Chapter 499: Creating Souls, Establishing the Book of Life and Death!

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With Xu Zhi's breakthrough to Heavenly Emperor, his entire inner space expanded boundlessly, now comparable to the Immortal Realm possessed by Dao Changsheng. This small world, once quickly explored to its limits by players from the Wizard community, has become vast and fraught with danger. "Struggling to survive" perfectly describes the current difficulty of life within it.

Lush flowers, plants, and trees flourished all around, a vibrant expanse of youthful green. Tall mountains, vast lands, sweeping ranges, and flowing rivers created a scene of breathtaking beauty. Whether flowers, grass, insects, or fish, every creature in this world shared one characteristic: deliciousness.

By now, after four PvP fighting tournaments in the Wizard community, four successive waves of players had entered, continuously enriching the evolution of gourmet species. The Food Realm could be said to be the world with the most abundant initial foundation. Many gourmet species even reached the third and fourth tiers, gaining sentience and beginning to transform into spiritual beings.

In the fourth generation PvP fighting tournament, the top three winners could enter the Food Realm—representing three servers and a total of three thousand players. Xu Zhi's gaze swept over the scene, confirming the unknown and the numbers: only just over three hundred people remained; the rest had exited the game, leaving only the gourmet species he had evolved to reproduce and survive.

The Food Realm was vast, and current players had adopted a habit of "lying low." A key characteristic of "lying low" was forming groups, huddling in corners. Xu Zhi paid them no mind.

It was time to reshape the world, establish new world rules, and introduce new protagonists for this era... Xu Zhi walked slowly among the mountains, rivers, and vegetation, a faint smile playing on his lips. He could now try to create a living soul...

Having journeyed through various worlds, Xu Zhi had, in fact, been steadily progressing. Previously, it had been simple gene fusion to create life. By the time he reached the Lava World, he began experimenting with human brain modification, integrating human brains into system chips to create semi-flesh, semi-silicon-based life forms. This was already life transformation technology for the brain.

So, what was the most fundamental aspect of the brain? What was the most mysterious origin of life? The soul! How could a purely flesh-based brain, or even a silicon-based computer chip, generate a soul? The soul was the most fundamental taboo of life. Perhaps it was a forbidden domain that only true creators could comprehend, a concept Xu Zhi still couldn't grasp. But that wouldn't stop him from trying to create entirely new souls and infuse them into bodies!

A true creator creates both souls and bodies, deciphering all codes... The required knowledge was terrifyingly vast, something he clearly couldn't achieve yet. But he wasn't directly creating souls... The thoughts of all beings, however, seemed to give him a new idea.

Xu Zhi looked at the massive ring, composed of nearly six hundred thousand mechanical cubes. The convergence of their thoughts could generate a specific creature, which would then gain sentience and transform into a spirit, thus forming a brand-new soul...

In fact, this wasn't the only method for creating souls. The first method: reaching the fourth tier naturally awakened sentience. Becoming a spirit was similar. Simply placing animals with primal instincts or plants without conscious thought into a rich inner space, allowing them to absorb the essence and spiritual energy of the sun and moon, could enable them to gain sentience and become spirits, acquiring intelligence even before reaching the fourth tier!

However, creating souls this way was almost impossible to achieve on a large scale; it required an immense amount of energy! But the thoughts of all beings had no such limitation... It only required a massive foundational quantity of living creatures. After much thought, the mechanical cube armor perfectly fit this requirement. Although there were only six hundred thousand, and most possessed only animalistic, instinctive thoughts—first-tier cubes lacked intelligence—even animals could emit incense and thoughts... This was definitely enough!

He quietly gazed at this mysterious black-and-white interwoven ring of light. Among the six hundred thousand, twenty thousand were fourth-tier cubes... These twenty thousand must be the cream of the crop!

"Accelerate!"

Xu Zhi took a deep breath, formally beginning the soul creation test for life! Similar to those evil gods, it wouldn't just involve the birth of intelligence, but also powerful characteristic properties derived from fixations like suffering, dreams, and unwillingness! "Why not let you experience a life for once!"

Xu Zhi closed his eyes, sitting quietly and observing this massive ring composed of over six hundred thousand components.

"Who am I?"

In a state of utter confusion, a consciousness gazed blankly at the surrounding darkness. It seemed to vaguely recall previous memories—it had apparently been practicing mechanically, then reached the fourth tier... and then inexplicably turned into a tree?

"Wait, what is the fourth tier?" It didn't know why this term had suddenly appeared in its mind.

Rustle!

Lush green surrounded it; it was in a dense forest. At that moment, it was a tree, standing quietly, growing. Countless birds and beasts came and went around it; some nibbled at its leaves, while adorable birds built nests above its crown, becoming its neighbors. One was a cute little bird that had hatched a brood of adorable chicks, becoming its neighbor. They seemed to possess great abilities, continuously evolving until gradually, they could even speak, communicating with each other and occasionally confiding in the tree. The tree could only listen.

For the first time, a yearning arose within it, "How it wished it could also speak! To communicate with its neighbors above! How lonely it was to be a silent, mute tree!"

One day, that bird engaged in a battle with a powerful beast, spewing fire and light. The bird repelled its opponent but was heavily wounded itself. Before dying, the bird returned to its nest in the tree, looked at its chicks, and said, "I'm going to die. My children will also die without care. You must be very lonely, won't you..."

"Death, what is death...?""Don't die! Don't live alone either!"

It could only watch helplessly as the bird died. Some time later, the little birds in the nest were snatched and eaten by a passing ordinary beast, and it could only watch it all, witnessing the bloody scene unfold. It couldn't protect its neighbors. It could do nothing. It... could do nothing at all. Its second yearning began to emerge: how it wished that one day, it could move and protect the friends it wanted to protect!

Days passed, and an unknown amount of time went by. It withered itself, too weary, and finally met its death. It was cut down by a group of strange creatures carrying axes and thrown into a fire to burn. The burning log smelled quite good, actually. Before it died, it heard one last sound.

"Fire, what a terrifying thing."

Whoosh!

When it opened its eyes again, it reappeared in a dark space. It was an exquisitely dark temple, with elaborate black totemic pillars on either side. A mysterious humanoid figure sat high above, shrouded in a vast mist, its true form indiscernible. In the distance, a colossal, enigmatic circular wheel slowly revolved, magnificent and awe-inspiring, shadowing the sky and exuding a terrifying aura, as if it were the origin of the entire world, containing the endless rules of heaven and earth. Even stranger, that circular wheel was composed of countless tiny, densely packed squares, each exquisitely crafted and bearing a unique serial number.

"Who stands below?"

The mysterious entity above, constantly flipping through a book it held, said, "Let me see the Book of Life and Death. Number 19476, first life as a blade of grass, second life as a tree... Oh? It has already developed its own characteristic property?"

"Let me see your true name in transmigration." The mysterious entity slowly extended its hand, turning the grand circular wheel until it stopped on a square marked 19476. A special imprint seemed to have already appeared on it. It vaguely felt that the sleeping little square among the countless others was its true self, and each of its lives was merely a grand dream experienced by this sleeping self...

"I, what am I!? What exactly am I!? My first life? My second life? Was I... a blade of grass before?" it couldn't help but ask aloud. It instinctively felt that this was the greatest mysterious entity in the world, one that controlled the gears of fate for all beings, the origin and cessation of life.

Sitting on its chair, the mysterious entity let out a soft "Oh?" "It has actually developed the intelligence to ponder its own existence. Indeed, with each reincarnation, the fixation grows stronger... Hmm, let me think. It should have the right to know as well. Perhaps I'll set up a Stone of Three Lives in the distance someday, where it can see its past lives—three lives and three ages."

"A characteristic property has already been born, but what kind of property is it? Never mind, it will naturally become clear as time passes." The voice, lazy, continued to murmur to itself, dismissing the thought. It then offered a bowl of soup. "Drink this, and you can forget all the worries, all the loves and hates of this life, clear all memories, and begin a new existence...."

"Since it has begun to develop a sense of self, then for its third life, let it be reborn as an animal."

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