Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yiumei stared at everything.

He did not know whether this was the true picture of the ancient times, or whether it represented a highly exaggerated depiction. In short, the tentacles protruding from the void wrapped around one immigrant starship after another, regardless of how the particle cannons and vacuum torpedoes of those starships attacked, it did not care, but dragged all the starships with the Originals into the pale purple gap.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yao's vision turned into a dreams of light and strange land departure. Between the raging terrors of a kaleidoscope, he saw a huge monster, like a half-starred sea of stars, with 10,000 tentacles and 100 million translucent organs similar to his eyes, emitting a spectacular light, filled with weirdness and fear that could not be described with pen ink.

Later, the speckled debris regrouped, the chaotic time and space stabilized again, and the former family's fleet of immigrants was brought to a whole new world by this monster, filled with spiritual energy and crystals, energy exhausted and endless “paradise”!

“This, this is--”

Li Yao's soul emitted an exciting trembling chestnut, as if he could taste the immensely powerful games from the images, “What is this? ”

“As you can see, this is a star alien who can freely travel through four dimensions of space and jump in the stars and oceans, and we call it the 'Void Hunter’. ”

"Our ‘original civilization', although one of the earliest civilizations of the cosmic sea, was not the first intelligent life to be born, and long before us, many intelligent star aliens were born, forming a huge 'cosmic ecosphere’, of which the void hunter was one.

“However, they have spent hundreds of millions of years in the air without creating a highly developed civilization. The vast majority of star aliens are such horrible creatures as‘ empty hunters'. With their instinctive beasts, their intelligence will not exceed the age of seven or eight, and only a very small number of star aliens have developed a primary social form of slavery. ”

“Why?”

Li Yao can hardly imagine, “Having rich spiritual energy and even inspiring initial wisdom, he wasted hundreds of millions of years of precious light and shadow, and still hasn't developed civilization - that doesn't make sense! ”

“On the ancient planet, many species have also been breeding for hundreds of millions of years, resisting several biological extinctions and gaining the reputation of 'living fossils', such as turtles, crocodiles and cockroaches, but they have never produced intelligence and civilization. ”

The voice said, "Ultimately, the so-called ‘civilization' is not a necessity for life, nor is evolution in any way an eternal way forward. The so-called 'evolution’ is merely a helpless evolution formed after a brutal phase-out under the dramatic changes in the environment.

“Life is a very lazy thing, and as long as the environment hasn't changed so much that it can barely survive, it will never expect to change, to ‘evolve’.

“Like turtles, crocodiles and cockroaches, they are already kings in their own realms, or top hunters at the top of the food chain, or they have unmatched defenses and incredible viability, and they don't need wisdom, let alone civilization, and they can live well and carry on their genes.

“So what motivates them to change, to ‘evolve'?

“The same is true of the void hunter, you can simply imagine it as a giant octopus with the ability to jump in the stars and survive in a vacuum, with its instincts to chase meteorites and asteroids with crystal veins in them in vast oceans of stars, reach out from the space gap and wrap around the meteorite, devour the energy in the crystal with a specially constructed negative pressure suction cup, such an instinct that makes it comfortable in the middle of the cosmic ocean for hundreds of millions of years, its enormous body size and its ability to exorcise, making it devoid of any natural enemies, even if it encounters an enemy that can't be provoked, big enough to drill into four-dimensional space, far away from millions of light-years, once gone, wisdom and civilization, what use for it? ”

Li Yao thought about it for a long time.

I have to admit, the voice is right.

Born in a spiritual cave, a creature that is naturally endowed with the ability to devour crystals, harvest energy and navigate in the void, it is unnecessary to work hard to develop wisdom and civilization.

Just like the rich kid with the golden chopsticks, there's no need to struggle.

Only human beings such as hairless monkeys who crawl, struggle and seek survival from impotent spaces, weak and pathetic primates, will have the need to evolve into extraordinary intelligence and create a strong civilization.

“So...”

Li Yao felt his tongue was dry, “All the remaining immigrant starships were brought to the center of the cosmic ocean by this... ‘Void Hunter'? Didn't it devour you? ”

“devoured part of it. ”

Voice said, "Void hunters are the best travelers in the cosmic ocean who are born to perceive the shadow ripples that four-dimensional storms cast into the three-dimensional universe, and manage these shadow ripples to create instantaneous wormholes, thus jumping super long distances of the stars and oceans, in this way chasing the volatile meteorite rain and resource planets.

“This void hunter perceived the tail flame released by the immigrant starship and treated our fleet as an energy-rich meteorite belt that emerged from the four-dimensional space and engulfed and devoured us all.

“However, you should also have noticed that our immigration fleet had reached the point of exhausting food, that there was no dripping left in the fuel depot, that this‘ empty hunter 'had crushed and devoured three immigration starships, and that, apart from the rust-stained scrap of copper, there was no way to squeeze out much energy and gave up feeding.

“Although no civilization has evolved in its true sense, the void hunter is, after all, the primary intelligent life that breeds hundreds of millions of years in the center of the cosmic ocean, and it soon discovers that the original family within the starship is also a small form of life.

“In the middle of the cosmic ocean at the time, we had our own set of criteria for the strength of life and for the coefficient of danger.

“Basically, the thicker the spirits in your body, the more skilled you are at manipulating them, the more powerful and dangerous they are.

“Although our original family touched several crystal rocks falling outside the sky on Earth, cultivating a primitive divinity, it ended up being a beginner's practice and a shallow stop, including the starships on which we embarked, most propulsion systems also use chemical energy and atomic energy.

“Void hunters can neither understand our complex social patterns and civilizations, nor perceive the potential and dangers that lie beneath our weak appearance, nor how advanced technology and complex industrial systems our starships represent, in its view, we are just a bunch of… harmless little bugs in humans and animals. ”

“Humans and animals harmless little bugs? ”

Li Yao couldn't help laughing.

It's funny how humans, the toughest fighting race in the stars and oceans, are treated like little bugs by a giant octopus.

“Vacant hunters look at us like elephants look at ants. It doesn't matter if you step on them. It doesn't matter if you ignore them. ”

The voice said, "But for the survivors of the original clan, the emergence of a void hunter is tantamount to a subversion that destroys the heavens and the earth, completely crushing our worldview and scientific outlook, and the infinite spiritual surge that swells our near-extinct survival instincts once again, revealing the fiercest flames of light.

“All survivors immediately moved to think about how to survive in such a strange and abundant environment.

“Soon after, it was really found by several intelligent men of the brain who were able to freely amplify and release brain waves. They tried to reach an agreement with the Void Hunter, and the two sides formed a harmonious symbiotic relationship, and the original family became the 'probiotic’, ‘parasite’, on the Void Hunter. ”

“This...”

Li Yao stunned, “How is that possible? ”

“Void hunters are travelers who travel alone through vast universes without the concept of community and society, yet they also inevitably feel lonely and bored on long and desolate journeys, especially when they frequently travel through four-dimensional spaces, tearing apart neurons repeatedly, ultimately affecting neural clusters. ”

Voice Channel, “In order to survive, a special profession called ‘Dreammaker' was born in the Original Family, using its own intricate brain waves to give a 'mind massage' to the Void Hunter, weaving a variety of colorful dreams - the Void Hunter naturally cannot understand the Original Family's memory images and rich emotions, but the strange dreams infiltrate its nerve cluster, but it can make it feel very comfortable, as if helping it itch.

“Thus, the original family parasitizes on the empty hunter, through which some of the ‘leftovers' that leak from the tentacles, that is, fragments of the crystal, barely survive, while the empty hunter uses our abundant emotions and imagination to ‘massage the mind’ to eliminate the loneliness of the long journey and the side effects of the jump of the stars.

“There seems to be a very harmonious symbiotic relationship, but there are subtle killers.

“One day, as the dreamers on a starship gave the empty hunter a 'heart massage’, their starship was suddenly hanged by the empty hunter and millions of survivors arrived in the middle of the ocean and lost their lives in Yellow Springs.

“The rest of the survivors were shocked, they didn't know what was going on - how they really pissed off the void hunters.

“Until nearly tens of millions of people on the remaining four starships were casually killed by void hunters, the rest of them woke up. It turns out that the ‘dreams' created by dreamers on these starships for void hunters were too old, too boring, too many times repeated, making void hunters impatient.

“It was truly the most humiliating and dangerous moment of the original civilization.

“In order to survive, all the original families had to search their bowels and scrape their stomachs, strangle their brains, weave a beautiful, wonderful dream, change the nerve cluster of PHARE to help the empty hunters' tickle ’, they couldn't stop for a moment, every second had to send out the most interesting brain waves possible, when the brain waves were a little dry and bleak, it was the day of total destruction of an immigrant starship! ”