Clouds drifted through Blue Star's skies. Water covered vast stretches of land, leaving only a small portion of higher ground exposed.
From Zhang Yang's perspective, great quantities of water evaporated under the sun, and the water vapor combined with dust in the air, slowly condensing into clouds.
As the water vapor within the clouds continued to condense, it gradually became oversaturated. Unable to withstand the pressure, the cloud droplets finally fell, forming rain once again.
Suddenly intrigued, Zhang Yang controlled two clouds with his mind, drawing them slowly toward each other from afar. The instant they touched-
Crack!
A bolt of lightning formed in the sky, releasing tremendous heat the instant it appeared and causing most of the surrounding air to expand.
The hot and cold air pressed against each other, producing a violent rumbling sound-what we commonly call thunder.
Zhang Yang grew playful, and the clouds in the sky suffered for it. Even clouds without rain were squeezed until they had no choice but to shed a few drops.
As the saying went, squeeze a little, and there would always be something.
After carefully examining every corner of Blue Star, he found that no life had emerged.
There were, however, many free-floating substances. He could sense their presence, but he had no idea what they were.
Watching the free-floating substances in the water, Zhang Yang began strengthening them directly with energy points while accelerating time.
One hundred thousand years, two hundred thousand years, five hundred thousand years.
Those free-floating substances were small inorganic molecules. With strengthening and acceleration, they slowly transformed into small organic molecules.
The small organic molecules then became organic macromolecules, which slowly formed multimolecular systems.
Watching his energy points burn away at a frantic rate, Zhang Yang felt like a crazed gambler.
Under Zhang Yang's perception, the molecular structures underwent a tremendous transformation. He sensed the breath of life.
"Hm? Cells have emerged!" At that moment, Zhang Yang was as happy as a child.
Under his control, the clouds in the sky suddenly formed a humanlike smiling face.
Looking at his remaining 480 energy points, he began burning through them frantically once again.
He used energy to strengthen the single-nucleus cells newly born in the ocean, while once again accelerating time.
One hundred thousand years, two hundred thousand years, three hundred thousand years.
As the energy points burned away, great numbers of archaea, fungi, and prokaryotic organisms emerged.
Vast quantities of cyanobacteria floated in the ocean, constantly drifting through the sea and slowly spreading across the entire planet.
Blue Star was 63% ocean, with land accounting for the remaining 37%.
With the emergence of cyanobacteria, Blue Star gained its first organisms capable of photosynthesis.
Blue Star's oxygen levels slowly rose. Many microorganisms unable to tolerate oxygen began dying off in enormous numbers. Some anaerobic organisms had no choice but to force their cell nuclei to slowly absorb oxygen. From then on, Blue Star became a paradise for oxygen-loving organisms.
Survival of the fittest. With no natural predators, cyanobacteria began reproducing in vast numbers, covering the entire planet's land and oceans.
Later generations would call it the Great Oxidation Event.
Time was still accelerating. Four hundred thousand years, five hundred thousand years, six hundred thousand years.
Great numbers of eukaryotic organisms emerged, and the rulers of Blue Star gradually evolved from algae into eukaryotes.
Green algae had emerged!
With the emergence of eukaryotic organisms, the grand feast of biological evolution officially began!
As time passed, the continental plates shifted. Vast stretches of land rose above the sea, and the terrain slowly began to change.
Successive movements of the crust joined many continents together. Great quantities of lava formed within Blue Star, and much of the heat could not escape, causing the temperature of the rock to rise continuously.
Rumble, rumble!
Zhang Yang witnessed a spectacular sight. Several volcanoes erupted straight from underground, and fiery red magma slowly flowed down from above.
With time accelerated, more and more volcanoes erupted, producing vast quantities of minerals.
Great quantities of magma flowed into the seabed, causing many plants to perish.
"Oh!"
As time continued to pass, Zhang Yang spotted sponges on the seabed!
This also meant that multicellular organisms had emerged.
Sponges were among the most primitive and ancient animals, and the ancestors of all animals!
The next few tens of thousands of years were nothing short of an explosion of life, with the ancestors of countless plants and animals emerging.
Blue Star began brimming with vitality. Great numbers of early ferns grew on land, while vast numbers of soft-bodied organisms drifted through the oceans.
The sight left Zhang Yang deeply excited, giving him the feeling of being an old father.
At this point, aside from ferns, Blue Star's land still had no animals. All living creatures remained in the oceans.
Looking at his mere 270 remaining energy points, Zhang Yang simply could not stop-the spectacle was just getting good. He chose to continue strengthening and accelerating.
Life evolved little by little. Arthropods, brachiopods, and gastropods began to appear, followed by an iconic representative of the arthropods-trilobites.
Vast numbers of trilobites began reproducing. They were the overlords of this era, sweeping all before them. The largest were over a meter long and roamed the oceans.
As the crust shifted, the climate constantly changed as well. Supremacy over the oceans changed hands repeatedly, with new overlords continually emerging. Zhang Yang did not intervene.
Over the next few tens of thousands of years, hundreds of species emerged. An ecosystem formed in the oceans, and the earliest vertebrates were born!
Blue Star during this era was the domain of fish!
One after another, vast numbers of fish began evolving. Some left the comfortable oceans to explore the continents, and amphibians, primitive insects, and reptiles emerged.
The land was covered in tall, primitive trees, with greenery covering as much as 70% of the continents. Some volcanoes erupted, burying vast numbers of trees beneath the crust.
By this point, the oxygen content of the air had reached 35%, and many plants and animals had become enormous.
Watching dragonflies over two meters long in the sky and four-meter-long centipedes crawling on the ground, Zhang Yang fell into thought. Those were dragonflies? They were practically fighter jets!
Then he looked into the ocean, at Helicoprion over ten meters long...
Fuck, would my Human Race even be able to beat these animals??
Still, the Human Race living in this kind of environment should have damn sturdy constitutions, right?
This wasn't Earth, after all. There was no basis for reference or comparison. This was a struggle for planetary supremacy, and they were all my subjects. Of course, the stronger they were, the better!
Having thought it all through, Zhang Yang stopped strengthening the animals. With 170 points remaining, he began slowly accelerating time.
Five thousand years, twenty thousand years, thirty thousand years.
Reptiles began branching into different groups. The ancestors of dinosaurs and mammals emerged!
Watching Dimetrodon, Lycaenops, Lystrosaurus, and Scelidosaurus several meters tall crawl across the land, Zhang Yang thought, There shouldn't be any starting planet that could beat mine, right??
"Once my Human Race emerges, riding dinosaurs and giant dragonflies, they should be strong as hell, right?"
Tens of thousands of years later, vast numbers of dinosaurs ran across the land, pterosaurs flew through the skies, and the largest creatures in the ocean, Shonisaurus, could reach lengths of twenty-one meters.
Selection favored the fittest. Zhang Yang did not intervene in climate change, but Blue Star had never experienced excessively extreme weather, nor had any meteorites from outer space struck it.
Blue Star's land had become almost entirely a dinosaur paradise: Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, Carcharodontosaurus, Velociraptor, Giganotosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex.
In the oceans were overlords such as Mosasaurus, Pliosaurus, Tylosaurus, and Kronosaurus.
Looking at the animals on his planet, he brimmed with pride. These were all his own children!
Just then, Zhang Yang immediately stopped accelerating time and used his will to sense the situation beyond Blue Star.
Through his perception, he detected a spherical object flying in from the distant universe, heading straight toward Blue Star.
Zhang Yang grew somewhat grave. Was this a natural disaster, or...?
Could a meteorite from outer space be about to strike? Was I screwed right at the start?
Watching the dinosaurs freely hunting on his planet, Zhang Yang felt a pang of sorrow. Could they still not escape the hand of fate?
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