The air in the world is filled with energy, which in the eyes of mages is magic elements, and in the eyes of those cultivating fighting spirit, it is fighting energy. Fang Yuan already knows this. It seems that the cultivation system is not the same, but energy is energy.
Niya seems to have a physical body, but her body is not a physical one; it is a manifestation of her spiritual form.
It's not hard to tell this, maybe because she lost her physical body and the isolation effect, Niya radiates a powerful spiritual fluctuation. Anyone who gets close will feel the mental impact.
Ordinary people would likely be obliterated mentally if they get too close.
"This is basically the version of the King of Spirits! Just being near her could cause hallucinations, even madness!" Fang Yuan muttered, intrigued.
Seeing Niya aimlessly wandering across the vast desert, Fang Yuan thought it would be a good idea to enrich the new divine realm.
With a wave of his hand, he summoned numerous seeds from the mortal realm, replicating them using his essence, and scattered them all around.
These mortal seeds, once entering the divine realm, were quickly corrupted by the divine energy. Most of them couldn't handle the strong divine energy and died immediately. A few, however, grew rapidly.
Only a very small portion of the seeds mutated, slowly sprouting roots and growing strong, taking on the unique aura of the divine realm.
"It seems mortal plants are hard to adapt to the divine realm, after all, their level is too low."
Seeing this, Fang Yuan replicated a massive amount of mortal seeds again, covering the divine realm with them.
Most of these seeds died, but a few sprouted, and under the watering of divine energy, they grew rapidly, as if time were accelerated. Within a few days, they began to bloom and bear fruit.
Those that grew a bit slower seemed to be of a higher level.
Fang Yuan patiently observed Niya while studying the plants. He began exchanging pollen from those blooming plants.
This caused some of the plants to mutate again, and under Fang Yuan's careful guidance, the mutated seeds bore fruit, landed, took root, and started gradually adapting to the divine realm's environment.
Over time, the divine realm began to be covered in plants.
Although most of them were still basic divine realm plants, they were now fully adapted to the environment and began evolving into higher levels.
During this process, Fang Yuan noticed something he hadn't paid attention to before—those flowers, grass, and fruit trees, having ripened and not being picked, began to deteriorate. They were corroded by divine energy and decayed into bacteria.
The bacteria absorbed the decaying material quickly and grew into small bugs.
These bugs soon grew wings and turned into bothersome mosquitoes.
A sudden realization struck Fang Yuan, and he forgot about Niya and everything else, immersing himself completely in the process of life birth.
These mosquitoes, in their battle for food, lost their wings. Most of them died, but a small portion evolved into crawling insects by absorbing divine energy.
Some of the insects grew fur to resist the weather, others evolved pincers to dig, and some developed shells for self-protection.
Life evolved from a single-celled organism into multi-celled life, and then into more complex forms, adapting to the changing environment.
Fang Yuan watched for thirty days without blinking.
Finally, on this day, all the insights converged and gave birth to a brand new law.
Boom!
Suddenly, the entire Steel Pearl world trembled. Both the divine and mortal realms' skies were filled with seven-colored clouds, and the world seemed to burst with vitality.
At the same time, Fang Yuan felt that his physical evolution speed had accelerated drastically. The Steel Pearl world seemed to come alive, becoming more stable, and its power now carried life, no longer as dead as before.
At this moment, the evolution speed of all living things in both the divine and mortal realms increased, with some plants growing lush in a short period.
Thanks to the world's energy now being infused with life, all living beings in the world suddenly entered a state of meditation, gaining new insights and clearer paths for future cultivation.
"This is... the Law of Life?"
Fang Yuan snapped back to his senses from his insights. It felt as if he had transcended the world, and everything around him seemed trivial.
Looking at the now vibrant divine realm, Fang Yuan waved his hand, and the world's power gathered, materializing into a tiger.
The tiger materialized completely, and although its eyes were dull, the rest of its form was vividly lifelike.
"Life, grant!"
With a soft shout, the tiger's eyes suddenly gained focus. The entire tiger began to emanate life energy and moved on its own, instinctively hunting.
However, although the tiger was now considered a living being, its intelligence was still dormant, and it could only be considered a primitive beast with only animal instincts.
Even so, it was a remarkable feat, as this was a true creation of life from nothing.
"This is the Law of Life? It seems that the Steel Pearl world originally had no such law, but now that I, the creator, have comprehended it, the Steel Pearl world can now benefit from this law. Those previous laws I had access to weren't a loss."
Fang Yuan was both surprised and delighted, realizing that this law was far more powerful than any destructive law.
With his current abilities, though he still couldn't create intelligent life, this was already a huge accomplishment.
Creating intelligent life wouldn't be too difficult; he could first create primitive life and then use rare treasures to awaken its spirit. With his world's divine power, awakening the spirit wouldn't be hard.
However, he didn't have the time or energy to awaken each one individually. So, creating an intelligent race would still require some effort, but at least he wouldn't have to slowly nurture it like before.
Fang Yuan scanned his mind and found that the divine realm already had hundreds of living beings, including about fifty humans, gods, and elves.
More surprisingly, many of them were beasts that had ascended from the mortal realm.
Yes, when magical beasts break through to the divine realm and reach the realm of gods, they are summoned by the world's will and ascend.
At present, the divine realm didn't have many resources, but those early-born pests were still a significant threat to the newly ascended gods, since they were also living beings in the divine realm with similar starting points.
Fang Yuan once again glanced around at the thirty days of development.
Twenty days ago, the angels guarding the World Tree met those new gods and had some friction.
Many gods immediately recognized the World Tree as a treasure and wanted to cut it down, but the angels, under Fang Yuan's orders, refused to allow it. A conflict began.
However, the angels, equipped with angelic armor and divine swords, easily suppressed the gods. After seven or eight gods died, the rest finally calmed down.
Moreover, Niya had some conflicts with the newly ascended gods as well. The main issue was that Niya's form was so strange, as she seemed to be entirely made of spiritual energy. If she were consumed, there was a high chance her spiritual energy would explode.