Horleta, this vibrant planet, was only the first stop on the entire journey—though it was the most important one, it actually accounted for only a third of the overall itinerary.
After the three-day trip to Horleta ended, the Earth Otherworlders, still hungry for more, returned to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform. Next, they would visit the remains of ecological planets scattered throughout the universe. Hao Ren had discovered all these ecological planets over the past three years. In fact, there were countless planets suitable for visiting, and lately, the drone swarm had discovered new ecological planet remnants almost every day. Hao Ren had merely selected the most suitable ones as "tourist sites."
Over the past three years, Hao Ren and his drone swarm had found more than a hundred ecological planets—or planets that had once been ecological—in the Dream Plane. These planets had been divided into several broad categories according to different classification methods. First, they were divided into two groups: naturally occurring ecological planets and Goddess-created planets. Then, according to their degree of recovery, Hao Ren divided them into recovery-phase planets, declining-phase planets, and utterly dead planets. The recovery-phase planets were the fewest. Planets such as Horleta and Tanagrus, which had already reestablished their ecosystems, belonged to this category. Horleta in particular had, in Hao Ren's view, completely escaped the effects of the world-ending calamity and had now entered a stage of full restoration. The declining-phase planets were also few in number. They were scattered throughout the deep reaches of space, their surfaces having endured the baptism of the Firstborn's Calamity. Almost all life had been wiped out, leaving only basic microbial communities or even the most rudimentary organic environments. Their ecological-environment indexes were at rock bottom, and there was practically no hope of their entering a recovery phase