching, marching to land at all costs!

While the oceans are vast, other than near the continental shelf and volcanoes beneath the sea, resources are not as abundant as one might imagine, but rather rather quite barren - like a desert full of distilled water.

More importantly, the heavy pressure of seawater makes it difficult for the natural catalyst of a civilization such as "flames” to exist, not to mention the smelting of metals and the development of civilization.

Most of the ancestors of carbon-based intelligent life were born in the oceans, but they also had to go through a "leap of surprise” from the ocean to the land, otherwise it would be difficult to develop a mature and efficient civilization.

Although the universe is vast and surprising, of the hundreds of millions of living spirits, there is no shortage of "co-workers" born in the rivers and lakes, similar to the intelligent spirits of jellyfish, but after all, it is a very small minority, and even the co-workers themselves, with the help of Pangu and other flood races, really evolved into the age of the stars.

Under the direction of Li Yao, from the sea to the land, a huge, sweeping and exciting “landing war” began.

This is not an overnight war, nor a war for the gain or loss of a city, but a war that spans hundreds of millions of years, for the rise or death of a civilization.

Initially inadvertently swept to the beach by the waves or panicked to escape the top predators, the little silver fish jumped onto the beach unexpectedly.

But Li Yao had enough patience and a clear direction of evolution to grasp the most useful of the billion-dollar chances of variation, giving some of the small silver fish the ability to breathe in the air, and the ability to move forward, bounce and dig on the beach, relying on strong fishfins.

These little silver fish have even learned to dig holes in the beach with their fins, drill them all in, keep themselves moist, wait for the next tide, and thus the ability to come and go freely in the ocean and on land - like some kind of ancient creature, spray fish.

The path of evolution is destined to be lonely and dangerous.

Jumping on land, small silver fish encounter hundreds of times more difficulties and dangers in the ocean than their warm and comfortable homeland.

But in order to address these dangers, or to eliminate more adaptive genes in the cruel competition for survival, generations of small silver fish have been given greater viability.

Scales and fins fade away, creating stronger limbs and tails, with mucus on their skin that insulates the air, and the mouth finally grows the first rows of sharp teeth, evolving from fish to amphibians.

For the first time, the little silver fish breathed dry air, saw volcanic eruptions, smoky mountain rivers and lush pristine forests.

The evolutionary path that followed was like walking into a fast lane, canvassing the sea and sand fields, turning the stars around, and everything was speeding up a hundred times.

Times are changing, environments are changing, everything is changing like it's tight.

Li Yao refused to let the species under his control change in the direction of giant crustaceans because he knew that, while giant insects and arthropods did dominate the land at some point in ancient times, as plants changed, oxygen levels in the air continued to decline, and giant insects and arthropods were forced to shrink in size and exit the competitive stage of top predators.

He also vetoed the direction of becoming a bee-like "Bug Civilization". While cluster wisdom does have the potential to brew a powerful civilization, it ultimately does not correspond to Li Yao's philosophy.

Likewise, without thinking, he denied the path of giant crawling. When dinosaurs trampled the earth, killing and roaring, he preferred to constantly shrink the size of his ruling spirits and hold his head between the bushes and the caves.

Mammals, only mammals are the only correct evolutionary direction, Li Yao firmly believes in this, and silently bears the price that has to be paid temporarily.

Indeed, the expected meteorite rains followed, the mountain river color changed, the sun and moon became bright, countless plants withered and extinguished, and more new plants changed the atmosphere in a completely different way. The “King of Land” dinosaurs, who used to shine in the past, either fell under the flames of the meteorite rain or died of dramatic changes in the composition of the air, or were unable to digest the new plants, they could only watch a lush, live and starve to death.

This is a new era, this is the mammal stage!

Until this moment, Li Yao's early cautious choices and painstaking determination were rewarded in abundance. The seemingly useless gene exhibited a rich variety of variations, giving him a monopoly on the new Big Biological Explosion. The first smoothly evolved enough large brain, enough cranial nerve synapses, and flesh and flesh to achieve a perfect balance in power, agility, and energy consumption. It also unlocked what could be termed an "epoch" capability, including "walking upright, freeing hands” and "using flames, manufacturing tools.”

The mammoth, swordtooth tiger, and all kinds of seemingly powerful jackal tiger leopards fell under the attack of stone axe and stone spear. Li Yao's crowd ravaged the earth and expanded further afield. When this crowd first learned to set fire to the volcano, expel and burn the murderous beast, the fire burned by the bear symbolized a true dominion, and finally the spirit of all things that will rule the universe, was born!