This was a vast and misty lake.
It was perfectly round, and the lake water was pure. It was like a silver-white round mirror that was inverted at the foot of the rolling hills.
Once upon a time, this was a place where countless creatures gathered and drank water. It was also a hunting ground for ferocious beasts such as wolves, tigers, leopards, and so on.
However, ever since the rise of humans and the occupation of this mirror-like lake, no ferocious beasts dared to come here to hunt.
Those ferocious beasts that were too stupid to realize the horror of humans had all turned into piles of white bones, towers, and tombstones of various shapes by the lake.
On this night, the starlight was especially dazzling. Even the large and round moon was unable to conceal the dazzling starlight. The starlight converged into a vast ocean, and it also seemed like a silver storm that rained down from the vault of heaven onto the ground.
The tribe at the foot of the mountain lit a bonfire and was having a grand celebration. They were celebrating that they had hunted another huge prey.
A tribesman whose face was full of wrinkles and whose back was slightly hunched walked away from his tribe and came to the side of the lake.
Behind him was the joyous and noisy celebration.
In front of him was the silent and deep unknown.
The tribesman first stared at his reflection in the lake.
His forehead was slightly tilted backward, and his nose was big and flat. The hair on his face had not completely faded, but two huge canine teeth were bared at the side of his lips. At first glance, he still had not completely gotten rid of the traces of primordial and ignorance.
However, his slightly yellow and turbid eyes were quietly absorbing the starlight reflected in the lake. Gradually, they became deep and sharp, adding a few pitch-black and silver-white colors.
The tribesman's gradually sharp eyes continued to extend. First, he licked the bright moon in the lake. Then, following the moonlight and starlight, he extended his eyes to the sky.
When billions of stars exploded in his eyes, he could not help but reach out his hairy arms toward the endless sea of stars, as if he wanted to grasp the entire universe in his palm.
"Ow ow, ow ow ow ow!"
He began to howl, as if he wanted to use his howls to break the darkness between heaven and earth. He wanted to give the moon and every star a name. Moreover, he wanted to summon his tribe to go to the moon and stars one day and see what the world in the sky looked like.
Boom!
Right when the tribesmen extended their hands toward the starry sky and howled, the whole world burst out in dazzling golden light again, representing that the testers had completed the second leap and evolved from the ancient times to the medieval times, giving birth to a real 'civilization'!
Li Yao watched all this quietly.
He was like an omnipresent and omnipotent god, overlooking the rise, struggle, expansion and conquest of countless human tribes.
Then, he entered the body of this tribesman who was facing the lake and gazing up at the starry sky. He personally felt the indescribable joy and emotion of the first time a human knew him and was curious about the starry sky.
"That's it?"
Li Yao looked at 'himself' who was jumping and waving in the lake and mumbled in confusion, "Is this all the so-called 'ultimate test'?"
No wonder he was confused.
Although it was very difficult to make thousands of choices for the evolution of life in a short period of time and ultimately lead to the birth of a civilization, these choices basically did not escape the basic path of human evolution. Li Yao only needed to rely on his instincts to roughly complete the advancement from an ancient fungi blanket to a human tribe.
Such a test did not seem to match the power and mystery of the ancestor — the creator of the black wall. It was not enough to stump a hundred ancient civilizations!
Li Yao pondered for a moment and instantly understood that he had taken it for granted.
From his point of view, of course, he would feel that the 'ultimate test' was too simple because he was a pure human, a 100% genetic replica of the ancestor.
Therefore, he knew very well how he, the ancestor, had walked the path of evolution. His instinctive reaction was the correct answer.
However, what if the tester was not a human like him, but another carbon-based intelligent life form?
For example, if the tester was a mollusk like jellyfish and sponges that was born in rivers, lakes, and seas like the 'Gonggong Clan', would they be able to tell at a glance that the 'little silver fish' was the race with the most hope to climb to the peak of evolution?
In fact, a 'Gonggong Clan' tester would definitely choose to go to the land instead of exploring the deeper parts of the ocean to search for the one in a billion possibility of a civilization being born from the sea.
In the same way, the 'Zhurong Clan' was an extremely special carbon-based intelligent life form that was born in volcanoes and magma environments. They relied on high temperature and 'poisonous gas' to survive. When a Zhurong Clan tester was in the initial underwater volcanic environment, could he really resist the temptation to change the structure of the outer membrane of his cells and absorb a large amount of heat?
Even the seemingly most successful and powerful carbon-based intelligent life form, the 'Pangu Clan', was the same. Compared to humans, the Pangu Clan was closer to giant reptiles. Many of the Pangu Clan looked like humanoid tyrannosauruses. Perhaps, on the original planet of the Pangu Clan, giant reptiles such as dinosaurs had never encountered meteorite attacks and climate changes. That was why the Pangu Clan had evolved into the unique appearance they had today.
Then, when a Pangu Clan tester was faced with a choice between reptiles and mammals, could he naturally choose mammals like Li Yao and persevere to the end no matter how many difficulties and setbacks he encountered?
It was impossible. The logical way of thinking of every carbon-based intelligent life form was greatly affected by its physical form, which was the environment of its original planet. Even if they had once obtained the cells of their ancestors, deeply analyzed the genetic fragments of their ancestors, and roughly knew how their ancestors' evolutionary path had been, in the face of a rapidly changing environment, when they had to make hundreds of thousands of choices in a second, they would still involuntarily carry the distinct imprint of their own civilization.
In other words, the Gonggong Clan, the Zhurong Clan, the Pangu Clan, or those 'mechanical civilizations', 'Black Iron Civilization', 'Semi-Energy Civilization' … The mutated choices and final forms of evolution of the various testers were definitely not what Li Yao was seeing now.
From this point of view, the thinking of the experts and scholars in the Immortal Palace was very correct. Only by replicating a real human being could they completely see through the thoughts of their ancestors. They could even complete the tests of their ancestors without any effort by instinct.
However, reaching this step was only the beginning.
From the bottom of the sea to the land, from ignorance to wisdom, from the spirit of all things to the king of the universe, human beings still had a long way to go. And this' path to heaven 'that followed the starlight to enter the universe was probably the real test.
Sure enough, when this thought flashed through his mind, another calm, deep, and ancient voice sounded.
"You're here."
The voice said.
The way this voice communicated information was similar to the way the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan used, but it used a very special information compression and encryption structure. The amount of information carried in one syllable was dozens of times more than that of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan.
As a result, thousands of waves rippled in Li Yao's mind. It took him a long time to digest and absorb the short three syllables.
Li Yao manipulated the tribesman, took a deep breath, and sat down beside the lake.
The bright moonlight, the bright stars, the calm lake, and the laughter of the clansmen behind him were the most suitable dojo for discussing the mysteries of the ancient times.
"How should I address you?"
Li Yao tried to remain calm as his consciousness condensed into ripples. "Is it 'Ancestor Origin', 'Blackwall Maker', or 'Primeval Human'?"
"Titles mean nothing to us. Whether it's' Ancestor Origin ',' Blackwall Maker ', or' Primeval Human ', they are all fine," the voice said.
"A long time ago, which is what you call the 'Primeval Age', our race created the first civilization in this Cosmic Sea. Even if it was not the first generation civilization in the true sense, civilizations older than us were all conquered and swallowed by us. Therefore, we call ourselves the 'Primitive Civilization'. You can also call us the 'Primitive Race'."
"Cosmic Sea, Primitive Race?"
Li Yao did not miss any opportunity to get to the bottom of it. "What does Cosmic Sea mean? Is it the multiverse?"
"Have you seen 'grapes' before?"
Not only did the voice utter the syllable of 'grape', it also showed Li Yao almost a thousand plants that looked like grapes. "If every universe is a grape, a bunch of grapes will be a 'cosmic ocean', or a 'mother universe', when they are gathered together," Li Yao said.
"But —"
Li Yao's soul suddenly shrank. "On a grape vine, there is far more than a bunch of grapes. There are hundreds and thousands of grapes. Do you mean that there is more than one 'multiverse' but countless multiverses, countless' Cosmic Seas', and countless' Mother Universes'?"
"Good question," the voice said.
There was a refusal to answer in the syllables and an explanation. Even if he forced himself to answer, Li Yao would not be able to understand it at all. Instead, it would consume his mind and make him lose himself in the vastness of the Myriad Worlds. "It's just that I can't tell you the answer. The answer above the Cosmic Sea is far beyond the scope of what our information exchange can explain."
"Then …"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and felt that the voice did not mean to keep him at arm's length. He changed the direction and continued to ask, "Do you admit that you are the 'Primitive Race', the 'Ancestor Origin', the existence who created hundreds of generations of civilizations in the Pangu Universe? We are all your descendants. Your bloodline, your mutations, in a sense, were all created by you? "
"Yes."
The voice admitted frankly.
"And then? You created us and … destroyed us and hundreds of generations of civilizations?"
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