Extraordinary Voyage
Chapter 1063 - 933: Sowing the Seeds of Life
Aiven stood tall above an expansive green lake, breathing in the scorching air composed mainly of carbon dioxide, reaching a temperature of 82 degrees.
He looked up at the sky, which appeared hazy due to drifting volcanic ash, where a pair of moons, pale blue and bright red, were not quite perfectly rounded.
He felt a heartfelt sense of vigoration.
Previously, during the 182nd experiment, a solid rocky planet with an atmosphere was discovered.
After cautiously releasing two waves of small demon eye detectors and confirming that there were no dangers around, Aiven eagerly dispatched an embodiment to descend.
"The atmospheric components are mainly carbon dioxide, water vapor, hydrogen, and some other gases. The crust components resemble Herag Star, yet the elemental contents are significantly different.
For instance, the aluminum element here is not as rich as Herag’s reserves, though the amount is still considerable."
Beside Him was Olivia, appearing with a gemstone possession embodied in a sapphire long dress and crystal high heels, looking indistinguishable from a real person.
Swoosh——!
Mid-sentence, a meteor ignited by the atmosphere whizzed across the horizon, crashing to the ground thousands of kilometers away.
It triggered a powerful earthquake and a series of volcanic eruptions. The surging lava and ash shot into the high sky, darkening the sky even further.
Turning his gaze away, Aiven waved to disperse the incoming storm, yet displayed a satisfied smile:
"Though this place seems unfriendly to mankind, it is a very young planet, experiencing rapid and profound changes.
Volcanic activity is gradually slowing, the atmosphere continues to thicken, primitive oceans are starting to form... the future holds boundless possibilities.
In short, this is a good beginning, far better than I initially imagined."
Despite descending only for a few minutes, His Eye of Profound Wisdom already foresaw the planet’s future development trend.
Total mass: 6.4171✕10^23 kg; average density: 3.9335 g/cm³; diameter: 6779 km; surface temperature: 82 ℃; average orbital speed around the star: 24.007 km/s...
The orbital period is approximately 687 Herag star days, with a day slightly longer than Herag Star, about 24 hours and 40 minutes.
The surface pressure is 1.5 times that of Herag Star, while gravity is 2/3 of Herag’s.
Due to this planet being about 200 light years from Herag Star and its life cycle still being in the early stage, volcanic activity is quite intense.
Nevertheless, the active volcanoes throughout the planet have released large amounts of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases, forming a dense primitive atmosphere.
Then.
As the water vapor concentration in the primitive atmosphere increased, more water vapor condensed into small droplets, gathered into rain, and returned to the surface, forming primitive oceans in basins and valleys.
Forward several billion years, Herag Star was probably in such a state initially too?
If there’s a significant visible difference.
The biggest difference is perhaps the presence of two irregular satellites orbiting this young planet, essentially its "moons."
Even though the surface appears slightly scorching, making it temporarily unsuitable for human habitation, it already contains the fundamental conditions for the emergence of primitive life.
Aiven even discovered "anaerobic prokaryotic bacteria" in the salty lake beneath his feet, resembling those on Herag Star, though with distinct differences in their genetic chains.
Aiven believed that if this planet were left to evolve naturally, perhaps in just a few billion to a dozen million years, it might transform into a habitable planet.
Would He protect the native ecosystem and let the planet develop on its own?
The answer is obviously no.
"Hesi, give me a drop of blood."
"Alright."
Aiven casually flicked a drop of golden-red divine blood belonging to the demigod, and within the Wizard Secret Realm, another drop automatically emerged, from Olivia’s true form.
Whoosh——!
Amidst the pervasive red light, the two drops of blood merged and started to expand a thousandfold.
Within them were numerous runes, techniques, spell imprints, double helix structural chains, and endless knowledge colliding, cheering, and jubilant, as if containing a universe!
Though on another planet, Aiven’s Authority: All Things Coexisting is severely restricted, yet if it’s merely acting upon His creations, that’s still manageable.
Boom!
When the golden-red sphere expanded to the limit, it suddenly exploded.
Endless spore-like entities transformed into billions of streaks of flowing light, rushing into the sky, swiftly descending towards the entire planet with the turbulent air currents.
One of them drifted down into the lake under their feet.
In the blink of an eye, it absorbed materials and nutrients, growing into a marvelous creature like moss, mushrooms, plants, and somewhat resembling animal tissues.
The sub-entity forms a structure similar to a tree trunk, with a diameter of 1 meter and a height of 8.8 meters, woven together by bundles with a diameter of 50 microns.
This is a type of Native Species named "Proto Pine Algae" by Aiven.
With resilient life force and powerful reproductive capabilities, they can transform the solid rock on the planetary surface into soil, convert carbon dioxide into oxygen... carrying out powerful planetary transformation work.
When the external environment gradually reaches the predetermined target, it will trigger their internal set program, initiating division and evolution millions of times faster than normal organisms.
Thus reproducing a flourishing ecosystem of immense diversity! 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
This is truly the "Life Tree" in its fullest sense.
The most romantic thing I can think of is planting the seeds of life with you on a primitive planet in the universe, becoming the ancestors of all life on this planet.
The two stood hand in hand in the sky, looking at the planet beneath them, which had been given a significant push and was now rapidly evolving.
"Hesi, as the mother of all future life on this planet, why don’t you give it a name?"
Olivia, who finally experienced being a "mother" in a roundabout way, with her sapphire-like eyes sparkling with starry rivers, leaned on Aiven and said:
"How about calling it ’Departure Star’?"
Serving as the starting point of their Interstellar Great Navigation, much like the first island discovered in the vast ocean during the initial stages of human exploration, it holds significant meaning.
At this moment, Milan’s voice came from the Eye Demon probe floating beside them:
"I say, how much longer will you old married couple continue your lovey-dovey act? Come on, let’s go again; this time, I must create a habitable planet!
I feel like I’ve mastered the secret of the Gravity Well."
The only constant thing in the world is "change," and this is especially true for a wizard’s knowledge.
After so many experiments, combining the knowledge from his past life, Aiven has made a judgment that the reason teleportation targets more easily appear next to massive celestial bodies is likely because they possess a Gravity Well.
The "Gravity Well" or "Gravitational Well" is a conceptual model of a spatial gravitational field surrounding a celestial body. The greater the mass of the celestial body, the deeper the gravity well, and the larger the range.
It’s akin to placing an iron ball on a stretched cloth, causing the cloth around the ball to sink downwards.
Similarly, a massive celestial body can cause a similar depression in the surrounding space, causing smaller celestial bodies around it to fall into the depression, including the possibility of generating gravity.
Not only Catrio’s Wheel uses this technology.
Even the Chaos Worm, which crossed the universe to reach Herag Star before becoming a god, is the same.
The key for powerful Space-Time Path Extraordinary to perform ultra-long distance space jumps without relying on Magic Element is likely the Gravity Well generated by massive celestial bodies.
Feeling that he has mastered the technique, Milan is addicted, like drawing a blind box, eager to start the next round.
Furthermore, their current gains are not limited to this.
During the first impact, Aiven received information that 94,605 billion kilometers, or one light-year away, exists Kushitia Star, already enveloped by the rules corresponding to the next Era.
And the positions of celestial bodies in the universe are all relative; nothing remains stationary. "Kushitia" is likely the closest fixed star system to Herag in the next tens of thousands of years.
It’s also the critical point of interaction between two aspects in the Spirit Realm, soon to enter the same aspect of the Spirit Realm.
Based on this, and with the results of 182 explorations, they roughly determined that the spatial scale corresponding to a certain aspect of the Spirit Realm and the Material World is about 20 light-years.
In the Zero Civilization’s stable strategy left behind.
To integrate countless possibilities and rules into one, transforming into chaos color, requires at least about twenty Eras, which translates to connecting at least twenty aspects of the Spirit Realm.
In other words, they need to find at least twenty habitable planets within a span of at least 400 light-years.
Although the task is indeed daunting, at least there is a plan in mind.
And selection of personnel is something Aiven has been doing for a long time.
Although the purpose of interstellar immigrants is to allow humans to reach out and contact different aspects of the Spirit Realm, and then collectively unconsciously resist the Spiritual Tide occurring approximately every 500,000 years.
But, of course, there are considerations in choosing who to migrate.
"World Consciousness" and natural selection during each Era Catastrophe have long given Aiven direction: those with mediocre Spiritual Talent.
As the God of All Things Fertile, he has effortlessly identified the target group and selected the appropriate genetic traits.
In the future, new disciplines, Cosmic Ecology and the Human Breeding Plan, will be the focal points of the Life Tree School.
Of course, at the initial stage of interstellar exploration, the necessary scientific and technological knowledge for applying various cosmic constants must also be prepared in advance.
The two returned to the Moon and turned to look at Herag Star, which had just completed the Steam Industrial Revolution and had not yet fully entered the electric age.
At that moment, an unprecedented technological explosion in human history was quietly brewing!