Life Explosion
"Do you know anything about paleontology?"
Zhao Ziwu was astonished by what Li Bai had said.
There was a world of difference between fields. Medicine, prehistoric civilizations, and paleontology were separated by more than a single road.
"I know about spiritual energy!"
Li Bai pointed at the ground beneath their feet, then continued, "For example, this enormous rock."
A mountain was not necessarily a mountain, and a rock was not necessarily a rock. A mountain had roots; a rock did not.
A mountain could look like a stone small enough to fit in your palm. Jingshan Mountain in China, for instance, stood just 0.6 meters tall. You could step over it without a thought, or plop down on its summit and watch the clouds drift by.
A rock could also be as huge as a mountain. Ayers Rock in Australia was even larger than the gigantic boulder in the center of the "Meteorite Crater" before them. It was big enough to nearly fill the ancestral homeland of the Kakaya tribe, this "Meteorite Crater" formed five hundred million years ago.
"It contains spiritual energy? It looks pretty ordinary to me! But now that you mention it, the plants and animals here are rather unusual!"
Zhao Ziwu had seen Li Bai demonstrate the physical manifestation of spiritual energy, but he still only had a vague idea of what spiritual energy actually was.
After all, it involved things beyond his understanding of the world, so it was hardly surprising that he didn't understand it.
"Could drastic changes like the Great Life Explosion have happened out of nowhere, without some outside force driving them?"
He didn't think Earth's natural environment could easily have caused countless species to undergo mass mutations and extraordinary evolution.
The Great Life Explosion was abnormal. By contrast, a