It and the Investiture of the Gods followed two entirely different paths.
If the Investiture of the Gods represented the pinnacle of sociology and rule theory, then the Tree of Life Formation Diagram was the ultimate expression of biology and information science.
Zhang Qi's consciousness sank into it.
He saw it. He saw the first single-celled organism that had accidentally emerged from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent; he saw how it divided, evolved, grew flagella, and swam toward the shallows.
He saw the transition from carbon-based to silicon-based life, from flesh-and-blood bodies to pure energy lifeforms, from following linear time to quantum phantoms existing at every point in time—
Across the infinite multiverse, every form ever called "life" could find its own coordinates within this vast diagram.
To comprehend it meant being able to interfere with it.
Even someone at Adam's level of cultivation could use this diagram to effortlessly link the consciousness of every living being on a planet and trigger a psychic tsunami.
Such a function was of little use to Zhang Qi now.
What truly held value was the diagram itself.
The endless construction data on lifeforms it contained.
"There'll be plenty to keep me busy next—"
A trace of irrepressible excitement surfaced on Zhang Qi's face.
The feeling was like a physicist suddenly being told that all of CERN was his alone to use, with every piece of equipment and every scrap of data open to him indefinitely.
This was just too damn satisfying!
His figure flashed as he flew toward the land below, which he had only just reshaped.
In the end, he stopped above a stretch of azure sea and chose a desolate island of modest size whose spiritual energy nodes were perfectly suited to his needs.
He stretched out his hand, and the River