Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 36 Creating a Life, the Tree of Origin!

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With a sigh, Liu Jun, having ended his trip, retreated from his spiritual world.

"Butterflies transform into myriad races, thus differentiating all living beings."

"This is truly a fairytale era where all kinds of butterflies compete in beauty, full of vibrant vitality."

A world of mushroom soup.

Unlike in my dream, this place was incredibly rudimentary.

Under the empty, desolate sky.

Liu Jun looked at the large pot, which was full of murky soup, with a huge piece of driftwood floating on top, covered with densely packed colorful mushrooms.

Each mushroom represents a butterfly life inside.

This is the real butterfly world.

"Poor, so poor. Dreams are so beautiful, but the outside world is so ugly."

"In this era of highly developed information technology, I simply don't have any good ways to make money right now."

“By exposing my Tier 3 identity, I can certainly make money, but I will also inevitably be targeted.”

He sighed, his thoughts returning to the main topic:

"It's about time to start renovating the mushroom room."

He put the newly purchased supplies into the mushroom soup and began to build a simple little room.

Then feed the various mushrooms in the room animal feed.

Although it's cheap, it can promote the growth of more mushrooms.

With the nutrients they received, these mushrooms quickly began to differentiate and take on new shapes.

Just like that mushroom that dreamed it was a "multi-handed butterfly," it immediately transformed into a "multi-handed butterfly" form once it received nutrients.

The various mushrooms on site began to rapidly take on different forms: little angels, native butterflies, flower butterflies, shell butterflies, and Tyrannosaurus butterflies.
Various mutated species!

They resemble delicate mushroom sculptures, each the size of a fingernail.

The colors are vibrant and colorful, making them exceptionally cute.

"Sure enough, as long as there is enough material, the creatures in the dream will immediately become physical and turn into the real world."

Upon witnessing this scene, Liu Jun's mind stirred.

Wow~
These adorable little mushrooms that have taken shape are floated up using telekinesis and transplanted in batches onto a simple vegetable rack.

They are arranged in a row, like tiny figurines.

Arranged from high to low according to their respective boundaries.

For example, the five strongest mushrooms, one emperor and four marquises, are placed at the top of the shelf.

The entire laboratory is divided into four mushroom propagation racks.

The wooden display stand in the East primarily showcases swallowtail butterflies.

The Western-style wooden shelves primarily display figures of the angel race.

The wooden frame in the north mainly displays various small mixed-species groups that have differentiated themselves and settled down after leaving Butterfly Valley.

The wooden frame in the south is completely blank.

Among them, Liu Jun placed the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly in the center of the square shelf.

"The four continents revolve around a Creation Butterfly."

Liu Jun knew this was very rudimentary, consisting of four wooden frames for mushroom cultivation.

But that's all he can give right now.

After transforming a simple mushroom cultivation room, he arranged various instruments and tools to facilitate his experiments.

"It's time to look for races with potential."

Previously, the foundation was too weak, and only a relatively simple round little angel was produced, although it later evolved into an archangel.

But now, after a century of evolution and accumulation, its heritage has gradually become richer.

Now, he naturally wants to go even further:
Create life, create extraordinary races!
What's the difference between a person without dreams and someone who's completely clueless?
The various divine objects one possesses inherently hold infinite possibilities.

"Our world is a system for scholars; wind, rain, thunder, and lightning follow the path of the pure soul, the route of mechanical ascension."

"I can completely deduce a physical system."

"Now, as my cultivation level has improved, I clearly feel that my body is too unbalanced, and it seems that my body cannot withstand those few talent mushrooms."

"A zero-level body, a third-level soul, and a whole bunch of messy mushroom talents crammed in."

"If I don't serialize my body and systematize my cultivation, I might be squeezed out of my body by countless talents and turned into a twisted giant mushroom monster in the future."

"I must evolve in an orderly manner, not expand in a disorderly manner."

He kept thinking.

"I am not a creator god, but if necessary, I can continue to create some benevolent civilized races in the mushroom soup to pave the way for me. It would be a win-win situation!"

This golden finger—controlling a world of mushroom soup—must be used wisely.

His gaze fell upon a half-finished species, a "life knot," before him.

【Flowers and Butterflies】.

Soon, he took the mushroom that dreamed it was a "flower life with butterfly wings" from the fifth row of the eastern wooden shelf.

"The chieftain of the Flower Butterfly Clan, is it Hua Baishuang?"

Holding this cute little mushroom that looks like it's dreaming, I started studying it on the lab table.

"The strength of the Butterfly Clan lies in their ability to weave life with silk and undergo metamorphosis, but their thinking is too narrow due to the limitations of the times."

Why must one weave their own narrative?

"You only have one life. If you make a mistake on the path of cocooning, you will die."

"It's better to weave your own offspring. You can have many offspring, and they can be reborn after they die."

As for weaving the shapes of offspring eggs, is that killing?
That's a bit too much like being a saint.

It's just a seed of life that hasn't yet formed its own identity.

If this counts as life, then some people would kill billions of lives in a single night, and in a week they would be super killers who have wiped out more than the human population. And in the animal kingdom, species that lay thousands or tens of thousands of eggs at once are not uncommon.

They weave individual insect eggs and embryos; those that fail to weave die inside the embryo, while only those that succeed are born.

This format is not bad.

"Furthermore, butterflies lay dozens to hundreds of eggs at a time, and the survival rate is already low. The weaving method can actually improve the quality of the offspring!"

Liu Jun kept pondering the possibilities.

In theory, it is entirely feasible!

So, what are the basic forms of butterflies that weave their offspring?

He thought further,
"Plants are quite good."

"Why not transform yourself into a tree of life myth, covered with ribbon patterns and leaves?"

"The butterfly laid its eggs, which turned into trees and bore fruit."

"Using fruits as seedbeds to weave together new butterfly offspring?"

Trees, nurturing countless woven creations with endless possibilities—this model is the best.

What does this amount to?
A tree-shaped spinning machine, constantly weaving new life!

There was no reason for Liu Jun not to conduct the experiment.

He had a premonition that if successful, this might be a race with potential no less than that of angels.

"I possess [Longevity and Perseverance], which automatically optimizes the internal energy structure of life, reducing all kinds of physical consumption."

"Let me weave my life, perfect it automatically, like a fish in water."

"After several generations of optimization, I might be able to produce a decent first draft of the [Life Knot Blueprint]."

Liu Jun kept making plans.

In reality, if the saying "deep affection leads to a short life" were to accelerate the aging process, the rate would likely be even faster.

But if I can't get it now, so be it.

Next, he conducted experiments using the timeless nature of the spiritual world.

Occasionally, I would go outside to collect the necessary biological information, and then come back to continue the experiments.

It took him about eight years to finally produce a prototype.

He looked at a mushroom tree on the table, thought for a moment, and planted it on a wooden frame in the south where no one lived yet.

Wow!
Liu Jun tossed it onto the potting soil above and said expectantly:
"You are the first Tree of Life, the mother of all life, go and create the life you wish to weave."

Flower and Butterfly Tribe.

A group of butterflies that had traveled here called out:
"Ah, this is the legendary Strange Tree Forest!"

"Legend has it that a sinister and ugly witch lives inside."

"Run!"

"It's a gargoyle!"

"Wrong, wrong! It's the wooden butterfly that looks like a ghost! A bunch of wood flew out!"

The people of the Flower Butterfly tribe are incredibly hospitable and make every effort to welcome guests from outside.

But these adorable little butterfly passengers, easily startled, were scared away as soon as they boarded.

Beside us, an elder sighed, "I wonder when we will be able to rise again. Will we just be wiped out like this? This [Life Knot] sequence was created through our joint efforts and the deaths of countless comrades."

They didn't want to betray that trust.

This was all achieved by like-minded colleagues who were passionate about plant grafting and modification, at the cost of their lives.

An elder nearby then asked, "By the way, where did the clan leader go?"

"I don't know. He's been missing for a while. Maybe he went to his ancestral home to recruit new members."

After some time, their chieftain returned.

"You are... the clan chief?"

What happened to you? You look like this now.

They saw a mysterious and beautiful sapling.

The clan leader has become so beautiful!
If they were recruiting, just by standing there, countless tiny insects would probably excitedly rush over to join their species.

Perhaps our race can be saved?
The sapling seemed a little dazed. "I had a dream. I saw an infinitely majestic and colossal figure."

The elders present exchanged glances, a hint of horror flashing across their faces, when suddenly they remembered an ancient legend.

After finishing his experiment on the Tree of Life, Liu Jun stretched.

Li Feng and Zou Anmeng came back particularly late today.

I didn't get back until after 8 p.m., and I brought food for Liu Jun.

When he returned, he looked somewhat unnatural and stiff.

"Are you in trouble?" Liu Jun asked at the dinner table.

"No." The two of them shook their heads.

Liu Jun didn't ask any more questions, but silently kept it in mind. He thought that possessing a treasure could be a crime, and that the person who had acquired the Little Angel Smart Brain was probably being targeted.

Teacher Zou Anmeng should also be able to help resolve this.

Some hooligans like to loiter outside the school and threaten or intimidate students.

Let me take another look.

Liu Jun didn't ask any more questions. After finishing his meal, he browsed various forums to see what netizens were saying.

These days, true masters are often found among ordinary people.

Especially in this era where scholars are everywhere.

Although many of them are angry young people, and cyberbullying caused by reading.

He soon came across an interesting post:

【Great Dream of Immortality】: "I have finished reading the entire story of the King of Angels, and I already know who the mastermind is."

(End of this chapter)