Xu Zhi saw a black clay creature that resembled rotten mud.
It had no cellular structure, no DNA. It was like a dead thing gaining sentience, with enough primal substance poured into it to give birth to life.
It even gave Xu Zhi the feeling of Rennimansga's life structure—simple and crude.
"This..."
"So that's it. So that's it!"
Xu Zhi held the ant-sized lump of mud in one hand, like a distant ancient giant of the universe holding a grain of sand. His eyes lit up completely, and he had the urge to laugh aloud in delight. "I should have thought of this sooner! In this newborn universe, there are only the most fundamental primitive Laws of Life. And what is the root law of life?"
Primal substance!
It was the source material of life!
Xu Zhi should have realized it.
Primal substance was the universe's earliest law of life structures. Therefore, the first life forms at the beginning of the universe must have been the first batch of beings produced from primal substance.
There were no DNA helices, no base pairs, no cell nuclei, not even cellular structures! "The earliest form of life was like those plant and tree spirits gaining sentience, as though souls and consciousness had arisen within a pile of dead matter, similar to elemental life forms. In other words, the life born from primal substance in later ages could all be considered the universe's earliest Innate Gods and Demons, descended from the same ancestor?"
Just as Xu Zhi thought this and realized he had connected the causes and consequences of his previous understanding of the universe, he saw something entirely different and horrifying—this life form actually had no lifespan limit.
"A life form with an infinite lifespan?"
Xu Zhi muttered, "How could this be...? How