As a Trial Civilization, if you want to preserve a spark of life, seeking out indigenous civilizations is useless.
Unless you join other Trial Civilizations, otherwise, the remaining survivors will join the "Resurrection Match" and become opponents for some Trial Civilizations.
Doesn't that sound somewhat decent?
But even after success, you will still be a Trial Civilization and start all over again!
The likelihood of ultimately surviving is far too low.
Therefore, the best method to preserve the spark of civilization is to disperse.
Try everything.
At this moment, the Evil Spirit Civilization is doing just that.
They are spreading out, with part of them trying by all means to survive until the end of the Civilization Trial, while others are doing everything possible to go out and join other Trial Civilizations.
The Evil Spirit Civilization has already been destroyed, all of its struggles are merely to ensure the spark of civilization survives.