Compared to the planet Xia Nan had lived on before crossing over, the Aifala Continent might have been vastly different in terms of its worldview, cultural environment, and so on.
But when the ancients first lifted their heads to gaze up at the stars, the tender shoots of wisdom sprouted in their minds.
Those thoughts concerning existence itself, the world, and the "self," the foundational ideas that drove civilization forward, had developed in this other world with astonishing similarities to his previous life.
"All things have spirits." This philosophical idea, known in his previous life as animism, argued that all things possessed souls and life. To a certain extent, it aligned with the natural spirits of many races and religions on the continent, and so it was mentioned in all sorts of ways, from all sorts of angles.
It had even been proven by the tangible existence of Magic Particles in the air.
Relevant scholars believed that nature itself possessed life and consciousness. It was merely too vast, ancient, and slow, almost eternal, exceeding the scope normal living beings could comprehend, and so it went unnoticed.
The gods in the heavens who each held fragments of natural authority were the materialization of natural laws, distinct individuals differentiated from nature's primordial will, bridges connecting chaotic power and intelligent beings;
The flesh-and-blood creatures upon the continent were nature's consciousness expressed in a more direct, materialized form.
Forests and seas of trees nourished Tree Spirits and Vine Monsters; deserts and wastelands hatched Lizard Beasts and hyena hounds.
Different natural environments, those primordial and disordered chaotic energies, would also give birth to different forms of life.
The "Shahua Merman" was one of the least remarkable among the countless living races of this world.
They were born amid the waves and cruel plunder of the