After the formation of five continents and four seas, Changshen World finally possessed the minimum conditions required for life.
Mountains had stabilized. Rivers now flowed naturally from elevated regions into the surrounding seas. Dense clouds moved under atmospheric circulation, and the equal revolutions of the great sun and moon around Changshen World maintained a balanced cycle of heat, cold, tides, and moisture. From the perspective of world evolution, this was no longer merely a dead planetary shell—it had entered the earliest stage of ecological preparation.
Yet Li Changshen did not immediately create higher life.
He understood that forcing advanced beings into an immature world would only damage long-term development.
A true world never began with complete creatures.
It began from the smallest possible origin.
Because only life that evolved naturally through countless transformations could produce the widest diversity of wisdom, and diversity was exactly what Changshen World needed most.
At the center of the fifth continent, beside a shallow inland sea where minerals had gathered through thousands of years of rainfall and erosion, Li Changshen focused a minute thread of World Origin.
This time he controlled the power with extreme precision.
No mountains rose.
No rivers shifted.
No large law tremor appeared.
A tiny droplet of origin entered a warm body of shallow water.
Then he began constructing the simplest possible living structure.
He did not directly create a complete organism. Instead, he built only the most primitive cellular shell: a membrane, internal fluid balance, and a basic reproductive core capable of self-division.
Its structure was fragile, almost absurdly simple compared with any later living creature.
Yet the moment it formed, the entire world responded.
Because this was the first true life in Changshen World.
A single primitive cell floated quietly within warm mineral water.
Tiny.
Invisible to ordinary sight.
Yet its meaning surpassed all mountains and seas created before it.
Li Changshen remained completely focused.
He watched carefully.
The cell remained stable.
Then after a short interval, under the influence of surrounding world laws, it divided.
One became two.
Two became four.
Four became eight.
A faint vibration spread through the world core itself.
The origin sea responded gently.
And at that moment Li Changshen discovered something extremely important:
the moment life began reproducing independently, Changshen World's absorption of Chaos energy increased again.
Though only slightly, the change was undeniable.
Life itself strengthened world circulation.
The Eternal Dao Book floating above the origin sea gave a faint pulse, and one new understanding naturally surfaced:
Living beings did not merely consume world resources.
They continuously generated new world possibilities.
Every mutation, every adaptation, every survival choice, every future thought and every eventual comprehension would become part of world evolution.
This was why living worlds always possessed greater future than dead worlds.
Li Changshen quietly observed the primitive water for a long time.
The first cells multiplied slowly.
Hours became days.
Days became months.
Months became years.
Because he was World Consciousness, he could directly accelerate local temporal flow without damaging global law balance, provided the acceleration remained within safe limits.
Thus he adjusted time near the first sea region.
One year outside became ten years within.
He did not dare accelerate too aggressively yet, because too much temporal difference would distort immature life structures.
Ten years later, primitive colonies of single-celled organisms already covered vast portions of shallow water.
Different mineral zones produced slight variation.
Some adapted to heat better.
Some adapted to cold.
Some absorbed sunlight more efficiently.
Others survived better in deep mineral-rich mud.
This pleased Li Changshen greatly.
Because diversity had already begun naturally.
And diversity meant future race potential.
But at that same moment, he also began considering a far deeper issue:
wisdom.
If higher life evolved too early under current world conditions, human-form intelligence would almost certainly dominate first.
That was not because humans were strongest initially.
It was because human form possessed extraordinary compatibility with Dao.
Among countless future forms of life, human shape naturally approached origin simplicity.
Two arms.
Two legs.
One central axis.
Balanced yin and yang circulation.
This form aligned exceptionally well with future law comprehension.
Even in many higher worlds, countless beings eventually transformed into human form because this shape allowed closer resonance with Dao itself.
Human form was not merely biological convenience.
It represented one of the most stable external expressions of returning toward original simplicity.
That was why in countless supreme worlds, even mighty races ultimately valued human transformation.
Even beings born as dragons, phoenixes, qilin, demons, or other extraordinary existences often took human form when pursuing higher realms.
Because in human form, Dao became easier to sense.
Realm advancement accelerated.
Comprehension deepened.
Even ancient supreme existences such as world founders often appeared in giant human-like forms for the same reason.
Humanity possessed weakness, but also terrifying universal compatibility.
And because of that, if wisdom emerged too early now, Changshen World might naturally allow human race to dominate too soon, suppressing other evolutionary possibilities before they had time to mature.
That would damage long-term diversity.
Li Changshen did not want that.
His path was not to favor one race.
His goal was world-wide prosperity through countless living paths.
A single dominant race too early would narrow future wisdom channels.
Therefore he made a crucial decision.
He directly used World Origin to place a fundamental restriction upon all life currently evolving in Changshen World:
all living beings below future Small World level would remain sealed within instinctive development.
Not true stupidity.
Not lifeless existence.
But wisdom would remain incomplete.
Sentience would not fully awaken.
No race would develop advanced spiritual intelligence prematurely.
No species would enter true civilization.
They would evolve bodies, adapt, struggle, multiply, and diversify—but full spiritual wisdom would remain blocked.
This law was embedded deeply into world foundation itself.
Only when Changshen World advanced from Micro World into Small World rank would the restriction naturally loosen.
At that time, the birth of Spiritual Qi would accompany world promotion.
Under Qi baptism, all races—regardless of original form—would gain equal opportunity to awaken true spiritual wisdom.
That moment would become the true beginning of extraordinary civilization.
Until then, evolution would belong to instinct alone.
This ensured fairness.
Because when spiritual wisdom awakened later, no single race would monopolize the starting line.
Every lineage that survived natural evolution would possess equal right to compete.
Whether beast, scaled creature, feathered life, oceanic form, crawling species, or future humanoid branch—all would stand together before the first age of cultivation.
Li Changshen silently approved this arrangement.
This was the fairest path.
Because although human form indeed carried supreme Dao affinity, other races possessed their own strengths:
dragons carried bloodline depth,
phoenixes possessed rebirth potential,
qilin embodied harmony,
black turtles favored endurance,
winged races excelled in natural law perception,
many beast forms carried extraordinary body inheritance.
Each path represented different future wisdom.
Only coexistence could maximize world evolution.
And only coexistence could fully unleash the Eternal Dao Book one day.
He then expanded time acceleration further across the first oceanic zones.
One external year.
One hundred internal years.
The world changed rapidly.
After one thousand internal years, multicellular life appeared.
Primitive plant-like forms emerged in shallow seas.
Soft-bodied aquatic organisms developed.
Different continental waters already produced distinct biological branches.
After three thousand internal years, the first simple marine predators appeared.
After five thousand internal years, early land-edge organisms began testing shorelines.
Mud flats across the eastern sea became crowded with crawling primitive life.
The southern volcanic continent gave rise to heat-resistant species unlike those elsewhere.
The northern colder continent produced slower but tougher life patterns.
Every region already began writing different evolutionary stories.
Meanwhile, outside acceleration, only fifty years had passed in true world time.
Li Changshen observed carefully while checking world origin.
To his satisfaction, life itself now contributed measurable new origin return.
Though tiny, it was continuous.
Cells multiplied.
Bodies formed.
Bodies died.
Remains returned to soil and sea.
Minerals recycled.
Life cycles strengthened world circulation naturally.
No forced harvest was necessary.
A mature world did not fear natural death.
Because every death returned value.
This truth only became clearer as ecosystems slowly formed.
Above all of it, the Eternal Dao Book remained silent—but Li Changshen could feel it waiting.
Because true wisdom had not yet appeared.
The Book gathered no instinct.
It waited for thought.
For comprehension.
For consciousness.
That age had not yet arrived.
But one day it would.
For now, Changshen World remained in the sealed age of instinct.
A world of life without awakened civilization.
A world preparing silently for an age that would one day shake Chaos itself.
Above the five continents and four seas, the giant sun and giant moon continued revolving endlessly around Changshen World, while below them ten thousand years of primitive life quietly passed like the first breath before history truly began.