metaverse evolution.

Chapter 923 A Prosperous and Barren World

A strange, unprecedented, bizarre, super-fast, all-metal aircraft suddenly appeared in the "sky beyond the clouds", immediately attracting countless attention.

On the "land" made up of floating plants, countless flying figures shuttled back and forth, delivering this unprecedented news to each other.

For example, on a certain super floating land, a group of "harpy men" were having a heated discussion.

"I saw the first warrior of the Thunderwing Clan, the fastest flying one, chasing after him, but he couldn't even catch up with his shadow."

"It was so fast that it disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye."

"I only saw a stream of light flying in front of me. Yes, there was a layer of faint light on its surface, which looked like the gods and demons from the nine lands in the legend."

"I seemed to see it falling from the sky. Could it be from the Black Void?"

"It's impossible for Black Void. We can't find any metal here, let alone Black Void."

"Legend has it that if you pass through the Black Void, you will reach a world full of treasures. Maybe this thing came from the treasure world?"

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The harpy people were discussing it, the goose people were discussing it, the moth people were discussing it, and so were the octopus people and so on. They were all discussing it.

The sudden appearance of a flying vehicle caused widespread excitement; and this was just the beginning.

Chu Fei didn't care about all that. He was now flying through the "sky" at a speed of 2300 kilometers per hour.

At this time, the air layer here has a standard atmospheric pressure of about 10 times that of the Earth. The air is relatively dense, and it consumes a lot of energy to maintain a speed of 2300 kilometers per hour.

During the flight, Chu Fei (the clone) kept observing the surroundings. The number and types of life here were staggering. Just for intelligent life, after flying for an hour, he discovered more than 30 kinds.

Perhaps because the world is big enough and the life energy is abundant enough, there are more lives than we can imagine.

There are 7 species similar to harpy and bird-like people;

There are insects like butterfly people and wasp people, 15 species have been discovered;

There are also marine life, such as octopus, mermaid, seahorse, etc.

We even discovered a kind of intelligent life similar to coral reefs - countless small insects formed the outline of heads, arranged in neat arrays, and had their own houses.

They also discovered a "plant-type intelligent life form", which is a unique type of suspended vines that can form tentacles to attack enemies and protect their own "fruits".

These vines form a "group" with a radius of hundreds of kilometers and a height of more than ten kilometers. Different individuals are scattered and interconnected. When encountering foreign invasion, several adjacent "plant groups" will attack together.

Chu Fei was amazed by the number of intelligent life forms. Although some of them did not look very intelligent, they were still intelligent life forms.

When seeing such a world, the first thing Chu Fei thought of was - faith!

There are so many intelligent beings in this world. In terms of number, it is estimated that the population of the Yanhuang Federation at its peak is comparable. If you can leave your faith in such a world, how much spiritual power or faith power can you get!

But faith is something that needs to be carefully considered. Chu Fei would rather not have that kind of mixed power of faith.

Fortunately, Chu Fei already had some basic ideas, thanks to the precious treasures left by the Yanhuang civilization, such as Pangu creating the world and Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor.

The Yanhuang civilization had some faith in Pangu, but never asked Pangu to do anything, because Pangu died after he created the world.

Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang created the Yanhuang civilization. We worship our ancestors every year, but we don’t ask for the two emperors to come back to life.

Why did the Yanhuang civilization emphasize deification after death? This is not random. I am already dead, you can no longer ask me to do this or that.

Those who are deified while still alive will naturally have to bear enormous consequences, and the desires of their believers are insatiable. The desires of human beings and the desires of intelligent life are a bottomless abyss.

Therefore, those who are deified while alive will eventually die, and it is better to be deified after death. This is called risking one's life in order to be reborn.

But how to "die" is a problem.

There is an old saying in the Yanhuang civilization: "It is good to die." There is also a "good death" in "It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death." There is also a compliment in the colloquialism "You died a good death."

This is not an insulting word. Its corresponding words include: die without a burial place, never to be reborn, grind bones and scatter ashes, have one's soul scattered, etc.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with crushing the bones and scattering the ashes, because it is done now, but it is best to wait seven days after death before crushing the bones and scattering the ashes. It is said that it takes seven days for the soul to mature and shed its shell, which is the so-called night of returning to the soul or the seventh day.

Chu Fei's clone was observing from below, while Chu Fei's real body was thinking about a solution in space.

Below, after advancing more than 10 kilometers in an air layer with an air pressure of 15 atmospheres, the aircraft continued to dive and reached an air layer with an air pressure of 300 atmospheres, with a descent altitude of about kilometers.

This is another world, completely different from the one above, and the difference is also visible to the naked eye. It feels like going from a temperate forest to a tropical rain forest.

The life here is denser and absorbs more light. The leaves of plants are no longer pitch black, but have more different colors.

The life energy here is richer and the intelligent life is more powerful. Chu Fei even saw a war. According to the analysis of the battle situation, the combat effectiveness of life here has reached 8.0 but has not reached 10.0.

不要以为达到8.0没什么。根据数据计算，同样是人类，8.0之人的综合素质可达普通人（7.5）的283%。按照力量差距10%就是一个等级计算，两者差了28个小等级。

In terms of metal hardness, the hardness of top-grade steel can reach 65hrc, while the hardness of common tungsten steel knives is around 75hrc. The difference between the two data is 15.4%, but tungsten steel can cut iron like mud.

In this battle, almost all members scored above 8.0, which really surprised Chu Fei.

Of course, considering that the pressure here is 15 Earth atmospheres, it seems understandable.

However, Chu Fei was somewhat surprised by the supplies that the two sides were fighting for. What they were fighting for was actually - soil and gravel.

Chu Fei flew over the battlefield, and the two sides separated, staring at each other. Chu Fei also took the opportunity to scan the objects they were fighting for, and confirmed that they were just ordinary soil and gravel.

Why did they fight over this thing? It looked like only three cubic meters, but hundreds of people from both sides fought and more than a dozen people died.

Chu Fei did not stop but continued to fly. After flying more than 20,000 kilometers, he discovered a "volcano".

To be precise, it is a volcanic cloud formed by volcanic ash.

The rolling volcanic clouds rose into the sky, covering an area of ​​nearly 7,000 kilometers. Around the volcanic clouds, countless flying intelligent life forms used various containers to collect volcanic ash.

The volcanic ash that rose to the sky was very thin, but tens of millions of intelligent beings gathered around it. There were also robberies during the transportation.

After observing for a while, Chu Fei understood.

Stones, soil, and dust are indeed precious resources.

The upper layer of this world does not contain any minerals, only air, water vapor, and carbon dioxide (which can provide carbon). But minerals are needed for the existence of life.

Those trace elements need to be obtained from the outside world. The best way to obtain them here is volcanic ash and perhaps the other party's corpse (ashes).

Right now, the world is prosperous, with so many intelligent lives and species.

But this world is also barren, so barren that it is beyond imagination. There is not even a stone in the world in the sky, and the source channels of minerals are extremely narrow and scarce.

A stone can lead to a war between two races.

Chu Fei has not seen the fighting within the race. Perhaps it is because there are too many intelligent lives and the external pressure is too great, so the conflicts within the race are suppressed.

The aircraft flew around the volcanic cloud, allowing countless "people" to see the strange aircraft.

Chu Fei continued to move forward for more than 20 kilometers. After collecting enough materials, he descended again and arrived at an air layer with a pressure of atmospheres.

The density of life here has increased a bit, but it is also more "constrained". They will consciously shrink their living space and give more light to the upper class. But this is not out of kindness, but because the upper class will throw something down - paying taxes.

Occasionally, Chu Fei saw an upper class attacking a lower class. Although the upper class paid a higher price, after the lower class was attacked, they were attacked by their neighbors.

A dynamic balance has been formed here.

From Chu Fei's perspective, this is an interesting world. But from the perspective of local life, this is a cruel world, and everyone has to do their best to survive.

Chu Fei continued to descend until the surrounding pressure increased to three thousand atmospheres. Then the situation changed. The density of life began to decrease significantly, but the strength of life also increased rapidly.

The life force here starts at level 10.0.

The speed of the aircraft here was suppressed to 500 kilometers per hour. The air density here was too high, and it was a bit difficult to fly. Fortunately, the surrounding life was the same, flying very slowly.

After encountering several interceptions, Chu Fei had to launch missiles twice to let these guys see the power of civilization.

Not to mention, the power of a bomb exploding here is similar to that underwater, with a smaller range but greater power.

After flying more than 5,000 kilometers here again, enough data was basically collected. The atmospheric pressure here is a little higher than Chu Fei expected, mainly because the carbon dioxide content in the air is too high, and the molar mass of carbon dioxide exceeds that of oxygen and nitrogen.

At this time, Chu Fei's descent depth has reached 42 kilometers, and the temperature here has reached degrees. For ordinary people, it is already a dead environment. But the life here is even stronger.

Chu Fei continued to dive. As he continued to dive, the light continued to increase, and the plants became more colorful, but the temperature also continued to rise. Under high temperatures, the plants were no longer flexible and more like thorns, which looked unpalatable.

As you continue to descend, atmospheric pressure and temperature begin to rise rapidly as the air density increases.

When Chu Fei reached 10,000 atmospheres of pressure, he had reached a depth of 30,000 kilometers. At this time, the surrounding temperature was over 100 and the light was a bit dazzling.

But there is also life here, and it is even more powerful, there are powerful beasts, and there are also intelligent life. Chu Fei saw a mermaid-like existence.

The atmosphere here was as thick as the ocean. Chu Fei just happened to see a group of "mermaids" more than three meters tall hunting a "sea dragon" that was a hundred meters long.

This sea dragon is very similar to a sea snake, but it has horns on its head. In a very resistant environment, these "dragon horns" are like ox horns, sharp and pointed, with a cold glow.

The aircraft can only maintain a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, which is really slow. Chu Fei was not in a hurry, just watching the battle outside quietly.

Judging from the intensity of the battle, the life here is infinitely close to 12.0; the reason why it has not broken through 12.0 is because high-level life requires powerful wisdom. After reaching 12.0, without sufficient wisdom to support it, it is impossible to break through the threshold of life one by one.

And up to now, Chu Fei has not discovered what superpowers these lives use. They all fight with their original bodies. Can be considered as full martial arts, or primitive martial arts.

But the fighting power and physical strength of the creatures here are extraordinary. Living in such a harsh environment for many years, those with weak bodies have long been eliminated.

This is completely different from the life in the deep sea on Earth, which is pitch black, and most of the life is saprophytic, so competition is not fierce.

But it was different here. The further down you went, the brighter it was, and with light the battle became fiercer. In such a fiercely competitive environment, the weak had long been eliminated.

However, the number of lives here is obviously much sparser. This is understandable, because of the harsh environment and fierce competition, and also because the strong need a wider living space.

Suddenly, several mermaids broke away from the battle circle and "swam" towards Chu Fei. These guys were very fast, obviously faster than the aircraft, and they came outside the aircraft in a short while, knocking and hitting with the steel forks in their hands.

These mermaids already have metal in their hands, and no one knows how it was made, but it is very hard.

Chu Fei (the clone) directly revealed his aura, and the clone also had an aura of 14.9. The mermaids around him immediately retreated in fear.

The aircraft flew slowly, and the mermaids looked around and saw that they did not find any danger, so they surrounded it again.

Chu Fei sighed, "All intelligent life forms have a common problem: they feel uncomfortable if they don't get beaten!"

After opening the flying storage, Chu Fei appeared directly.

Seeing a completely unfamiliar creature appear, and that was only half their height, a group of mermaids became excited, and the first one poked Chu Fei's legs with a fork.

Chu Fei directly expanded his domain.

"boom……"

The clone's domain was ten kilometers in diameter, and the surrounding mermaids and the struggling "sea dragon" were instantly frozen.

The mermaid who was about to stab Chu Fei with a fork was frightened and wanted to struggle but was unable to move.

Chu Fei approached the mermaid, looked at her carefully, and found that she was not ugly.

This is understandable, as life is always instinctively pursuing perfection in its evolution. Therefore, as long as the level of evolution is high enough, it will basically not be too ugly - it may be weird, but not ugly.

If you want to be faster, you need to have explosive power, which will lead to the beauty of power;

And if you want to reduce resistance, you have to have streamlines, which will result in a beautiful shape;

If you want to attack more concisely and powerfully, there won't be any fancy things, which will create a kind of concise beauty;

The combination of various kinds of beauty will form more beautiful creatures.

Low-level insects are ugly and creepy, but high-level creatures are beautiful. This is evolution, the elevation of the dimension of life.

In fact, if you look closely at the powerful predators in nature, you will find that none of them are ugly.

Of course, the "beauty" here refers to a broad sense and does not necessarily conform to human aesthetics.

These mermaids now have slender and muscular bodies, with strong and powerful arms; their tails have fins above them, and behind them there is a pair of wings similar to those of seahorses, but they are larger and more graceful, and have a double-wing structure.

The head is triangular - or in other words, it has the structure of a venomous snake, with a neck more than 20 centimeters long, foldable ears, two eyes, a slightly bulging forehead, and a mouthful of fangs.

The mermaid is light blue in color and covered with scales. When you knock on it, it actually makes a metallic sound.

It does not conform to human aesthetics, but the overall look is full of explosive power and has a kind of beauty of killing.

A scan of the forehead revealed an ultrasonic sensing system similar to that of dolphins.

The current air density in the environment is extremely high, and the speed of sound is also very high, almost approaching the speed of sound in sea water. The high air density also results in a short visual distance, so sound wave perception is very effective.

After observing the mermaids around him, Chu Fei had an idea in his mind. Their physical fitness was obviously better than that of humans with a physical fitness of 12.0, but their cultivation level was not good enough and they relied entirely on their perception of nature.

In order to form a powerful practice system, sufficient support from civilization and culture is needed, and more importantly, sufficient knowledge is needed to support it.

As far as Chu Fei could see, the life here had not yet completely gotten rid of barbarism, and could only be said to be in the early stages of civilization.

Take this mermaid for example, it relies on its own scales for defense, and has no armor. Although there is a lack of metal here, bone armor will do. If you don't want a full body armor, a chest mirror or something will do. But there is nothing.

Just by observing these details, Chu Fei understood a lot: in this super huge living space, all races need to face threats from all directions. Survival is already difficult, so how can they have the energy to study more.

The environment here also triggered Chu Fei's reflection: the development and growth of civilization requires a certain amount of war and external pressure, but too much pressure is not good. Everything is too much or too little.

Therefore, it was indeed a miracle that the Yanhuang civilization could emerge step by step from the wilderness and continue to grow stronger. The right time, right place and right people were all essential.

After observing for a while, Chu Fei patted Hailong's head and then slowly returned to the aircraft. Then the aircraft ignited and slowly flew away.

The domain had disappeared. The surrounding mermaids and sea dragons were stunned for a long time, and then quietly dispersed.

Chu Fei continued to dive deeper. When he dived to a depth of 3.5 kilometers, the air pressure reached 1.3 times the atmospheric pressure, the temperature exceeded degrees Celsius, and he began to detect obvious sulfur oxides in the air, such as sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide.

From here, no large life can be seen, but there are many microorganisms. Many microorganisms use sulfur oxides as energy, which also virtually blocks the spread of sulfur oxides to higher levels.

The existence of these microorganisms ensures the normal reproduction of life on this planet.

When he dived to a depth of 40,000 kilometers, the atmospheric pressure reached 20,000 standard atmospheres and the temperature exceeded 500 degrees. Chu Fei finally saw the "ground".

The temperature of the earth can reach more than two thousand degrees, and the whole earth is red and white, with lava everywhere; lava erupts from time to time, and minerals are thrown into the void.

There is no trace of life here. Near the ground, there is a thick cloud of sulfur oxides, most of which are toxic and harmful gases with high density and hardly spread to higher levels.

The aircraft slowly passed over the ground. In the dense atmosphere, even at full speed, the aircraft could only maintain a speed of 60 kilometers per hour.

The "volcanic eruption" here is also very interesting. It is a violent collision of lava flows. The lava flow speed here can reach several thousand kilometers per hour, just like another kind of storm. In addition, there are geomagnetic explosions, which are similar to the magnetic storm phenomenon of solar wind.

It is this magnetic storm phenomenon that can throw lava, volcanic ash, etc. to an altitude of tens of thousands of kilometers, bringing minerals to the high-altitude environment.

After exploring the general situation, Chu Fei had a clear understanding of the current planet.

This planet is big enough, but the civilization here is too primitive, so all life has very limited understanding of the current world.

In addition, this planet is located within a gravitational string and it is pitch black outside, so the outside world cannot be seen at all, and there is no idea that there is a world outside.

While thinking, Chu Fei had an idea - I want to be the Pangu of this world!

We bring you civilization and culture, and you just give back faith.

How can we “preach” in such a big world?

While thinking, Chu Fei looked at the ground beneath his feet.

If you want to preach in such a vast world, you must use the power of technology, and if you want to bring out the power of technology, you need resources.

There are very few resources on the spacecraft, so we can only obtain resources locally from this planet.

The most abundant resource on the planet is actually carbon, which can be used to generate carbon fiber materials and a variety of other materials. However, necessary metal elements are still indispensable.

Just wanting to do metallurgy in a molten lava environment with a pressure of more than 20,000 atmospheres and more than 2,000 degrees Celsius is extremely difficult.

After considering for a long time, Chu Fei finally made a decision - let's talk about it later.

Now, I will go back to Yunlong Star first and solve the matter of Yunlong Star. I will have plenty of time to deal with the situation here. There are no masters here, so I can leave my clone here to continue the investigation.

But the clones are not just for exploration, they also need to do "propaganda". Chu Fei left behind two 14.9 clones and two space shuttles.

The two planes easily found some large floating "plant land" and began to do something weird, oh, spreading some "miracles".

The two space fighters would occasionally fly back and forth, changing temporary bases to spread rumors, no, to preach, and leave behind myths and legends. I created my own myths.

In this world that has no name yet, Chinese characters and strange languages ​​begin to appear; these characters are difficult, but for most of the intelligent beings here who are still in the early stages of civilization, they are the words of God. And in these difficult characters, many things are recorded.

Various contents have been translated, including cultivation of truth, cultivation of Taoism, cultivation of Buddhism, cultivation of demons, evil cultivation, magic, martial arts, fighting, witchcraft, black magic, science and big data cultivation, etc. Music, art, culture, aesthetics, ideology and morality, etc. are also being spread simultaneously.

However, Chu Fei's two clones also played tricks. Their faces became slightly different, their clothes were even more different, and the color of their flying vehicles also changed. When imparting knowledge, they were divided into two directions, one tended to be orthodox, but the content was more difficult; the other tended to be unorthodox, the content was relatively simple, and the practice was easier, but there were some consequences.

Competition brings vitality. Chu Fei is very clear about this truth. Without competition, conflicts will be created, which will stimulate competition.

For native people, these suddenly appearing contents are so complex that it is impossible to read them by translation. Therefore, if you want to truly understand the true meaning, you still have to learn this kind of Chinese characters well.

While learning Chinese characters, a brand called "Yanhuang" quietly appeared in the hearts and souls of all intelligent races.

But Chu Fei has already started the spaceship and left here. (End of this chapter)