The evolution of life and civilization was a process of adapting to the natural environment and exploring the mysteries of the universe's truths.
The evolution of living things was mostly spontaneous. Through the innate talents inherited in their bloodlines and their instinct to survive, they passively adapted to the natural environment.
The birth of civilization, however, and the exploration of the universe's truths and laws, were processes in which groups of living beings actively pursued knowledge and reshaped their world after securing a stable material foundation.
This was a spontaneous collective behavior. Even the strongest individual could not create a civilization on their own. Academia had long since reached this conclusion.
But what human scholars had not anticipated was this:
Among the basic material conditions required for the crucial transition from a Level Three civilization to a Level Four civilization, in addition to various factors of chance, there was one indispensable prerequisite: productivity.
And what determined a civilization's productive capacity was its relations of production and production technology. In other words...
Factories with standardized assembly lines were the catalyst for the evolution of advanced civilizations.
It was a vast, boundless sea, its waters thick and murky.
A group of Sand Surges lived in this sea.
The civilization created by these Sand Surges was the Flowing Sand Civilization.
The Flowing Sand Civilization had a long and illustrious history. Its recorded history alone spanned seven thousand years, but from the perspective of the civilizations of the Star Curtain World, seven thousand years was not very long.
Especially when this civilization, a mere seven thousand years old, had developed Law Power weapons capable of altering and destroying the natural environment. It could be called a thriving civilization full of potential, with a bright future ahead.
They lived in this shallow, muddy sea of