A Planetary Lifeform
"Um?"
"What's going on?"
Lu Yan'an, who was the first to be teleported into the Nyarlathotep Wormhole, looked at the many figures that had disappeared behind him with great confusion.
Looking around, Lu Yan'an found himself seemingly in a cosmic starry sky. In front of him, a planet orbited two stars, one red and the other blue. Apart from these three celestial bodies, the entire space was nothingness.
"Could it be that the teleportation point behind this Nyarlathotep Wormhole is random?" Lu Yan'an asked this question after confirming his surroundings again with his Spiritual Force. Moreover, he didn't know when, but the Nyarlathotep Wormhole that had teleported him in had disappeared, meaning that he now had no room to retreat.
"The wormhole's disappearance does match what the Demon Eye said. But the random location teleportation is indeed a bit unexpected! However, it doesn't matter, since this Demon Beast Clone wasn't carrying any Supreme Treasure, it doesn't matter if it perishes here." Although the Demon Eye had mentioned some information about the Nyarlathotep Wormhole, it had only been here once, so the lack of some information was understandable.
"Since it's a random teleportation, it means all the experience the Demon Eye gave me is useless! What should I do now?" Lu Yan'an was also a little confused. This was a stress response when a person arrives in an unfamiliar environment. However, he quickly focused his attention on the special star system in front of him.
"This is actually a planet with signs of life? How is that possible?" Having wandered the universe for 60,000 Years, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise after receiving the feedback from his Spiritual Force. While countless miracles occur in the universe that would otherwise be impossible, these "miracles" all follow the fundamental laws governing the universe. Even during Years 60,000 years of wandering, Lu Yan'an had never witnessed any signs of life on a planet orbiting a binary star system!
Logically speaking, life could not possibly arise on planets orbiting a binary star system. Due to the interaction of the gravitational fields of the two stars, the orbits of these planets are constantly changing. The resulting perturbations would cause the planets' orbits to alternately contract and expand. If any initial life did emerge, it would be mercilessly destroyed by the intense heat of radiation or the extreme cold of freezing temperatures. These changes occur over periods of millions of years, but this is a very short time on an astronomical or biological scale, as the evolution of life generally takes hundreds of millions, or even billions, of years.
The strangest thing is that there seems to be a subtle force in this celestial system composed of three celestial bodies, subtly altering the trajectory of the only planet among them. With Lu Yan'an's level of Universe Venerable, he could calculate the location where this planet would fall the next moment with just a glance. Under normal circumstances, it should gradually move to a place less than half an astronomical unit away from its red sun, and then fall into that scorching bottomless abyss.
However, this planet never appeared at the position calculated by Lu Yan'an. Instead, it seemed to continue moving around the binary stars steadily, just like the orbits of planets in the Solar System. This situation completely violated the laws governing the universe!
After a moment's thought, Lu Yan'an flew towards the strange planet.
What came into view was a planetary surface almost entirely covered by oceans, with a few highlands rising from them. Although this planet was 20% larger in diameter than the Yuan Planet, the total area of these highlands floating on the ocean surface was less than one percent of the Yuan Planet's land area. These small landmasses were mostly rocky, resembling deserts, and irregularly distributed across the planet's surface, mostly in the southern hemisphere, and even lacked oxygen in their atmosphere. After another careful scan with his Spiritual Force, he found no signs of life on the land or in the ocean.
"That's strange. There was clearly a life force in the Spiritual Force feedback just now, but why can't I detect anything now?" Having landed on a rocky area of about 600 square meters in Antarctica of this planet, Lu Yan'an stroked his smooth chin and muttered to himself. "Hmm? Wait a minute! This ocean..."
Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he stared intently at the ocean before him. After scanning it with his Spiritual Force, the composition of the ocean startled Lu Yan'an —this ocean was like an enormous single fluid cell, a layer of gelatinous substance covering the entire surface of the planet, and its depth in some places could even reach several kilometers. In other words, the ocean was not made of water!
It did not go through all the evolutionary stages experienced by the Yuan Planet's organisms—that is, it did not experience the emergence of single-celled and multicellular organisms, nor the evolution of plants and animals, nor the evolution of a nervous system and brain. Instead, it took a shortcut and jumped directly to the stage of "Steady-State Ocean".
In other words, unlike the life forms on the Yuan Planet, it did not gradually adapt to its surroundings over hundreds of millions of years in order to eventually develop into a rational species. Instead, it learned to master its environment from the very beginning. Upon closer inspection, this living ocean has both shallows and deep trenches, and the islands in the sea are covered with a layer of weathered minerals, indicating that they were once part of the seabed—it can even control the rise and fall of the seabed rock layers!
Essentially, the oceans covering the entire planet are like a giant brain, and unlike the traditional evolutionary outcome of life on planets, it has followed a different evolutionary path!
"So this is the truth? I've never seen such a bizarre way of evolution before! This ocean is like the brain that this planet nurtured, controlling this planet, and this entire planet is a Special Lifeform!" Lu Yan'an exclaimed in admiration.
Since he embarked on his journey into space, he has encountered quite a few Special Lifeform. However, the spectacle of a planet developing self-awareness and eventually evolving into life is truly a first for him!
"Not good!" Suddenly, Lu Yan'an's expression changed! He noticed that the surrounding seawater seemed to be consciously surging towards this rocky area, while the red ocean on the other side automatically parted, forming a path. "Is it telling me to take this path? That's interesting. Let's go take a look!"
Having made up his mind, he instantly rushed down below. Almost immediately, the entire seawater layer began to tremble, with a series of invisible barriers deep within the sea. He then penetrated the rocky layer beneath the sea, and in the blink of an eye, Lu Yan'an saw a vast and magnificent continuous palace complex deep underground, radiating dazzling light that illuminated all directions. Countless palace buildings exuded various auras, some of which were the aura of Peak True Treasure, and others were the remains of Special Lifeform forms at a high level. The various auras permeated the air, making one's heart ache.
This road leads straight to the most magnificent palace in this sprawling complex. Its main gate is tall and imposing, as if to welcome visitors, and it is currently wide open.
"Is the Planetary Lifeform urging me to go to this palace?" Lu Yan'an sensed that the surrounding environment was once again covered by the red ocean on the planet, and shook his head with a smile, "Then let me see what you're really planning."
He walked straight through the gate. As he passed through, the surrounding space changed, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared on a stone-paved road shrouded in white mist. Ahead of the stone-paved road was a fork in the road with three paths.
"There were no hints, is this some kind of random choice?" Staring at the three paths radiating different lights, Lu Yan'an fell into deep thought. Subconsciously, he spread his Spiritual Force outwards, Spiritual Force to investigate them.
Suddenly, two of the lights on the three paths went out. At the same time, an extremely powerful Spiritual Force erupted from those two paths, instantly pushing back Lu Yan'an's Spiritual Force! Only the leftmost path continued to emit light and did not experience the same Spiritual Force counterattack as the other two paths.
"I've decided on you!" After sensing the intensity of the Spiritual Force counterattacks from the other two paths, Lu Yan'an decisively walked towards the leftmost fork in the road, which was glowing with purple light.
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