Like a car, compared to constantly repairing it, once it had been damaged to a certain extent, scrapping it outright and buying a new one was undoubtedly more cost-effective.
Life's instincts were the same!
There was no need for such precision, no need for such refinement, no need for everything to be exactly right—not too much, not too little. As long as it was enough.
But when Wisdom emerged, when life developed greater desires, when awareness of the self appeared, life's instincts still upheld the principle of enough, while life's Wisdom sought to pursue eternal existence!
At the same time, its own structure would no longer be limited to merely adapting to its current environment, but would instead strive for perfection, perfection, and ever greater perfection!
Until it became a truly perfect lifeform!
From mud and water, to vying with the sun and moon in brilliance.
The genetic information within Zhao Cheng's body burned, burning at an extreme speed. In fleeting flashes of light and shadow, it transformed cycle after cycle. The first cycle was still exceedingly pure, but gradually, it began to tend toward chaos.
Within the light and shadow, the giant with a hundred heads and a hundred arms grew scales, dragon horns sprouting from its head; within the light and shadow, the enormous azure dragon grew even more arms; the ever-changing great fish transformed into dry bones, yet did not die. Fine, dense holes emerged across those white bones, existing in symbiosis with some sort of airflow...
Chaos. Chaos. Everything had fallen into chaos!
This was the tremendous upheaval born after Zhao Cheng had fully mastered the forty-nine and then introduced that final one.
Many times, variables did not signify something good. Especially after introducing a variable into a stable system, what one gained first was most