Ding Huan had pushed his Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 to its maximum speed, but the bright spot on the screen was still getting larger; it was the warship chasing him.
A sense of desperation welled up inside Ding Huan; he caressed the dashboard of Starry Sky Battleship No. 5, even smelling the scorched odor from some of the components due to the excessive speed.
Wandering in the universe for nearly two hundred years, only sitting in the cockpit of Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 could calm his heart.
Normally, even a scratch on Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 would cause him distress for days.
Now, however, he had to ruthlessly push Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 to its limits, even though he still couldn't escape the people pursuing him.
He was well aware that Starry Sky Battleship No. 5, which had been with him for nearly a hundred years, was about to perish alongside him.
He picked up a leather scroll that was lying on the console again, the scroll filled with dense characters—it was Cang Yuwen.
He had had this leather scroll for several years, and during this time, he had memorized every character on it, but unfortunately, he had never understood what it meant.
To understand this leather scroll, he even went out of his way to learn the universal cosmic script Cang Yuwen; he could recognize the characters, but looking at them was still completely baffling.
It was like learning English in his childhood, he could recognize every letter, but most of the time had no idea what they meant together.
Ding Huan always felt this leather scroll was extraordinary, yet despite years of study, he came up empty.
Feeling the Starry Sky Battleship approaching from behind, Ding Huan's anger reached its peak.
For years, he had dedicated himself to the exclusive interest; he had almost lost his life for their cause, but they probably didn't care that he had once risked his life for them.
They were chasing him, a nameless man who had once served their interest, all for this small leather scroll.
Ding Huan knew well that even if he turned over the leather scroll to them, they would never understand what it was. Knowing that the scroll would be useless to them, Ding Huan still refused to hand it over to the ruthless and inhumane people pursuing him.
Regrettably, he was about to fall, otherwise he would have done everything possible to sever a huge chunk from their resources.
"Alas…" Ding Huan sighed deeply, a sigh of frustration, but it was useless; without power, even his anger seemed ridiculous.
The light in Ding Huan's eyes gradually faded—was he born just to be bullied and to suffer?
Back on Earth he had been bullied, his father had disappeared, his inheritance had been taken away, his legs broken, his eyes gouged out...
Leaving Earth for another Life Planet, he still faced bullying...
Was he the only Earth Person who had left Earth and was still alive?
Was it important? The outcome hadn't changed at all.
The alarm of Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 startled Ding Huan, and on the monitor screen of Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 appeared a yellow-brown planet.
It was Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 alerting him that Star Land was ahead and that he needed to stop to check the spaceship.
Ding Huan's eyes landed on the slightly defined bright spot of pursuit and he muttered,
"Let this be our resting place, after all these years, we are both tired..."
He felt fortunate to have encountered this yellow-brown planet just before his end; since he was forced to leave Earth, he had always yearned to return one day.
Nearly two hundred years had passed and he hadn't made it back to Earth; in his final moments, heaven had finally graced him, allowing him a peaceful resting place rather than perishing in the vast Void.
Coming from a traditional family on Earth, even in death, he didn't want his spirit to drift in the Void without peace.
Crumpling the leather scroll into a ball, he stuffed it into his mouth and calmly activated the self-destruct program of Starry Sky Battleship No. 5, placing his palm on the palm print disc.
A man dies once, he had lived nearly two hundred years since leaving Earth, what hadn't he seen?
Now, he and his Starry Sky Battleship No. 5 would perish here together; there was nothing to fear.
Almost the moment Ding Huan calmly faced his death, the leather scroll in his mouth seemed to incinerate like a blazing flame, then a surge of heat rushed into his brain.
Ding Huan stiffened as if struck by electricity, an endless stream of information flooding his mind.
It was like constantly stuffing items into a room, as someone ceaselessly crammed all sorts of information deep into his brain.
It turns out this leather scroll wasn't meant to be read...
"Our planet's humans are about to be destroyed; the vast civilization and immortal legacy we built over countless years will completely vanish.
But I know this is only one of numerous cycles our planet undergoes until one day our planet also vanishes in the vast universe...
Many years from now, life will emerge again on our planet, and then slowly humans will appear, and they will slowly develop a new civilization.
However, they will never be able to break the human shackles to become Immortal Gods.
Without me, the immortal civilization will disappear forever from this planet.
Because after the first Nirvana, there will be no Spirit Roots on this planet, so the idea of Cultivation won't exist here.
When this planet develops humans again, in their progress of civilization, they could only evolve to modify genes at most.
Yes, genes, I have already deduced this term's importance in advancing future civilization.
They may take much longer, maybe tens of thousands of years, to reach our current phase of civilization, which doesn't include the civilization of immortality.
I don't believe there will be another genius like me who can understand the relationship between genes and the Great Dao.
At most, they will only allow human bodies to integrate some genes, making humans change from insignificant to weak.
Regardless, they will not alter the inherent weakness of humans."
Because they only superficially believed that gene fusion could enhance physical constitution, enhance abilities, and even enhance lifespan.
They couldn't have known that Genetic Foundation Establishment was the first step for humanity to venture beyond this planet.
As for the essence of Genetic Foundation Establishment, no one but I could understand it.
Before this planet underwent its cycle of reincarnation, I took these five leather scrolls away from the planet, hoping that one day someone would bring them back.
After all, this was the place of my birth, and I did not wish to see it destroyed one day.
I also hoped that the person who obtained the scrolls would meet me one day, as I wanted to know whether Genetic Foundation Establishment or other types of Foundation Establishment could go further.
…
After humans completely lost their Spirit Roots, the only way to advance further was through Genetic Cultivation. I believe that the essence of Genetic Cultivation is Genetic Foundation Establishment.
A gene cultivator who does not do Genetic Foundation Establishment is like water without a source or a tree without roots.
Just as a cultivator needs a Spirit Root to establish a foundation, I believe one must have a gene spiritual root to attempt Genetic Foundation Establishment.
The first step in Genetic Cultivation is to find one's own gene spiritual root; only with a gene spiritual root can one truly tread the path of the Genetic Dao...
The vast universe has deprived us of our Spirit Roots, but it has not severed our path to strength; everything can still depend on oneself..."
Spirit Root Gene?
Genetic Foundation Establishment?
Ding Huan's hands were trembling. He had heard of Genetic Foundation Establishment, and there were top powerhouses on the Changyi Continent who had achieved it through this method.
He also finally understood why so few on the Changyi Continent were able to accomplish Genetic Foundation Establishment.
On the Changyi Continent, everyone knew that to take a step further in the process of gene evolution, one must engage in Genetic Foundation Establishment.
Known as it was, those who could actually establish a genetic foundation were exceedingly rare. It turned out one must have the Spirit Root Gene to do so.
Compared to the Changyi Continent, Earth didn't even know about Genetic Foundation Establishment. As environmental conditions on Earth worsened and humans entered the genetic era, no one had ever accomplished Genetic Foundation Establishment.
Everyone only knew to continuously fuse various genes; the more genes fused, the stronger one got.
Those on Earth most knowledgeable about gene evolution knew that after gene fusion, the higher the gene purity, the greater the potential, whether it was for cultivating Martial Arts or genes, it was merely easier to advance.
People on the Changyi Continent could establish a genetic foundation because, besides fusing gene spiritual roots, there were few individuals who either possessed a gene spiritual root or had a true cultivation Spirit Root.
On Earth, as long as one did not generate one's own gene spiritual root through external gene fusion, no one could have a gene spiritual root.
"The gene from the Wood Element Gene Spiritual Root needs to be extracted and fused from Bright Bamboo, dove tree, Yuan Song, Ba You, and Fukei.
However, these aren't the most crucial elements; they are even replaceable.
The truly crucial element is the Reincarnation Blood. I think it's this factor that will sever everyone's hope of obtaining a gene spiritual root..."
It seems he had only heard of the dove tree before, but the characteristics of the other species were so vivid in his mind...
Aren't these the Alsophila, dove tree, Five-needle Pine, banana, and pine green fruit?
Reincarnation Blood? He had absolutely no idea what that was.
Ding Huan was completely immersed in the information he had obtained until a loud explosion interrupted his thoughts, followed by a flash of white light before his eyes.
It was Star Number Five colliding with this ochre-colored planet, and simultaneously, Star Number Five's self-destruction program detonated the star.
He had just figured out the secrets of Genetic Cultivation or rather just understood the secrets of gene evolution, and now he found himself perishing on a strange planet in the universe.
Ding Huan closed his eyes, his heart neither sad nor joyful. On this broken planet, he would forever slumber with his Star Number Five.
In the moment his consciousness sank into eternal darkness, a slightly hoarse voice echoed in his mind,
"After I die, please give my eyes to him; he is still so young. Let him see the beauty of the world with my eyes..."
…
The enormous explosion and towering flames caused a fiery red spaceship to halt and hover outside the exploding ochre-colored planet.
A seductive woman stood at the bow of the spaceship, looking at the rising white light from the explosion on the planet below through a transparent shield, her eyes filled with a menacing intent.
"This creature chose to detonate his spacecraft rather than surrender the items exclusively to us. How did our organization end up nurturing such an ungrateful beast?"
A young man walked up behind the woman and spoke resentfully.
The seductive woman, however, slightly furrowed her brows, pausing before saying,
"Something's not quite right. I've seen Ding Huan's spacecraft as well. Even if he activated the self-destruct, it shouldn't have produced such loud noise or white flames."
The young man said,
"In the universe, many abandoned planets still contain combustible materials and various unstable elements. The self-destruction of Ding's spacecraft could merely have been a trigger.
Qi Ruo, let's head back. In such an intense explosion and fire, nothing will be left, not even dust."
Qi Ruo still stared at the white light of the fiery explosion on the ochre-colored planet for several minutes before she sighed,
"He got off lightly. Let's go back and report to my father."
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