"Yes, how can the new world be without animal friends?"
"I want a lynx."
"Put a Big Black one in."
"That's an animal?"
"Why aren't mythical beasts considered animals?"
"Good heavens, a demon hatchery, huh?"
"..."
The clones were making a ruckus, and Qin Ze began to try to sow intelligent life in this land.
However, when Qin Ze actually started to operate it, he found that it was not so simple.
Move a mountain, fill a sea.
Qin Ze only needed a thought.
But when he tried to create intelligent life, two intersecting spiral lines appeared on the two semi-transparent pages of the Chronicle of Time.
"This is... genes?"
Seeing this Bai Bai wanted to peek out to taste the saltiness again, but Qin Ze pinched its beak shut in time.
The genetic chain continues to rise and spiral.
Countless white stars appeared on both sides.
Qin Ze reached out and gently touched one of the stars, and a surge of information immediately flooded his mind.
It records information about the future evolution and mutation of this gene.
Those stars are actually segments of genetic information.
After Qin Ze casually dragged three stars into the gene spiral, the spiral lit up bright red and could no longer be dragged.
Qin Ze pondered, "All the genetic information is pre-set. I can only do limited DIY, randomly combining this information. But who prepared these pre-set stars...?"
Looking at the world he had created, Qin Ze felt he was getting closer and closer to the truth of the world.
After clearing the gene helix, Qin Ze began to examine the genetic information in each of the stars one by one.
As he continued to examine the area, Qin Ze's expression grew increasingly grave.
Because he saw the final form of the evolution of intelligent life within it.
There are Steel Melter, Blazing Sun Clan, Spirit Clan, and even Human Race.
Qin Ze thought of Senior Sister Nangong, whom he had met in the Chaos World.
It's likely that what's predetermined isn't just the direction of civilization's evolution, but also the specific individuals within that civilization.
A long silence fell over the Local Area Network.
It took Qin Ze a while to come to his senses.
Brother Devour then spoke up, "Civilization is nothing more than the result of random combinations."
"When a civilization dies out, a new one will emerge to take its place."
"There are simply too many possible combinations of these stars; even now, no two civilizations have been found to be exactly alike."
Qin Ze said, " The Chaos must be even larger, and the worlds within it must be even more numerous."
Brother Devour: "So that's why we ran into Human Race. Is this the so-called truth of the world?"
Qin Ze pondered for a moment, "It should be more than that."
This alone was not enough to cause the gods to collapse, to make them think of escaping the Five Elements and Two Realms, and to make them take action.
All we can say is that this is part of the truth.
The Dharma King asked curiously, "What kind of civilization do you want to create?"
Qin Ze thought for a moment and said, "I think human faces look better."
Immediately, he dragged the three selected stars into the gene helix, which turned bright red.
Qin Ze thought for a moment, then flipped his palm and took out a mid-level Soul Orb.
Brother Devour: "You wouldn't be thinking of...?"
Qin Ze nodded. "Add a little something extra."
The gene helix can only hold three stars, but the Soul Orb is not a star.
The Mist Lord quickly said, "I think it's best not to do that."
"If we add the genes of alien beasts into it, I can't even imagine what this world will eventually become."
The Clown scoffed, "Coward, I dare to dream that."
"The worst-case scenario is that everyone is a villain, leading to a global free-for-all—just thinking about it is exciting!"
Qin Ze said, "Whether this is an Abyss world or a Chaos World, we still don't know."
"If it's Chaos World, it won't have any impact on the Abyss, and it won't exist for long before it Annihilation itself."
Mist Lord: "What if it were the Abyss World? They'd create a civilization of alien beasts, and the Abyss wouldn't be chaotic enough already, would it?"
"I think it's best not to interfere; let the world grow wildly on its own."
Qin Ze said calmly, "Since we're already here..."
" The Abyss World isn't a big problem either. I'm keeping an eye on it and will nip any unstable factors in the bud."
The Dharma King interjected, "You all have quite a long-term vision; maybe this Soul Orb can't even be inserted in the first place."
Qin Ze actually had another idea.
He did not want to create a civilization exactly like Human Race.
Because he was afraid of seeing an exact replica of himself.
Click--
With a slight exertion of his right hand, Qin Ze crushed the Soul Orb into powder, Yangyang across the gene helix.
The Soul Orb powder vanished instantly, and the originally bright red gene spiral turned dark red.
The Dharma King said, "There really is a bug. I guess even the guy who designed it didn't expect someone to add something like this."
Watching the constantly spinning gene spiral, Qin Ze dripped another drop of his heart's blood onto it.
As the essence and blood were absorbed, the gene helix changed again.
One moment it's dark red, the next it's golden yellow.
The Magician said, "What's this? Half good, half bad?"
Qin Ze thought for a moment, then decided it wasn't enough and plucked the bald eagle off his shoulder.
What are you going to do?
"Kill the eagle!"
Bai Bai saw Qin Ze using the Five Elements Flying Swords to cut its feet, and it flapped its wings while emitting a sharp crackling sound.
Qin Ze sliced open the Bai Bai leg with his sword, and large drops of blood fell into the gene spiral.
"Shouting until you're hoarse won't do any good. Just cooperate."
Bai Bai: "Broken throat! Broken throat!"
After bleeding for a while, Qin Ze casually tossed Bai Bai away.
When the gene helix changes color, it becomes even blacker, almost entirely black with a touch of red.
Qin Ze was very satisfied. "The blood of Demigod Level beast, plus my Troupe Leader blood, that's more than enough."
After saying that, Qin Ze grasped the gene spiral and threw it into the air.
With a "pop," the gene helix shattered, bursting open like fireworks.
Miss Sword Case exclaimed, "So beautiful."
She seems to have always had a particular fondness for fireworks.
Bai Bai stared longingly at his bald patch on his leg, ignoring the newly blooming "fireworks."
The fireworks ended, and the world remained quiet; nothing had happened.
The clones sullenly asked, "So it's time for the old man's training session again?"
"Master Qin, when will the bloodshed finally turn into a river?"
"Skip~"
"..."
Qin Ze also wanted to skip it, but there was no skip button.
He now has no way to even transport the world's resources; the world's core has disappeared.
Brother Devour said, "Actually, there are still changes. Take a close look at the sea."
Qin Ze turned his gaze to the surging sea.
His gaze pierced through the sea, revealing countless tiny, almost imperceptible things swimming and floating.
The clones also followed Qin Ze's gaze and looked over.
"Where? Where? Let me see!"
"Single-celled organisms."
"Paramecium?"
"Even more paramecium-like than a paramecium."
"Let's give a warm round of applause to welcome our server's first veteran! The strongest warrior of Season 1!"
"..."
A smile appeared on Qin Ze's lips.
The first life has begun to sprout underwater.
As time went on, more and more changes began to occur in the ocean.
Plankton were born and produced a large amount of oxygen, making the world environment much better than Qin Ze had initially modified.
In oxygen-rich environments, all sorts of bizarre invertebrates have taken over the ocean.
However, Qin Ze discovered that all the forests and Huahua he had created had died.
The land became barren again, leaving only the original landscape.
Brother Devour said, "Mature plants from the Human Race world are no longer able to adapt to the current primitive world environment."
Looking at the increasingly diverse array of invertebrates in the ocean, the Dharma King remarked calmly, "The first event of Season 1 has attracted quite a few players."
Qin Ze sat high in the sky, silently observing with Miss Sword Case and Bai Bai.
Veteran players' joy didn't last long, as a new hero was released.
Shrimp clad in heavy shells, ten-meter-long behemoths resembling both crabs and octopuses, reptiles covered in black scales... all sorts of marine arthropods make their appearance.
The end is nigh for veteran players; they are powerless against the new heroes and can only be slaughtered like fish on a chopping board.
At the same time, a translucent ribbonfish appeared Soundlessness.
Its black spine and red internal organs are clearly visible.
The land near the ocean has gradually changed.
Red moss began to spread from the shore and quickly covered the entire land.
New vertebrate fish evolved in the sea, and new red shrubs emerged on land.
The world is thriving, and everything is moving in a positive direction.
Bai Bai blinked. "They're quite pretty Huahua."
Qin Ze shook his head. "Too much isn't necessarily a good thing."
Just as Qin Ze predicted, algae and plants on land and sea, as well as plankton in the ocean, worked together to consume large amounts of greenhouse gases, causing the entire world to be frozen and covered in ice.
Bai Bai was baffled. "It was fine just now, how did it suddenly turn into this mess?"
Qin Ze said, "Observe and think more; there's a lot to learn here."
A Bing said with great interest, "Season 1 is over, and it's time for server maintenance."
The Dharma King asked, "They're all dying, aren't you going to lend a hand?"
Qin Ze shook his head. "Life will find its own way."
As time went on, the world's temperature began to rise slowly, the ice on the sea and land gradually melted, and the fish and arthropods that had survived in the deep sea emerged.
The land evolved shrubs and forests, as well as colorful plants.
The ocean has become a vast hunting ground.
The octopus-crab, tens of meters long, has become a true apex predator of the ocean, wreaking havoc.
Overwhelmed by the weight, some of the fish ventured onto land.
Qin Ze looked at the fish breathing heavily on the shore and felt a very subtle feeling in his heart.
"Welcome ashore, ancestor!"
"A veteran from the start of Season 2."
"Now it's true what they say, old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
"Let the blood flow like a river quickly."
"..."
As the ancestors came ashore, the variety of animals on land gradually increased.
Various colossal beasts, dozens of stories high, roam the forests and land.
Animals are large, but plants are even larger.
Shrubs hundreds of meters high and flowers and grasses tens of meters high can be seen everywhere.
However, when these plants broke, the liquid that flowed out was not clear sap, but a dark red liquid.
The Mist Lord asked, "Is this correct?"
Qin Ze said calmly, "Isn't it normal for a tree to bleed?"
Bai Bai, perched on my shoulder, said, "This is too weird. The tree is bleeding, and the blood is the same color as mine."
Qin Ze: "..."
"If you can't speak, shut your beak."
Bai Bai glanced at him sideways, muttering to herself, "What a hot-tempered guy."
Boom boom boom--
Volcanic eruptions on both the mainland and the seabed triggered a series of chain reactions, including tsunamis and earthquakes...
Countless tons of lava and volcanic ash were ejected.
The seawater was boiled, volcanic ash blotted out the sun, and various fragments and particles ejected from the volcano were sprayed at the ground like machine gun bullets.
Forests were set ablaze, rivers and lakes dried up, and life on land and in the sea began to die on a massive scale.
The Dharma King sighed, "Season 2 is over so quickly."
"Quick, look at our ancestor!"
Qin Ze turned his gaze to an underground cave. "The ancestor is alive and well."
After the disaster, the ancestor crawled out of the cave.
Some returned to the ocean, while others continued to take root on land, working hard and persevering.
Upon closer inspection, it's not hard to spot a faint golden ring around the ancestor's neck.
Blood-red mycelium covered the earth after the natural disaster.
Marine plankton are like cockroaches, impossible to kill, contributing large amounts of oxygen through photosynthesis.
The world has been reborn.
Season 3 has begun.
Qin Ze couldn't help but say, "At crucial moments, we still have to rely on the Ancestor."
The forest rose up once more, teeming with all sorts of eerie animals.
Even though Qin Ze had traveled to so many alien worlds, he had never seen so many strange animals.
It's like we've stirred up Cthulhu's nest; the animal designs this season are all more abstract and sinister than the last.
However, they are all much smaller, unlike last season when they were dozens of stories high.
A basketball-sized ball covered in black tentacles rolled incessantly on the ground.
As I passed by a bush, its roots emerged from the ground, binding me tightly and stuffing me into the bush's gaping maw.
Before it could finish digesting, a mythical creature with ant-like mandibles and a body covered in black armor opened its mouth and snapped the bush in two.
The shrub's cross-section continuously spewed out black water like a spring, which the anthropomorphic creatures ignored and feasted on.
"Cracking--"
A cry came from the sky.
A three-headed bald eagle with a wingspan of nearly fifty meters swooped down at high speed, its scorpion-like hooked tail piercing the figurative creature and suspending it in the sky.
The Mist Lord said, "A sea urchin covered in tentacles, a tree that bleeds, an eagle with three heads, is that right?"
Bai Bai muttered softly, "This isn't right! This world is too weird."
Qin Ze: "..."
This world appears thriving and full of life, but none of its plants or animals are normal; even the inconspicuous weeds by the roadside reveal sharp fangs.
Qin Ze was now wondering if he had added too much Bai Bai.
A clone asked, "When will it reopen?"
Qin Ze felt that the world wouldn't reopen anytime soon.
He could clearly sense that the rules of the world had become stable.
A humanoid creature wearing a grass skirt emerged from beside the recently broken bush.
He held a gourd-like container in his hand, collecting the black water flowing from the broken wood.
Upon seeing this, Qin Ze said, "A higher form of intelligent life has appeared."
(Still a two-in-one story; just enjoy the world evolution in this chapter, it's not that rigorous.)