Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

This is a huge lake of smoke.

All round, the lake is pure, like a silver-white round mirror, buttoned at the foot of a rolling green mountain.

Once upon a time, this was a place where countless living spirits gathered for drinking water, and a hunting ground for vicious beasts such as Jackal Tiger Panthers.

But since the rise of mankind and the occupation of this mirror-like Great Lake, no more vicious beast has dared come here to hunt.

Those who are too foolish to realize the horrors of humankind have unified into cumbersome white bones by the lake, a tall tower and tombstone of various shapes.

On that night, the stars were extraordinarily bright, and even the big, round moon could not hide the brilliant stars, which converged into a sea of oceans, like a raging silver storm, falling from the sky to the earth.

The tribes at the foot of the mountain lit a bonfire and are celebrating a grand celebration of their hunting and killing of another giant prey.

A tribesman with wrinkles on his face and slight and slight backs stepped on a sudden high and low foot and the ghost left the tribe and came to the side of the lake.

Behind it is a celebration of joy and hustle.

There is a silent and deep unknown in front of us.

Tribes first stared into the lake, reflecting themselves.

His forehead tilted slightly backwards, his nose was large and flat, and his hair on his face had not completely faded, but his lips had two huge canine teeth. At first glance, he still had not completely escaped the signs of flooding and obscurity.

But the slightly yellowish cloudy eyes are still absorbing the reflective stars of the lake water, gradually becoming deeper and sharper, adding a few pitch-black and silver-white colors.

Tribes' sharp eyes continued to widen, first licking the moon in the lake, then following the moonlight and the starlight, over the sky dome.

When hundreds of millions of stars exploded beneath his eyes, he couldn't help but stick out his furry arms towards the infinite ocean of stars as if to hold the entire universe in his hands.

“Ow, ow, ow! ”

He began to howl, as if to break the darkness between the heavens and the earth with his own voice, to give a name to the moon and to every star, and to summon his people, one day, to the moon and to the stars, to see what the world in heaven looks like.

“Boom!”

Just as the tribesmen stretched out their hands against the stars and shouted at the moment, the whole heavens and the earth once again burst out a gleaming golden flare, representing the tester's completion of the second leap, from ancient to second-hand, and the birth of a true "civilization”!

Li Yao watched it quietly.

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Instead, he went into the body of this tribal man who faced the lake and looked up to the stars, and personally perceived the first time that humans knew themselves and developed curiosity about the stars, the kind of joy and emotion that could not be described in ink pens.

“Is that it? ”

Li Yao looked at the dance of the hand in the lake, even the “self” of the jump belt, emitting a confusing murmur, “The so-called ‘ultimate test’, is that all? ”

No wonder he's confused.

Although it is very difficult to make thousands of choices for the evolution of life in a short space of time, eventually giving birth to civilization, these choices essentially did not escape the basic route of human evolution, and Li Yao just had to use his instincts to make choices, roughly completing the advancement from a piece of Tai Ancient Bacterial Blanket to a human tribe.

Such tests do not seem to be compatible with the strength and mystery of the original black-wall maker, nor is it difficult to live in a hundred ancient civilizations!

Li Yiu shrugged for a moment and instantly understood that he had taken it too far, of course.

From his point of view, of course, the Ultimate Test is too brief, because he is a pure human being, a 100% genetic replicator of the original.

So he knew exactly how he, the original evolutionary path, was going to go, and his instinctive response was the right answer.

But what if the tester is not a human like him, but some other carbon-based intelligent life?

For example, if the testers were "co-workers” born in rivers and lakes, molluscs like jellyfish and sponges, would it be the most promising race to climb to the top of evolution at a glance?

Even a “co-worker” tester would surely choose to go to land rather than explore the deeper oceans in search of the possibilities of a civilization out of that billionth of a billion?

By the same token, "Zhu Fu Clan” was born in volcanic and lava environments, relying on high temperatures and “toxic gases” to survive, a very special carbon-based intelligent life. When a Zhu Fu Clan tester was in the original undersea volcanic environment, could he really bear the temptation to change the extracellular membrane structure and absorb heat dramatically?

Even the seemingly most successful, the most powerful carbon-based intelligent life “Pangu" is the same. Compared to humans, Pangu and the giant crawling class are closer. Many Pangu people look like human champions - perhaps, on Pangu's native planet, dinosaurs and other giant crawling classes have never encountered meteorite invasions and climate variations, so that Pangu has evolved into such a unique face today.

So, when faced with the choice of reptile or mammal, can a Pangu tester naturally choose a mammal like Li Yao, no matter how many difficulties and setbacks he encounters, persevere?

Impossible, every logical way of thinking about carbon-based intelligent life is greatly influenced by its physical form, that is, the environment of the native planet. Even if they have acquired the cells of the native ancestors, deeply analyzed the genetic fragments of the native ancestors, and roughly knew how the evolutionary path of the original ancestors was going, but in the face of a rapidly changing environment, when hundreds of choices are made within a second, they will still be forced to bear a distinct brand of their own civilization.

In other words, the choice of variations and eventual evolutionary forms of the co-industrialists, the Zhu Rong people, the Pangu people or those “mechanical civilizations”, “black iron civilizations”, “semi-energetic civilizations” … are certainly not the way Li Yao sees them now.

From this perspective, expert scholars in the Immortal Palace are quite right - only by reproducing real human beings can we have a thorough insight into our ancestors' minds, or even by instinctively completing their tests.

It's just that this is just the beginning.

From the seabed to the land, from obscurity to wisdom, from the Spirit of all things to the King of the Universe, humans have a long way to go, and this "path to heaven” that follows the star rays into the universe is, I'm afraid, the real test.

Indeed, when this thought flashed through my mind, another bland, deep and awkward sound sounded.

“Here you are. ”

The voice said.

The way this sound interacts with information is similar to that of the Pankos and the Ladies, but it employs a very special information compression and encryption structure that carries dozens of times as much information within a syllable as the Pankos and Ladies.

As for Li Yao's mind, it took a long time to absorb the short three syllables.

Li Yao manipulated the tribesman, took a deep breath and sat by the lake.

Clean moonlight, brilliant star rays, volatile Great Lakes, and the laughter of the folks behind them, is the perfect dojo to explore the mysteries of Tai Gu.

“What shall I call you? ”

Li Yao tried to remain calm and his consciousness rippled. “Is it ‘ancestral’, ‘black-wall maker’, or ‘Tai Ancient'? ”

“The designation means nothing to us, be it ‘ancestors', ‘black-wall makers’ or ‘Tai Ancients'. ”

Voice said, "Long ago, in what you call the ‘Tai Ancient Age', our race created the first civilization in the cosmic ocean —— if not the first civilization in the real sense -- but civilizations older than ours were conquered and devoured by us all, so we call ourselves' primitive civilizations’, and you can call us' primitive tribes’. ”

“The Cosmic Sea, the Originals? ”

Li Yao did not let go of every opportunity to ask the bottom, “What does the cosmic sea mean, is it a multiverse? ”

“Have you ever seen a grape? ”

The sound not only emitted the “grape” syllable, but also showed Li Yao thousands of grape-like plants, "If you think of every universe as a grape, then a string of grapes clustered together is a 'cosmic sea’, or a ‘mother universe’. ”

“But...”

Li Yao's divine soul suddenly shrunk, “On a vine, far more than a string of grapes, but hundreds of strings of grapes, you mean, not just one ‘multiverse’, but countless multiverses, countless‘ cosmic seas’, countless‘ mother universes’? ”

“Good question. ”

The voice channel, accompanied by a message of refusal to answer in the syllable, explains that even if you reluctantly answer, now Li Yao is simply incomprehensible. Instead, it consumes his mind and leaves him lost in the vast depths of the heavens and the earth, "I just can't tell you the answer, the answer over the cosmic sea is far beyond what our information exchange can explain. ”

“So…”

Li Yao shrieked for a moment, feeling that the voice did not mean to reject people a thousand miles away. In a different direction, he continued to ask, "Do you recognize yourself as an 'original’, an 'ancestor', that is, to create the existence of hundreds of generations of civilizations within the Pan Ancient Universe? Are we all your descendants, your bloodlines, your mutants, in a sense, all created by you? ”

“Yes.”

The voice openly admitted.

“And then you created us, and... destroyed us, destroyed hundreds of generations of civilization? ”

Li Yao's spiritual bear burned, and the light golden waves of sentiment shook violently.