In the year the fourth ten-million-year era began, Chu Qing discovered that the quality of the newborns this time was astonishingly high.
The first newborn of the year gained intelligence after Chu Qing drew strange patterns on him.
At one year old, his intelligence was already about the same as an ordinary adult's.
He could even hunt beasts that adults hunted.
Chu Qing observed him, thinking he might be a transmigrator, the reincarnation of some powerful creature, or a being from the future who had descended here.
Yet after careful observation, he found nothing at all.
That little brat was simply clever.
Clever to an outrageous degree.
Anything he saw, any pattern, he only needed one glance to master completely.
He slaughtered countless beasts, even deliberately killing beast cubs, wanting to erase the beasts' foundation of survival at its root.
Many humans began gathering around him, following him as he fought across the Four Directions.
Meanwhile, the other babies born that year, whether boys or girls, were not as exceptional as the very first child, but they were far from ordinary as well.
This surprised Chu Qing.
"Did the Human race of this world sense that it was about to perish? So it burned something like destiny, preparing to fight with all its strength? A last struggle before death?"
"Or... was all of this an inevitable change of the era?"
Chu Qing was at a loss.
That year, a total of one thousand extraordinarily gifted children were born.
When the first year at the beginning of the fourth ten-million-year era ended, only one baby was brought before Chu Qing that day.
This baby looked utterly ordinary.
Yet all the wizards believed that this baby was unusual.
Because:
Normally, in such a vast tribe, three to five, or even more than