original world

On a Transcendent Forum:

"Reliable news! The Third Generation Gene Modification technology has made a major breakthrough, containing 40% dark energy, with a 50% success rate for breaking the genetic lock!"

"Damn it! The First Generation Modification Agent only had 5% dark energy, the second generation had 15%, how is the third generation so high! Won't the status of ordinary people become lower and lower from now on?"

"Upstairs, why don't you just go and inject the third generation modification agent?"

"I'm out of money. I injected both the first and second generations, not only did I fail, but I lost all my family fortune, and my body is ruined."

"No matter what, just for this 50%, I'm willing to lose everything!"

"Calm down, the Third Generation Gene Modification agent contains 40% dark energy, which means that whether successful or not, it will cause 40% damage to one's own potential."

"Especially for those who injected the first and second generations consecutively and failed all breakthroughs, it's advised not to joke with your life."

..."Reality is indeed cruel." Lu Chuan closed the forum.

Fortunately, fate gave him an opportunity to open a new path:

【Your world has extracted the environment 'Mountain Range', do you want to invest it?】

【Your world has extracted the creature 'Warty Lamp Moss', do you want to invest it?】

【Your world has extracted the creature 'Golden Thread Loach', do you want to invest it?】

...In one morning, Lu Chuan successfully extracted all the plants he had purchased.

After cleaning up the mess on the ground, Lu Chuan looked at the extra reptile box and glass test tubes with air holes, feeling a bit hesitant.

Inside the reptile box was a female Colorful Scaled Lizard.

This is an herbivorous lizard that mutated from a native lizard under the influence of dark energy.

It has a beautiful appearance and extremely low aggression.

As for the creature in the test tube, it was an Abdomen-Patterned Spiny Ant Queen.

Abdomen-Patterned Spiny Ants are also mutated creatures, omnivorous, with extremely strong reproductive capabilities.

Both of these creatures are very suitable for keeping in a tropical Rainforest terrarium.

"Perhaps... the boss thought I was a diorama enthusiast?"

...Lu Chuan first invested the Mountain Range into his world.

As the mountains gathered, Lu Chuan placed the first dark energy crystal source into it.

【A small amount of dark energy has appeared in your world.】

Subsequently, Lu Chuan successively invested different plants according to their habits.

Under the dual influence of dark energy and time.

Some plants were annihilated in the river of time; some plants began to revert to ancestral forms, mutate, or even evolve new branches... After one hundred million years of frantic expansion and mutual predation.

Ninety percent of the land in this world has been completely covered by plants.

One hundred-zhang tall spiky trees, giant ferns tens of meters high, mushrooms of various shapes, flamboyant and beautiful flowers... At this moment, the world was a kingdom of plants.

The roles of producers and decomposers were entirely played by plants and fungi.

【Your world has a new environment: 'Rainforest'.】

Lu Chuan began to try introducing some herbivorous insects.

Earthworms, woodlice, grasshoppers, bees, caterpillars, golden thread loaches... and that Abdomen-Patterned Spiny Ant Queen.

In this land rich in spiritual energy and free of natural predators, these creatures adapted faster than Lu Chuan had imagined.

They frantically reproduced and evolved, and their body sizes tended to become increasingly colossal.

Especially that Abdomen-Patterned Spiny Ant Queen.

In just three years, this egg-laying machine-like creature had created an ant empire.

Abundant resources allowed the empire to expand without restraint, with five queens being housed simultaneously in one ant nest!

This phenomenon of "Five Sages Ruling" astonished him, but also made him realize the crisis hidden beneath the surface:

An imbalance between "wolves" and "deer" would ultimately lead to the collapse of the forest!

To prevent his painstakingly built ecosystem from being destroyed, Lu Chuan urgently introduced natural predators for the insects.

【Your world has extracted the creature 'Venus Flytrap', do you want to invest it?】

【Your world has extracted the creature 'Colorful Velvet Spider', do you want to invest it?】

【Your world has extracted the creature 'Spine-backed Piranha', do you want to invest it?】

...Night fell, and Lu Chuan once again adjusted the stable time flow rate of the world to its slowest.

Only then did Lu Chuan suddenly realize: "I haven't eaten in nearly twelve hours."

Lu Chuan looked at his rosy palms; they were no longer pale and yellowish, showing a healthy color for the first time.

"Just 0.02% of Ancient God Bloodline has such great efficacy, what if it were one hundred percent?"

"Perhaps I really can... become a god?"

At midnight, Lu Chuan nervously awaited the settlement rewards.

【You have successfully invested the new environment 'Mountain Range' into your world, rewarding 'dark energy crystal source'.】

【Your world has formed the new environment 'Rainforest', rewarding 'dark energy crystal source'.】

【A new species 'Sky-Reaching Fern' has been born in your world, rewarding 'Ancient God Bloodline +0.01%'.】

【A new species 'Extreme Illusion Mushroom' has been born in your world, rewarding 'Ancient God Bloodline +0.01%'.】

...At this moment, Lu Chuan completely understood the rules of the settlement rewards:

When a new law appears in this nascent world, the reward is 'Ancient God's Protection'.

This is an ability that bypasses the long evolutionary process of creatures, instantly deducing the ultimate evolutionary point of a biological species and directly sending it to the other shore.

This way, creatures introduced later would not be annihilated by species that have lived in this land for tens of millions of years before they had a chance to evolve.

This ability was hard-won, and Lu Chuan intended to save it for the third day when he would introduce more creatures.

"By my calculations, the things I bought should arrive tomorrow, right?"

When Lu Chuan invests a new environment into this world, he receives a 'dark energy crystal source'.

This is a valuable resource that can increase dark energy concentration and nurture a large number of dark energy crystals near the investment location.

The more dark energy crystal sources there are, the higher the biological limit of this world.

Ancient God Bloodline is a reward that directly affects Lu Chuan's body.

For every new stable species race that appears in the world, a 0.01% Ancient God Bloodline is rewarded, which is one ten-thousandth.

Lu Chuan's Ancient God Bloodline concentration is currently 1.79%.

The injuries and after-effects from the first two gene modification injections have all disappeared, and his formerly skinny body now has muscles.

"Once my Ancient God Bloodline concentration breaks through 2%, my physical fitness will reach above the average level of ordinary people!"

Lu Chuan was full of drive.

After investing two dark energy crystal sources separately into the Rainforest and the border between the Rainforest and the mountains, he once again adjusted the time flow rate to its slowest.

After only four hours of sleep, Lu Chuan eagerly got up to observe the situation within his world.

As the time flow accelerated, the rise and fall of species in the world also underwent tremendous changes.

First, the female Colorful Scaled Lizard; since Lu Chuan only introduced one, this Colorful Scaled Lizard chose parthenogenesis.

This cloning-like reproductive method meant that the offspring of the Colorful Scaled Lizard had genes identical to hers.

In other words, if a virus targeting this Colorful Scaled Lizard appeared in this world, the entire population would be wiped out.

Just as Lu Chuan worried whether this population would suddenly disappear, a male Colorful Scaled Lizard, mutated for some reason, was born.

This male Colorful Scaled Lizard did not have exaggerated colors; its scaled armor and larger, more massive body indicated its extraordinariness.

After mating with dozens of female Colorful Scaled Lizards, this population finally had offspring with a stable male-to-female ratio.

Another five thousand years passed, and three distinct branches appeared among the descendants of the Colorful Scaled Lizard:

One species had atrophied limbs and an expanded body, evolving into the forest overlord, the 'Ancient Forest Giant Boa'.

One species grew membranes on its forelimbs, first evolving low-altitude gliding ability, and eventually dominating the sky even before birds.

The last species was enormous, walked on all fours, and fed on plants and leaves.

The more Lu Chuan looked, the more familiar it seemed:

"Dinosaurs? Jurassic Park!?"

While excited, Lu Chuan decided on a name for this world:

Beginning World!

He once again turned his attention to the ant empire of "Five Sages Ruling."

The emergence of natural enemies and the squeeze on living space made this race, which had expanded frantically and recklessly, pay a price.

To preserve the torch of their race, the ants began to frantically make amends:

They first dismantled some of the "tank soldier" giant ants.

—This heavy weapon, which consumed immense resources, was only suitable for periods of racial prosperity.

Soon, the soldier ants turned their attention to their queens.

The illusion of prosperity, free from natural enemies and with abundant food, had led these queens to abandon their most basic defensive and mobility capabilities in exchange for near-immortal lifespans and almost abnormal reproductive abilities.

Now, their nest was clearly unable to supply these five highly productive "assembly lines" and the hundreds of millions of ant eggs produced daily, so they could only dismantle four of these assembly lines.

Facing a "five-choose-one" situation, the soldier ants tacitly chose to support the youngest queen, directing their aggression towards the creator of the entire ant kingdom—the first-generation queen.

Although somewhat regretful, Lu Chuan, as the creator and observer, still chose to stand by.

There was nothing he could do; this was the natural law of survival of the fittest.

Even the Creator could not interfere.

"Hiss—"

Thousands of soldier ants bit at her fragile abdomen, and the first-generation queen let out a painful roar.

Unexpectedly, the attacked first-generation queen did not choose to sit back and die or retaliate against her subjects.

Instead, she inserted her giant mouthparts into the body of the fifth-generation queen—the smallest queen.

A shiny red crystal was extracted by the first-generation queen and swallowed.

The wounds on the first-generation queen's body healed rapidly.

Lu Chuan couldn't help but exclaim, "crystal core!"

crystal cores are a symbol of Transcendent creatures.

Judging strength requires a reference point.

Even ants, seemingly at the bottom of the food chain, have stepped through the door of Transcendent creatures.

This forced Lu Chuan to re-examine the power system of this world.

The first-generation queen's unexpected action clearly went against the strict code ingrained in the entire colony's genes.

The entire ant empire plunged into chaos in an instant.

The first-generation queen began to rampage.

Crack!

As the remaining three queens were swallowed by the first-generation queen, a crisp sound of flesh tearing erupted from the first-generation queen's back.

A blood-red, black-armored monstrous insect burst forth from its cocoon.

Almost instantly, the chaotic ants immediately submitted to the feet of this monstrous insect, which resembled both an ant and a spider.

It was as if at this moment, she was no longer an egg-laying machine in the anthill, but the empress of an empire with supreme authority.

【A new species 'Devouring Insect Mother' has been born in your world.】

This was the most brutal evolution Lu Chuan had ever witnessed!

"Ding-dong—"

The doorbell rang.

Lu Chuan, who had just witnessed a struggle for kingship, snapped back to reality.

At the door was a huge incubator.

—These were various biological tissues Lu Chuan had bought with all his savings, including a tube of blood from a First-Order Transcendent.

Through previous experiments, Lu Chuan discovered that the Beginning World did not require a complete living organism to extract creatures; sufficient biological tissue was enough.

This saved Lu Chuan a lot of alliance coins and time.

Lu Chuan first took out the test tube containing the Transcendent's blood:

【Your authority is insufficient, extraction failed.】

This was the first time Lu Chuan had encountered such a situation. "It actually failed?"

Lu Chuan was not discouraged and quickly extracted other biological tissues.

After extracting everything, he used the most precious skill on the entire Beginning World:

Ancient God's Protection, activated!

For a moment, all the creatures in the entire Beginning World seemed to have had their acceleration buttons individually pressed.

Some creatures faded away, while new ones were born, evolved, and dominated their territories... 【Your world is nearing completion.】

It was finally no longer barren... But what surprised Lu Chuan the most was the Devouring Insect Mother, which evolved by devouring its own kind.

Under the influence of Ancient God's Protection, all the ants in the nest were replaced by the first-generation and second-generation insect soldiers bred by the Devouring Insect Mother.

The formerly fragile ant nest was no more, replaced by a terrifying insect nest resembling a war fortress.

And what astonished Lu Chuan most was that this species, which was supposed to communicate via pheromones, actually developed symbols similar to writing.

【A sentient species 'Insectoid Race' has been born in your world, and a low-level 'Civilization' has appeared in your world.】

【The 'Devouring Insect Mother' has sensed your presence and is attempting to communicate with you.】

【The 'Devouring Insect Mother' has offered you some crystal cores as a sacrifice, do you accept?】