Low Dimensional Game

by Stayrr

By accident, Lu Zhiyu found the entrance to a low-dimensional world, and thus began a totally different journey! Free to control everything in the low-dimensional game, Lu Zhiyu felt like a gamemaster, and even God.

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Low Dimensional Game

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By accident, Lu Zhiyu found the entrance to a low-dimensional world, and thus began a totally different journey!

Free to control everything in the low-dimensional game, Lu Zhiyu felt like a gamemaster, and even God.

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Chapter 1: Two-Dimensional Painting Space

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

"I am sorry to tell you that you have lung cancer. But, if you receive treatment, there is still a chance of recovery. Does your family know about it? We suggest that you be admitted to the hospital and receive treatment!"

"How long do I have left?"

"You have most likely contracted it for some time. But, there is still…!"

Lu Zhiyu walked out of the hospital in a daze. It seemed unreal, like a dream. The people who walked past him were like from a different world, as if there was an invisible boundary that separated him from reality.

Lu Zhiyu had no intension of starting any treatments. He had cancer—there was no point in wasting money to treat it. Even if he were to die, he did not want to die in agony on a hospital bed, with tubes inserted into his body.

Since his youth, Lu Zhiyu's lungs had not been healthy. He coughed often. After having worked in the capital for a few years, whenever there was smog, his cough

would get worse.He had wanted to leave the capital for a while but he had reached the height of his career, so he kept putting it off. Recently, his symptoms had become more severe, but Lu Zhiyu had shrugged it off. He had not expected things to turn out this way.

After he resigned from his job, Lu Zhiyu bought a flight ticket and made his way home, back to Jiangcheng. Lu Zhiyu was born in Jiangcheng, and his home was an old house with its own entrance and courtyard. It looked very modern after some renovations, but because no one was living there, the courtyard currently looked unkempt and lifeless.

Lu Zhiyu's parents had passed away a long time ago and he did not have any close relatives. He had also gradually lost touch with his good friends from school after he entered the workforce. When they had run into each other again after a number of years, the once close friends had become calculating and distant, not as they were before. Some things were just better kept as memories in the past. As for his colleagues, they were friendly to each other in the office but Lu Zhiyu could no longer open up his heart as easily as he did in his youth.

After giving it some thought, Lu Zhiyu felt that his life was very pointless. It seemed like there was a standard life template, which had been applied to millions of others, was also forced on him. Other than this cancer incident, he had been living like a puppet, directed by people, society, and fate.

The house had been vacant for a long while and was filled with dust. After removing the furniture covers, he started to clean up. He found quite a number of old items. Toys, textbooks, and drawings were revealed and they brought back many memories from his childhood.

Hmmm, what is this?

He found an old, red, wooden box on a shelf in the storeroom. After opening it, he found that it was filled with several things. There was a badge of the head of a peasant, an ink slab, and a red book. What most caught Lu Zhiyu's attention, however, was a white scroll.

The scroll was unusually white and without a single blemish. The quality of the paper was so fine that it shimmered as if it had been brushed with a layer of oil. When a piece of paper had been around for a long time, the color would change, and this scroll seemed to have been left in the box for a long time without proper care, but it was surprisingly well-maintained.

These items must have been left behind by his grandfather. Lu Zhiyu was curious to find out what had been painted on the scroll. He slowly spread it out on the table in the living room, but his anticipation quickly turned into disappointment.

What? It is empty!

As Lu Zhiyu was about to store it away, he realized that there was a black dot on the scroll. As he took a closer look, he realized that it was a tiny grasshopper. Lu Zhiyu let out a laughter.

"This is such a big scroll, but such a tiny grasshopper has been drawn on it. What a waste!"

After taking a good look at it, Lu Zhiyu touched the grasshopper with his hand. At this instant, a shocking thing happened. It was as if his hand had moved into another space and he felt something.

Lu Zhiyu was shocked and withdrew his hand. He was even more shocked to see a grasshopper now in his hand. He exclaimed with surprise: "What the heck is this?"

As he let go of the grasshopper, he saw that it immediately jumped up and hopped around the living room. Lu Zhiyu stared at it in disbelief. He rose to his feet and looked at the scroll. The grasshopper that had been painted on the scroll had now disappeared.

Have I taken it out? Was it alive?

Lu Zhiyu looked at the painting, then looked back at the grasshopper. His jaw dropped, and he realized that he had found a treasure.

Lu Zhiyu liked to read on internet. In fact, he had the habit of reading for an hour every night, so he was no stranger to such things happening.

A fantasy has come alive? A magic item that can store things? A treasure that can open to another world?

Although he was about to die, Lu Zhiyu did not give up on himself, nor did he complain. Life had to go on, especially when his remaining days were numbered. He wanted to live a fulfilling life and was elated to find such an interesting item at this moment.

Lu Zhiyu spent a few days experimenting on the scroll. It was clear that there was a space in the painting. However, it was different from what he had at first thought. He called it "the painting space."

The surface of the space was flat. From a scientific point of view, this was not a three- but a two-dimensional space. All the things that had entered this space would automatically be sealed and collapse into a two-dimensional form. However, after leaving this space, they would return to their original form. Lu Zhiyu found it hard to understand how this all happened. This was his first discovery. He came to this conclusion after putting different things into the painting space.

And his second discovery was that, in the two-dimensional world, it seemed like time did not exist. Everything that went in, seemed to have gone into an eternal rest river and even if they had been kept inside the scroll for a long period of time, they remained the same.

The third discovery was that the painting space seemed to reject living things. Lu Zhiyu had tried to put living things into the space, but it could not take living things that were too big. He had put a chicken and a duck into it, but they had been torn apart and had disappeared. Lu Zhiyu suspected that the entrance of the space could not support their sizes and had caused them to go into a dimensional gap. However, when he put a few ants in the painting space, this same predicament did not occur. The ants stopped moving and had been sealed.

Lu Zhiyu found it puzzling that time did not exist in the two-dimensional space. If time had existed, it would have become another world. The painting space would have been more meaningful, rather than just acting as a storage space.

Einstein's theory of relativity had classified time as an independent dimension. According to this theory, mankind should be living in the four-dimensional space. However, man was unable to observe the fourth dimension—time, so they belonged to the three-dimensional space.

The two-dimensional world was similar. Even if one could not observe time, it should still exist and should not just disappear like this. Lu Zhiyu had decided to look at it from a different perspective and to confirm if this was so.

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Chapter 2: My Two-dimensional World

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Lu Zhiyu had decided to look at it from the three axioms of the theory of the universe:

Time (T), Space (U), and Matter (M).

Time, space and matter were tightly related to each other one another. The three elements were independent yet inextricably linked. The relationship between space and time was U=U(T), and M=M(U) for matter and space. Time was found in space, and space was filled with matter. Thus, time and space were related to matter.

Among the three elements, matter was the primeval element. If there was no matter, space would never have existed. If space did not exist, time would never have existed. Lu Zhiyu suspected that this painting was the entrance to a two-dimensional world. As matter did not exist in this two-dimensional world, space and time likewise did not exist.

Lu Zhiyu looked at the painting, finding it inconceivable. He seemed to have found the entrance of a new world. He wondered…

If I place large amount of matter into the Two-dimensional space, would I create a stable two-dimensional world? A two-dimensional world with time and space, and also be able to sustain lives?

Lu Zhiyu felt excited at this thought, so he started to make a plan. He would first try to put a pipeline into the painting space, then transport sand and other things into it. At this moment, someone pressed on the doorbell. He looked down and saw that the courier was there.

"Are you Lu Zhiyu? Please sign for the parcel!" the courier requested, in a friendly and polite tone.

The parcel contained the camera that he had ordered. After linking it up with his computer, Lu Zhiyu put the camera into the painting space. He wanted to find out what was inside the painting space instead of observing it from the surface of the painting.

The moment camera was put inside the painting space, the computer screen went dark. Lu Zhiyu's heart sank, but he had anticipated this reaction. Firstly, there was no light in the two-dimensional space, so he was prepared to see nothing. Secondly, he had a feeling that most likely the signals could not be sent out from the two-dimensional world, otherwise it would be too inconceivable. Although Lu Zhiyu felt this way, he still just wanted to give it a shot.

After Lu Zhiyu clicked on the mouse and turned on the light on the camera, the computer screen brightened. Lu Zhiyu's jaw dropped in surprise, then he moved the camera around.

I can't believe something actually showed on the computer screen!

The images on the screen looked strange. The camera seemed to have captured the images, but what he saw was a flat side-view. The camera had captured its own image.

What angle is this?

There was nothing on the screen except darkness and a straight ray of light. It was like a 2D horizontal animation or a caricature. At this very moment, Lu Zhiyu saw a shadow flash across the screen.

What was that?

He quickly shifted the focus and found that there was a special sigil on the screen: a horizontal 8. Lu Zhiyu knew that this symbol meant infinity. However, in the capital city, the mark also represented smog.

Lu Zhiyu was certain that he had seen it correctly. It must mean infinity. The sigil was in the center of the painting space. No matter from which angle Lu Zhiyu looked, he could only see the front view.

He found the situation in the painting space mysterious. He was certain that it was a two-dimensional space, but from what the camera had captured, it did not seem like a two-dimensional perspective. However, it was definitely not a three-dimensional one.

Lu Zhiyu had never entered a two-dimensional space, so he did not know exactly what a two-dimensional space should be. He retrieved the camera and saw that the part of the camera that had disappeared into the painting space seemed to be rebuilding itself until it finally re-appeared in the three-dimensional world.

This occurrence was nothing new to Lu Zhiyu, so he was not surprised. After pondering things for a while, he decided to remove the horizontal 8 to have a closer look!

This was the first time that Lu Zhiyu had placed his hand inside, and it had required much courage. If he could not pull his hand back out, he would be in deep trouble. He felt strange, when his hand was in the painting space. He seemed to have lost his sense of touch, yet he could still feel his hand. His hand became light, like a piece a paper.

I have caught it!

Lu Zhiyu was elated, and quickly pulled the thing out. However, when he looked at his hand, it was empty.

What happened? Where is it?

Lu Zhiyu turned his hand around and saw the silver . It moved between the surface of his skin and his flesh without resistance as if his flesh and blood did not exist. It flopped around on his hand like a fish, then moved up his arm.

F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!

Lu Zhiyu was frightened, so he kept hitting and scratching his arm, but was unable to feel the thing. He saw it crawling up his arm, so he quickly dashed into another room and held up a mirror. The thing had reached his neck, crawled up to his face, and ultimately, entered his brain.

Bang!

Lu Zhiyu felt as though something in his head had exploded, and he lost consciousness. It was as if he had seen the explosion of the universe, resulting in endless of information being sent to his brain. However, the information was too much for the capacity of his brain. The information passed through his brain but could not be kept. Ultimately, only a small, vital portion remained in his memory.

When Lu Zhiyu got up from the ground, it was dark. He felt that although he had remained calm to face death, but was still quite terrified by the fact that something so strange had gone into his body. However, after giving it some thought, he was able to shrug it off. It was just like the cancer cells: worst case, he would die.

The thing that had entered his brain must be the controlling power of the painting it represented the ownership and the control center of that two-dimensional world. Lu Zhiyu could sense that there was tons of information, such as detailed explanation and operation manual, available to him. He felt the information was as much as what was stored in the National Library of China, yet he was unable to load all of it into his brain at the moment. He only learnt some simple operations, but had left the rest behind.

That being said, he now understood how to open and enter the two-dimensional space, and how to set up the the internal rules and variants for it.

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Chapter 3: Designing a World

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During the night, Lu Zhiyu drove his BYD to Mulanshan, which was near the lake where land was rich and fertile. Lu zhiyu had even felt the soil with his hand.

After he had chosen the place, Lu Zhiyu started to carry out his first plan to steal some soil. He had intended to use agricultural soil to prevent infestation problems, but it was too costly. With the amount of soil that he needed, even $10,000 would not be enough!

The air in Mulanshan was fresh, so it would be very nice to come in the morning. However, it was in the middle of the night at the moment. As the cold wind blew, it sounded like the moaning of spirits, and made the place quite scary.

Lu Zhiyu was a bit nervous, but not because he was stealing the soil, but because he was about to open the entrance to the painting space. This also happened to be the entrance to a two-dimensional world which was trapped by the forcefield of the Scroll of the World. Yes, Lu Zhiyu decided to name the painting the Scroll of the World.

The moment that the entrance opened, there would be a gap in the forcefield. If he was unable to control it, the consequences would be dire.

Earlier, Lu Zhiyu had sought advice from others in internet forums, questioning them about how to best design a two-dimensional world. When he asked what could go wrong after opening the entrance, someone from the forum asked him warily, "Hey, buddy, have you ever heard of the Dual-Vector Foil?"

When Lu Zhiyu thought of what he had in his hands, he swallowed hard. This thing could destroy the solar system at any given time.

When he was ready, the silver sigil in his brain flashed. He saw a black whirlpool appear on the Scroll of the World. Its powerful suction pulled at everything within the radius of half a mile.

"Enough! That's enough!"

During the few minutes the wind whipped through the air, Lu Zhiyu found it difficult to keep his eyes open. He even found it hard to breathe. Much of the air within a radius of one kilometer had been drawn away, causing the air to thin.

After opening his eyes, Lu Zhiyu saw that the gigantic hill had turned into a cliff. The water of the lake was at its base, but the water level was slowly rising.

Lu Zhiyu was stunned, and quickly stored away the Scroll of the World for safekeeping then left the hill by a detour. After reaching the foot of the hill, he hopped into his car and hurriedly left.

The following day, it was reported in the news that, after the analysis of the experts, it had been concluded that a syndicate had stolen the soil. The experts strongly voiced their displeasure over such an action.

However, none of this had anything to do with Lu Zhiyu. He had hung his Scroll of the World, which was now no longer empty, on a shelf in his bedroom. Pictured upon it was a small island, surrounded by the swaying sea.

The water had been drawn from the lake so there should have been numerous fish in the water, but they had all disappeared. It was apparent that the painting space could only bear the weight and girth of tiny living things.

With the help of the sigil in his brain, Lu Zhiyu had spent the whole night separating the objects from the water, completely setting up a stable world. However, the sigil had gradually lost its silver color. It used to be bright, but it had faded, as if the changes made to the painting space had consumed its power. But even now, Lu Zhiyu still remained baffled over its power.

As he looked at the painting, he saw ants crawling within it. He jumped up with excitement, exclaiming, "This is exactly what I thought. Space is determined by matter, and time is determined by space!"

Finally, there was stable space established within the scroll. As Lu Zhiyu observed the ants, he realized that they were moving around like the characters in 2D video games. There was nothing unusual about their behavior. They had probably lost their three-dimensional senses, as they were living within the two-dimensional world. Another possibility was that they were two-dimensional creatures.

However, the two-dimensional world still seemed lifeless. It was nothing like the real, human world. In the twinkle of an eye, the ants began to die. Lu Zhiyu knew this was due to the lack of sun, lack of warmth, and the lack of fresh air. As soon as time started to pass in the painting space, the ants and some bugs started to die and disappear, which took Lu Zhiyu by surprise.

Warmth? Sun?

Lu Zhiyu found it bizarre. He could not create a sun…

Or could I? Why not?!

Although he had control over the painting space, he was unclear about the logistics of its overall operations. With the power of the silver sigil, it just might be possible to create a sun.

Since it is the two-dimensional space, can I just draw a sun!

Lu Zhiyu had a whimsical thought, leading him to quickly draw a sun in the sky with red paint. Upon doing so, he immediately felt a depletion of energy in the silver sigil – a third of the energy was consumed.

He was excited to see that the sun in the painting space started to move in accordance with the parameters that he had set. He then added a blue moon, and the sun and the moon followed a circular path, which formed night and day.

The two-dimensional space had started to stabilize in accordance to Lu Zhiyu's design. He took things one step further, starting with bigger, bolder plans.

Since the parameters in the two-dimensional world could be adjusted, time should also be adjustable. Time was the reflection of the movements of an object. If there was no object or energy in space, time would not exist, and hence, it would be meaningless.

Only when were objects in the world, and the movements of the objects compared to each other, the meaning of time could then be represented. The movements of the molecules, atoms, electrons and photons were the components that created the aging process. From the small changes such as miniscule decaying process caused by mold and the ticking of the clock, to the significant changes such as rotation of the earth and the changes in the Milky Way, all these movements formed the concept of Time.If the objects did not move, time would stop. If the objects moved at a faster speed, time would then sped up. If the objects slowed downed, the passage of time would likewise slow.

Lu Zhiyu was filled with excitement.

If I can increase the movements of the objects in the two-dimensional space, time would speed up, too. One day in the outside world could be equivalent to one year, or even 10 years, in the two-dimensional space. Is this possible?

I will give it a try!

Lu Zhiyu started to research on the internet, jotting down his ideas in a notebook. He then crossed out and ticked off some of these ideas. After spending two weeks on this project, he had finalized his thoughts. Whether or not he would succeed, that was still in question.

As he sat in front of the Scroll of the World, he shut his eyes. He focused on the sigil in his consciousness, sensing the world inside the painting space. The entire two-dimensional world was set up based on the parameters and changes he defined. The size and data of the two-dimensional world all flooded into his brain, including how much is the gravity, the temperature of the sun, the time of the day, and the change of four seasons.

Lu Zhiyu felt that he was like a god creating a world. He injected his thoughts into the silver sigil and exerted control over the two-dimensional world. As he did so, the energy of the silver sigil continued to deplete. Only now did Lu Zhiyu set up the two-dimensional world based on his design.

Suddenly, he heard the clock strike. Time had started to move like the pointer in the timepiece. The speed became faster, and when Lu Zhiyu opened his eyes, he saw that the realm within the two-dimensional world had filled with colour, started to function, and had come to life.

Time continued to move faster, but before Lu Zhiyu had used up all of his energy, he stopped and fixed the Time parameters. every amendment to which required large amounts of energy.

Lu Zhiyu had set time to a pace which moved 10,000 times faster than the outside world. Time and the four seasons had been set according to the data of the outside world. Hence, one day in the outside world was equivalent to 27 years in the two-dimensional world.

Now, one hour would be equivalent to more than a year in the painting space. As Lu Zhiyu looked at the land in the painting space, he saw that the seeds among the trees and plants had started to sprout. In one hour, the entire island was filled with green.

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Chapter 4: Observations

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Lu Zhiyu took a bottle, went to the courtyard, and filled it with some ants. Time and gravity were present in the painting space as were the sun and moon, the four seasons, and plants and oxygen, but there were no animals. Lu Zhiyu decided to put some specimens into the painting space himself.

At this moment, he heard a voice outside the gate, "Lu Zhiyu, what brings you home?"

Lu Zhiyu stood up and saw a girl with a wine red helmet, sitting on a motorbike outside the gate. She was staring at him, surprised. Lu Zhiyu put down his short-handled hoe and bottle and walked to the door. "You are?"

The girl removed her helmet at once and said, "I am Xia Fan!"

Lu Zhiyu was embarrassed. The girl was pretty and looked familiar, but he could not remember her and did not know what to say. Suddenly, he remembered a joke that he had read from the internet. A teacher met a student, but both of them could not remember each other's name. The student could only say, "I remember you, that—teacher!"

"You are that student!"

Xia Fan looked at Lu Zhiyu in disappointment for a while then she put the helmet under her armpit. "Hey, don't you remember me?"

Lu Zhiyu was extremely embarrassed. "I'm getting old and my memory has failed me. Can you tell me who you are?"

"I am Xia Yan's younger sister!"

Lu Zhiyu looked at her and said, "Xia Yan's sister?"

Lu Zhiyu gestured with his hand and said, "You have grown up!"

Xia Fan immediately replied, "Of course, I'm in high school now!"

Xia Yan was Lu Zhiyu's first love. Given his situation, Lu Zhiyu had no wish to meet any old friends or relatives and just wanted to spend his remaining days alone, not to mention a person like Xia Fan. When Lu Zhiyu was dating Xia Yan, Xia Fan was in primary school.

Lu Zhiyu had not contacted Xia Yan for six or seven years. Ever since they graduated from high school, they had gone their separate ways. Xia Yan went to Peking University, and Lu Zhiyu had gone to a normal university. Xia Yan had made things very clear when they broke up. Lu Zhiyu had not been able to get over it back then, but during the past two years, he was able to come to terms with it. However, that did not mean that he wished to see her again.

Lu Zhiyu nodded and said, "Oh, I remember you. Is there something you need? I have quite a lot going on here!"

Xia Fan knocked on the security grille and demanded, "You remembered me! So why haven't you opened the door! "

Looking confused, Lu Zhiyu opened the door, and Xia Fan pushed her motorbike in. "You have such a big courtyard. I've always thought of it as my ideal playground since young. Every time I pass by your house, I take a peep at it, but I never expected to see you here. What were you doing in the courtyard?"

Lu Zhiyu put away his tools and said, "Nothing, I was just tidying up. Since you are here, come in and have a drink!"

Xia Fan was wearing a pair of tight-fitting jeans and a large vest. Through the armholes, one could see her bra. Her outfit was sexy and daring. Lu Zhiyu did not expected the little girl to have grown up to be so sexy. Suddenly, he felt old.

"My family moved to the development nearby. From the street outside your house, you can make a detour to the back of the development. I just came back from Carrefour, and did not expect to see you in the courtyard!"

Xia Fan rattled on. Lu Zhiyu placed two bottles of drinks and some snacks on the table. "Time flies. How is Xia Yan? Is she married?"

Xia Fan looked dubiously at Lu Zhiyu and said, "Why? You still can't get over your old flame? Are you trying to to back to her?"

Lu Zhiyu shook his head and smiled. "It has been a few years, and the memories have faded. I asked only because we are still friends, and you happen to be here."

Xia Fan immediately replied, "My sister is studying in the United Kingdom. You won't be able to see her at the moment. Why are you back? I heard that you were doing pretty well in Beijing."

Lu Zhiyu tried to avoid the question and asked, "How did you know that I was doing pretty well? I was just an employee!"

Xia Fan narrowed her eyes and said, "Isn't everyone an employee? Don't tell me you want to be a boss!"

Xia Fan stayed in Lu Zhiyu's house for quite a while, leaving satisfied after finishing up a big packet of walnuts. Lu Zhiyu suddenly felt that the air had become fresher with Xia Fan's presence.

Lu Zhiyu let the ants into the painting space, but all of them died in an instant. This was not due to the environment. Those were natural deaths. He slapped his head and felt like a fool. Although the lifespan of a worker ant could reach six to seven years, it would be dramatically reduced if the worker ant left its colony and lived without its queen. Furthermore, time moved 10,000 times faster in the painting space. These worker ants could only live for a few seconds. It was not possible to form a colony.

Lu Zhiyu immediately turned to the internet. Hardly any of the items that he needed could be bought over the internet so he searched through the agricultural cultivation forums, found some people that worked in the related fields, and ordered from them after some discussion.

Two days later, Lu Zhiyu received his package. It was a special jar with lots of intersecting tunnels, where ants crawled around, and at the bottom of the jar was the queen ant. It was an ants culturing jar.

Lu Zhiyu opened the jar and let the queen ant into the painting space. The plants bloomed, and colorful trees and shrubs filled the area. The trees seemed to have shrunk, which could be due to the gravity and other environmental factors.

It was a pity that there was no sign of any animals. With enough time, Lu Zhiyu believed that the painting space might be able to generate its own two-dimensional animals. However, time was not on his side.

Lu Zhiyu buried the ants jar shallowly in the soil of a hillside and started making observations. He saw that under the accelerated time, the ants had started to spread out, filling up the hill.

The days and nights came and went, making one feel as though they were watching a fast-forwarded documentary movie. In less than two hours, two to three years had passed in the painting space and a new generation of the ants had replaced the original ones. It looked like the ants formed a unique civilization. They had precise and detailed segregation of duties. Just like human beings, each of them was like a screw that could not be removed from a machine. Should any ant leave the colony, it would not survive.

"Ants are amazing creatures!"

Four seasons had come and gone, and time passed by quickly. After a day, the original queen ant died, and new queen ants took over. However, there seemed to be two different colonies under two queens. Lu Zhiyu also found that the two colonies took difference evolutionary paths. One colony went down into the ground while the other had wings and built their nests on the mountain peak. Lu Zhiyu named them ground ants and flying ants.

On the fourth day, there was a huge transformation in the two colonies. Originally, there were the worker ants, soldier ants, male ants, and queen ants, but gradually, there was a further breakdown of their roles. The flying ants occupied the sky and took on a different form. If Lu Zhiyu had not been observing them, he would not have known that they were of the same origin.

The flying ants evolved into a species similar to bees. The color of the ground ants faded, turning golden, and then they went deeper into the ground. With this evolution, the two colonies split-up further. The different colonies gradually spread out to the entire island.

On the sixth day, some ants started to move close to the sea. The limbs of those ants started to become vestigial, and the ants evolved into a species that was able to survive in the water. The painting space was flourishing and diversifying. It amazed Lu Zhiyu that a small colony of ants was able to produce such a large variety of strange lives.

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Chapter 5: The World of Insects

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"Let's go out, relax, and have a drink!"

Lu Zhiyu had been dragged out by Xia Fan to join her friends for dinner. After dinner, they went for a karaoke session and had beer and liquor. At first, Lu Zhiyu had felt embarrassed to be with the high school students, but he soon realized that there were also university graduates and adults there. Many of them were couples. Lu Zhiyu was shocked to find that modern high school students were much more open-minded than his generation.

After drinking a bit, a pretty and innocent-looking young lady started to make out with her university boyfriend. After a while, they excused themselves to the restroom and disappeared. The rest of the group started to get even wilder, especially Xia Fan. She sang and screamed. She also kept kissing Lu Zhiyu's neck with breath filled with the smell of liquor, which terrified Lu Zhiyu and made him quite uneasy.

As Lu Zhiyu supported the stumbling Xia Fan, he could feel the stares of the people on the street. He had not kidnapped this girl, nor did he have any intention of taking advantage the drunk. Although Lu Zhiyu knew he did not do anything wrong, when he saw the police at the intersection, he could not help but stopped walking as if he was guilty. He then waited a bit further up the hill, some distance away, for the taxi.

While in the taxi, he was scrutinized by the taxi driver. When they were finally near Xia Fan's house, Lu Zhiyu gave Xia Fan a tug and said, "Wake up, wake up!"

Xia Fan opened her eyes and asked, "Why?"

Lu Zhiyu remembered that Xia Fan lived in the development to the left of his house. "We're back. I'll see you home!"

Xia Fan pulled Lu Zhiyu's collar and said, "No, I can't go back. If I go back in this state, I'll get scolded!"

Lu Zhiyu replied, "If you don't go home, your parents will be worried."

Xia Fan immediately replied, "It is alright. I am in boarding school and only go home every few days. My parents won't know that I'm not staying at school today. Your house is big, isn't it?"

With groggy eyes, Xia Fan looked at Lu Zhiyu and said, "Will you try anything funny with me, the sister of your first love?"

Lu Zhiyu pinched Xia Fan's two cheeks and pulled them in opposite direction. He said, "Stop your nonsense. You are not even developed yet…"

Lu Zhiyu looked at her sexy body. She was wearing a mini skirt and stockings, and her white halter top showed off her cleavage. Her style of dress was very bold.

Xia Fan caught Lu Zhiyu looking at her and she straightened up. She squeezed her slender arms together in front of her body and said, "They're big, aren't they?"

"…" Lu Zhiyu was speechless.

There were two bathrooms in his two-story house, so they each took one. After taking his shower, Lu Zhiyu took out a clean blanket and tidied the room. He then realized that Xia Fan was still in the other bathroom.

"Hey, say something. Have you been flushed away?" he called out.

Xia Fan had a towel wrapped around her as she walked out. "Wow! It is nice to have a bathtub. It is so relaxing!" she said, smiling.

Lu Zhiyu shook his head and said, "I am not used to using that!"

He brought Xia Fan to the room that had been prepared for her and said, "You will sleep here tonight. The blanket and sheets are…"

The following morning, Lu Zhiyu carefully climbed out of bed and saw Xia Fan as she walked out of her room. She ran her fingers through her tangled hair and said, "Good morning!"

Xia Fan took out a set of clean clothes from her bag. After cleaning herself up and putting on her clothes, she left for school. Before leaving, she kissed Lu Zhiyu and said, "Thank you!"

Lu Zhiyu looked blankly at Xia Fan as she opened the door of the courtyard. Before she left, she turned to smile at him, leaving him in a daze.

After Lu Zhiyu returned to his study, he spread out the Scroll of the World, and looked at the scene in the painting space. It was winter with heavy snow and the sea had become frozen. There were now new and strange creatures under the sea.

This was a world completely formed by many different kinds of insects. Some occupied the sky, while others occupied the forest, the ground, and the sea. They were all over the place.

The queen ant was an amazing being. With her pheromones, she could change the genes of the younger generation, and thereby control the entire ant colony. Such ability made her a god-like being within her colony.

As the number of the colonies increased, space become limited and food also became insufficient, thus the environment became unsustainable. The colonies fought continuously, and each day there were colonies were wiped out and some queen ants were dragged out and killed.

However, today was very different. Lu Zhiyu realized that a group of insects kept crawling out from a strange-looking nest on a small hill in the painting space. There were many different kinds of them. Some flew in the sky, some swam in the water, and some went underground.

These were not born by the queen ant, but were produced using the nest. Lu Zhiyu felt that this was very strange. It seemed like that colony had evolved and developed intelligence and it tried to take control over its direction of evolution.

Lu Zhiyu found the situation abnormal, so he turned to the internet. He found a similar species, which was known as the "Zerg" in StarCraft.

As Lu Zhiyu looked at the painting space, he became puzzled.

Have they evolved? Who is controlling the insects? Is it the queen? Where did the intelligence come from? Is the queen the only one with intelligence or is each insect now has its own intelligence?

Lu Zhiyu activated his power and the silver sigil started to glitter. He immersed himself into the painting space and focused on this special group of insects. Lu Zhiyu found that his conciousness seemed to have separated from his body. He felt he had spent one whole day in the painting space, but in the outside world, only a few seconds had passed!

Lu Zhiyu saw a long, thin queen insect, with a huge head and four long limbs. The tail was long and a black exoskeleton covered its entire body. The queen insect had spared itself from being a machine of reproduction and possessed intelligence entirely of its own.

From his god-like perspective, Lu Zhiyu saw that the queen insect constantly sent her thoughts to the other insects, so that she could instruct them to attack the other insects, produce, conquer, combat, and self-supply.

"The world belongs to us!"

Lu Zhiyu could feel the ambition of the queen insect. However, he was even more surprised to find out that she could sense and control all of the other insects from her colony.

What power is that? Is it mind power? Or willpower?

After observing the queen insect for a while, he started to see the silver light emanating from her brain, and he started to see her thoughts.

The queen's mind was able to channel to a special dimensional space!

Lu Zhiyu immediately dove into it and he felt his consciousness was alienated from the painting space. It had been compressed into a line! Lu Zhiyu followed this line to get to its end, and he felt his consciousness was swimming forward. Finally, he passed through an endless source of information before entering into a world that was filled with light.

Lu Zhiyu felt as if he would be assimilated by this silver light. With his entire consciousness becoming corroded and tainted, he was afraid that he might completely lose his own consciousness if he stayed any longer. Struggling, he tried to get out of this strange place, and after a long while, he finally returned to his body.

Utterly exhausted, Lu Zhiyu finally fell into a deep sleep.

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Chapter 6: Mind Reading

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Lu Zhiyu slept for a day and a night. When he woke up the following day, he felt that the whole world had changed, he had become more sensitive to his surroundings. When he tried to reach out for his disposable cup by the side of the bed, the cup fell to the floor, before he could touch it.

When he looked at the Scroll of the World, he found that the battle inside the Scroll was growing more and more fierce. After the first queen insect had appeared, the rest of the colonies had started to evolve as well. Fights, evolutions, and new insects developed as a result of the catalyst.

Although Lu Zhiyu would have liked to continue with his observation, he changed his mind when he realized he was starving. After walking around his neighborhood, he settled down at a café across the street from Carrefour. It was late in the afternoon and quite a number of people were having afternoon tea.

"Sir, are you alone or…" the waitress asked him, immediately struck by his handsome appearance.

This guy is quite good looking, but he does not look wealthy. Oh, it is such a tiring day!

"Ah!" Lu Zhiyu looked at the waitress, stunned. Why did she say such a thing in front of me?

Why is he looking at me? Don't tell me that he likes me… the waitress was thinking in her head.

"I am alone. I want a set of…" Lu Zhiyu looked at the menu and ordered his meal. After the waitress had written down his order, she turned and left.

Lu Zhiyu looked at her back and was baffled. He did not remember seeing her talking, as she did not move her lips. However, he had heard some strange sound, as if the waitress was talking.

Another cute waitress in uniform arrived, bringing his meal, thinking of her own life's dilemma… How I wish I could knock off from work now. Zhou Hao has asked me out for a movie. Should I go?

"Don't go. When a guy asks a girl out for a midnight movie, they usually have an ulterior motive. They would have planned it well in advance, and are waiting for you to take the bait," Lu Zhiyu said.

The waitress immediately looked up, stared at Lu Zhiyu and asked, "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud?"

The waitress was flustered and quickly walked away. As she was walking away, she turned to look at Lu Zhiyu with a strange and confused expression.

Lu Zhiyu lowered his head and ate his food. He was smiling. Finally, he could no longer contain his joy and burst into laughter.

Mind reading? It is mind reading! I know what others are thinking. This is amazing!

Lu Zhiyu recalled what had happened to him. When he was in the low-dimensional world, his consciousness had gone into an Inner Space and absorbed strange energy that allowed him to have such power.

He was like the queen insect, which was able to control the entire colony through its mind power. However, Lu Zhiyu had just acquired this power, so it was inferior compared to the queen insect's. He could only hear the thoughts of the people around him.

On his way home, he passed many people who had just left work. As he passed by the people, he could hear different voices.

I haven't finished the report. I must get it done tonight!

School should have ended. I wonder if my honey has gone to pick up Le!

My boss is too much. I need to fly again tomorrow. I have been traveling for more than half of this month!

I need to send allowance to mom and dad tomorrow. How much shall I send? I think I will send more!

…

Lu Zhiyu heard many voices in his brain. There seemed to be a buzzing sound in his head, as if his brain was exploding. After getting out of the crowd, he felt better, and was now walking along the small path toward his house.

It's really mind reading. Its effective distance is limited, no further than 2 meters. However, this power will be a problem, if I can't to shut it off!

Lu Zhiyu was extremely excited to have acquired a special power. As he thought of how the queen insect had evolved and created offsprings with diverse morphology through its pheromone secretion, he wondered if he could do the same. His cancer might possibly be cured because of this.

That's right. Who knows? I might be cured!

Lu Zhiyu became very excited. Although he had accepted the fact that he had a terminal disease, it would be great if he need not die from it.

For the next few days, Lu Zhiyu continued to observe the happenings in the Scroll of the World. He realized that the scroll was an entrance of a low-dimensional space. His painting space used to be a two-dimensional world, but ever since he introduced the elements and concept from the three-dimensional world, the dimensions of the painting space may have been increased.

However, it hadn't reached three dimension yet, but was in between two-dimensional and three-dimensional. This made the painting space unique and unpredictable.

When Lu Zhiyu entered the painting space with his consciousness, the long tunnel that he saw must be an one-dimensional space. The two-dimensional space was a flat surface, and one-dimensional world at most could be just a line. In this case, it would be even more difficult for living things to survive in an one-dimensional world than in a two-dimensional space. Such space may not even be able to contain basic elements.

Lu Zhiyu guessed that the Inner Space should be a zero-dimensional space, a highly condensed singularity. In this world, there could be nothing except the source of power. No material things, but the source, the existence of a concept.

If in a two-dimensional world, life could barely survive in the flat surface, then how about in the one-dimensional world? Or even zero-dimensional? In such low-dimensional spaces, the only thing that could exist probably were some conceptional things such as the consciousness or soul.

There was a tunnel leading toward the low-dimensional spaces in the Scroll of the World. As the dimensional space reduced, the life forms found it became closer to their origin.

Life in the zero-dimensional space could be counted as being the source. Life forms existed in the form of consciousness, or soul. Both Lu Zhiyu and the queen insect had gained access to the low-dimensional space through the Scroll of the World. Through absorbing energy from the source of power, they had strengthened their consciousness and eventually developed something like mind power.

The living things in the higher dimensional space were more complex and thus were farther away from getting in contact with the origin of life. Lives below the two-dimensional space made use of the source energy and activate their souls.

Lu Zhiyu named this power the Source Form. He started to imitate the queen insect, making use of the tunnel to bring his consciousness into the zero-dimensional space through the Scroll of the World and to absorb the Source Form to further increase his consciousness and mind power.

However, his consciousness could not last long in the zero-dimensional world. After absorbing a small amount of Source Form, he had to get out quickly. Later, he was able to maintain the structure of his consciousness in the zero-dimensional world through meditation and visualization. This helped him alter the situation slightly.

Lu Zhiyu started to read up on meditation, Taoism, visualization, and cultivation, hoping to gain something useful from these subjects.

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"Hello, teacher. I am here for the yoga class!"

"Mr. Lu, I am your instructor. From now on, please put aside two hours each day for yoga practice. Since you have never done yoga before, we will start with the basics!"

Cai Jiajia was a 25-year-old yoga instructor. She had her long hair twisted up into a bun and she exuded an air of classic elegance. Lu Zhiyu had signed up for a VIP package, which included personal yoga training sessions. He came to learn about meditation, and had never expected to meet such a beauty. Lu Zhiyu had a crush on Cai Jiajia, but he had certainly paid a high fee for it!

Lu Zhiyu felt that, when he was practicing meditation, he could feel his blood circulating. On top of that, he could gradually sense every part of his body. He realized that he was able to focus and control his mind power as time passed by. Originally, he could only send his mind power toward the outside world, as he strengthened it, he was also able to conceal the power.

That was his reason for taking up yoga meditation, as it could help him control and sense things better. Not many people were able to grasp the essence of meditation, and it was after much research that he had found this class.

Ever since he had started to meditate, Lu Zhiyu became able to discern the thoughts of others when he wanted. After he released his mind power, he could still sense the brainwaves of others. This was mind reading!

Take the instructor, for example. Lu Zhiyu knew that she had just broken up with her boyfriend. Although she was smiling, her mind was in turmoil and she was not concentrating.

Lu Zhiyu followed Cai Jiajia's instructions and began to move through the postures. He felt that yoga and qigong were similar. Both were good for blood circulation and enhanced the senses of one's body.

This was exactly what Lu Zhiyu was looking for. He took up yoga, not because he wanted to improve his health, but because he was hoping to gain insights into his body through meditation.

After following Cai Jiajia's instructure and going through the postures , Lu Zhiyu was able to sense a bit of what he was looking for. Entering meditation through postures seemed to make it easier for Lu Zhiyu to observe the status of his own body. The two-hour class quickly came to the end, and Lu Zhiyu noticed that it was almost night time.

"Coach, you look troubled. What is bothering you?" Lu Zhiyu asked, as he stood up and relaxed his body.

Cai Jiajia was shocked and asked, "Oh? It is so obvious? I'm so sorry!"

Lu Zhiyu quickly replied, "It's alright. But, if you are troubled, it might be better for you to go out and take a walk. If you keep it in all bottled up, it will be worse for you!"

Cai Jiajia smiled and said, "Thank you, I'll keep that in mind!"

Lu Zhiyu looked out of the window and saw that it was getting dark. "Is it time for you to finish work? Shall we have dinner together? I would like to treat you to a meal to show my appreciation. I will need plenty of your help in the future!"

Is he interested in me? Although he is quite good-looking, he is not really my cup of tea. Moreover, he is too direct. And I do not want to eat unhealthy food.

As Cai Jiajia was about to reject him, Lu Zhiyu quickly asked, "Am I being too blunt? I know of a restaurant that does organic vegetarian food. The style and ambience are also quite nice. This place came to mind since you are not in a good mood. It might do you good to have a change of environment. What do you think?"

Upon hearing this, Cai Jiajia became interested and said, "Alright. Why don't you wait for me downstairs? I can leave in 20 minutes!"

Lu Zhiyu nodded and said, "I will wait for you downstairs!"

The two of them had an enjoyable dinner together. As Lu Zhiyu had expected, Cai Jiajia liked the style and food of the restaurant. During their conversation, Lu Zhiyu found out what interested her and made her laugh. Her unhappiness and dazedness from earlier in the day completely disappeared as she laughed.

"Let me tell you, when I was in college back then, I did something stupid exactly like that!"

"Really?"

"Really! Back then, I was with a…"

Throughout the night, Lu Zhiyu was humorous, confident, and a bit artistic. He was good-looking as well. Suddenly, Cai Jiajia felt that Lu Zhiyu knew her very well. Never had she enjoyed talking to someone so much. She felt that it was even fine for her to pour her heart out to him.

When they left the restaurant, they were already very comfortable with each other. They were chatting and laughing. Lu Zhiyu drove her home. As Lu Zhiyu was about to leave, she suddenly turned back to ask him, "Would you like to come to my house?"

Lu Zhiyu was taken aback. He was only trying to build a good relationship with her, so he had not expected things to move so quickly. He knew that Cai Jiajia felt empty after her broken relationship and needed someone to lean on. He had come at the right time to capture her heart. Lu Zhiyu did not want to miss this opportunity.

"I am actually quite curious. What kind of person is a goddess like you like in real life?"

"Oh no, I think I am having some regrets now. A woman should not let a man know her personal life!"

Cai Jiajia lived in a relatively large place compared to the rest in her development. She had probably lived here with her boyfriend previously. Her place was classic European style, and the furniture had been carefully chosen. One could tell that Cai Jiajia was very particular about the way she lived.

What happened after that came naturally. Both of them cuddled together and rolled onto the bed. This was different from the time Xia Fan was drunk and Lu Zhiyu had to take her home. This time around, Lu Zhiyu felt very strongly toward his partner. Especially since Cai Jiajia practiced yoga and had an athletic figure. She was like a leopardess, leaving him wanting more.

After leaving Cai Jiajia's place the following morning, Lu Zhiyu felt that he was despicable. He had used mind reading to go after girls. It was similar to cheating in an examination. This was truly a powerful weapon!

After getting into the car, Lu Zhiyu looked at the rear-view mirror and tidied his hair then saw a love bite on his neck. Cai Jiajia was wilder in bed than she was in real life. Lu Zhiyu quickly buttoned up to cover the mark.

At this moment, his mobile phone rang. Lu Zhiyu looked at his phone and saw that it was a message from Cai Jiajia, which read: I love being with you!

Lu Zhiyu shrugged his shoulders. She was happy, he was happy. They had both gotten what they wanted.

After all, one should not make the relationship between men and women too complicated. Only youngsters would pledge their undying love for each other and be madly in love. Both of them had passed such an age! He remembered what Xia Fan said.

"Enjoy life when you can. If you wait until the end of your time to figure out what was missed, you wouldn't have any opportunity to make it up to yourself!"

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Chapter 8: Health Restoration Project

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Thump! Thump!

Lu Zhiyu could hear his own heartbeat. He mentally ran through his whole body. He could feel his blood circulating, and the senses that seemed vague previously had now become clearer. Ultimately, a strange looking picture appeared in front of his eyes.

There were no colors, only structures in this picture. It was like a three-dimensional model or a planar graph created using CAD. The skin, muscles, bones, arteries and internal organs were all shown in the picture, formed by multiple sub-units.

Lu Zhiyu could even feel the thickness of his skin, the length of his bones, and the sizes of his internal organs. However, as his mind power was not powerful enough, he was still unable to reach the cellular level. He could only vaguely sense it.

Lu Zhiyu could see the dark shadow in his lungs. The cancer cells, which had been separated from the healthy cells, had been increasing. Amassing, they had started to form a tumor.

I have succeeded!

The moment that Lu Zhiyu became excited, he found himself coming out from the God-like Perspective, and was no longer able to maintain stable meditation or calm state of mind. Instead, he immediately went to his study table, which was filled with medical and cancer-related books.

Lu Zhiyu was prepared for his experiments. He had read up on a number of books, and ever since he had awakened his mind power, he felt that he was smarter and more wired to learn. Previously, he had to read through things a few times in order to comprehend what was written, but now he just had to scan through it once, and he was able to remember and understand it.

When the body experiences a long period of sub-optimal health conditions, the cells start to resist the body, and that is what causes cancer. It was not a pathogen. Previously, Lu Zhiyu had given up hope on beating his cancer, but after understanding it, he realized that it was not as terrifying as he had first thought.

As cancer cells were not considered a pathogen, the body's immune system would not kill these cancer cells. Man contracted cancer not because they were infected by a pathogen, but because the body was in a state of perpetual decay. As such, when one became unhealthy, some of the cells began to resist the body, in a sort of mutiny. Should the condition persist, the "rebellious army" would expand, form a tumor, and gradually spread through the body.

Therefore, killing the cancer cells would not solve the root of the problem. If the problems of the body have not been resolved, one would develop cancer again. When the body becomes healthier and the person's state of mind gets better, his cancer would then be under control. In fact, there were a number of cases, whereby cancer was cured on its own.

In light of this knowledge, Lu Zhiyu had decided to make adjustments to his body's condition. After which, he would urge his body to destroy the cancer cells from within in order to treat his lung cancer. From what Lu Zhiyu knew, this method should be feasible.

For the next few days, Lu Zhiyu read a great deal of medical related books. He even got a copy of the class schedule of the Medical Faculty in Jiangcheng University and sat in the classes for the topics that he was interested in. During his free time, he would go on dates with Cai Jiajia.

After coming up with a plan, Lu Zhiyu started to carry out this plan to heal his body.

Different glands released different hormones. The eight glands in the human body controlled the growth, development, metabolism, and puberty of the body through the hormones they secreted. He figured that, as long as he could control his glands, he would be able to control his body, height, size, shape, strength, stamina, sexuality, intelligence, and much more!

Lu Zhiyu had decided to stimulate the glands in his body in order to produce hormones that could control his development and health. He wanted to adjust his hormonal system to improve his health, which was suboptimal due to work and other environmental factors, to that of a professional athlete. Through these adjustments, he hoped to get rid of the cancer cells and cure his disease.

Through his mental strength, Lu Zhiyu first stimulated and controlled the secretion of the growth hormone from the pituitary gland. This would stimulate his development again.

After which, he stimulated his adrenal, pancreas, and thyroid glands in order to secrete a reasonable amount of hormones to adjust his body to a perfect condition. Naturally, he had stimulated his sex gland as well. He tested out the list according to his plan.

After he exited the Introspect status, he recorded the data and changes that had taken place after he examined his body. Although he could see the changes inside his body, he could not feel anything yet. It was as if nothing had happened.

In the next few days, Lu Zhiyu felt a tremendous change in his body. His body ached all over, this indicated that his body was re-developing. His bones were growing again. Previously, he would cough when it was cold at night, but this condition had improved. Furthermore, although he did not train, he was building up muscle.

Through research, Lu Zhiyu knew how each gland affected the different parts of his body. Through the stimulation of each particular gland, he would also gradually adjust his body's condition. This adjustment would take a long period of time, since he had to take it slowly, just in case it backfired.

Initially, Lu Zhiyu felt numb, even when he was walking. He ached all over and felt extremely itchy. For a number of days, he laid on his bed and sofa, not feeling like moving. He also had an increase in appetite. When Lu Zhiyu gradually adjusted the level of the secretion of the hormones, these conditions became milder.

Lu Zhiyu realized that, during this period of two weeks, he had grown taller. And, where there used to be blemishes on his skin, his skin had now become soft and fair, like a baby's. His muscles had also become more defined. Although Lu Zhiyu did not work out, he felt as though he had been exercising every day. His muscles had been stimulated and were growing healthily.

Most importantly, Lu Zhiyu realized that the dark shadow in his body had started to fade. A large amount of cancer cells in his lungs had already died off, having then been released through his excretory system. He was no longer coughing either.

As he stood before the mirror with his shorts on, Lu Zhiyu barely recognized himself. He saw a tall and handsome man in the reflection! His body was proportioned with Golden Ratio, with well-defined muscles. His face had softened and he had clear-cut feature. His eyes looked bright and full of energy. He looked like a celebrity or model. He had become better looking than all of those celebrities, even compared to their photoshopped images.

Lu Zhiyu had not looked at himself in the mirror for a long time. He was surprised to see such a great change. It explained why Cai Jiajia had told him that he had changed a lot, when he went to his yoga class the day before.

Is this really me?

Lu Zhiyu stood in front of the mirror, wondering, with his jaw hanging open.

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Chapter 9: The Change in Body and Life

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Over the past two weeks, other than attending the personal yoga classes and going to Cai Jiajia's house, Lu Zhiyu had been mostly staying at home. Today, while he was out, he found something amiss.

Everyone who walked past him turned around to stare at him. There were even a few times when he actually caught sight of people secretly taking photographs of him.

He looks so handsome! Is he some comic character?

Is he a celebrity? He is so elegant!

He seems to have a mixed ethnicity. He looks so gorgeous. His eyes are so charming!

Oh no! I have been lovestruck. He's looking at me!

Along the way, weird thoughts flooded Lu Zhiyu's mind continuously. When Lu Zhiyu looked at himself in the mirror, he only felt that he looked good and was not really bothered. However, when others looked at him, it seemed that Lu Zhiyu had undergone an astonishing change.

For instance, when he went to the café for a meal, the waitress actually secretly passed him her mobile number, and many girls came up with different excuses to get his contact information. Lu Zhiyu found this all very puzzling. Even if he was handsome, he should not be receiving so much attention.

After he finished his meal with Cai Jiajia, she glanced at the seat on the left. Lu Zhiyu immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

Cai Jiajia pouted and said, "That girl keeps peeking at you. You are very charming, aren't you? Recently, you have changed a lot. Hmm, because I am always with you, I don't feel anything. But you seem different from the first time I saw you. You look too stunning now!"

Lu Zhiyu immediately teased her, "Have I become more good-looking?"

Cai Jiajia touched her red lips and said, "You could say that, but it is more than that. You exude a charm, no, a scent. It smells good and is so captivating!"

Lu Zhiyu was taken aback. "A scent?" He quickly sniffed himself and said, "I don't smell anything."

Cai Jiajia laughed at once and said, "Only women can smell it. It's the manly scent, the smell of hormones!"

Lu Zhiyu lost control of himself and burst into laughter. However, he remembered what Cai Jiajia had said.

Have I adjusted my body into a perfect state, whereby it exudes a special scent that has caused this scenario?

After dinner, Lu Zhiyu naturally went to Cai Jiajia's house. He took out a bottle of red wine from his car, and after enjoying two glasses or so, their desires were quickly ignited.

After everything, Cai Jiajia was still in a daze and took quite a while to recover. Then, she looked at Lu Zhiyu and said, "I nearly died just now!"

Lu Zhiyu quickly said, "I will take note next time. You frightened me just now!"

Cai Jiajia shook her head. "The feeling is great! Lu Zhiyu, you are the most perfect man that I have ever met!"

Cai Jiajia lay in his arms and scratched his chest like a kitten. After a while, she said, "Lu Zhiyu, let's end our relationship!"

"What?" Lu Zhiyu could not understand what had just happened. They were having a good time in bed earlier, but things suddenly changed. Just as Lu Zhiyu was about to use his mind power to explore Cai Jiajia's thoughts, she opened her mouth.

"My boyfriend is back. He has looked me up and talked to me for a long while. He wants me to go back to him!" Cai Jiajia stared at Lu Zhiyu, looking confused. She seemed to have made a tough decision.

Lu Zhiyu cuddled Cai Jiajia and asked, "Why? Is he better than me?"

Cai Jiajia shook her head and said, "He is not as good looking or charming as you. You are much better than him in all aspects. But he loves me!"

Lu Zhiyu immediately asked, "Do I not love you?"

Cai Jiajia forced a smile and asked, "Do you love me?"

Lu Zhiyu was dumbfounded. After a while, he slowly stood up and put on his clothes. He bent down and kissed Cai Jiajia on her forehead. "I'm sorry. I truly enjoy the time that I have spent with you. I will not interfere with your life anymore. Also, I wish you and your boyfriend all the best!"

Cai Jiajia looked affectionately at Lu Zhiyu. She could not bear to part with him, but Lu Zhiyu could tell that she was resolute with her decision. While he was in the car, Lu Zhiyu felt a bit lost. He felt that he was somewhat despicable.

Nevertheless, this had ended quite well as his relationship with Cai Jiajia had come to a close. Moreover, his cancer had been cured and he now had a perfect body.

After having gone through so much, Lu Zhiyu felt deeply that he should do something that he liked. He should live for his interests and hobbies, and not live like a dog, like how he used to!

By the time he reached home, it was already midnight. He parked his car and was about to open the door when he saw someone squatting outside, scaring him out of his wits.

Lu Zhiyu slowly walked up and realized that the person looked familiar. It was a girl who was squatting with her head low, just like an ostrich. He pushed her shoulder and called out softly, "Xia Fan?"

Xia Fan lifted up her head and looked at Lu Zhiyu, tears filling her eyes. In a hoarse voice, she cried out, "Lu Zhiyu, where have you been? Why are you not home at such a late hour?"

Lu Zhiyu curled his lips and said, "Who would know that you would be squatting outside my house in the middle of the night? Come in; it's windy outside!"

After taking a hot shower, Xia Fan walked out of the bathroom and carelessly wrapped herself up in a towel. Her hair was still wet as she sat down on the sofa.

Lu Zhiyu asked, "What happened to you? Why did you not dry your hair?"

Xia Fan lowered her head, not saying a word. As Lu Zhiyu dried her hair with a towel, Xia Fan cried out, "I have broken up with my boyfriend!"

"Okay."

Xia Fan was extremely dissatisfied. Right away, she lifted up her head and said, "Can you be a bit sympathetic? I have broken up with my boyfriend. Can you not comfort me? You are…"

Xia Fan did not finish her sentence, but instead looked at Lu Zhiyu with her jaw dropped. "Who are you?" she gasped.

Lu Zhiyu took out a hair dryer and plugged it into the electric socket. He then said nonchalantly, "Who else? Clearly I'm Lu Zhiyu."

Xia Fan shook her head continuously and said, "Impossible. The Lu Zhiyu I know is not so good-looking. Tell me honestly, are you a monster?"

"…"

"Here is the hair dryer. After you have dried your hair, go to the room that you went the other time, and have an early night!"

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Chapter 10: Physical Examination

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Lu Zhiyu was lying on his bed, playing with his mobile phone when Xia Fan suddenly approached him. Staring at his face carefully, she asked, "Why did I not realize earlier that you are so handsome? You were good-looking before, but now you are stunning…"

"Tell me honestly, did you have plastic surgery?"

Lu Zhiyu pushed away Xia Fan's head which was almost touching his face. "Previously, my work environment has greatly affected my health. Now, I am recovering and I have been training every day, so that may explain it."

"It's such an amazing transformation!" Xia Fan was simple-minded, so she believed what Lu Zhiyu told her. However, because of Lu Zhiyu's flawless appearance, she still stayed beside him.

"Hey, Lu Zhiyu, I have just broken up!"

"Oh!"

"Should you not comfort me?"

"Should I? I don't think so!"

Lu Zhiyu put down his mobile phone and glanced at Xia Fan, feeling somewhat strange. Ever since he was able to control his mind power, he did not really read another person's thoughts unless it was absolutely necessary because he felt that it was quite meaningless.

"Wait… Are you asking me to be your back-up?" he asked.

Xia Fan sat up and yelled, "Hey! What do you mean by that? I'm very popular and have many suitors in school!"

She then looked at Lu Zhiyu and her look changed slightly. "I have never thought about it in the past, but now… If you are willing, I can consider letting you take advantage of the situation so that you can be my boyfriend!"

Xia Fan was only wrapped up in towel at the moment, so there were hidden meanings when she used the words "take advantage." However, Lu Zhiyu immediately rejected her righteously, after which he chased Xia Fan out of his room and locked the door.

The high school students nowadays were really crazy. Lu Zhiyu felt that if he had allowed her to stay in his room any longer, his only bottom line would collapse!

The following morning, before Xia Fan left, she still pestered Lu Zhiyu. Because of her, Lu Zhiyu spent over ten minutes just to brush his teeth. Even his body almost broke down from her consistent shaking.

"Promise me. It will be embarrassing for me not to have a boyfriend at my birthday party next month!"

Lu Zhiyu finally snapped and asked, "What is there to be embarrassed about? At your age, it is only normal not to have a boyfriend. If you were my daughter, I would have spanked you!"

Xia Fan replied scornfully, "You are so old-fashioned. Which century are you living in?"

In the end, because Lu Zhiyu had more pressing issues to attend to and could not afford to waste more time with Xia Fan, he still agreed to her request, but he would only go as a normal friend. He was determined to not fall for her tricks. Xia Fan was elated and even took out her mobile phone. After taking a few photos of Lu Zhiyu, she left proudly.

Lu Zhiyu went to the hospital and felt that he had received special treatment there. From the moment he reached the hospital and queued up, many people were already staring at him. Many of the nurses even seemed to have received news that he was here. Standing in the distance, they looked at him, oohing and ahhing.

"Wow, he really is so good-looking! I thought it's a lie!"

"He is so elegant and polished, and has a great body too!"

Lu Zhiyu felt that his illness had already fully recovered, but he was afraid that he might be wrong. Hence, he had decided to get a full physical examination in the hospital to see if he had really recovered or had any other problems.

When he took tests on the eyes, blood, and blood pressure, as well as an electrocardiogram, it all went quite normal. However, when a female physician was checking on him, she touched him all over, causing him to feel very awkward.

"Take off your clothes!"

"??? Take everything off!"

Lu Zhiyu looked at the female physician who had glasses on and dropped his jaw.

The female physician looked sternly at Lu Zhiyu and said, "What are you waiting for? Quickly, take your clothes off."

Just as Lu Zhiyu was hesitating about whether to take off everything, the female physician finally added, "But leave your undergarments on."

After checking him, the female physician said, "Your body is fine. You are very healthy indeed. The results of the blood and urine tests will be back in a few days. We will inform you when the report is ready!"

Lu Zhiyu nodded and heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed like there was indeed nothing wrong with his body anymore. Even the minor lung illnesses he had were absent at the moment, which caused him to be very excited. Before leaving, the female physician suddenly passed him her business card and said, "In the future, if you feel unwell, you can call me at this number. I can come to your house and check on you!"

Taking the business card, Lu Zhiyu was flabbergasted. Do doctors in hospitals now provide such services? He glanced at the card and realized that the doctor's name was Li Wei.

Seeing the way Lu Zhiyu was bending forward, Li Wei suddenly put her hand into his T-shirt and pressed on his spine. After hearing a cracking sound, Lu Zhiyu immediately felt an awesome sensation rush up to his head.

"You should straighten your back. Don't keep bending forward like that, or else you will look weak. Besides, it is not good for your health!"

This was a bad habit of Lu Zhiyu, the result of him sitting in front of the computer for so many years. In this modern society, this was also a common problem. However, Lu Zhiyu felt that Dr. Li Wei was behaving in an unusual way towards him. At once, he sensed her thoughts.

Lu Zhiyu thanked Li Wei with a smile and quickly walked out from the door. As he stood at the door, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. Ever since he was able to read the minds of others, he realized that everyone projected outwardly much differently from what they actually were thinking. Most were, in reality, very wild inside!

When Lu Zhiyu returned home, he heaved a sigh of relief. Cancer and death had been hanging over his head like a shadow, but now he could finally stop worrying about them and be at ease.

He took out the Scroll of the World. Just as he opened it, he realized that the measure of the silver sigil in his mind rose suddenly. Lu Zhiyu knew that the measure represented the amount of the Source Form.

Previously, Lu Zhiyu had used a huge amount of Source Form to change the rules and regulations of the painting space. He had basically completely drained the Source Form. After that, there had been no changes to it, but the measure had just suddenly increased. He knew that there must be a reason for this.

Although Lu Zhiyu could not directly use the Source Form from the sigil to enhance his mind power and spirit, he could make use of the Source Form to change the rules of the painting space. This was extremely important to him, because with sufficient Source Form, he could change the painting space at his will, just like a true god!

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Chapter 11: The Female Physician—Li Wei

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Lu Zhiyu entered the painting space and immediately discovered that the very first queen insect had died. It was jointly attacked by a few other queen insects that appeared later on, dragged out from its nest, and died a horrible death.

It was precisely at the moment the queen insect died that the measure of the Source Form in Lu Zhiyu's brain increased. Lu Zhiyu then brought his consciousness into the painting space and gradually discovered that the Source Form's increase did not only occur when the queen insect died. In fact, every time a living thing died, the measure of the Source Form would increase subtly.

He did notice that there was a great difference between an ordinary insect and a queen insect. As the changes were minimal for ordinary insects, Lu Zhiyu had not noticed the difference before. It was only when the queen insect died, and the measure shot up, that this great difference caught his attention.

The entire space in the painting became the playground of the insects. These insects were extremely different from the ants that Lu Zhiyu had placed in it earlier. In fact, various very strange-looking insects, which had never existed before in the real world, popped up continuously. Moreover, they were seen everywhere, in the sky, on land, and in the sea. Among them, there were dozens of queen insects which possessed intelligence and mind powers.

The development of the insects was way beyond Lu Zhiyu's imagination. The internal structure of the different insect colonies kept developing. At the beginning, the different insect worker types were around a dozen, but then it evolved into hundreds or even thousands of worker types. In addition, these insects were getting increasingly intelligent as well. They started to communicate, cooperate, conquer, develop, research, and create different weapons. Lu Zhiyu felt that they could even be called "the civilization of the insects!"

Lu Zhiyu saw the insects that were flying in the sky like airships throw acid into a few nests, immediately setting them ablaze. There were beetles that looked like armored vehicles firing missiles into the sky. The battle and collaboration among the insects were actually very modernized.

Lu Zhiyu found this all very scary. If not for the confined space and restrictions of the painting space, the insects would have come into the world of mankind. If this happened, it would absolutely destruct humanity!

The lifespan of a queen ant was around 20 years in the painting space, but in real life, it was less than a day. However, from the birth of the first queen insect to the current moment, 27 days had past, which meant that this queen insect had lived around 700 years. What's more, it did not die a natural death; it was killed by its enemy!

Lu Zhiyu found this amazing, wondering how the queen insect could live for so long. Lu Zhiyu took out his notebook once again and recorded down the information of these queen insects. As he did so, he realized that when the mind powers of the queen insects had reached a certain level, their mind powers started to get more refined and made it possible for the queen insects to observe and control their own genes.

These queen insects had actually been modifying and developing their own genes. These insects were way ahead of mankind, at least in terms of genetic development.

If the strength is equivalent to one Source Form unit (SFU), when my mind power was initially awakened, after practicing medication for such a long while, my mind power should have reached six SFU. It probably needs seven SFU in order to break through the bottleneck, and reach the point where I am able to freely control the power and therefore influence the external world just like the queen insects.

Lu Zhiyu estimated that, if he gave it his all, he would be able to break through in five days. He was excited to think about experiencing what it felt like to have a mind power that would allow him to observe his genes!

Other than taking medical classes, Lu Zhiyu also got the curriculums of the Department of Biology of Jiangcheng University, and went to the classes daily. In addition, he bought some books on biology to increase his competency in this area.

As he was auditing the classes only, Lu Zhiyu did not disturb the lecturer or the other students. He sat quietly at the back of the classroom, trying to remain incognito. However, he still could not stop the girls from swarming around him. Lu Zhiyu did enjoy the special treatment, though, as he had never had anything like it during his previous college years.

In fact, from the moment he had stepped into the classroom, all eyes were fixed on him. Many girls screamed with excitement, but the guys only looked at him with animosity. This made Lu Zhiyu feel embarrassed.

"Hi, are you a biology student? Why is it that I have never seen you before?" The moment Lu Zhiyu sat down and turned to the page that he had bookmarked previously, a few girls gathered, surrounding him and bombarding him with questions. They were pretty and all seemed quite confident—otherwise, they would not have come over to chat him up.

"No. I'm only auditing the class. I'm here because I have an interest in this subject!" he said.

Lu Zhiyu was surrounded by the group of girls, but at the same time, he also suffered from the killing looks from the guys in the classroom. The girls only left once the class started, but even during the lesson, Lu Zhiyu kept receiving notes on which either their mobile number or WeChat ID was written.

In the afternoon, Lu Zhiyu went to the hospital to collect his medical report. For some reason, he waited at the reception window for a while, but the female hospital worker kept dawdling and just would not give him his report. Eventually, thanks to the physician Li Wei he had met last time, he obtained his report.

Before he could leave the hospital, Li Wei held onto his arm and told him that she was leaving early from work, and would like to buy him dinner. Before Lu Zhiyu could reject her offer, Li Wei had already dragged him to a fancy Hunan Restaurant.

"Hi, I'd like to order this, this, and this. All of these dishes must be spicy!" Li Wei took the menu and ordered just like how she would usually do. However, she then immediately looked at Lu Zhiyu and asked, "Do you like spicy food?"

Lu Zhiyu nodded, "I am fine with it. In fact, I actually do like my food to be a little spicy. But, aren't doctors supposed to be more particular about their food? How come you like such spicy food?"

Li Wei replied with a question of her own. "Who told you that spicy food is bad for your health?"

"You doctors usually tell us to watch our diet and not eat spicy or oily foods!"

"That's only when you are sick. It is fine to eat these things when you are well!"

It was interesting talking to Li Wei. She was an aggressive and outspoken lady, and was two years older than Lu Zhiyu. She spoke her mind and was very direct, so Lu Zhiyu would not need to guess what she really meant, which made him feel really at ease.

Compared to Cai Jiajia who was reserved and graceful, Li Wei was someone on the other end of the spectrum. Lu Zhiyu had taken the initiative to go after Cai Jiajia, but now Li Wei was going after him; the feeling was different, better somehow. In any case, Lu Zhiyu was enjoying every moment of it.

"Hi, two more bottles of beer please!"

"More!"

Lu Zhiyu knew what was on Li Wei's mind. However, when both of them left the restaurant, it was Lu Zhiyu who carried Li Wei out. Taking off her white coat, Li Wei did not have an athletic figure from years of exercises like Cai Jiajia, but she was still mature and hot. In particular, when she pressed herself against Lu Zhiyu, he felt as though his whole body was burning!

"Where do you live? I will take you home!"

"It's alright. There is a hotel nearby. Just get me a room there!"

After checking in the room with Li Wei, Lu Zhiyu did not come out until the following morning, when both of them left the hotel together, behaving very intimately. Lu Zhiyu found it thrilling to date a female doctor who was two years older than him.

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Chapter 12: Genetic Template

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Lu Zhiyu felt that something was about to grow out from between his eyebrows. Finally at the end of his meditation, with sufficient mind power, the thing broke through and came into the real world.

Lu Zhiyu saw the external world, not with his eyes or with the introspective senses that he had been using earlier. Instead, he was actually observing the world from an entirely different angle. His mind power had broken through the limitations of his body and was influencing the real world.

The real world that he saw through his mind power was made up of information formed by dots and lines. There were no colors or light, only information in the form of dots and lines.

From the moment Lu Zhiyu extended his mind power to explore the world, he could feel a vast amount of external information flooding into his brain. The humidity of the air, the size of the room, and the length, structure, quality, and density of his bed all continuously gushed into his brain.

Suddenly, Lu Zhiyu realized that he had never understood his room so well. However, the huge amount of information was too much for him to handle, causing him to feel as if his brain was going to explode.

Is this how the world looks like using mind power? The world is created from information!

After withdrawing his mind power, Lu Zhiyu felt dizzy at once. Information from the whole world kept entering his brain. Although he enjoyed the feeling, he found it unbearable at the same time.

After Lu Zhiyu calmed down, he started to carry out his initial plan. He began to observe the inside of his body and the deep parts of his cells, just like how the queen insects did.

His mind power turned more refined and went deeper into his body. Lu Zhiyu could see his body become continuously enlarged. He saw his muscles, blood vessels, blood, and then, his cells flowing. They looked like bubbles that converged into an endless stream of river, rushing into the distance.

As Lu Zhiyu's mind power ventured even further, he could see what was happening inside the cells. He found the nucleus, which was the small walnut-shaped tissue in every cell. The function of each cell was carried out by its cytoplasm, while the nucleus was its core.

Lu Zhiyu once again made his mind power even finer. At this stage, it was already extremely tough for him. His mind power had reached the realm of the microscopic world. This was the most magical and mysterious corner of the world. As compared to the macroscopic universe, humans were more interested in the microscopic world.

Finally, Lu Zhiyu saw his own DNA. It was like a spiral staircase, and contained the greatest secret of the human body. Human genetic materials were found here, as was all the information in the body. This was a mystery that mankind had always wanted to unravel but could not do so completely.

Lu Zhiyu was elated. He went straight in and saw an endless amount of information flooding into his brain in the form of visible texts. He felt as though he was standing naked in front of a long stream of information. An infinite amount of information dating all the way back to the beginning of life presented itself beneath his feet.

What is this? The memories of life?

Lu Zhiyu saw the information about his ancestors and the beginning of mankind. As he moved up the stream, Lu Zhiyu could even see the shadows of people which were his ancestors. As he advanced further, their faces became simpler and unadorned. Their clothing also kept changing, and ultimately, he saw the primitive period.

He moved all the way from homo sapiens to homo erectus, homo habilis, and Australopithecus. Then, Lu Zhiyu realized that the road ended abruptly. This was the first template of man and no more genetic backtracking was available.

Perhaps, this was actually the origin of man. The other species further up the stream already had nothing to do with mankind. Lu Zhiyu could see directly the origin and evolution of man. It was like an enormous slideshow which greatly astounded him.

At the moment Lu Zhiyu withdrew his mind power, he felt wobbly, nearly falling down from his bed. He covered his face and panted non-stop. It took him a long while to recover.

After some time, Lu Zhiyu roared with laughter. He felt that he had been to the edge of the evolution of man, and finally understood the secret of genes.

Lu Zhiyu realized that the insects had actually changed their genes through pheromones after observing the secret of genes. Lu Zhiyu had a more frightening thought, all because he had seen the genetic template of the ape-like ancestor in the deepest part of his genes.

What if I change the template? If I change the source of the genetic information and tell the gene that its ancestor is not an ape, but rather a Titan, or a god, or even a dragon in the legend, what will happen to mankind? Will it cause atavism, with man suddenly becoming extraordinary beings?

The thought thrilled Lu Zhiyu, but he also felt that the task would be extremely challenging. Countless experiments would have to be done before he could realize his goal. Lu Zhiyu was not even sure if it was feasible.

Lu Zhiyu had set up a laboratory upstairs. It was not professional, but he had bought many pieces of biology-related equipment, which were expensive and hard to get. Fortunately, he only required a few basic facilities, as his mind power was much more powerful in terms of accuracy and fine tuning. In particular, during observations, Lu Zhiyu could accurately detect the changes in the experiment.

There were a CO2 incubator, biological safety cabinet, ultra-low temperature freezer, and other equipment, as well as a wide range of consumables. Lu Zhiyu had used up all of his money, including the funds that his parents had left behind for him, in order to purchase all these items.

When Lu Zhiyu made the investment, he had asked his primary school classmate, Wang Yi, for help. Lu Zhiyu attended primary school in his hometown. Back then, both of them had lived only a few hundred meters away from each other, and they were on good terms.

Wang Yi was currently working as an assistant in a research institution that was jointly owned by a pharmaceutical company and the university. Lu Zhiyu and Wang Yi had not seen each other for a long time, so Wang Yi was rather amazed when Lu Zhiyu suddenly contacted him.

Lu Zhiyu started his experiment with mice. That was right. A pitiful mouse lay on the lab bench, and Lu Zhiyu started to play with the root genetic template of the species according to his own imagination.

However, every time he altered it, the entire genetic chain would collapse at once. The blood in the culture flasks would also lose its bioactivity and was unable to tolerant such random alterations.

Lu Zhiyu realized that the root genetic template must be logical. It must be something that he could understand too, or else it would result in a chain reaction that would cause the genes to collapse.

He started to try putting the information of the human's root template into the animals' . After a few trials, Lu Zhiyu successfully created the genes of mouse-people, a hybrid between mice and humans.

Using polymerase chain reaction, Lu Zhiyu immediately duplicated the genes of the mouse-people, using which he created the first generation evolution plasma. He named it the Mouse-people Blood Plasma.

However, when Lu Zhiyu exultantly injected the plasma into the bone marrow of the mouse, it exploded right away! Immediately, Lu Zhiyu's heart sank.

After being depressed for quite a while, Lu Zhiyu felt that he might be able to breed a new generation of life from the embryo, instead of directly and brutally trying to modify the genes of a mature animal. It would just be like the way cloned sheep were created!

At this time, a tremendous change in the painting space was noticed!

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Chapter 13: The Destruction of a Civilization

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"Hey, what has happened? Why are you all dead?"

Lu Zhiyu had been too busy over these few days to observe the painting space, and when he looked at it, he found that a huge amount of insects had started dying. Lu Zhiyu realized that two days ago, the insects had actually developed bioenergy.

A queen insect had created a new generation of nests and begun to continuously spawn soldier insects. It then managed to control all the other queen insects, effectively unifying the entire painting space.

After that, the queen insect that had just unified its world went onto a road of self-destruction. The endless creation of soldiers eventually used up all the resources of the painting space. The seas had been contaminated and dried up, and the lands had turned into mere deserts. The insects had started to devour one another, resulting in continued deaths.

Lu Zhiyu saw for himself the total collapse of the huge civilization of insects. The queen insects and ordinary insects died one after another, and the painting space was being ruined.

"No! Don't die!" Lu Zhiyu nearly went berserk. However, the measure on the silver sigil in his brain continued to rise rapidly as the insects died. Finally, the measure broke through its bottleneck.

Lu Zhiyu could feel the silver sigil transform from a horizontal eight to a silver-colored hourglass. At once, a huge amount of information charged into his brain, and Lu Zhiyu, once again, received part of the information on how to manipulate the Scroll of the World. Specifically, he received the method on how to create and open the dimensional channel from the outside world.

Lu Zhiyu glanced into the painting space which had already turned into a desert. Even the dead bodies of the insects were being devoured gradually. However, Lu Zhiyu realized that the queen insect that had controlled the painting space had disappeared; it did not die and actually just vanished!

What has happened?

After some prompt investigation, Lu Zhiyu realized that it was at the point when his control of the space had been enhanced that there was instability in the dimensional channel. As he was adjusting the dimensional channel in an attempt to save the painting space from total destruction, the queen insect had grasped hold of the opportunity to escape from the painting space, exiting the two-dimensional world.

However, Lu Zhiyu had no idea where she had escaped to, or whether it was a lower dimensional space or a higher dimensional one. She might even have escaped to the three-dimensional space where he was currently in.

Has she escaped? This trickster destroyed my painting space and just disappeared. This is too rude!

Lu Zhiyu felt the loss, but there was nothing he could do. He knew that this would eventually happen one day, given the characteristics of insects. These extremely aggressive insects would devour all resources in order to enhance their lives. The painting space was just too small for them.

After the living things in the painting space all died, Lu Zhiyu retrieved the Source Form from it, which filled up only around one tenth of the hourglass. If Lu Zhiyu's original measure when he had first obtained the painting space was 100 units, the quantity of the Source Form at the moment would be about 1,300 units. To fill it up again, he would need 10,000 units of Source Form.

Previously, Lu Zhiyu had used 100 units of Source Form to create the painting space. Now that he had 1,300 units, he might be able to come up with another plan to create a more stable, larger space. Perhaps, it would even be a world that could accommodate various civilizations and living things.

Lu Zhiyu suddenly realized that he had missed out an important detail. He could trace back the memories and origin of his ancestors through his genes. Hence, the queen insects might be able to do so as well.

That would mean they might have already discovered that they did not belong to the painting world. Instead, they were from another universe and their ancestors were but a group of ants on the ground.

Lu Zhiyu's expression changed.

Could the insects have already felt my presence, and have been scolding me behind my back? Something also seems to be wrong with the queen insect. It seems like she has prepared to escape from the painting space long ago!

At the moment, in a distant and unknown Inner Space, the queen insect that had curled up like a worm and traveled through spacetime in a cocoon sent out a wave.

The world of God. Tse tse, looking for the presence of God!

We insects are from the world of God, the kingdom of God!

The Almighty God, Sunika is looking for You. I have many questions…

As Lu Zhiyu waited outside the hospital, a few women suddenly came by to chat him up, but he rejected them. When Lu Zhiyu saw them walking away reluctantly, he could only smile wryly.

At the moment Li Wei appeared, he immediately waved at her. Li Wei smiled and bid her colleagues farewell, after which she leaped into Lu Zhiyu's embrace.

Noticing a few female doctors and nurses gossiping at the door, Lu Zhiyu held Li Wei in his arms and said, "This is a public place. Don't be so affectionate. Your colleagues are all watching us with a scary look!"

Li Wei gave a humph and said, "They are trying to seduce you and are envious of me. In the future, don't look for me inside the hospital; just give me a call when you are here."

Lu Zhiyu shrugged and said, "Alright, alright. I've got it. I promise that I'll be good and not fool around."

Li Wei said proudly, "That's right. As my man, you have to be virtuous!"

Lu Zhiyu opened the door of his car and Li Wei sat on the passenger seat. Then, Lu Zhiyu made one round and hopped into the car as well. After he started the engine, he said, "I didn't know that you get jealous so easily. You're so petty. By the way, the word virtuous is used for women!"

Li Wei immediately argued, "Who asked me to fall in love with such a handsome guy like you? If I am not careful, those vixens outside will swarm you!"

Over this period, Lu Zhiyu had gradually understood why women were so attracted to him. Other than his outstanding look, another important factor was the smell of hormones that exuded from his body.

When his body had adjusted to the optimum level, Lu Zhiyu realized that not only could his physique be compared to professional athletes, but his now perfectly healthy and balanced body also released this smell that would attract women greatly.

This was something that Lu Zhiyu had no solution to. He could not possibly destroy his physical attributes only because of such a small flaw. Moreover, if this was even considered a flaw, all the men in the world would most likely want to have it!

After going through the ordinary process of having their dinner, going on a date, and watching a movie, Lu Zhiyu brought Li Wei to his house. This was the first time that Li Wei went to his house. They had been to the hotel a few times together and then to Li Wei's house, but not Lu Zhiyu's house.

"Your house is quite nice. It is detached and the location is great. Did your family refuse to leave when the developers tried to chase you out in the past? I am surprised they allowed you to stay!"

"…"

Li Wei's guess was somewhat close to the truth. As Lu Zhiyu's house was situated at a corner, after rejecting the offer for a few times, the developers had given up and did not demolish the house without their consent.

At night, after the exhausted Li Wei took a shower, she saw Lu Zhiyu who only had a towel around him watching television on his sofa. She quietly came up from behind, hugged him, and said, "You are great!"

Lu Zhiyu pulled her down onto the sofa and laughed. "Am I that great?"

After playing around with each other, Li Wei asked, "It has been quite a while since you resigned from your job in the capital. What's your plan?"

Lu Zhiyu pondered for a while and replied, "Hmm… I plan to open a pet shop. What do you think?"

"Oh? Do you like pets?"

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Chapter 14: The Idea of a New World

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Lu Zhiyu came up with plans for the future of the painting space based on his ideas. Since he had 1368 units of Source Form, Lu Zhiyu had decided to create a world with a bigger framework of rules, so that he would not need to keep changing and adjusting it in the future. Of course, that was merely the framework. Lu Zhiyu would not be able to design a large scale world for the time being even if he wanted to.

Lu Zhiyu had spent a long time thinking about it. Initially, he had thought about the universe, planes, parallel worlds, worlds with different timelines, gaming worlds and many others. But in the end, Lu Zhiyu realized that making these worlds into a reality would be too difficult.

In the end, Lu Zhiyu adopted a more practical type of space, a Krynnspace world. The Krynnspace world was made up of multiple planes and was completely different from any of the worlds found within his universe. Anything outside of these planes could be considered the Ethereal Sea or astral plane!

Lu Zhiyu had thought of implementing the concept of the immortal-heroes or an element of fantasy, but after some thought, realized that he would need a much bigger framework. It would be difficult for him to control and setup such a world. Most importantly, Lu Zhiyu was fearful that a cool guy might appear within the world he created and come after his life in the other dimension, claiming that he could slay God or what not!

That thought was just to humor himself though. The setup for the immortal-heroes would be closer to his current personal cultivation system.

What Lu Zhiyu wanted was a system that could motivate its people to cultivate their abilities, a system that would bring about the enhancement of civilization. A world like this would help him to harvest Source Form, yet not make its people too powerful. Ideally, a system of gradual enhancement would be better for Lu Zhiyu.

Thus, Lu Zhiyu would like to set up a world with low amounts of magic that could compliment science. This would provide him with a continuous supply of Source Form as well as large amounts of new, improved thoughts and ideas.

After all, he was currently the only one doing the work, and thus, naturally had limited ideas. It was better to be able to gather the ideas from a larger group of people. As it was now, Lu Zhiyu had gotten whatever Source Form he had currently from the few ants he created in the past!

After filling up an entire notebook with plans and setups, he closed it and took out the Scroll of the World. He opened it to see that there was nothing on the scroll. The world within the scroll had become a barren desert with nothing left.

Lu Zhiyu closed his eyes and cupped his face. He directed his consciousness into the map, linking it up with the silver hourglass and taking control of the space within. He could immediately see that the situation inside the map starting to change.

The world within the painting space kept reducing in size, eventually becoming pitch-black. It was as if a huge dark vortex had consumed everything.

As the painting world changed, Lu Zhiyu could sense a Krynnspace world being formed in the scroll. The initial world in the painting space had been reduced to a black dot, a tiny bubble. It then gradually moved from the center of the world to a corner.

Lu Zhiyu exhaled and opened his eyes. He knew that the procedures had gone smoothly. However, the measure of Source Form in his brain had instantly dropped by 930 units, leaving him with only 438 units.

Merely setting up the framework for this new world had used up a large amount of Source Form. Lu Zhiyu turned pale when he saw this, as the Source Form had been hard to get. He had to be more prudent.

Lu Zhiyu used his mind power again and saw that, at the center of the scroll, a bubble had been formed within the dark vortex. The structure of the space had been stabilized by Lu Zhiyu. He would have to fill the space with material energy in order to decide just how large the world would be.

Lu Zhiyu went to the rooftop, where he saw a strange symbol. It looked very complex, like the blueprints of a building where all the details from the exterior to the interior was clearly stated. After spending a few days on it, Lu Zhiyu finally managed to draw it out.

Lu Zhiyu had gained control of the method to open the dimensional door when he acquired the rights to control the space within the painting. The painting itself was meaningless. The most important thing was the guidance for his mind power. Lu Zhiyu had to follow the blueprints and inject his mind power into the space in order to activate the dimensional door.

Everything remained unchanged even after he injected the mind power. However, his mind power could sense the vibrations under his feet. The instant Lu Zhiyu completed the structure using his mind power, he saw a giant black hole under his feet, extending and spreading all the way up into the sky!

Boom!

At this instant, all of the people in the world stopped whatever they were doing, not knowing what to do. The sky had turned dark, leaving the entire world in darkness.

"What happened?"

"Is there an eclipse?"

"Why did the sky turn dark so suddenly?"

A few scientists from the Institute of Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences gathered together and wondered aloud, "What's going on, why is there a sudden eclipse? We did not predict such a situation!"

"It is not an eclipse!"

"Not an eclipse, how is that possible, what's going on!"

"It looks as though the light from the sun has vanished!"

A group of people in uniforms were gathered together. They were from NASA. Among them were Caucasians, Asians, and Africans.

A few guys were typing on their keyboards, while the rest of them stared blankly at the big screen, commented among themselves.

"This is not a natural phenomenon. Something is devouring the energy from the sun!"

"Devouring the energy from the sun? How is that possible? Are you crazy?"

"I would like to say that I am crazy, but that is what the data shows!"

"What is the area that has been affected? Is this man-made?"

"The area has not been confirmed, but we can be sure that it affects the entire planet, possibly even parts of the solar system. Man-made? If this could be done by a person, then it would have to be God. Oh my god, the entire earth can be easily destroyed by this person in an instant!"

"It might be done by an alien!"

At the same time, the Netherlands Institute for Astronomy, other astronomical institutions around the world, and the Space Sectors were also caught by surprise by the sudden change in the sky. Many of them looked out, only to see the entire world covered in darkness.

The traffic patterns were in chaos, people on the streets screamed and squatted down.

The darkness brought fear to them all. Many of them turned on the lights and looked up at the sky. Using their mobile phones and binoculars, they tried to catch glimpses of the eclipse, but nothing could be seen.

"Why can't I use my phone? What's the problem?"

"The light has dimmed!"

"The Internet has been cut off!"

Those that knew the true cause of the darkness were struck by panic. The energy from the sun had been devoured and the world had descended into darkness, yet no one knew the reason for it, nor could they guess when everything would return to normal. Should this continue, the order and stability of the human civilization would crumble within a few days. The human race would die off in less than a month.

"My God, is this the end of the world?"

"It has not recovered yet. Just what's going on? What is the reason for this? We must find out. We cannot lose the sun!"

"Is this punishment from God?"

Lu Zhiyu, who was currently on the rooftop of his house, instantly tried closing the entrance of the dimensional door. He had wanted to open the entrance completely, but did not expect how powerful the energy devouring capabilities of the massive entrance was, as well as the impact it had. The entire sky had turned dark.

This was much more than what Lu Zhiyu had wished for when he tried to absorb energy from the outside world! After a few minutes, Lu Zhiyu finally managed to close the entrance. The world became bright again.

Lu Zhiyu could not help but wipe the cold sweat off his face. Fortunately, Lu Zhiyu had set up the dimensional door to absorb energy, and was directed at the sky. If he had directed it to the ground, if he had aimed it under his feet, Lu Zhiyu was worried that even the planet might have been devoured!

Lu Zhiyu heaved a sigh of relief as he saw the color gradually returning to the sky. He did not know how large the area of influence was, or if he would attract the attention of the rest of the people.

Lu Zhiyu would never have known that by releasing the dimensional channel and allowing it to devour the photons of light according to his requirements, he had put the entire planet into darkness for more than 10 minutes. This had caused the world's institutions to become panic-stricken. Everyone was now guessing if the cause of the phenomenon just now. Was it a natural phenomenon, or God playing a joke on them?

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Chapter 15: Maria's World

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Lu Zhiyu looked at the space within the Scroll of the World. He had never thought that the planes could be blown up like a balloon. It was so huge that Lu Zhiyu could not even see the boundary of the plane. It seemed boundless, Lu Zhiyu felt as though it was a real world.

Lu Zhiyu could feel a large amount of energy and matter welling within the plane. He could simply applied the rules and he would have been able to sculpt this world to how he wanted it to look like and create the world that he wanted.

Lu Zhiyu started to work on the most crucial step. It was similar to how he set up the previous world. He revamped the rules and immediately, the sky, land, sea, sun, moon, stars, gravity, air, clouds and wind appeared on the plane.

Lu Zhiyu sowed the seeds that he had prepared in advance, and under the acceleration of time, they started to grow and proliferate. Very soon, the greenery had filled the earth.

Lu Zhiyu could sense that this world would no longer reject the introduction of larger creatures. This was because the plane was sufficiently stable and large. He no longer limited to only putting insects into this world, since he could now freely insert other living things, including himself.

However, Lu Zhiyu had no intention to enter the painting space at the moment, as he still had no idea if this world was suitable for living for both man and animals. Although he was the one that had created this world, he had done so using the powers of the Scroll of the World, the silver hourglass that was in his brain and the foolproof methods of operation, and not by his own powers.

The power did not belong to him, and hence, he should not consider himself to be omnipotent like God. If he did that, Lu Zhiyu would be too pretentious.

It was similar to how Lu Zhiyu could, in theory, tap into the power of the Scroll of the World to destroy the world and bring it to an end. However, that did not mean that he had the actual ability to do so. A three year old holding the button to launch nuclear weapons could also destroy the world, but does that mean that he is in control of nuclear power? Could the three-year-old freely control its power?

Currently, Lu Zhiyu was like the three-year-old child with the button to launching the nuclear weapons, but he had no insane intentions of pressing the button, nor did he have the guts to conquer the world and become its leader. All he wanted to do was to fulfil his dreams and goals using this weapon. As such, he had been exploring on how he could completely transform the power of the scroll into his own power.

It was as though Lu Zhiyu was using a gigantic hand to draw on the painting space. But he realized that the acceleration of time he implemented began to slow down after it peaked at 10,000 times that of normal. It seemed as though the required amounts of energy in order to maintain the acceleration of time would increase the more complete and complex the world was.

When the plants started to grow, Lu Zhiyu realized that time had gradually slowed down from 10,000 times that of normal to about 9,000 times. This downward trend seemed to continue.

The dimensions of the space seem to have been enhanced from the time I created the painting space. This Krynnspace can be known as the dimensional space. Although it has not been upgraded to the level of the Three-dimensional universe, the structure and rules of this world are more complete than the previous one!

When the structure and rules become more complete, the criteria for time acceleration becomes stricter. Hence, I will not be able to change it as I like!

Lu Zhiyu was suddenly enlightened. After the rules had been set, the measure of the Source Form Lu Zhiyu possessed dropped down to 108 units. Lu Zhiyu did not force the world to return to his desired flow of time, that would require a large amount of Source Form in order to change the rules. This was because he no longer had enough Source Form to use. He also had to reserves some for special circumstances.

Lu Zhiyu looked at the huge Krynnspace in the Scroll of the World. It was empty except for two bubbles, one big and one small.

The small one was the previous painting space, which had become a barren world. The big one was the newly created world.

Let's call you Maria's World. We shall let the goddess of light, Maria, create the world!

Lu Zhiyu gave the new plane a name and started the initial setup. He wrote down the words, Maria's World, in his notebook.

After that, he proceeded to the next step of his plan, which was to let Maria's World have a complete ecosystem. He would like to form a world that could contain different living things, not one that could only support the weird life forms of insects like the previous world.

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"Yesterday, before dawn, there was an eclipse. The experts have said that this could be a one-time…"

"The eclipse had caused the country to slip into chaos. An unidentified magnetic field had appeared and caused the world's communications network to go down in a mere 10 minutes…"

"It is very rare to see a global eclipse…"

Lu Zhiyu held Li Wei's hand and watched the news in the hall of a pet shop. The news was broadcasting on what had taken place the day before.

Lu Zhiyu had not expected his actions to have such a large impact. It had affected the whole world. However, Lu Zhiyu felt that it was to be expected when he thought about the vast space in Maria's World.

Li Wei was playing with her mobile phone, which she then passed to Lu Zhiyu, "Look, there are a lot of rumors on the internet. Yesterday, there was a commotion in the hospital when the sky suddenly turned dark. But it does not seem to have been an eclipse."

Lu Zhiyu gave an awkward smile. He had read the news. Many people were certain that it was not an eclipse.

At that point of time, the orbits of the earth, moon, and sun did not meet the conditions of an eclipse. Moreover, more than one area had been affected. In fact, the entire world had been affected, with every corner of it having lost its light.

With all of the different views going around, many people were making guesses and many discussions were being held. Other than the television's and mainstream media's speculation on the eclipse and other rumors, many scientists and students, who were studying astronomy, stood up to express their views.

There were even many people who speculated that it was a warning of an alien invasion on Earth. Some said that God was going to destroy the world, and that this was a rehearsal. There were far-fetched information circulating amongst the population, but most of these information were not of too large a concern to an average person. Most of the people took it as a joke.

As Lu Zhiyu was hugging Li Wei and looking at the phone, the door of a room in the pet shop was pushed open. A middle-aged owner took out a contract and said, "It is ready. Please take a look. I have all the equipment and facilities. The pet grooming equipment and renovations are still in good condition. But you might need a pet groomer. If you need recommendations from me, I will be happy to help. I can even introduce you to suppliers!"

Lu Zhiyu was elated, and said, "Really? That will be great!"

This pet shop was not far away from Lu Zhiyu's home. There were small communities and parks nearby, making the area and location quite desirable. Furthermore, Lu Zhiyu liked the style of the decor and the checkered imitation wood flooring. It had a rather ecological style, a little cartoonish, yet refreshing as though they were in a natural setting. The space was also rather large, about eighty square meters in size.

After Lu Zhiyu looked around and made up his mind, he managed to get the price reduced greatly, as he knew the thoughts of the owner.

"I will keep the name of the shop, Cats and Dogs Pet Shop! For the renovation, just a bit of a touch-up will do!" Lu Zhiyu said after giving it some thought.

The owner needed a week to hand it over, so Lu Zhiyu could only take over the shop after a week. He decided to take a break during this period.

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Chapter 16: Completion of the Ecosystem

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Lu Zhiyu drove alone to Shennongjia, Muyu Town. Although this was not the peak season for traveling, the town was bustling with people from all walks of life. There were people distributing leaflets, as well as shops holding various events to attract customers. There were many performances at night as well.

After enjoying himself, Lu Zhiyu settled into a hotel. He went up to the mountains the following day. He had chosen a less traveled path, so that he could select different kinds of plants, animals, and materials for Maria's World. This would complete the selection of animal and plant species in Maria's World as well as its ecosystem.

Lu Zhiyu had tried to put a mouse into Maria's World, into one of its five different continents. By this time, the seeds of the plants that he had sowed had spread across the entire world.

The air seemed to be much fresher than what Lu Zhiyu had imagined, and the mouse lived comfortably. There were even types of algae that Lu Zhiyu had never seen before growing in the sea. These plants had all grown naturally on their own.

Lu Zhiyu had introduced large amounts of different species of fish, as well as stray dogs and cats into Maria's World. There was already a small group being formed. However, the cats and dogs had turned feral. The fish had proliferated in the ocean. As Lu Zhiyu had sealed up the Zero-dimensional channel, the creatures did not share the same conditions as the insects, so they evolved under normal conditions.

Lu Zhiyu had been a little obsessed with Maria's World recently. He had manically purchased seeds of different plants. He would also take with him species of bugs, birds or animals he had never seen before in order to enrich the diversity of living things in Maria's World. Lu Zhiyu left it for nature to decide if they would survive or not. It was survival of the fittest.

Lu Zhiyu did not wish to allow every race in Maria's World to share the zero-dimension channel or freely pass through the authority he had over that space to extract the energy within the zero-dimension space. At the very least, he wanted to prevent the creatures from drawing on that energy without him allowing it.

His intention was to release control of the Zero-dimensional channel gradually in the future via his own methods. He did not want a repeat of how the insects freely used the energy for their own developments.

Shennongjia was a world cultural heritage site. When they first applied for the title, its success hinged upon having a lot of natural resources, such as animals and plants. To Lu Zhiyu, this was a massive treasure trove.

There were 11 types of vegetation distributed around Shennongjia. It was one of the three largest distribution centers for seed-bearing plants in China. Empirical research had confirmed that there were at least 3,767 vascular plant species in Shennongjia, 590 temperate plant genres, 205 local species, two unique genus, and 1793 species unique to China.

Many rare animal species had also been preserved in the ecosystem. In fact, it had been recorded that there were more than 600 vertebrate animal species, including 92 types of mammals, 399 bird species, 55 types of fish, 53 types of reptiles and 37 types of amphibians!

Its mountainous terrain had even become the habitat of some endangered species. It had been recorded that there were more than 1,300 golden snub-nosed monkeys, leopards, white cranes, white snakes, great bustards, giant salamanders, and more found in this place. In total, there are 67 types of wild animals that were under the protection of the country.

This place was also a haven to different types of insects. Currently, 4,365 species had been found.

As Lu Zhiyu moved along, he collected the resources that he needed with the help of his mind power and strong physique. He had collected grasshoppers, different types of snakes, monkeys and Asiatic black bears. He had no idea if it was legal or not, or if what he was doing was immoral, but since no one was watching, he couldn't care less.

It was nice to be able to move around freely and fearlessly in the forest, especially when one had a strong physique. Walking freely in the forest like that had never crossed Lu Zhiyu's mind. He would not be able to do so under his previous poor health condition. Moreover, without his mind power to anticipate danger, his constantly uptight nerves would have made him very fatigued. After all, Shennongjia was not a safe place and was filled with danger.

Without the help of his mind power to explore the area, Lu Zhiyu would not have been able to find the animals and plants species that he needed so quickly. He had also found a few old ginseng gatherings, as well as some rare herbs, which he carefully tucked away.

Along the way, Lu Zhiyu continued to migrate the various uprooted plants. He also found traces of wild animal species as he continued on the journey. He followed the trails, found them, then put them into Maria's World.

After Lu Zhiyu dug up the nest of moles and tossed them into Maria's world, he saw the footprints of a bear on a path nearby. Some of its fur had fallen to the ground and Lu Zhiyu was surprised to see that it was white in color.

Hey, what have we found here? An adult albino bear that has lost its way. Let's try to catch it!

An albino bear can give us…

Lu Zhiyu laughed out loud as he was thinking to himself. These past few days, he had caught many animals from Shennongjia.

He had run after these ferocious animals, like tigers, leopards, and bobcats, with the Scroll of the World in his hands. He did not even spare the monkeys. Even a bear would pose no threat to him, so Lu Zhiyu was in high spirits!

Lu Zhiyu used his mind power to explore the footprints and collect information about the bear. According to his estimates, the bear most likely had been here half a day ago and should still be around here somewhere. Indeed, after tracking it for some time, Lu Zhiyu finally found the albino bear in an uphill area of the forest.

An albino bear was a rare albino species of the Asiatic black bear. There were less than 10 existing in the whole world. It was very different from the polar bear. Its fur was not as white, in fact, it was highlighted with a little brown.

As Lu Zhiyu watched the albino bear, he realized that it seemed to be pregnant. It was probably grumpy at the moment.

It would be easily agitated should Lu Zhiyu approach it. The ears of the bear were standing upright, attached to its rather big head, its tail was hiding between its butt, making it look quite cute. However, when it turned around, its ferocious expression and sharp teeth showed that it was not to be messed with.

But Lu Zhiyu was no ordinary man. He dashed out toward the albino bear with his Scroll of the World. The bear was shocked at first, then became enraged.

It stood up and roared furiously at Lu Zhiyu. The sound of its roar filled the entire forest, alarming the birds and animals. Leaves even fell down onto the ground.

Lu Zhiyu did not hold back. He aimed the Scroll of the World at the albino bear and absorbed it inside the scroll. He threw the albino bear near the Asiatic black bears that he had captured earlier.

After all, Lu Zhiyu could not miss this opportunity to capture a pregnant bear! It was like a "buy one, get one free" type of thing!

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Chapter 17: Dinosaur Egg

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Without realizing it, Lu Zhiyu had stayed in Shennongjia for a week. He had spent the week drinking fresh spring water and enjoying the roasted meat of the animals that he had hunted inside his tent.

He had enjoyed the relaxing life. He was even able to communicate with some of the animals in Shennongjia using his mind power. However, they had little intelligence and their thought processes were very scattered. Sometimes, they would not answer questions posed to them, but Lu Zhiyu still found it all very interesting.

Lu Zhiyu knew that it was time for him to leave. He had collected enough species of animals and plants, a good number of which have now been proliferating widely within Maria's World.

This was especially so for the plants. The fact that Shennongjia had so many plants had helped Lu Zhiyu complete the plant ecosystem in Maria's World. The ecosystem had gradually taken shape, but comparatively, the rules and completion of the world had slowed down its flow of time, reducing it to approximately 7,000 folds.

Lu Zhiyu prepared to leave now that he had reached his target. After all, he had many tasks awaiting him back home.

He packed his belongings and looked at his map. Lu Zhiyu walked toward the direction of Laojun Mountain. Walking in that direction would allow him to find his way and return home successfully. This route was said to be among the favorite hiking trails taken by tourists. The road was more developed and safer, offering assurance that he would have a smooth journey home.

On his way, Lu Zhiyu saw a group of tourists taking pictures of some monkeys. They looked cute and had captured everyone's attention.

Lu Zhiyu also took out his camera and started to take pictures of the monkeys. If not for the people around, he might even have captured a few of them. But one of the tourists seemed to have agitated the monkeys while he was feeding them, prompting the monkeys to start attacking the people.

These monkeys had sharp claws and teeth, able to pull off a piece of flesh with every scratch. They scratched the male tourist at a number of places. The male tourist cried out pitifully. Another man from the group tried to save him, but his actions only agitated the monkeys further, causing them to start throwing stones at the people.

At this moment, Lu Zhiyu stepped out and blew on his whistle, causing the monkeys to run away, as if they had encountered their mortal enemy. All of the people in the group shifted their attentions to Lu Zhiyu.

A few girls, who had been frightened by the violent encounter just now, turned to look at Lu Zhiyu.

Lu Zhiyu looked nonchalant. He kept the whistle as he saw that the monkeys had run away. That was just a gimmick tool that he had used when he was hunting for the animals. He would blow on the whistle whenever he came across animals that he did not wish to capture, or those that he had captured before. He did this to catch their attention, and at the same time, used his mind power to release an aura of a predator in order to scare the animals away.

To an average person, what he had done looked amazing. Lu Zhiyu looked at the few tourists who had been injured by the monkeys and asked, "How are you? Is everything fine? I have a first aid kit. Do you need it?"

At this moment, the tour guide stepped forward and said to Lu Zhiyu, "Thank you. We have a first aid kit with us. I am the tour guide, Xue Kai!"

Lu Zhiyu shook his hand and said, "I am Lu Zhiyu. I also came on a trip. I was just passing by and am glad to be of help!"

Xue Kai sent a few people to tend to the injured tourists. Most of them were not seriously wounded, but the wounds looked gory and frightening. The tourists continued to look at Lu Zhiyu with curiosity. He looked gorgeous, and a few female tourists could not take their eyes off of him.

After Xue Kai had settled the tourists, he went to Lu Zhiyu and offered him a packet of cigarettes. "Would you like to have a puff?"

Lu Zhiyu had had weak lungs since his youth, and thus had never smoked. He immediately rejected the offer and Xue Kai kept his cigarette, also refraining from smoking for the time being.

He was chatting with Lu Zhiyu when suddenly, Lu Zhiyu saw a strange stone on the ground, as big as the size of his fist. He bent over and picked it up.

This stone seemed to have been thrown by the monkeys just now. There was still mud on it, probably due to it having just been dug out. Lu Zhiyu gave the stone a closer observation and found that it looked round and pretty. There were even some large cracks on the stone.

Xue Kai took a look and said, "Hey, this looks like a fossilized dinosaur egg!"

Lu Zhiyu looked at Xue Kai with excitement and asked, "What? A dinosaur egg? Really?"

Xue Kai nodded and said, "It should be. I have seen things like this before. An ordinary dinosaur egg only costs a few thousand yuan and while it is not very expensive, it is a good collector's item. What you have here should be a dinosaur egg, but I do not know what dinosaur it is from. It does not look too big, so it should not be from a huge dinosaur!"

Lu Zhiyu nodded his head. Regardless of the type of dinosaur it was, it was still a dinosaur, and this was its egg!

"Is there really a dinosaur egg here?" Immediately, a few tourists came over and stood beside Lu Zhiyu to take a look. Lu Zhuyi shared the dinosaur egg with them, letting them inspect it. He had found it, and according to Xue Kai, it was not expensive. More importantly, this was something unique and worth collecting.

Everyone was amazed by the fossilized dinosaur egg, as if they could see from it how the overlords of the world millions of years ago looked like within the egg. After they returned it to Lu Zhiyu, he carefully stored it away.

As some of the tourists were injured, the group decided not to continue with the hike. They took a shortcut, boarded the bus and went to a nearby clinic to get treated. After all, they had been clawed by the monkeys and would not want to contract any viruses or infections.

Lu Zhiyu left Shennongjia with the group and got along well with them. These people loved to travel and were mostly outgoing and cheerful. Everyone took pictures with Lu Zhiyu, which brightened up his trip even more.

Although the few girls in the group were not very pretty, they were very candid and not pretentious. They took many pictures with Lu Zhiyu. A fat girl even kissed him out of nowhere, causing his shocked look at that moment to be captured by the camera. The entire journey back home was filled with much laughter.

Before they departed, Xue Kai gave Lu Zhiyu his mobile number, along with an invitation. "We are from Hubei Province, and we usually conduct tours and organize some projects. You can join us if you are interested. Our events are very interesting!"

Lu Zhiyu nodded and said, "I like that idea. I will definitely join you if I have the time!"

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Chapter 18: The Dimensional Castle and Mouse-people

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After signing the contract, settling the payments, and dealing with some documentation, the ownership of the pet shop had been transferred to Lu Zhiyu. The documentation for the pet shop was rather simple and only ended up costing a few hundred yuan.

Lu Zhiyu started becoming busy after taking over the pet shop. He got a contractor to carry out some minor renovations for him, and just like that, the new Cats and Dogs Pet Shop was ready for business. The previous owner had left his pet groomer in Lu Zhiyu's employ, and since she was experienced, she was also familiar with how to tend to the pet store. She had been a great help to Lu Zhiyu, who was new to the business.

"Xiao Le, thanks for helping me. I am new to the business and have many areas to learn and handle. Do feel free to come to me if you have any problems!"

"Yes, boss!" a girl with curly hair said politely to Lu Zhiyu. After bidding goodbye, the girl turned toward the road and disappeared into the crowd.

Lu Zhiyu finally ended his first day of business after a busy day at work. He had not yet sold any pets, but there were many customers who had brought their pets for grooming and a bath. Xiao Le was rather young, but loved pets. She was also very good at trimming the fur of the pets. Every untidy looking cat or dog that came in left the store looking like a model.

Lu Zhiyu stayed later that evening at his pet shop, spending some time reading his book before heading home. Once home, he went straight to his laboratory that he had set up.

But at this point in time, the laboratory was empty. He took out the Scroll of the World and spread it out, revealing the Krynnspace within. The Krynnspace looked different. There was now an additional tiny bubble that was not visible to the naked eye.

This bubble was a small dimensional plane that Lu Zhiyu had created for himself. The space within it was very small, only about 1,000 square meters. The space was about the size of a house, and was filled with stones, which had been fitted together to form nine levels. Its style took after western historical architecture and resembled a castle.

The small dimensional plane was not independent. It was embedded above Maria's World, their surfaces latching tightly on each other. The internal resource circulation system as well as the energy, and even the air, were all extracted from within Maria's World. Hence, it was not an independent world.

Lu Zhiyu had used only three scales from the Source Form to complete the small dimensional space. He planned to use it as his secret base, and he called it the dimensional castle.

Lu Zhiyu kept the Scroll of the World and looked at the floor. There was a complex magic circle on the floor. He injected his mind power and activated the dimensional door. As his shadow flickered, he disappeared from the earth and entered the dimensional castle. The moment he appeared in the dimensional castle, the lights rapidly turned on and the entire place lit up.

Lu Zhiyu stood on the first level of the hall, feeling a little lost. He looked at the crystal lightings, the decorations on the wall, as well as the switches. Some of the decorations was created using Source Form, some bought on Earth by Lu Zhiyu, and some obtained from within Maria's World. They were then put together when he created the rules for this space, and it had now turned into a castle.

This was the first time that Lu Zhiyu had entered the inner parts of the space in the Scroll of the World. It was only when he stood there, that he felt that the world he had created was not a sham or an illusion, but rather, that it truly existed!

Lu Zhiyu looked at the glass that was mounted at the top of the huge living room and light it refracted. He explored the surroundings and walked up to the second level. He saw the rooms, which had been constructed according to his blueprint.

However, there were not many furnishings except for the basics. After all, even with his Source Form, Lu Zhiyu could only create what he understood.

Lu Zhiyu knew that he had to use the Source Form sparingly, even if it was only 0.0001. The Source Form was the world's most basic form of energy. Without the Scroll of the World, there was no way that Lu Zhiyu would be able to come into contact with such a high level existence.

As one went up the levels, there was a conference hall, library, restaurant, indoor swimming pool, restroom, bedroom, laboratory and prison. There was even a botanical garden at the very top level

There were five levels above the ground floor, and four levels down to the basement. The entire place was big beyond imagination!

The current power supply was produced by a diesel generator, which was just sufficient enough for operation. Lu Zhiyu suddenly had another thought. The queen insect had left behind a bio-nuclear energy machine in the painting space. It had been hidden in the inner parts of the hive that has since dried up.

It could devour any substance, even water, and turn it into nuclear energy. Previously, the queen insect, Sunika, had relied on it to keep up the insects rush strategy and control the world.

However, this thing was dangerous even though it had no intelligence or consciousness. Lu Zhiyu only had the thought in his mind. It would take a long while for him to realize this thought!

Lu Zhiyu went up to the top floor, which had rounded glass ceilings revealing the sky overhead. He intended to make this place a botanical garden, but it was currently empty.

He switched on the light, revealing a translucent protective layer outside the glass. That was the wall of the plane. Ordinary people would not be able to go near him or touch him. Those who entered would automatically be turned back. The folds in the space made one feel as though he was in a maze.

Outside the multiple folds of the wall of plane was the Ethereal Sea, or the astral world. This place was void of anything, and no living thing could survive within it!

After touring the dimensional castle, Lu Zhiyu returned to the bedroom that he had prepared for himself. He took out the Scroll of the World and hung it on the wall. Unless there was a need, Lu Zhiyu would not take the Scroll of the World away from this place. After all, this would be the safest place to keep it. Since he had full control over the scroll, it did not matter where the scroll was. He could easily access it using the dimensional door!

After adjusting the angle of the Map, Lu Zhiyu saw Maria's World continuously being enlarged. One of the green continents gradually appeared before his eyes. Lu Zhiyu saw a group of undersized human figures in the valley. These fellows had short white fur, long beards, small eyes, and their limbs had evolved, now similar to those of a human.

This was the result of Lu Zhiyu's experiment, the mouse-people. Lu Zhiyu had created an intelligent race, which had formed a colony in Maria's World. Lu Zhiyu had implanted the genes of a mouse onto the genetic template of a human in order to create the genes of the mouse-people.

Following that, he created an artificial embryo through genetic engineering, which he then impregnated a dog with. He had never expected to successfully create an intelligent race from it.

The adult mouse-people were about 1.3 meters tall and were in the era of a primitive society. They were able to use tools and fire, and they made their clothes out of animal skins. They possessed the things necessary for the beginnings of a civilization.

Lu Zhiyu observed their behaviors and looks through the Scroll of the World. His pupils were dilated, as though he was witnessing the miracles of life.

I never thought that I could create intelligent beings! Lu Zhiyu felt as though he had reached the realm of God!

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Chapter 19: Ant-people Helpers

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In basement two of the dimensional castle, Lu Zhiyu stood before a huge beehive-like thing. He felt somewhat shorthanded after beginning to carry out his plan.

Therefore, he immediately took out the smallest insect nest from the painting space and placed it in basement two. Since Lu Zhiyu was not a queen ant, he did not have the mental ability to control all the insects and be the superior ruler in terms of genes.

Lu Zhiyu's mental talent was information transmittance. That is, he could transmit a huge amount of information through his mind power, which not everyone could. Every individual who had entered the zero-dimensional Inner Space would have his mental talent awakened. Lu Zhiyu only discovered this after observing the queen insect.

His talent was different from the queen insect's. If an ordinary insect had not entered the zero-dimensional world, but only had its consciousness awakened by extracting Source Form, its mind power would only act as a special sensory organ. It would not be able to transmit information, or sense and modify genetic information like what Lu Zhiyu had done. Only being such as Lu Zhiyu and the queen insect who had entered the zero-dimensional world before could do such things.

In addition, there was a great difference between the mental talent of the queen insect and that of Lu Zhiyu. Lu Zhiyu named the queen insect's mental talent as insect control, and his as information transmission. Although he could not control all the insects like the queen insect, he could still create and control part of the insects via the nest.

A species like insects would only be scary with a queen. Without a queen insect, the ordinary insects would pose no threat to Lu Zhiyu, because they were not intelligent at all and would only carry out their given duties mindlessly, from the time they were born until the day they died. This was the life of the ordinary insects.

As long as Lu Zhiyu had control over the nest, he could make changes to the pheromones when he created insects. In this way, he could create the types of soldiers he wanted, and they would take orders from him.

However, Lu Zhiyu was not a queen insect, and the nest was also partially damaged. Therefore, he clearly could not create insects endlessly like the queen insect. At the very most, he could create only a few insect servants.

Moreover, Lu Zhiyu did not think very highly of the insects as they had such a low intelligence. Those races with high intelligences would contain a large amount of Source Form. Among the insects, there was a significant polarization between the ordinary insects and the queen insect. However, beings such as the queen insect were too terrifying for him to have.

After activating the nest, Lu Zhiyu could see that the nest devoured at once the compounds which he had placed within it. After a short while, many black slimy balls were born from the nest and they struggled to approach Lu Zhiyu.

They looked like aliens; they had black shells, slender bodies, big heads and eyes, and antennas on their heads. These were the ant-people created by Lu Zhiyu!

This second generation nest was very powerful and these insects that had just been created were all already mature. At the moment they were born, they could go straight to the battlefield and become continuous consumables.

The ant-people popped into existence one after another. Very soon, Lu Zhiyu saw thirty to forty ant-people, each almost two meters tall, stand before him. They knelt down on the floor to receive orders from him.

Using his mind power, Lu Zhiyu could not sense any four-dimensional waves. These ant-people had extremely low intelligences and almost no self-awareness. They would only act according to the instructions given to them by the queen insect.

At the moment, Lu Zhiyu became their highest commander. Of course, should the queen insect of the nest appear, it would be able to take control of the ant-people right away.

With his mind power, Lu Zhiyu injected various tasks, processes, and precautionary measures into the brains of the ant-people. Then, they started to line up and walked out from the basement in an orderly manner.

They acted according to the tasks given to them by Lu Zhiyu. Some were in charge of cleaning up the place, while others were in charge of construction. Every ant-person had its own task to carry out.

Lu Zhiyu heaved a sigh of relief. With the help of these ant-people, he would be relieved of many tasks, allowing him to then carry out his plan accordingly.

With the creation of the 40 ant-people, the internal energy of the nest had been totally depleted and it stopped working again. Then, Lu Zhiyu walked out from the basement as well. Also, he locked the metal gate outside basement two; the thing inside was really too dangerous.

With the ant-people, the castle looked somewhat more lively. They moved around, busying themselves with their tasks. They tidied up and decorated the castle, and created many furnitures and utensils. Before long, the once empty castle was filled up with things.

The resting area was on the third level. The shelves in the library here had been constructed, but they were still empty. Lu Zhiyu planned to fill them up with books gradually in the future.

At the moment, Lu Zhiyu was at the back of the library which could be reached by walking along the corridor outside. He was sitting on a wooden chair, reading a book. Suddenly, an ant-person appeared, and Lu Zhiyu quickly stood up.

Although the ant-person did not say a word, Lu Zhiyu knew from the four-dimensional wave released from its antennas that the constructions in the castle had been completed. In particular, the prison at level one and the laboratory at level four had been built.

Lu Zhiyu first went to level four to take a look at the laboratory, after which he walked to level one to inspect the prison. At the end of the stone prison, there was an area that looked like a huge altar.

On the floor, there was a picture of the channelling array for the dimensional door. However, Lu Zhiyu was already more experienced now. Even without the array, he could still carve it out with his mind power.

The altar was surrounded by the prison gates and looked like a special prison cell. This was a special transmission formation that Lu Zhiyu had prepared to capture the beasts in Maria's World. He stood on the altar with two ant-people, and when the doors of the cell were closed, they disappeared together from the altar.

Lu Zhiyu appeared on top of a hillside. Behind him, there was a big stretch of forest, while at the foot of the hill there was a vast prairie. A large river flowed mightily from the valley below his feet into the distance.

Many animals were drinking by the side of the river. Birds were chirping in the woods, and as a goshawk flew past, the rabbits in the grass hurriedly ran away. Lu Zhiyu could see numerous familiar species, many of which had been brought into the world by him earlier. There were also some that he could not recognize. In this large piece of land, many species had evolved into new ones as they adapted to the different environment over many centuries.

Herds of sheep and cattles were moving on the prairie, while wolves and jackals were hunting for their prey. The blue sky was embedded with white clouds, and there was a high concentration of oxygen in the air. The entire world seemed to be uncivilized and yet full of vitality.

Lu Zhiyu and the ant-people went downhill to the river. The animals quickly ran away, looking strangely at the two-legged monster with weird clothings before them.

Lu Zhiyu stepped into the river and looked at the fish in the clear water. Then, he lifted up his head and grinned. "This is Maria's World!"

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Chapter 20: The Orcs

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Lu Zhiyu put on a white lab coat and watched in much anticipation as a wolf give birth to its four new-born pups. He glanced at the wolf, which gradually sank into deep sleep. This was a knack he had using his mind power. It was hypnotism, which he had only learned recently.

Then, Lu Zhiyu opened the cage, went in, and carried the pups out. The small pups had four limbs, just like mankind. Other than their wolf ears and short tails, they looked just like human babies.

I have successfully bred the wolf-people too!

Lu Zhiyu stood up. Along the two sides of the long stone corridor, there were closely fitted prisons, caged with tigers, dogs, cats, lynxes, bears, and other wild animals. As he walked past the animals, they roared madly, and some even charged towards the cage doors.

However, after Lu Zhiyu left and closed the iron gates, all the roaring sounds died down. He carried the pups up, away from the prison in basement one which Lu Zhiyu had created. He went all the way up the stairs to the laboratory in level four, where one of the lights was lit.

Lu Zhiyu walked in through the door. The room had white walls and warm lighting. Many small baby cots filled up the big room, and some strange figures were moving around. They were the ant-people, who were taking care of the pups inside the room.

Every cot had been labeled with a serial number, together with the pup's race and gender. These ant-people would be bringing the pups up, which would become the very first generation of the orcs; they would form the beginning of the orcs.

Lu Zhiyu hoped that every race would be able to multiply in Maria's World. Every one of them would be a new race, a miracle of life. Lu Zhiyu had checked their brains and found that they were similar to mankind. They were very developed, and he was certain that their intelligence levels were also comparable to mankind.

Lu Zhiyu counted and checked the health conditions of all the pups. The ant-people would be monitoring the pups around the clock. Everything seemed to be good at the moment.

The various races of orcs that had been born included wolf, fox, tiger, cat, dog, bear, sheep, and several others. Including the mouse-people, there were a total of 18 races. However, this was far from enough. In Lu Zhiyu's vision, the human race had to be present as well.

Lu Zhiyu had no intention of duplicating and incorporating the humans on Earth into Maria's World as it would be meaningless and uninteresting. Instead, he wanted to create a human race that was totally different.

Lu Zhiyu had stayed in the dimensional castle for a few months and was somewhat drained of energy and enthusiasm. Although what he was doing was extremely exciting, it was very stressful to be living in such an environment alone.

The orcs had been successfully bred. With the ant-people around to take care of them, Lu Zhiyu had nothing to worry about. After a few years, he would let the first generation of the orcs return to the wild and carry out their mission, which was to form their own civilized tribes. However, it was no longer necessary for him to stay here. He only needed to return to the outside world and wait patiently.

When Lu Zhiyu returned to the outside world through the dimensional door, he realized that It was still in the night. Although he had stayed in the dimensional castle for a long while, back in the outside world, only tens of minutes had passed.

Lu Zhiyu could have stayed inside for decades, used up his lifespan, and become old, but here, in the outside world, only two to three days would have passed. This made him realize even more clearly that he was not God, but rather just an ordinary, lucky man.

As he opened the window and lay on his bed, he gazed at the stars outside. The urban air was much less fresh than the air in Maria's World, and the starry sky was also not as brilliant as the one which Lu Zhiyu had created. However, Lu Zhiyu felt more comfortable and familiar here.

After lying on his bed for only a short while, the phone rang. He took his mobile phone and realized that Xia Fan was calling him.

When he answered the call, Xia Fan's youthful voice was immediately heard. However, it was filled with anger. She shouted at Lu Zhiyu, "Lu Zhiyu, why did you not reply to my WeChat? You also ignored my messages!"

Lu Zhiyu looked at his mobile, seeing now that there were really many message notifications. He immediately said, "I didn't notice them. At night, I usually read all my messages together and reply at once. What's up?"

Xia Fan shouted right away, "I know you have forgotten! Tomorrow is my birthday, my birthday!"

Lu Zhiyu suddenly recalled he had promised Xia Fan that he would attend her birthday party. However, he had been so busy and had forgotten about it. In addition, he was not really keen to attend a party with just students, but since he had promised Xia Fan, he had to go. "Who told you I have forgotten? I remember. It is still early."

Xia Fan exposed him and said, "If I did not remind you, you would not have shown up tomorrow. Let me tell you this. You have to come tomorrow; if not, I will come to your house and bite you to death!"

Lu Zhiyu found himself quite dirty. When Xia Fan said that she would bite him, he became distracted and started fantasizing. "Alright, I know, I know. Send the address over. I will be there on time!"

"Don't forget my present!"

The following afternoon, Lu Zhiyu drove his car out onto the streets. After searching for quite a while, he still could not decide what to get for Xia Fan. Should he get her a necklace, or a bangle? He did not want to give her something that would cause any misunderstanding. In the end, he chose a Tissot ladies' watch for her. It was not the biggest brand, and cost around 4,000 yuan. This was not too expensive and also quite appropriate.

By the time he reached the site of the party, a mid range restaurant by the riverside, it was already dusk. After checking with the staff, he went up to a private room at level two where Xia Fan was in. Before he even reached the room, he could already hear noisy cheers and laughters from it. He opened the door at once and looked inside.

As Lu Zhiyu stuck his head in, he saw everyone looking at him. Many girls started to scream, with one of them shouting, "Hey! Handsome, who are you looking for?"

"Is this Xia Fan's…"

The moment Lu Zhiyu spoke, Xia Fan jumped up and shouted, "I'm here. You are finally here! I was about to call you!"

There were many people mingling about, with many couples. Most of them were students. Xia Fan rushed up to Lu Zhiyu and hugged him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, after which she held his arm and said, "Let me introduce you to my boyfriend, Lu Zhiyu. See? I did not lie to you. He is very good-looking!"

Lu Zhiyu dropped his jaw and looked at Xia Fan. When did he become her boyfriend? As he was about to raise his hand to explain himself, Xia Fan whispered in his ear, "I have already boasted to my friends that I have found a super handsome boyfriend. You better not make me look bad and lose my reputation! If you do so, I would die!"

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Chapter 21: Daily Life

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Xia Fan dragged Lu Zhiyu to the side to sit, and the two were immediately surrounded by Xia Fan's friends. At once, her friends began bombarding him with questions that were quite private, most of which Lu Zhiyu did not know how to answer. This caused him to feel very awkward.

"You do look super handsome!" one of the girls said. "You're not a celebrity, are you?"

"This is the first time I've met someone so handsome. What's your skincare routine? It just looks too good!" another asked.

"Are you mixed-race? Your facial structure looks like mixed-race."

"How did you know Xia Fan? Have you two…"

"Xia Fan is really a winner in life. She looks so pretty and hot herself. Moreover, her new boyfriend is even more attractive than her ex! Man, I'm so jealous!"

On the other hand, Xia Fan started making up the love story between the two of them, and it sounded as though it really happened. Her friends were mesmerized by her story, looking at her and Lu Zhiyu with wide eyes. In particular, when Lu Zhiyu gave Xia Fan her gift, she immediately put it on and asked him for a kiss as if they were in love. Lu Zhiyu actually did know how to respond.

During the dinner, Xia Fan's male friends also hounded him with alcohol. He was asked to drink throughout the dinner—the glass in his hand was never empty the entire night.

After the dinner, the group continued the party at a karaoke bar. After that, they went out to have barbecue, followed by a late night supper. The party started before it was dark, and did not end until two in the morning, when everyone left.

Lu Zhiyu again had to carry Xia Fan on his back to take her home. However, as soon as they rounded a street corner and were out of the sight of Xia Fan's friends, she jumped up as if nothing had happened.

"You were faking it?" Lu Zhiyu asked with his eyes widened.

Xia Fan rolled her eyes. "What do you think? I didn't even drink that much. You did most of the drinking for me."

Xia Fan strolled down the road, feeling the breeze on her face. The breeze was rejuvenating and enough to clear her head. "I am so happy today! Did you see how they looked at me? Their eyeballs almost fell out in envy!" she said as she walked. "God, it was such a good idea to take you. They've been talking behind my back. Now those little b*tches are clear who is the most attractive girl in the school!"

Xia Fan strolled proudly on the street. Then, she turned around and walked with her head facing Lu Zhiyu, chatting with him as she walked. She was indeed very happy today since Lu Zhiyu had made her look better than the rest of her friends. Nevertheless, Lu Zhiyu himself did not quite understand this kind of competition among young girls.

Suddenly, she seemed to have recalled something and raised up her hand. "By the way, I like your gift a lot. Thanks!"

"No problem," Lu Zhiyu said at once. After he stopped by his car, he asked, "Want a lift home?"

"Sure," Xia Fan nodded, "to your place." Seeing Lu Zhiyu freeze at her words, she laughed and said, "Don't worry, I didn't mean it. My mom said that I have to go back tonight. Otherwise, she will kill me tomorrow!"

Lu Zhiyu twitched his lips. "Alright, get in. I did have some alcohol, though. Do you trust me?" He had originally intended to call someone to drive for him, but he did not feel very drunk. Furthermore, it was in the middle of the night and there would not be any police around. Xia Fan lived nearby, so he would rather drive himself.

He dropped Xia Fan off at her apartment. Xia Fan jumped out of his car and asked, "You felt something when I said I wanted to go to your place, didn't you?"

Lu Zhiyu frowned in disdain and immediately wanted to explain, but he was stopped by Xia Fan. "Don't try to find an excuse. I saw that you were going to agree. You pervert!"

"…"

The two stared at each other in silence, after which they burst into a fit of laughter together. "You should go back now," he told her. "Call me if you need anything."

He did not notice the missed calls from Li Wei until he got home. His phone was dead, so he did not receive the calls at all. Sh*t! She is so prone to jealousy and will definitely get mad at me tomorrow…

More importantly, he did not have a good reason for not picking up her calls. Could he tell her that he was at a birthday party of another female and was playing until early morning? In that case, Lu Zhiyu might as well kill himself.

As expected, Li Wei interrogated him the next day. After that, the two spent a few days together. For Lu Zhiyu, the break was very relaxing and his mood turned much better.

His pet shop was booming as well. He would only purchase an animal for his pet shop after careful inspection, making sure that its bloodline was good and there was nothing wrong with it. Even if there was, he could always make them healthy again himself. Therefore, the animals in his shop looked better than those in other shops. He also tried some slight modifications to the animals' hair colors and pupil colors, and his customers all had very pleasant experiences buying pets from him.

In particular, training the pets was also a very easy task because of his mind power. All the animals that were trained by him were more intelligent and could perform many ordinary actions. Because of this, it was only normal that his shop was becoming more and more popular.

Lu Zhiyu managed to sell two dozen pets in just a few days, which included cats, dogs, hamsters, and parrots. The money he made in these few days was as much as what he would make in a few months in the past. Lu Zhiyu did not expect this job to earn him so much. His original intention was only to study and understand these animals, and practise modifying genes, but the business in his shop was actually booming.

"Xiao Le, are you ready to clock out? Is Lu Zhiyu here?" Today, Li Wei was wearing a Bohemia-style long dress and a pair of burgundy heels. Paired with her slender body, she looked really charming and elegant. She had a bit of makeup, and her temperament was just amazing.

"Wow," Xiao Le exclaimed, looking at her. "You look great today."

Li Wei grinned. "Really?"

Xiao Le nodded. "The boss is inside," she said. "He's training the two Golden Retrievers."

After Li Wei walked in, she saw Lu Zhiyu sitting on a bench. He was commanding two Golden Retrievers like a commander.

"Raise your hands!"

"Spin. That's right!"

"Lie down!"

"Shoot, shoot. Bang!"

If the puppies followed the command correctly, he would immediately toss them a piece of beef jerky.

Li Wei sat down next to him. "They're so smart. Why don't you keep one at home?"

"Having them here is pretty much the same thing," Lu Zhiyu immediately said. "Plus, I don't have time to take care of a personal pet." He put the two puppies back into their crate and quickly inspected the shop. Then, he closed the shop so that he could accompany Li Wei home.

Li Wei stood gracefully in front of Lu Zhiyu. "What do you think of me today?"

Lu Zhiyu looked at her face and eyes sternly. "You look beautiful today!"

"I'm talking about the dress. Why are you looking at my face?" She slapped Lu Zhiyu's shoulder in dissatisfaction.

"The dress is not important." Lu Zhiyu shrugged his shoulders. "Your face is the key!"

Li Wei giggled. Carrying her bag, she grabbed Lu Zhiyu's hand and leaned against his shoulder. Then, the two began walking home together. Lu Zhiyu had to admit that he was enjoying this moment.

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Chapter 22: New Human Creation Plan

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Lu Zhiyu sat in front of his computer, trying to figure out a good plan. When he was changing the hair and eye colors of animals previously using blood plasma, he had already come up with an idea about how he wanted to humans in Maria's World to be like.

He knew he could not make large changes to the human genetic composition, but he should be able to make small changes to the root genetic template. However, small changes alone would not be able to satisfy Lu Zhiyu.

"If it's not just small tweaks, but rather I add different powers to the inheritance information on the genetic level, what would happen?"

"For example, I can add genes for powers like eagle's vision, adrenaline burst, dynamic vision, absolute calmness, and super speed and strength. These genes can be uploaded onto the ancestral genetic template. According to the rules of inheritance, different individuals would be able to have different abilities awakened, just like people with superpower. On the genetic level, these abilities would have been possessed by an individual's various ancestors anyway. He is only activating them!" He shot up from his seat, filled with excitement. A brand new idea had popped out in his mind.

"Not just superpowers: even intelligence, body features, and certain skills could be added. Human ancestors would also pass down their skills by carving them in their genes. If I can add skills like operating a smithy, sword skills, or gun skills to the genes, they can be passed down too. I can also insert these abilities into their genes like a plug-in!"

Lu Zhiyu stood at the center of the room and closed his eyes. "Ordinary people or people with weaker bodies would certainly not be able to take such a change. I must set a rule, an obstacle to awakening when I'm adding the genes. It will only be activated by the brain when a person's body has reached the upper limit of normal humans, which will then change his body or allow him to inherit some of the memories of his ancestors. Only at this time, the body will be strong enough and supply sufficient blood for the brain to withstand such a major change."

The more Lu Zhiyu thought about it, the more he felt like it would be similar to the knights in novels. Their powers would only be awakened when their bodies had reached a certain level of strength. This was just like a Bloodline Knight.

"Right. This is the new mankind I want, the mankind unique to Maria's World, and not just mere copies of normal humans!"

Lu Zhiyu hurried to his study room and activated the dimensional door at once. Again, he appeared in the dimensional castle. Despite having been away for only a few days, more than a hundred years had passed in the world of Maria. As a dimensional space above Maria's World, the time of the dimensional castle was synchronized with Maria's World.

At the moment, in the castle, the ant-people he had created originally had already died. The ant-people did not have a long lifespan. After raising the first generation of orcs and releasing them into the world, they had completed their missions.

The ant-people in the castle now were created later. There were only a few of them, and their task was to maintain the castle. After all, Lu Zhiyu would also enter the castle once in a while to check on the changes in Maria's World and record down his observations. At the moment, Lu Zhiyu returned to his room and found the Scroll of the World.

Through the scroll, he could see what was happening in the world. On the continent Alen, there were already many tribes of orcs. After more than a hundred years, these tribes were slowly expanding and multiplying, spreading along the rivers and across the continent.

Moreover, Lu Zhiyu discovered that the tribes also had their own languages, and there were prototypes of cities. He believed that soon, the first city of the orcs would appear on Alen. The civilization of orcs was slowly but surely coming together.

The first real city was created by the mouse-people. They had their own language and culture, and had begun trading and communicating. In fact, the mouse-people were the first glimpse of civilization in this world. On the other hand, the other tribes and races had too few members; a tribe with a thousand members was already considered as very big. Only the mouse-people managed to have more than ten thousand members and they seemed to be significantly stronger than the other clans. However, the mouse-people were not great fighters, and in addition, the world was really extensive. Therefore, even if there were conflicts, they were only minor ones. The conditions at the moment were insufficient to create a large-scale war.

"I must hurry. Humans must come into existence soon, or else they will be crushed by the orcs!" Realizing that he did not have much time, Lu Zhiyu hurriedly made his way to his lab on the fourth level, ready to begin his new plan, the "New Human Creation Plan!"

"Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

Lu Zhiyu glanced at the monkeys in the crates which were grimacing at him. The crates were large and had everything the monkeys needed, such as food, water, and caves and branches to lounge on. Each monkey had an identification number on it so it was easy to tell them apart. These would be the ancestors for the humans of the world of Maria. As for whether the humans in the future would admit this, Lu Zhiyu could not be bothered.

"Monkeys, you should be proud of yourself," Lu Zhiyu said. "You're going to be humanity's ancestors in this world. Don't you think it's an honor? Don't worry. I will let you go soon enough and will not kill you."

Lu Zhiyu had been making significant progress with altering and adding things to the monkeys' genes. After adding the human template, he also added many other traits and talents. Then, he took many skills from some other species and uploaded them into the genes, for example, certain characteristics of animals and insects. It took him more than a month to create 48 kinds of plug-in templates which encoded various talents. After that, he finally made the first embryo of a new human.

Now, the monkey numbered 0582 was carrying this embryo, and it was developing healthily. He just had to wait for eight to nine months to see the first human to be born to this world!

After he made the first human, Lu Zhiyu began to design the plan to change his own body. His success with developing an embryo gave him the confidence to do more things with his body. He would not alter the entire genetic template and make major changes. As long as he only uploaded some talents into sections of his genes, he would be fine.

Lu Zhiyu named this plan as the Evolution Plasma Creation Plan. Since many aspects of his new plan coincided with the plan to create humans, he decided to combine the two and work on them at the same time.

After observing the development of the human embryo, Lu Zhiyu charged the ant-people to take care of the monkeys before leaving again. He was thankful that he had these ant-people to help him, or else his plan would not have gone so smoothly.

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Chapter 23: Sub-Brain Intelligence

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Lu Zhiyu looked at the tube of plasma in his hand and felt very hesitant. Even though he had tested this plasma a few times before on lab rats and it had worked every time, the success rate was only close to and not really one hundred percent. Therefore, he was still somewhat anxious to use it on himself.

The tube of plasma he was holding was precisely an evolution plasma, which he named the Sapient Sub-Brain Evolution Plasma. He had added a talent to his existing genes to make himself evolve. Specifically, he wanted to segregate the part of his brain tissues which he was not actively utilizing and develop it into a sub-brain. In addition, he would upload the operation mode of a computer into the sub-brain to improve its computing powers. In this way, he could become as powerful as a computer.

With such a computer-like sub-brain, his ability to learn and his intelligence would be greatly enhanced, which was what Lu Zhiyu wanted at the moment. The sub-brain intelligence would not interfere with the personality and emotions on the main brain. It would be more like adding a chip to his brain. Lu Zhiyu was not interested in superpowers like spewing fire, water, or super strength, and he also felt that such powers would not be very useful to him. Intelligence and the brain is the most powerful weapon to a human after all.

"I have already made it perfect. There's nothing to fear!" he told himself. Then he took a deep breath and pointed the plasma at his spine. His mind power immediately pinpointed the correct position and injected the evolution plasma into his bone marrows. At once, he felt his entire body grow cold, as if his body was experiencing a chain reaction just like a machine. Under the continuous stimulation of the plasma, his bone marrows started making a whole new set of cells to replace the old ones.

After removing all his clothes, Lu Zhiyu stepped into a pool of nutrient fluids that he had prepared and submerged himself in it. In this way, the fluids would provide him with the large amount of nutrients his body needed to evolve.

Lu Zhiyu only woke up after a long while. Once he opened his eyes, he pushed himself up from the pool, panting heavily. He glanced at the few ant-people around him which had been guarding him. Just like robots, these ant-people would only act according to their given tasks. He stood up, dried his body, and wore his clothes back on. Right then, the ant-people carried over some food and water.

After the starved Lu Zhiyu wolfed down a hearty meal, he began to inspect the changes in his body. He realized that other than the structure of his brain, there were no significant changes to his physical body. His brain seemed to have shrunk a little and also become more vigorous. The main brain was fused together with the new sub-brain, forming a perfect arc. Among the pair, the sub-brain actually had a different color; it looked redder and also seemed to be glittering like a piece of metal.

"Sub-brain activated. Permission to activate visual nerves." A voice appeared in Lu Zhiyu's brain.

"Permission granted."

As soon as he agreed, his vision changed greatly, as if he had just opened up a tab on a computer. The vision from his eyes could also be zoomed in and out freely, just like a camera.

Lu Zhiyu knew that he could now use his eyes like a camera, taking images he saw and storing them in his sub-brain. He felt like his entire world had become much clearer, and his brain was working more smoothly as countless new ideas appeared in his mind. Many things which he could not understand before now became easy problems. Similarly, many things which he could not remember before were now clear in his head!

"Sub-brain, create an archive for all the information," he ordered, "and classify them accordingly."

"Order confirmed."

"Sub-brain, create a section for research plans: New Human Creation Plan and Evolution Plasma Creation Plan. Organize the relevant information and research directions for me!"

"Confirmed. New Human Creation Plan has entered phase two and is thirty-two percent complete. Evolution Plasma Creation Plan has entered phase two and is twenty-one percent complete."

"Sub-brain, create…"

After giving a few more orders, Lu Zhiyu disconnected from the sub-brain. Only then, he exited from the robotic and superman-like state. Lu Zhiyu felt that his thoughts were as fast as light just now and he was about to turn into a superman.

With the sub-brain, he could solve problems that would usually take an hour or even a day in a minute. He could finish learning what he would normally need a few days in a minute. He could do many things that he was not able to in just a minute!

It was very liberating and appealing, but terrifying at the same time. Under that state, he could no longer be considered as a human. Such a robotic mind would affect his own personality and emotions.

Lu Zhiyu was glad that he had only wanted to create a sub-brain to assist him in his research plans, instead of changing his entire brain. Although they had roughly the same effects, the outcomes would be totally different. He did not want to become a robot, and still wanted to keep his personality and desires!

With the sub-brain, the New Human Creation Plan progressed very quickly. Before this, he had spent a month only to develop 48 types of genetic inserts. Now with the sub-brain, his speed of reading biology and medicine books increased significantly. The advanced books and academic articles he had placed in the library were already all in his mind.

Using the sub-brain, Lu Zhiyu could list out an endless amount of reference materials at once. Then, he could design many possible paths to try. At the moment, countless biological templates and genetic chains were in front of Lu Zhiyu, blinking and changing their positions rapidly. Lu Zhiyu could use these to design various genetic inserts. Finally, by the time the first new human was born, he had already developed thousands of different genetic inserts.

Despite having all these inserts, Lu Zhiyu was not planning on giving any single embryo everything. It would only be normal for different people to have different talents. Therefore, he would distribute the inserts among various embryos. It would suffice to give each person dozens of inserts as it would be enough for them to inherit and activate the talents.

Further, different races should have different talents and skills as well. However, after completing all these, he stopped the New Human Creation Plan, for he had reached his goal for now.

Nevertheless, the successful creation of the embryos, as well as their development, was only the first step. There was still a long way to go until humans could form stable tribes. He spent close to half a year in the dimensional castle, after which he designated the ant-people to carry out the rest of the plan.

The ant-people would take care of the monkeys. After the first generation of humans was born, the ant-people would raise them up in the castle. Of course, Lu Zhiyu would not teach them any knowledge or how to inherit the talents. The humans should develop their own language and civilization. Lu Zhiyu felt that this was the correct progress of a civilization and he should not interfere with it.

Once again, the dimensional door of the castle was connected with the outside world, and Lu Zhiyu fixed the portal in a lush forest. These ant-people would hunt and find food, so there were no problems at all with their survival. All Lu Zhiyu needed to do was to wait patiently!

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Chapter 24: Secrets to Immortality

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"How can I extend life? How can I achieve immortality?" Lu Zhiyu said to himself. He was sitting in the yard, sunbathing. He felt that no matter how smart or how powerful he was, he could never dream of fighting against the flow of time. He would die sooner or later. Even though he could add inserts into his genes to strengthen himself and give himself different talents, he could not extend the maximum limits of his lifespan. Put aside the limitation of the genes that controls lifespan, he was unable to even prevent the failure of his organs over time – one of the primary reason why people died.

The first step to preventing death would be to prevent the organs from shutting down. And after that, the metabolism and cell renewal could come into the picture. However, those were only the initial steps. If he would like to achieve true immortality, there would be a long and difficult way to go.

Even though Lu Zhiyu had a sub-brain, it was only for calculating things he already knew. He had to give the sub-brain directions and plans, and the sub-brain could then help by providing speedy calculation and expansion. He was perplexed and had no idea which direction he should go in for immortality. Without his directions and orders, the sub-brain wouldn't be of much help.

Lu Zhiyu had done his research. He knew that there was a part of the genetic code called FOXO3A that controlled human lifespan. If a mutation happened to that part of the code, human life could be extended, earning this gene the name "longevity gene." However, the genetic code could only do so much. It could only allow the person to live a little over a hundred years old, but even then, it was still limited. This gene that governed lifespan existed inside the DNA of every living creature.

Other than that, Lu Zhiyu, through his observation of human genes, knew that there were a few dozens other parts of the genes that could affect human lifespan. All these genes took different paths to prolong life, but they all had their limits. There was still a cap on how long he could extend his own life. This kind of longevity would be something an average person would dream of, but Lu Zhiyu felt it was completely meaningless.

"Wait a moment. How did the insect queen live for so long?" he wondered out loud. He began to recollect how the insect queens extended their lives. Normally, those queens should only have been able to live a little over twenty years, but he knew that some of the dead queens he had seen had lived for more than seven hundred years. If it wasn't for the war and them dying in battle, they might have lived even longer.

That was extending their lifespans tenfold, even hundredfold. That was not a normal case of longevity, nor were their lifespans within a normal boundary. They had changed themselves fundamentally. The insects had achieved true immortality. Lu Zhiyu felt a little scared thinking about the insects. Lu Zhiyu was shocked by how little he knew about genes compared to the insects.

"How did they do it. Recall it, recall it, Sub-brain. Find everything we have on the insects!"

"Here's the outcome!"

"These are the gene structure of the insect queen. But there wasn't anything specific in their genetic code that was related to the lifespan!"

The intelligent sub-brain instantly gathered Lu Zhiyu's memories about the relevant insect queen. Lu Zhiyu immediately opened his eyes, "What was important was not to prolong the lifespan, but to maintain and repair, and to totally rewrite the genetic code itself."

His memories were slowly returning. He looked over all the information he had back and forth. Finally, he found what he needed from the trove of information.

"That's right, there is a limit to the lifespan set by the genes no matter how long one tries to extend it. The only way to prevent that is to constantly change and rewrite the genes, making sure that the genes are always active. I have to think of the body as a machine that needs constant maintenance. Otherwise, even if I could extend my lifespan, the organs in the body would gradually shut down which makes death inevitable. Only by continually repairing and maintaining the genes can one stay young eternally!"

This was the first step toward extending the lives of the insect queens. But these queens understood that immortality achieved that way was an illusion, a machine would eventually break down one day, no matter how well it was maintained. Their solution to that was to change the very composition of their genes.

If a body was a machine that was originally made of wood that could easily decompose, then the queens would swap out the wood and rebuild it with iron, steel, or other more durable materials. This fundamental change would ensure that the machine would always survive, no matter how much time has passed, or how harsh the living conditions were.

However, the insects were only at the early stages of their experimentations. Even though Lu Zhiyu had found traces of this in their genes, he knew that they had not took the critical step forward. But he also knew he was still far from achieving anything like what the queens had achieved. He was far behind compared to the insects.

What he knew right now was merely fixing and maintaining the current state of his genes, which could extend his life by thousands of years. At this moment, this was good enough. This was just Lu Zhiyu's theories. It would probably take a long time to make these ideas a reality. But with a direction and a goal in mind, time, in Lu Zhiyu's hands, was nothing but a toy!

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Li Wei and Lu Zhiyu were in the honeymoon phase of their relationship and were completely infatuated with each other. They hardly wanted to be apart from one another. Lately, Li Wei had begun thinking about moving in with Lu Zhiyu. This was right up Lu Zhiyu's alley. Since he had moved everything into the dimensional castle, he wasn't worried about Li Wei finding anything.

Lu Zhiyu was constantly in a good mood and really wanted Li Wei to move in with him, but he knew that it wouldn't happen anytime soon. Moving itself was difficult enough. Lu Zhiyu's place was far from the hospital where Li Wei worked. Li Wei didn't have a driving license, which meant Lu Zhiyu would have to drive her to work and back every day if she moved in.

This day, Lu Zhiyu was toiling away at the pet shop and playing with the cats and dogs. He bathed the dogs and groomed their hair. Lu Zhiyu quite liked these animals, or put it another way, he liked the vitality from them. The energetic creatures were the proof that life was a miracle. After working with genes for a while, he now appreciated life so much more than before.

The only bad thing was that Xia Fan had been visiting his shop a lot lately. Whenever she came, chaos followed. She would play with the animals despite Lu Zhiyu's warnings, and she flirted with him right in front of Xiao Le. Her flirting had made him feel uncomfortable, and he didn't know how he should react to it. However, he did not feel frustrated, nor did he push her away. Instead, he felt quite flattered. This made him feel as though he was born to be a scumbag!

At noon that day, a car stopped in front of the shop. A bespectacled man in a suit walked into the shop. He looked around and found Lu Zhiyu, "Old Lu, Old Lu, come here quick. Get in the car!"

"Wang Yi? Why are you here today?" Wang Yi was his old friend from elementary school who worked at a research center. Lu Zhiyu had asked for his help previously when he was in the process of purchasing equipments.

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Chapter 25: Reunion

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Lu Zhiyu tossed the shop key to Xiao Le and said, "Keep an eye on the shop. Call me if anything urgent happens."

Xiao Le was in the midst of playing with a kitten. She turned around and nodded, "Alright, I understand. Don't worry, boss!"

Lu Zhiyu put on his coat and got into the car with Wang Yi. Even though he already knew what Wang Yi was there for using his mind power, he still asked, "What's the urgent matter? Why were you looking for me so suddenly!"

Wang Yi got into the driver's seat, closed the door and said, "We're having a reunion, an elementary school reunion. Someone called me suddenly this morning and asked me to attend, and so I thought about you. I then immediately came to fetch you!"

Lu Zhiyu thought back to the days. "Elementary school reunion? Can you even remember what they look like? I might not even remember their names!"

Wang Yi immediately replied, "Really? You don't remember Xiao Pang, Four-Eyes, and Liu Datiao?"

Lu Zhiyu laughed instantly, "Well, now that you told me about them, I do. Are they really all here?"

Wang Yi said with a laugh, "Xiao Pang isn't, but Four-Eyes and Liu Datiao are. Four-Eyes was the one that called me."

Lu Zhiyu nodded, "I can't believe you still have their contact numbers. I lost touch with them a long time ago!"

Lu Zhiyu had gone to elementary school in another town, where his grandparents lived. It was a small town about two hours out of the capital city of the province. After he left, his grandparents' home was sold, and he hadn't returned since.

As the car drove towards where he lived when he was a child, Lu Zhiyu found himself getting excited. However, when they reached the town, Lu Zhiyu saw that it was much like the town he currently lived in, with skyscrapers and busy streets. He suddenly realized that he could not recall any memories. This place was nothing like the small town in his recollection!

"So much has changed, I don't remember this at all. This should be where the old bridge used to be. Did they rebuild it? I remember that it used to be a stone bridge!" Lu Zhiyu gasped. Seeing the changes in the town, Lu Zhiyu felt strongly the fleeting passage of time.

Wang Yi immediately asked, "When was the last time you were here? Of course you don't recognize anything. Let me see, they booked a table at the Palace Cuisine. En, it's this way. Do you remember the Palace Cuisine? I used to have my meals there frequently when I was studying in middle and high school, usually for my classmate's birthday parties or something like that!"

Lu Zhiyu shook his head. "I left after elementary school, so I don't have any recollections of the place!"

Lu Zhiyu and Wang Yi saw a big man standing by the door as soon as they got out of the car. After he saw Wang Yi, he hurried over. The man spoke in the local dialect, which made Lu Zhiyu felt a sense of familiarity. "Wang Yi, you're finally here. Hurry upstairs, they're in the second room to the left on the second floor."

Wang Yi hugged the fat man and they gave each other friendly pounds with their fists. He laughed heartily, then spoke to Lu Zhiyu, "Li Hao, the class monitor, remember him?"

Lu Zhiyu immediately remembered, his expression turning into that of an understanding. He did not expect that the class monitor of the past had grown to be this fat. Li Hao was a skinny little kid. Now, Lu Zhiyu could only found the little familiarity from his eyes and eyebrows !

Li Hao looked at Lu Zhiyu and asked, "And this is…?"

"Make a guess?" Wang Yi laughed.

Li Hao observed him closely, then immediately shouted, "Lu Zhiyu? You are Lu Zhiyu aren't you!"

Lu Zhiyu felt a sense of familiarity and joy well up in his heart. It was the feeling of being recognized by an old classmate he had not seen in many years. He hugged Li Hao and said, "That's right, class monitor. How did you gain so much weight? I remember that you would not gain an ounce no matter how much you ate when you were young!"

Li Hao released the hug and looked at Lu Zhiyu, "Let me see, let me see, oh my! You were the most good-looking kid in class when you were younger. The way you look now, I would not be able to recognize you even if I run into you. Why haven't you come back all these years? We all missed you!"

Lu Zhiyu felt slightly embarrassed. "I've been studying somewhere else, then went to work in the capital. My old house over here also got sold. But this is indeed my fault. I'll drink three glasses of beer later as my punishment!"

"How is three glasses enough? I'll show you what punishment is when I head up later. You guys should head up quickly, I am still waiting for a few of our classmates!"

This should be the best restaurant in town. It was rather posh. Lu Zhiyu noticed that the decor and facilities were all pretty good, and the waiters were also very well-mannered.

The two had just reached the room when they saw that there were already a lot of people inside. When they saw Wang Yi, several people stood to greet him.

"Wang, even a great scientist like you have come. Here, here here. Sit next to me!"

"Old Wang, you're late! Come on, drink as your punishment!"

"Wang Yi, he's right, drink!"

A young man with glasses and a man with a shaved head were the loudest. Wang Yi immediately shouted, "Four-Eyes, Liu Datiao, don't try to play with me tonight. Look who I brought!"

Everyone noticed Lu Zhiyu, who was standing behind Wang Yi, but no one could recall who exactly he was for the time being. After all, Lu Zhiyu had changed a lot. But Four-Eyes immediately shouted, "Lu Zhiyu, I can't believe you're here! Gosh, how many years have it been since I last saw you!"

As soon as Four-Eyes spoke up, everyone else remembered him as well. Lu Zhiyu had been pretty popular when he was a kid. He had good grades and was rather handsome. He had been good friends with a lot of people, much to the fancy of his teachers and classmates.

Many people crowded toward him and began chatting about old times. As he chatted with them, Lu Zhiyu's memory of his childhood began to return as well. He was soon able to match the names to the faces in front of him. Having lived out of town for so many years, he thought he was all alone. But to his surprise, he still had so many classmates and friends back here!

"Wow, you're married? Four-eye?"

"That was nothing! Liu Datiao's son is already in kindergarten!"

"How about you? Since you've grown such a face, how popular you would be! Why didn't you bring anyone!"

"I'm not married. My girlfriend has to work today. It was too rushed, and so I couldn't bring her."

There were plenty of girls there, but most of them were married. The boys were mostly married as well. In a small town like this, people tended to marry early, a few of them already had kids in their families.

Just then, the door opened and a young woman walked in. She had short hair and was wearing a uniform. She looked as though she had rushed over here from work. She looked quite thin and her face was a little pale.

Lu Zhiyu turned to Wang Yi and asked, "Who's that?"

Four-Eyes immediately shouted, "Lu Zhiyu, have you forgotten? That's Ai Shu."

Lu Zhiyu was shocked, "What?"

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Chapter 26: Mining and Civilization

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Lu Zhiyu felt memories returning to him. He had been very proud when he was young. Because of his good grades, good looks and a well-to-do family, his actions had been rather arrogant. He had been somewhat of a bully.

Ai Shu had been very pretty when she was young as well, but she was shy, introverted and did not interact much with others. Lu Zhiyu was very interested in her, but that wasn't a good thing when you were a kid. Children could have very strange ways of expressing fondness. It mostly started with him bullying her.

At first it was just Lu Zhiyu bullying her, but because of Ai Shu's shyness and her reclusive nature, the rest of the class began isolating and bullying her as well. Once, Lu Zhiyu accidentally broke one of Ai Shu's belongings and angered her. A fight broke out between them. Lu Zhiyu used his backpack to hit Ai Shu, forgetting that he had a flashlight in his bag that day. The flashlight struck Ai Shu's head and injured her.

After the fight, Lu Zhiyu was punished by the school. Since he was close to graduating, his family took him out of school and sent him away to a middle school in the capital city of the province.

Seeing Ai Shu again brought back all the shame and guilt Lu Zhiyu had felt back then. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, unsure of what to do. He thought that he would have let go of his childhood stupidity as he grew up, but not sure why, maybe this incident was especially memorable to him, or maybe due to some other unknown reasons, Lu Zhiyu still felt uncomfortable till this day.

During the dinner, Lu Zhiyu repeatedly glanced at Ai Shu and caught her attention. Ai Shu stared at him, confused. Noticing the two looking at each other, the girl next to Ai Shu whispered something to her. Ai Shu frowned, then turned her head, no longer looking at Lu Zhiyu again.

"She still remembers the things I did to her back then!"

Lu Zhiyu lowered his head in shame. His mind was not fully on the reunion. Most of the people in the reunion were catching up on old times, exchanging contact information and asking about what they were doing recently. As most of his old classmates were already married, they all returned home after dinner.

As they bade each other goodbye, many of his classmates gathered around Lu Zhiyu and asked for his contact number as well as his current address. They agreed to meet up with Lu Zhiyu whenever they went to the city

"Sure, come find me if you ever come to the city!"

He was talking with a few of his female classmates when he noticed Ai Shu was about to leave by herself. He excused himself and immediately chased after her.

Lu Zhiyu stopped in front of Ai Shu. Ai Shu stopped in her tracks and looked at him doubtfully. Lu Zhiyu took a deep breath and asked, "Do you remember me? I-I'm Lu Zhiyu, I was in your class…"

She wore her hair short and stood with her back straight. She was tall. With her heels, she was almost as tall as Lu Zhiyu. She nodded but did not speak. Lu Zhiyu realized that he was very nervous. "I just want to apologize. I am very sorry for what I did to you back then. Even though this apology is very late, but I feel that I would be more comfortable after I say it aloud." He pulled a business card out of his wallet and continued, "This is my number and contact information. Please, if I can help you with anything, don't hesitate to call."

"Alright," Ai Shu said. That was the first words she said to him all night. She then turned to leave. Lu Zhiyu heaved a sigh of relief watching her walked away.

Wang Yi walked over and pat Lu Zhiyu's shoulder, "So? Have you made up? That happened so long ago, would Ai Shu be so petty as to still hold a grudge against you?"

"I don't know." Lu Zhiyu shook his head. "She only said alright, but she did take my card."

Wang Yi nodded. "Don't think too much about it," he said. "She's like that. She doesn't talk much, nor does she like to interact with people. She hasn't changed after all these years!"

Lu Zhiyu got onto Wang Yi's car and began his journey back. He was glad that he had came to the reunion. He had not only reconnected with his classmates and got back beautiful memories of the past, he was especially happy to see Ai Shu and finally apologize to her. What happened between the two of them had always been a sore spot for him.

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In the dimensional castle, the bookshelves of the library were gradually being filled up with Lu Zhiyu's recent purchases. Because of the different flow of time, some of the books already appeared old and yellowed, as if they were ancient tomes.

It had been two hundred years since Lu Zhiyu made the first human. There had been human tribes appearing on the southern part of the Alen continent. Two hundred years was enough for a dozen of generations of humans to proliferate. The first few generations was long gone. The current humans, in their memories, all thought that they have lived on Alen continent since the beginning of time.

The number of humans had increased significantly, from the initial hundreds to now tens of thousands. The original small tribes split off and spread throughout the entire southern half of the continent. Like the ever-growing humans, the orcs in the north were developing as well. The tribes slowly developed into cities and civilization was formed. The humans, through their exploration, had already made contact with the orcs, and knew that they were not the only intelligent beings living in the world.

These two hundred years were only two weeks to Lu Zhiyu. Ten days ago, as he was observing the development of civilization within Maria's World, Lu Zhiyu realized that he had made a serious mistake. Even though Maria's World was rich in resources, it did have a fatal flaw – lack of mines.

When he created Maria's World, he had placed plenty of resources, but the distribution of the materials was too even. This meant that mines could not have developed underground. The tribes were content with using stones as their primary resource. The few metals ingots that were discovered were hailed as gods' rocks and worshipped. Without metal, civilizations couldn't enter the Bronze Age or Steel Age, delaying the advancement of civilization.

Seeing no other way round, Lu Zhiyu used Source Form again and changed the rules of Maria's World. He shifted the distribution of metal from within the earth and created mines for several different kinds of metals, such as gold, silver, copper, and iron. He also created other kinds of resources like coal and oil. Some of the mines were located near the tribes, exposed above the ground. The discovery of these mines would jumpstart the progress of civilization.

Lu Zhiyu had 108 units of Source Form before he spent three units of them on the dimensional castle. Lately, as the development of the civilization and the deaths of lives in the Maria's World, he had accumulated 176 units of Source Form. Creating the mines used up 47 units, leaving him with 129 units. However, it was all worth it. With the help of the mines and the copper smelting technology, copper started to be widely adapted to all the tribes. The civilizations grew very fast, which led to the rapid development of the orc cities. Soon after they entered the era of cities, the first king to ever exist was established: the Orc King of Sarga City.

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Chapter 27: Orcs and Men

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The orcs had already built cities and entered the bronze age, but humans were still in the early stage of developing their civilization. Meanwhile, the fighting among orc clans intensified. This clashes and melding of cultures helped spark off the improvement of the orc civilization. The first generation's Orc King was from the clan of rats, but by the fourth generation, he was from the clan of tigers. Other clans, like the clan of dogs and the clan of bulls, had succeeded the title of the Orc King as well afterwards. The current Orc King, the twelfth generation orc named Costa, was from the clan of wolves. Cities were appearing in other places as well and were slowly replacing tribes. The intermingling and combining of orc tribes were taking place!

This had Lu Zhiyu worried. He thought that the orcs were developing too fast while the humans were in the beginnings of their development and barely had their own language. He was worried that the orcs might one day wipe out all humans before the humans had a chance at developing their own cultures. He had spent a great deal of time and effort developing and modifying genes for this species of human, and he did not want all that work to go to waste. So far things did not go as Lu Zhiyu had expected. He wanted to push the development of the humanity, at least to the point where they can hold their own against the orcs.

Currently, there were about a hundred thousand humans in the Maria world. However, because of the fertile lands, there was no need for trade, and communication between human tribes was minimal. Lu Zhiyu had to use two methods to boost the development of the human race. The first was to introduce an external threat, the second was to create an internal unity between the humans.

The external threat came when the orc tribes came in contact with the humans. The friction between the orcs and the humans were escalating as time went by. In order to help the humans unify, Lu Zhiyu decided that he would appoint a King of All Men.

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The plains near the center of the continent was hailed by the humans as the Red River Plain. It was located between the Red River and the ranges of the Heavenly Mountains. The plain had fertile lands and lush forests, and beasts of all kinds ran loose there. The forests were full of fruits and other kinds of food. It was paradise to the humans.

Many round, tent-like straw huts stood on the area under the mountains. Primordial men wearing pelts of beasts returned to one of the villages carrying food. The leader of the village was a man who had already broken through the limits of the physical body and awakened the power Lu Zhiyu hid in his genes.

However, the paradise had turned into hell when an army of orcs from over the Heavenly Mountains descended upon the village. Even though the leader of the village had awakened his genetic power, it was merely an ability to control his adrenaline.

The army that attacked was from the clan of wolves, the most powerful clan of orcs in the world. The fierce soldiers rode large, wolf-like beasts and chanted their battle cry in Sofawk, a language first developed by the clan of rats. After hundreds of years of refinement, Sofawk had developed into a complete language system.

"Kill them all, this fertile plain should belong to us and not these beasts!"

"Kill these undeveloped swines!"

The war was cruel. The leader of the village led his men into battle with a stone axe. He used the massive strength and fast reaction he got after activating his adrenaline to strike down many orcs. However, he was still no match for the clan of wolves. His enemies had lances and swords made of bronze, while the best weapons his people had were rocks and wooden sticks. Soon, the human villagers lost the battle. The wolves spared no one, not even the women and the children. The war between species was extremely bloody and cruel. The leader of the village was the last one standing. He was exhausted and finally failed under the spear of the wolves!

The leader of the village lay on the ground and cursed the orcs with his dying breath in the human language that was still in the early stage of development. "You b*stards! God will punish you!"

After killing everyone in sight, the wolf soldiers set fire to the remaining huts and disappeared on their mounts in high spirits.

As the soldiers disappeared into the distance, a figure appeared near the village. He wore a grey linen cloak, simple shirt and trousers, and a pair of plain boots. He held a silver staff with strange carvings, his face covered by a white mask with a drawing of a red sun.

That was Lu Zhiyu. Lu Zhiyu had been searching for a place to start his plans when he saw the atrocity committed in the village. Then he had fixed his gaze here. He had already saw how tragic the battlefield was through the Scroll of the World, but it did not prepare him for how bad the situation truly was now that he was here in person. The smells of burning corpses almost made Lu Zhiyu retch.

But Lu Zhiyu realized that other than slight discomfort, he didn't feel anything else. Was that because he did not feel a sense of kinship with the humans in this world? Or could it be due to some other reasons?

He walked towards the burning huts in the center of the village. It was already consumed by fire, and it was emitting thick, black smoke. Lu Zhiyu raised his staff and opened the dimensional door to link to a river from far away, channeling a large amount of water to extinguish the flames. He had made the staff himself and carved the channeling array for dimensional door on it. This way, he could simply inject his mind power into the staff and instantly activate the dimensional door instead of needing to draw the channeling array every time when he needed to connect to a different space.

Lu Zhiyu could open a dimensional door anywhere within this krynnspace and transport any objects at his will. This was also the only spell that Lu Zhiyu had mastered so far with his mind power. The other powers such as mind reading, changing genes, etc were all talents associated with his mind power, something made available to him through the flow of information. His exploration of his mind power was rudimentary at best. He could not fully understand it. He didn't know exactly what mind power was. He had no idea what a soul was either. Even though his mind power had become stronger through his continued meditation, he still could not discover additional powers, nor did he have any defined goals or directions to work toward. As for the dimensional door, it was something Lu Zhiyu would not comprehend. It was lucky enough that he was able to draw the channeling array on the staff properly.

The water put out the fire. Lu Zhiyu approached the still-smoking hut and heard someone was coughing inside. He pushed aside the burnt remains of the hut, and saw a young human boy climbing out from inside a hole on the ground. The two stared at each other in silence.

"Wo lu mo, mo see ca? (Who are you?)" the boy asked, his words slurring.

Lu Zhiyu had collected information about the orc language, but could not really understand the fledgling human language as it was still in its early stages of development, and did not have a complete system of words. Thankfully, Lu Zhiyu could understand what the boy was asking using his mind power. In fact, the boy's fear and animosity were also clearly conveyed to him.

"I am a messenger from the gods. Ahenaten, oh, future King of All Men!" He held out his hand toward the young boy, and used his mind power to beckon him forward. After Ahenaten understood Lu Zhiyu, he even felt interested and somewhat emotionally connected to Lu Zhiyu due to the influence of the mind power.

The stranger seemed to be wrapped in the glory of the sun and his body was radiating a divine white glow. Ahenaten pulled himself to his feet and was comforted by the stranger's presence.

"Sent here by the gods, you are the messenger of the gods? I, Ahenaten, pay you the highest of respects. Are you here to punish those evil orcs?"

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Chapter 28: Order and Civilization

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"You must be the one to avenge the lives of your loved ones with your own hands," Lu Zhiyu said, leading Ahenaten away from the hut. "I am only here to provide you guidance from the glorious Goddess of Light, Maria."

"But why won't the gods kill off the evil wolf-men?" Ahenaten asked, clearly unsatisfied with Lu Zhiyu's answer. "Why did the gods watched the orcs killed my parents and my clansmen? How could gods who stood by and watched these things happen still be called gods?"

"What do you think gods are? Your servants?" Lu Zhiyu turned back and looked at Ahenaten. "They gave you lives, intelligence and power. They also gave you lush lands and a world to explore. Do you still want them to watch over every second and every aspect of your lives? Fulfil your every wish and desire? You are too greedy!" Seeing that Ahenaten didn't say anything in response, Lu Zhiyu continued. "The gods gave you hope and a future, but it is up to you to decide which path to take."

He lowered himself to look Ahenaten in the eyes and said, "The gods are just, Ahenaten. Humans and orcs, as well as every living being in this world, are the children of the gods. They created this world, but they gave you the power to choose your own destiny. The gods are not responsible for your lives, you are. Remember, you hold your destiny in your hands!"

"Then why are you here?" Ahenaten paused then asked. "Why did they send you? Who are you?"

"I am Faross, the archangel of Maria, the Goddess of Light," Lu Zhiyu said. "I am tasked with maintaining the balance of this world. If this course of events continue, humans will be wiped out by the orcs. Thus, I am here in hopes that you can carry the responsibility of uniting the human race and stopping the invading orcs. You shall become the king of all humans!"

"Of course, you have the choice to accept or refuse this fate."

Ahenaten looked at Lu Zhiyu, then at the burned village around him and the corpses on the ground. His eyes burned with hatred. He felt as if he could see thousands of humans dying under the orcs' blades. He felt as if he could hear their dying cries.

"No, not like this, our kind cannot be wiped out!" Ahenaten looked toward Lu Zhiyu, "Archangel Faross, you have my word, I agree. What do you need me to do?"

Lu Zhiyu shook his head, "I do not need you to do anything. You have to grow and become more powerful. You are too weak now!"

"Is it mighty strength?" Ahenaten asked hurriedly. "Like my father who has the strength of the gods?"

Lu Zhiyu shook his head. "One man cannot fight an entire army no matter how strong he is, while an army will have to submit to order. Power does not only lie within strength. What I wish of you is to create order and civilization among the scattered human race. Order and civilization. That is what can save your kind."

"Order and civilization?" Ahenaten asked as if he couldn't understand the words.

Lu Zhiyu held out a hand to grab Ahenaten's. The two walked toward the east, toward where the sun rose. Lu Zhiyu raised his staff. He summoned a dimensional door with a flash of light. The two stepped through the formless screen and arrived somewhere in the distance.

The northern part of the continent had already entered winter. Lu Zhiyu gave Ahenaten a cloak. Ahenaten fumbled to wrap the cloak around himself, but he never took his eyes off of the grand city in the distance, "What is that?"

"That is the capital of the orcs," Lu Zhiyu said. "It's called Sarga. Twelve kings have built up this city over the course of two hundred years. Twelve generations of kings that have come and gone. Many tribes fought for the right to call this city theirs. Two hundred years of fighting and expansion gave birth to this city in front of you."

"A city?" Ahenaten asked, his eyes reflecting his excitement and awe. "Will our kind have this too?"

"Of course," Lu Zhiyu said with a nod. "You will be the first King of Men. You will lead mankind to an age of cities. You will spark the flames of civilization, and your name will be on the tongue of every man, woman, and child for hundreds of years to come."

"Come with me!"

He started walked again with Ahenaten following him closely. A moment later, the two appeared on top of the city wall of Sarga, looking down on the city unfolding beneath. The city was bustling with people. There were many people walking on the streets, such as soldiers who were carrying weapons and civilians in simple clothing. They dressed simply, mostly a few pieces of cloth covering their bodies. Only the nobles could own fancy clothing made from pelt.

The orcs had developed the class structure and segregation of duties. There were merchants, commoners, nobles, farmers, hunters, troops, craftsmen and the like. Craftsmen were responsible for erecting opulent buildings. There were sharp bronze swords in the hands of every soldier. What they were wearing were all incredibly pretty in Ahenaten's eyes as they were clean and tidy. There weren't only wolf-people residing in the city. There were dog-, tiger-, and lion-people as well. Different races mingled in the streets.

The city seemed endless to Ahenaten. There were many streets and seemingly an infinite amount of people living within. Ahenaten felt at awe. The desire for progress was coded into the very bones of humans.

Soon, the two were discovered by the patrols on the wall. "Who are you? What are you doing here? How did you come up to the city wall!"

Hearing the soldier's call, more guards swarmed over and raised their weapons at the two. Seeing a spear was aiming at him and a guard was charging towards him, Ahenaten started to shake in fear. Lu Zhiyu turned to look at him with his masked face. He waved his staff and the two disappeared in a flash of light. This was why Lu Zhiyu made the staff and carved the channeling array to summon the dimensional door on it. It allowed him to react quicker to an emergency situation like this.

"This is their language," Lu Zhiyu said. "It is called Sofawk. Words and language gave the orcs the ability to communicate and develop culture. This is the basis for a unified civilization!"

They were standing under a large statue of the Orc King. The pedestal that held the statue was covered in words that described the accolades of the Orc King. Ahenaten couldn't understand what Lu Zhiyu told him, but Lu Zhiyu knew that he would remember his words.

Lu Zhiyu then took Ahenaten to the market. The crowded market and the different vendors fascinated the young boy. This was the center of commerce for orc cities in the north. One could find almost anything there. Lu Zhiyu walked the boy through the market, telling him more about gold, currency, wealth and merchants.

"Gold? What is gold?" Ahenaten asked when Lu Zhiyu brought it up.

A gold coin appeared in his hand, and he handed it to the boy. "This is the currency of the orcs. I'll give it to you as a souvenir!"

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Chapter 29: Ahenaten

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In the next few days, Lu Zhiyu took Ahenaten to all the other few cities which the orcs had just built. He showed the boy the cities of the tigers and the leopards, which were designed like military bases. He also showed the boy the city of the foxes, which was the orcs' largest center of commerce in the North. Then, Lu Zhiyu took Ahenaten to visit the tribes of the dog-people and cat-people, which were still primitive and not yet cities.

After that, he showed the boy the orcs' farms and ranches, and told him that he could domesticate animals and raise crops too. Humans had been doing these as well, but because the South was filled with natural resources, they did not carry these processes out fully and also did not understand why they had to.

In these few days, Ahenaten finally had a basic idea of how powerful the orcs were and how weak the humans were. The orcs were already an army equipped with weapons and civilization, while humans were only a group of wild monkeys in the forest.

A few days passed. Finally, Lu Zhiyu took Ahenaten back to the plain where he had lived. It was the end of the day, and the sun was setting slowly. "Do you understand now?" Lu Zhiyu asked.

Ahenaten nodded, "I understand. In the name Goddess Maria, I will bring light to humans!"

Lu Zhiyu nodded, "Before I go, I want to give you something."

Ahenaten looked at Lu Zhiyu in surprise. Lu Zhiyu held out his hands; in his left hand there was a bag of seeds, while in his right hand there was a longsword. The sword was a customized order Lu Zhuyi had obtained online. Made from alloy steel, it was strong, durable, and resistant to friction and corrosion. Its appearance was even more astonishing, with special patterns and a blood groove on it.

To someone like Ahenaten who had not even seen the Bronze Age, such a sword was just like a divine artifact. He took the sword with much excitement and asked, "Is such a divine artifact really for me?"

He stared at the gleaming mirror-like surface of the sword. The sword was sharp and strong, and only gods could have created it. He knelt down on the ground. "Praise Goddess Maria!"

"Another thing," Lu Zhiyu said. Right then, Lu Zhiyu tapped on Ahenaten's hand with his finger. In these few days, he had lied to Ahenaten and given him a pill to eat, telling him that it was a divine medicine, when it was actually just a piece of candy. That way, he could secretly strengthen Ahenaten's body with his mind power so that he would be able to unlock the abilities in Ahenaten's genes before he left.

Lu Zhiyu unlocked the restrictions Ahenaten's brain had on his body, activating two powers in Ahenaten's genes, namely mastery of swords and the Golden Eye. The so-called Golden Eye was an ability formed from the fusion of eye-related abilities such as dynamic vision, eagle's vision, and night vision.

Lu Zhiyu believed that with the sword, his extraordinary sword skills, and his eyes which could detect any incoming attacks, Ahenaten would be able to defeat a hundred normal humans easily.

With these powers, it would pose no challenge for Ahenaten to become the leader of a tribe. In addition, with the knowledge that Ahenaten had gained from the trip with Lu Zhuyi, he would also be able to easily build a human city. As for resisting the invasions from the orcs, as long as Ahenaten could build a civilization which was strong enough to fight against the orcs, everything would be fine. After all, the orcs might be strong, but they were not unified.

If I fail this time, Lu Zhiyu thought, I can still select someone else.

Lu Zhiyu watched as Ahenaten collapsed onto the ground with many hormonal changes occuring in his body. Even his pupils slowly turned gold. Lu Zhiyu picked up the boy and placed him on a haystack, after which Lu Zhiyu turned around and vanished under the sunset.

When Ahenaten woke up, he felt extremely hungry and thirsty. At the moment, it was already nighttime, but he still felt that the world actually looked bright to him. Although it was not as clear as it would have been in the daylight, he could still see everything very well.

He picked up the sword Lu Zhiyu had given him, and put the bag of seeds into his clothes. Then, he walked into the forest and found a small stream right away. Just as he was lowering his head to drink, a dark figure appeared beside him.

Ahenaten was able to react immediately. He quickly drew his sword, realizing that the attacker was a black leopard. His pupils contracted, and his golden pupils seemed to shine in the darkness. The leopard's lightning-quick, deadly attack was actually rapidly slowed down in his eyes.

Ahenaten quickly bent down, turned around, and pierced the sword into the leopard's neck, as if he had practised this action with the sword for thousands of times. The whole series of movements was very smooth, as though he was a top-tier swordsman!

Panting, he stared at the leopard in bewilderment. Even his father would have had a tough battle with such a wild beast in the forest. How did he kill the beast so easily?

Ahenaten gripped his sword tightly. The sword felt like his closest buddy, as if he had already practised sword skills for tens of years. Using the sword had become one of his instincts.

After glancing at the already dead leopard on the ground, he lowered his head to look at the river. Moonlight poured down and he could see his reflection on the surface: red hair, a firm face, and a pair of golden pupils.

"My eyes?"

As soon as Lu Zhiyu returned to the castle, he took his mask off. It did not feel great to go down and do some work himself. Lying was an art, after all. Although he could read minds and was especially powerful in Maria's World, he was still an ordinary human.

Moreover, his Immortality Gene Editing Plan was entering a critical stage. The development of Maria's World would only affect the growth of the civilizations inside, his World Reform Plan, and how much Source Form he could get.

On the other hand, Immortality Gene Editing Plan would directly determine how long Lu Zhiyu could live. If he could solve the lifespan problem, he could even stay in the castle for as long as he wanted to speed up his research and various plans. In other words, he did not to have to worry about staying in the castle for too long and forgetting about time. If that happened, by the time he returned to the outside world, he would already be old!

From the insects, he had learned some of the secrets to immortality genes. In particular, maintenance and constant restoration were the key factors. At the moment, he already had some preliminary ideas and results, and was still implementing them. However, several of his experiments had gone wrong, proving his ideas wrong. That had made him slightly discouraged.

Where should I start? Strong restorative powers and vitality, not needing tons of energy, and able to maintain the processes in the body…

Lu Zhiyu was sitting down in the large laboratory, looking tired. He got up from his chair, walked to a door on the side of the room, and opened it. It was a freezer room he had specially built. The room was filled with various labelled animal and plant genetic templates. The temperature in the freezer room was almost equivalent to outer space, and the room was isolated from its surrounding.

As he sealed away a few failed templates, he suddenly noticed a small plant in a bottle with his peripheral vision. "Huh? What if I insert sections of plant genes into animal genes?"

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Chapter 30: Tree of Life

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"Fetal movement undetectable. Signs of life undetectable!"

"It's not working… it failed again!"

Lu Zhiyu watched as the few lives that had just been born vanished before him, causing him to be very depressed. Genetically, there was nothing wrong; their life templates were complete and their designs were logical. He did not know why he kept failing over and over again.

After he had begun the Immortality Gene Editing Plan, he had been trying to create an intelligent species with an extremely long lifespan. To achieve this, he had been adding sections of plant genes to existing genes of new humans.

The self-repair abilities and vitality of plants far exceeded that of animals. Even if a plant was chopped up into a few pieces, as long as there were water and sunlight, it could grow out again. Whether it was underwater or on land, cold or hot, plants could be seen; they were even found in harsh environments such as deserts. Plants had a long lifespan, and more importantly, they could always remain in their best condition until the very moment they died!

Lu Zhiyu was precisely trying to design a species that had a plant's longevity. These organisms would be able to live a thousand years. Like plants, these creatures would be able to maintain their youth and would only start aging in the last hundred years of their lives.

They would not need to consume a lot of food to provide themselves with enough energy to survive. As long as they had sufficient sunlight and water, they could continue living. This would be an extremely perfect creature, and Lu Zhiyu considered it as his masterpiece. The only problem was that he could not successfully create it!

"Could it be because of the mother?"

Lu Zhiyu suddenly realized that he may have made a serious mistake. This organism was very different from ordinary animals, so it would be impossible for this organism, which had plant characteristics, to grow in the wombs of other animals, unlike normal species. Because of its plant characteristics, it would not be able to receive the nutrients it needed in other animals' wombs.

He immediately turned his research in another direction and began to plan the creation of a plant that could give birth to such an organism. This unique, long-lived species he was creating would grow out straight from this plant!

"My idea is mad! Intelligent life growing out of a plant!"

He stood up from his chair at once and left his lab in the fourth level. Then, he hurried into the library downstairs to read the books regarding this area. Lu Zhiyu had to spend some time thinking.

There were a lot of ant-people hurrying about in the castle, doing their assigned daily chores. They never talked on their own or asked Lu Zhiyu any questions. After a long time, Lu Zhiyu had begun to think of them more like robots. Therefore, he was often oblivious to their presence.

After entering the library, Lu Zhiyu immediately said to an ant-person who was sweeping the floor, "Number 23, get the plant samples numbered 1289, 2358, and 256, and put them on my desk in the lab. Also, get the kitchen to make me some food." The ant-person lay down its broom and trotted out of the library.

Lu Zhiyu continued towards the book shelves. After checking the shelf with plant-related books, he reached out his hand. Right away, a few books on the shelf flew towards him and landed on his hand. Lu Zhiyu's mind power at the moment was already strong enough to influence reality and move objects. However, it was only limited to items that were small and light.

The entire library was carpeted and very clean. The fine carvings around and the dropped ceiling on top were all made from wood, making the place look very artistic. As long as they had proper instructions in their brains, the ant-people were excellent workers and artisans. They could achieve most things that Lu Zhiyu wanted in a perfect way. Of course, it only included work that did not require much intelligence.

Lu Zhiyu sat down by the wooden table located at the center of the room. Below the table, there was even a rug made from bear pelt. He snapped his fingers and the lights above him came up at once. Then, he began reading the few books he had taken. Lu Zhiyu scanned through the books very quickly, as if he was only flipping through them, and all the information was already recorded down by his sub-brain. Then, his sub-brain would extract the information Lu Zhiyu wanted and release it to him.

"This plant will be somewhat like the insects' nest. Perhaps I can learn something from the structure of the nest."

Lu Zhiyu tapped on the table with his fingers continuously. As he thought about various ideas, the sub-brain constantly sent new information to him. Soon, the bare bones of the whole plan formed in his head.

Just then, an ant-person appeared with a platter of food in its hands. It put the food on Lu Zhiyu's table, after which it left to continue the task of cleaning.

Two weeks later, Lu Zhiyu picked the other relatively large continent in Maria's World and landed there. Among the five continents in Maria's World, the largest two were the continent Alen and the one he was on at the moment. The other three continents either had unique terrains, harsh environments, or were too small. Of course, there were also many islands on the surface of the sea, but he would not count them in.

He had mapped the entire Maria's world and hung the map in his bedroom in the dimensional castle. However, he had yet to name most of the places on the map. Apart from naming the few major continents so that he could remember and differentiate them easily, he was not planning to name the other places. Instead, he would wait for the lives in Maria's World to name them!

The continent he was standing on at the moment was named Yala, which was located to the east of the world, in the direction where the sun rose. Its climate was very fit for most lifeform. The continent was filled with forests, and wild animals roamed the land freely.

Lu Zhiyu walked into a flat wetland forest on the continent. The forest was filled the chirps of birds, the aroma of flowers, and many densely packed trees. The place did not seem to know winter and was certainly a paradise for animals.

At the instant Lu Zhiyu entered the forest, he saw many different organisms and plants, some of which he could recognize, but not the others. After such a long time, the plants and seeds that Lu Zhiyu had brought in that time had also been mostly localized. Due to the different biotic environment and terrain, their appearances had changed.

Lu Zhiyu entered the central region of the wetland forest and found a beautiful valley. In the valley, there was a mirror-like lake. The ground was covered with grass, and many colorful flowers were blooming. A breeze blew by, scattering the seeds of dandelions throughout the valley.

"This is the place!"

Lu Zhiyu nodded, satisfied with the location. A sapling appeared in his hand, and he carefully planted it in the meadow in the depth of the valley.

"This will be the birthplace of life on this continent. You will be called the Tree of Life!"

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"What's wrong?" Lu Zhiyu asked.

He had gone to the mall with Li Wei and was having lunch with her, when he noticed that she looked like she wanted to say something but was holding back. Therefore, he put down his chopsticks and looked at Li Wei.

Li Wei shook her head. "Nothing," she said. "It's just that every time I see you, it always feels like you have become a bit distant and unfamiliar, even though we have just met up not long ago." Lu Zhiyu knew that this was because he had been frequently entering the Scroll of the World, where he would spend a few months each time. Whenever he met up with Li Wei, only one day would have passed for her since their last date, but to Lu Zhiyu, it would be a reunion after parting for a long time.

"Doesn't that make me seem more mysterious? I feel different every time!" Lu Zhiyu remarked with a smile.

Today, Li Wei seemed to have lost her usual queen-like temperament and was somewhat sentimental. "But I feel like you're never really with me, you know? You always know what I am thinking about, what I like, and all my hobbies."

"But I realize that I don't know anything about you. Sure, you are burly, good-looking, and sweet. You can give me the romantic love that I want and also give me all the fantasies I have about men. You're perfect, but I can never tell what you're thinking. I have thought through it carefully. I realize that I don't understand you at all; I don't know what you like, what you hate, and I don't even know anything about your family, background, or past!"

Lu Zhiyu looked her in the eyes and the two stared at each other. "Why are you suddenly thinking about such a serious topic today? What's important is that we're happy together, isn't it?"

Li Wei lowered her head. "My mom called me. She said that I have to get married this year. I'm not getting any younger, you know. I'll be thirty in two years. You should know that women aren't like men. Once I'm over thirty, I'll really start to age. Plus, you're younger than me."

Lu Zhiyu was momentarily stunned, after which he reached over and grabbed Li Wei's hand. "Do you want to marry me?"

Li Wei looked at him blankly, but she pulled her hand away from Lu Zhiyu for the first time. "I don't know!" she admitted.

Lu Zhiyu waved his hand. After paying the bill, he said, "Let's go and walk around a bit. Didn't you keep saying that you have no clothes to wear recently? I have also bought two movie tickets for your favorite action film. This evening, we can go and watch it together!"

The two then went shopping. In a shoe store, Lu Zhiyu waited for Li Wei at the reception with many bags in his hand, when the few saleswomen there started gossiping about him. One of them even pretended to be playing her phone and was actually taking a picture of him discreetly, but she forgot to turn off the flash. As Lu Zhiyu turned to look at her, she immediately blushed with embarrassment.

"Lu Zhiyu? What are you doing here?" Suddenly, Lu Zhiyu heard a clear voice behind him. He turned his head around and saw a familiar face.

"Cai Jiajia?"

Cai Jiajia was wearing a pair of tight jeans and a gym shirt at the moment. Paired with her glasses, she looked healthy and also somewhat playful. She pushed her glasses up and said, "I haven't seen you at the gym lately. That membership you've gotten isn't cheap. Do you plan not to go at all?"

Lu Zhiyu shook his head and said, "I didn't go because I don't want to disturb your life. How are you doing? Still working there?"

Cai Jiajia nodded, "Still there as an instructor. How about you?"

Before Lu Zhiyu could say anything, Li Wei who had already finished trying the shoes walked out from behind. "Who's this?" she asked when she saw Cai Jiajia.

"I'm his friend," Cai Jiajia explained before Lu Zhiyu could open his mouth. "You must be his girlfriend. Nice to meet you."

Cai Jiajia did not even say her name. After nodding, she said to Lu Zhiyu, "I won't hold you any longer. See you!" Lu Zhiyu also nodded and Cai Jiajia turned around, leaving.

However, Li Wei suddenly frowned. "Who is she?" she asked. "She's not just your friend, is she?"

"She is," Lu Zhiyu said at once. "We didn't even talk much. How can you tell that we're not just normal friends?"

Li Wei immediately said, "I can tell from the way she looked at you. Also, she looked at me with some hostility. Is she your ex?"

Lu Zhiyu wanted to deny it, but when he looked at Li Wei's eyes, he sighed. "Fine, I don't want to lie to you. But we've never contacted each other since we broke up. Just now we only met by coincidence!"

"How many exes do you have?" Li Wei demanded, suddenly angry. "You've never told me anything about your past. What are you trying to hide from me?"

Lu Zhiyu was at a loss for what to reply. "I'm not hiding anything. At my age, what's wrong with having a few exes?"

"A few? There's her, and that Xia Fan that goes to your shop every day to look for you. You even flirt with Xiao Le!"

Li Wei was very emotional and started arguing with Lu Zhiyu on the street, attracting the eyes of many. Lu Zhiyu picked up the bags that she had thrown on the ground, after which he looked at Li Wei and said, "I have already said that I have never done anything unloyal to you. Please stop guessing randomly like this. We need to calm down and have a talk!" He tried to hold her hand, but she pulled her hand away again.

The two walked along the road, with one of them in front and the other at the back. After a long while, Li Wei finally said, "Didn't you say that we're going for a movie?"

The two watched the entire movie in silence. Despite it being a comedy and everyone else laughing, the two did not speak at all. Lu Zhiyu did not try to sense what Li Wei was thinking. Just like what Li Wei had said, he knew everything about her, but she knew nothing about him. This made Lu Zhiyu feel that he was very despicable.

"Let's break up."

"Why? There's nothing wrong with our relationship, right?"

"Maybe it's been wrong since the beginning," Li Wei said. "I was attracted by you, but we really do not suit each other. Moreover, you're a few years younger than me."

"That's it?"

She remained silent for a long while. Then, she said what Lu Zhiyu had heard before, "I feel that you do not belong to me. You don't love me!"

Outside the theater, Li Wei wrapped her arms around Lu Zhiyu's neck and kissed him for a long time to end their relationship. In the past, Lu Zhiyu would probably find it romantic, but now he only felt forlorn.

As the night fell over the city, he sat in a square, looking at his phone. He realized that Cai Jiajia had sent him a few messages on WeChat, so he casually replied her.

Ding Dong!

Just after he sent the message, his phone rang again. Lu Zhiyu checked his phone and saw Cai Jiajia's reply.

Since you're free, do you want to grab a drink with me?

Soon, Lu Zhiyu was sitting in front of the counter of a casual bar with Cai Jiajia. There was some gentle and soft italian music, although Lu Zhiyu did not understand any of the lyrics.

"You guys broke up? It isn't because of me, is it?" Cai Jiajia was sitting beside Lu Zhiyu with her legs crossed. Under the light, the side view of her face was somewhat alluring.

Lu Zhiyu shook his head. "It has nothing to do with you, but the reason is almost the same!"

Cai Jiajia immediately giggled. Lu Zhiyu said resignedly, "What are you laughing at? Is it so funny?"

Cai Jiajia covered her mouth and said, "Because it's true. You're unreliable!"

After remaining in the bar for a while, Lu Zhiyu took his coat and stood up. "I'm leaving first. If you have anything…"

Before he could finish, Cai Jiajia grabbed his hand and jumped into his arms. "You're leaving? Just like that?"

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Chapter 32: Long-lived Race

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

On the bed, Cai Jiajia clung onto Lu Zhiyu's back, her hands roaming over his lean muscles as if she was not willing to let him go. Lu Zhiyu turned around and wrapped his arms around her shoulders. With their bodies touching, they stared into each other's eyes.

Cai Jiajia grinned and said, "I kept having dreams about you after we were apart. Lu Zhiyu, you're a perfect lover to me!"

"A lover? What do you mean?" Lu Zhiyu immediately questioned.

Cai Jiajia smiled at once. "It means that you're not a suitable husband or boyfriend for me. Whether it's me, your Li Wei, or your future girlfriends, we'll all feel that you're unreliable!"

"…"

Lu Zhiyu suddenly remembered something. "Wait. I thought you said that your ex-boyfriend came back. So why are you here now?"

Cai Jiajia held out her right hand to show Lu Zhiyu the ring on her slender finger. "That's right. We're back together. We just got engaged last week and are planning to choose a date to get married!"

"Then why did you sleep with me?" Lu Zhiyu asked, surprised.

Cai Jiajia kissed him on the lips. "Because you're unforgettable," she said. "Whenever I think about you, I'll feel my body burning!"

When Lu Zhiyu left Cai Jiajia's hourse, he felt like he had just received a heavy blow. After he returned home, he sat on his couch, staring at the empty apartment. Suddenly, he felt that he was somewhat lonely.

After sitting there for a while, he finally remembered that he still had unfinished businesses in the world of Maria. Right away, he stood up and went back there through the dimensional door in his utility room at the top of his apartment.

At the moment, dawn was breaking in Maria's world. Lu Zhiyu went straight into the forest on Yala and saw that on the once empty clearing next to the lake in the valley, there was now a huge tree towering into the clouds.

The tree was hundreds of meters tall, with a crown large enough to block out the sky. Its thick branches radiated liveliness. The branches were broad enough to be used as roads and people can easily run on them. On the crown, many buds could be seen. They looked like blooming flowers that were enveloping something within their layers of skin.

Apart from the Tree of Life which now looked like a divine tree, a large number of trees had also grown out on the extensive, once grassland-like valley. The trees surrounded the lake, guarding the Tree of Life.

Lu Zhiyu returned in time to see a bud ripening and blooming. He teleported directly onto the tree and walked on the branch which was a few meters wide. Opening the bud, he finally saw a baby within layers of young leaves.

The baby had pointy ears and delicate facial features. It was still connected to the pistil of the bud through its umbilical cord. Lu Zhiyu carefully cut the cord and carried the baby with his arms. The little baby immediately began crying and stared at Lu Zhiyu with its gem-like eyes.

"You're the first the long-lived races in Maria's World. Your race shall be called the elves!"

He went back onto the ground with the baby in his arms and tapped the air gently with his staff. Right away, the space around him started to fold and many ant-people appeared.

With their powerful limbs, the ant-people could climb trees as easily as walking on flat ground. In a few days, many wooden houses were built under the Tree of Life.

After the first elf, more elves were born one after another. In the year, a few dozens of elves were born, and more would appear in the years to come. However, the Tree of Life that Lu Zhiyu had created also had a finite lifespan. One thousand years later, this Tree of Life would reach the end of its life. Therefore, it would still be up to the elves to reproduce and keep their race alive.

Nevertheless, such a long-lived race also had its own flaw in terms of reproduction. They must come of age before being able to reproduce. Moreover, reproduction would be much harder for them as compared to humans. Since they had such a long lifespan, they also had to bear this flaw which actually was not really a big problem.

Twenty odd ant-people were in charge of raising these elves up. Lu Zhiyu also stayed for over half a year to observe if this long-lived race had any flaws genetically, as well as whether their life template was self-consistent. After all, when he finished his Elixir of Life Plan, he would use the product on himself.

Lu Zhiyu walked out of the treehouse and made his way to the ground via a rope. Recently, he had been living in the largest wetland forest on Yala and breathing the freshest air every day. Feeling the wind which was filled with the aroma of grass and flowers, and listening to the chirps of birds and the sounds of insects, Lu Zhiyu felt as if he was living a perfect life at some countryside.

Lu Zhiyu turned around and left, while the ant-people stayed behind. They would stay here to raise the elves up until their death. This was the mission Lu Zhiyu had given them.

On the other hand, the faraway continent Alen was in turmoil and experiencing great changes. With the divine sword and powers bestowed by gods, Ahenaten had led his men and conquered all the tribes around. Then, he built the first human city on the Red River Plains, his hometown. He named it the City of Gold.

Ahenaten claimed that the gods had chosen him to be the king and created the first human dynasty, calling himself the Golden King. He created a system for the human language and taught humans how to farm and domesticate wild animals, bringing them into the agrarian age.

Ahenaten created a hierarchy system. Those with the powers of gods were referred to as the "descendants of gods." He said that they were noble and would form the ruling class. These people were superior, while ordinary people were deemed as peasants. Below the peasants were those he had conquered and enslaved, whose statuses were the lowest.

Ahenaten created a commerce system and used gold and silver as standardized currencies. He brought the human race out of its primitive tribal age, creating civilization and order. Nevertheless, Ahenaten was not a kind king, or perhaps even a brutal ruler. He created the hierarchy and on the other hand, he enjoyed everyone's worship as the king which had golden blood in his veins.

He commanded hundreds of slaves to build him a palace and wore lavish clothing. He even used gold to cover the floor of his palace. However, the human race was unified under him and rapid developments took place. In a few dozens of years, the human population quickly multiplied and there were already hundreds of thousands of them at the moment.

In the thirteenth year of the Golden Dynasty, the tension between the humans and the orcs escalated. The City of Gold and Sarga City saw their first real conflict. Both sides sent out tens of thousands of soldiers, starting the first large-scale war between the two races.

The humans were far inferior to the orcs in terms of military strength and weapons, and were therefore easily crushed. At the most critical moment, Ahenaten put together a small cavalry that he led personally. They assaulted the base of the orcs and slew the twelfth Orc King, the Wolf King Costa!

The human race won the war, but only barely. However, due to the death of the Wolf King Costa, a greater chaos erupted between the various orc tribes. The ensuing fight for control of the throne led to another round of civil war between them. On the other hand, humans retreated down south to recover from the war. Ahenaten was also severely injured during the war and lost his will to fight. He spent his days expanding his palace and enjoying a life of comfort!

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