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Chapter 1866 Humanity Through the Ages on This Planet (1/2)
When Zhang Yi heard the word "angel," her heart stirred.
He remembered hearing this term from other underground civilizations, but he didn't know what it meant.
Many people misunderstand terms like "God" and "angel," thinking they are foreign imports, but they are actually traditional Chinese terms.
"God" is mostly used to describe the five gods, while angels are the messengers of emperors.
In Journey to the West, Taibai Xingjun is referred to as the Old Angel by Sun Wukong.
In the novel *Water Margin*, "angel" refers to an official dispatched by the emperor.
However, Zhang Yi felt that the angel Ling described was not quite the same as the one he understood.
Are angels a second generation?
Zhang Yi asked.
Ling shook her head.
"No, angels are a special group. They have no gender, cannot reproduce, and are born only to teach [Asu] how to survive on this planet."
"The only difference between them and Asu is that they possess extremely high spirituality."
"And spirituality is the power of survival, and it also represents wisdom."
"However, the Asu group eventually disappeared. This was because the Creator discovered that this species was a complete failure. They lived, hunted, and reproduced like wild beasts, and were simply unable to observe and understand the world as the Creator had envisioned."
"So the Creator sent a great flood to destroy them."
Zhang Yi sighed, "The Creator clearly has no understanding of the material world, otherwise why would He have created a group of wild beasts?"
Ling nodded.
"The Creator dares not create an overly powerful race. As mentioned before, the Creator is the will born from the aggregation of spirits. And in order to understand this world, He must separate His own spirituality, and when these spiritual substances enter the bodies of intelligent beings, they will sever their connection with Him and become beyond His control."
"If this race becomes too powerful and controls too much spirituality, it may even turn the tables and lose the control of the Creator."
Zhang Yi shrugged: "The network between the main system and the subsystem is disconnected. You're worried that the subsystem upgrade speed will be too fast, right?"
"That's roughly the idea!"
Ling said, "However, after the first failure, the Creator learned from the previous lesson. He believed that lower organisms could not complete the observation task, so when creating the second generation of life, he endowed them with extremely high spirituality."
"This generation of beings is the most favored by the Creator because they are highly spiritual and possess great wisdom. Therefore, they quickly created an extremely advanced civilization and their observation of the world became increasingly broad."
"After creating the second generation, the Creator originally thought that the universe had entered a state of balance and perfection."
"But then, an accident still happened."
Zhang Yi asked curiously, "The Creator's favorites, unless the Creator himself takes action, who can destroy them?"
Ling stared at Zhang Yi, and for some reason, Zhang Yi felt that her gaze was a little strange.
"Themselves."
Ling said this.
"The second generation has an excessively high level of spirituality and wisdom. This leads them to gradually realize that their existence is merely as tools to observe the world."
"Moreover, with the progress of civilization, they began to gradually lose their fertility and began to isolate themselves."
"The young second-generation members of the tribe are addicted to a virtual world and unwilling to accept the fact that they are merely tools. The development of civilization has stagnated, and the tribe has even begun to show signs of shrinking."
"In this way, the world came to a standstill."
Ling paused for a moment, then slowly said, "The second generation is called the Yihen Clan. That is, us."
Zhang Yi had long suspected that a god-level civilization must have come from ancient times and possessed extremely powerful strength, possibly existing for an incredibly long time.
Because the longer a civilization exists, the greater its potential for development.
Zhang Yi looked at Ling and asked, "If you stopped reproducing, why didn't you perish?"
Ling said, "It's very simple, because we have mastered the technique of immortality."
"This is a forbidden ability that touches upon the realm of God!"
Zhang Yi's heart began to race with excitement; for carbon-based life forms, the pursuit of immortality was practically instinctive.
Humans have always feared death and have longed for immortality since ancient times.
Unexpectedly, I actually saw an immortal being!
This means that the so-called five mass extinctions that occurred on this planet did not actually destroy everything!
Even the Ihen race was able to retain their powerful civilization!
"As I said, the Creator dispersed the ether into countless fragments, allowing them to enter the bodies of created beings and enable them to sense the world."
"However, even if the spiritual energy of the etheric realm is enormous, if people do not die, then the power of the creator will continue to weaken."
"Therefore, the self-destruct program of life is set by the Creator."
"After a person dies, the so-called soul, or spirit, will return to the ether with all its sensations in the material world."
"That is what you call heaven or hell. Because a small number of spirits may briefly return to the ether when their bodies die or are on the verge of death, and then return to the material world."
"They experienced the lives of other spirits, and felt the happiness and suffering of others."
"Spirits have a similarity; after returning, they will be close to the spirits that had a strong relationship with them during their time in the material world."
"Those who do evil will feel the pain of dying for their sins; those who do good will receive the feedback that comes from giving kindness to others."
"Others are heaven, other people are hell."
"This is the origin of heaven and hell."
"But ultimately, after returning, they will all become one, and the spirit will return to the ether."
Zhang Yi asked curiously, "So your actions have been punished by the Creator, and he wants to destroy you?"
"No, the Creator did not do that."
Ling shook her head.
"The Ihen race are the gods' favorites, his most satisfying masterpiece. Even though we have glimpsed the secret of immortality, he still holds hope for us."
"Furthermore, having ceased reproduction, we will not obtain any more spiritual entities from the Ethereal Realm. The existing spiritual energy is negligible to the entire Ethereal Realm."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yi uttered this sentiment.
"In this way, your race can endure! There's no need for reproduction, and the number of individuals won't decrease. Isn't that a wonderful thing?"
Ling countered, "Is immortality truly a joyful thing?"
"In a hopeless future, when you realize that your existence is merely a program set by other beings, you will gradually lose the desire to exist."
The world before Zhang Yi's eyes had changed, from the birth of the planet to the rise of intelligent life, and then millions of high-rise buildings rose on the earth, with technology developing rapidly.
A creature that looks remarkably like a human began to dominate all things.
Zhang Yi felt that all of this looked familiar. He suddenly remembered that the huge stone statue in the black room he found underground looked just like this.
Looking back now, those were things left behind by the Ihen people.
"The Creator loved the Ishtar, but gradually became disappointed in them. He couldn't bear to destroy his most beloved creation with his own hands, but he also needed someone to continue observing the material world for him."
"So at this point, he combined his two previous failures to create a third intelligent life form. This is the third generation of this world—Drucker."
"While the Ihen race is nearly perfect, we possess such high intelligence that we have learned to think for ourselves, thus transcending the Creator's original design. We do not reproduce and thrive according to the Creator's will, but exist as an observer race."
"Therefore, when the Creator created Druckers, He weakened their wisdom and strengthened their physical bodies in the material world."
"They possess incredibly difficult-to-kill bodies, yet they are of low intelligence and extremely brutal. Therefore, after their birth, they quickly became the most powerful beings on this planet. Even the Ihen race, with its advanced civilization, could only struggle to contend with them."
Zhang Yi asked in bewilderment, "The Immortal Ihen Clan, with their extraordinary civilization, couldn't defeat Drucker? According to you, they should just be a group of primitive people."
Ling looked at him and explained, "As I said, after realizing the true nature of this world, the Ihen Clan has begun to become indifferent to existence itself. They have no intention of competing with Drucker for anything, but have been busy searching for the meaning of their own existence."
"Once Drucker has fully matured, their savage growth style will be beyond the control of the Ihen Clan."
Zhang Yi rested his chin on his hand, lamenting the unreliability of the Creator.
Despite being an omniscient and omnipotent god, the three generations of humans he created were all flawed.
"If Drucker really is as you say, unable to even defeat the Ihen race, then you should be the ones who were wiped out in the end, and there would be no humans after you."
Ling nodded.
You've hit the nail on the head!
In the images before my eyes, on the plains of the planet, appeared one enormous, terrifying colossus after another.
They are fierce and brutal, viewing everything as food.
Animals, plants, and even soil will be swallowed by them.
The Creator endowed them with powerful vitality, making them almost impossible to kill.
Meanwhile, the fully armed Ihen warriors, wielding laser weapons, were forced to retreat in their charge.
"In the end, it was the Creator who dealt with the Druckers."
Ling said.
"The talents bestowed upon this race are too powerful, even exceeding the control of the Creator. The Creator only allowed them to observe the material world, not to destroy it."
"Where they go, all living things are destroyed. Even the Ihen race, the Creator's most beloved, will be their food."
"The Creator despises these beasts, so He decided to destroy them completely."
Zhang Yi blinked and asked, "Is it still a great flood?"
Ling looked at Zhang Yi, "There is indeed such a record. The Creator gave the Yihen tribe an oracle, telling them to stockpile enough food in advance and hide underground or on high mountains. Then he unleashed a great flood, completely submerging Druk."
"However, not all Drucker perished; some survived. There was no way around it; the Creator endowed them with such immense vitality when He created them!"
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