I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1373 - 977: The Difference in Possibilities
"Shouldn’t we wait a bit longer?" The small white dragon hesitantly asked Zheng Yichen. Faith God Zheng Yichen was crafted by hand.
Moreover, it was associated with the giant tree of Senluo, similar to Zheng Yichen and the weaponized World Tree.
But after completing all this, Zheng Yichen embarked on the journey back with them.
Well, it couldn’t really be called a return journey, but rather a voyage to spread statues.
"Let’s not wait, staying longer would only add unnecessary emotions. This is good enough." Zheng Yichen smiled, he might not be able to come to this world again in the future.
The Faith God was created to avoid waste, resources would be provided by Zheng Yichen, but it wasn’t meant to be nurtured like a daughter.
The spread of statues went smoothly, and upon leaving this world, Zheng Yichen sensed the changes in the Faith God he had created; a battle had taken place there.
However, the battle wasn’t too intense and soon ended, then everything returned to calm.
There wasn’t a situation where the older one came after the younger one was beaten.
Ultimately, it was because Zheng Yichen had eliminated the original True God, preventing the dissemination of information about the soil. Otherwise, he’d have to stay and observe for a while, engaging in a large-scale massacre and such.
He couldn’t reach the level of tracing the root of the problem to instantaneously kill from a distance, but through his extraordinary mental perception, he could accurately target enemies based on hostility, and the range wasn’t small.
"What you created is a half Faith God." In the next world, after Senluo obtained new soil, she watched Zheng Yichen’s actions and remarked.
Even though she could also generate Guardians when modifying trees, there was no need for it. Zheng Yichen wanted to do this, and she wouldn’t refuse.
"It doesn’t matter, as long as it can use faith power." Zheng Yichen said unconcernedly, just like he considered himself human, he wanted to continue being human, and from a human standpoint, that meant being human.
Didn’t want to be... uh, there was no need to avoid being human.
The Faith God created now is similar, wanting to maintain a form of Faith God, then it is a Faith God. Not wanting to maintain it, then it becomes a True God-like existence.
Calling it a half Faith God is not inaccurate.
Ultimately, it’s because Zheng Yichen didn’t want to assign too many missions to the Faith God he created.
The Faith God could do certain things due to faith, but if it didn’t want to, it could abandon this identity, as long as it didn’t use faith power.
"It seems like this world doesn’t have gods. Speaking of which, the Faith God I created, will it become truly ’omnipotent’ in this world?"
Zheng Yichen glanced at the figure gradually forming on a branch of the giant tree and spoke to Senluo upon leaving.
The environment of this world isn’t high, probably only Level 4.
The probability of gods appearing is correspondingly low.
"There is such a possibility, but a more likely scenario is the emergence of more Faith Gods." Senluo mentioned another possibility. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
"Let’s leave it at that, anyway, the Faith God I created can already be far ahead."
Riding the vehicle, Zheng Yichen used autopilot, leisurely watching some information displayed by the Illusory Eye, while the Heavenly Persons created by the Ark of Life were being recorded by Lilith.
Next time this is done, further optimization can be achieved.
This was a form of coordination.
"It’s more than that, it’s basically a dimensional reduction attack." Tanshia Firlo watched the swiftly receding scenery and curiously asked, "Is there no difference between the life you create and normal life?"
If there weren’t, Zheng Yichen could entirely craft his ideal existence.
"Hahaha, of course, there is a difference." Zheng Yichen laughed and explained, "Although the created life is much like normal life, essentially it’s like artificial intelligence, capable of growth, but is unlikely to experience epiphanies and such.
In terms of potential, it’s lower than normal creatures by a lot."
This brings up Lilith’s newly acquired evolution program, the things Chiang Wei could achieve, Lilith couldn’t, even though Lilith was very capable now.
This is the potential of normal life.
Artificial beings have much lower potential in creativity, inspiration, spirituality, and these aspects do not enhance with the growth of the individual.
Trading more potential for a more perfect foundation for these artificial beings.
"What if such beings gradually proliferate?" Tanshia Firlo pondered and asked further.
"Proliferation wouldn’t work either, or rather, the stronger the artificial beings, the greater the limitations in this aspect. A robust foundation implies a more solid framework.
This solid framework won’t be broken by proliferation."
"Is this considered a strong being’s dilemma?" Tanshia Firlo rested her chin on her hand, suddenly not finding Zheng Yichen’s Ark of Life absurd at all.
"If it were an existence born and nurtured naturally, perhaps it wouldn’t have such problems," Zheng Yichen said with a smile.
Although the life he created had much lower potential, the likelihood of such potential is ultimately a small probability.
From a vast number of possibilities, countless potentials could emerge, but when there are only a few choices, the life forms created through the Ark of Life are more stable instead.
They can smoothly grow to a theoretical height, but the possibility of surpassing this height is relatively low.
In contrast, a normal life form, after reaching a theoretical height, due to being a natural life form, has more potential. Breaking through this theoretical height becomes easier and can even reach unprecedented levels.
The created life forms are limited to the initial creation framework, even if they break through the theoretical heights, they will still be constrained by this framework, and it gets harder to progress further.
Unless these creatures can reverse the natural process post-creation and truly transform into natural life forms.
This somewhat resembles the concept of a demon working hard to cultivate into a human.
A situation where millennium-old demons are defeated by humans who have cultivated for just a few decades, although this won’t happen to Zheng Yichen’s created life forms under similar millennium cultivation conditions.
Initially, created life forms will have an advantage, but over a millennium, they may end up equal.
Natural life forms might even have one or two sudden realizations that boost them, without needing a thousand years and possibly surpassing the created life forms in only a few hundred years.
"Hmm... kind of like players and bosses in games," Tanshia Firlo thought for a moment and said.
Zheng Yichen reached out to pat her head, "Understanding it this way works too."
Players can level up, whereas bosses are pretty much fixed.
"Then, Fosterer, have you solved this problem..."
"What are you thinking? How can such a problem be solved? I’m not the World," Zheng Yichen chuckled and shook his head. Then he thought of something and said, "Hmm, finding a solution is not impossible, but it’s basically like giving something for free."
"How so?" The small white dragon curiously blinked her eyes. She always found Zheng Yichen’s Ark of Life fascinating, yet Zheng Yichen didn’t use this power much.
Occasionally using it left her amazed, as more frequent usage would merely connect life archives.
"Pinch out a primitive cell, let it grow naturally without any framework design. If it can evolve into something with a brain, then that’s considered a success."
This counts as biological evolution nurturing. He gave primitive cells more potential but did not interfere in the process. Whatever they eventually became has nothing to do with Zheng Yichen.
Without a fixed framework, what eventually emerges cannot be determined. In any case, Zheng Yichen finds it quite difficult.
As for using the environment to influence evolutionary factors, it’s not impossible, but the time... hmm, as he said, he’s not the World.
He wouldn’t idle away millennia, billions of years observing the evolutionary paths of heaps of primitive cells.
Rather than waiting so long to see the results, he’d prefer to directly create a suitable framework.
As for the fast-growing primitive cells, at the next location to place a statue, Zheng Yichen crafted a cherry-sized lump of flesh.
"Are these cells?" Tanshia Firlo looked at the lump of flesh in Zheng Yichen’s hand with suspicion. Although she’s a dragon from the world of magic, she also understands technology!
Even being a dragon who hasn’t read much is not easily fooled. Even giant cells wouldn’t be this large.
"Primitive cells are wrapped inside," Zheng Yichen said, as he threw the lump of flesh.
The calm lump of flesh started to agitate, the outer membrane was broken by the active primitive cells inside, and a bunch of weird flesh lumps emerged.
Not only was the form excessively chaotic, but they also devoured each other.
Tanshia Firlo’s mouth twitched, "Looks like cockroach eggs!"
"...That’s kind of gross."
The small white dragon pointed at the ground where Zheng Yichen had drawn a boundary, "But these things are even grosser."
"That’s why creating fast-growing primitive cells and expecting them to evolve normally isn’t feasible," Zheng Yichen said, looking at the ’insect pool’ within the boundary on the ground.
Even he was disgusted, with primitive cells proliferating wildly, evolving chaotically. In terms of form, it’s not just twisted, but challenging people’s perception of ugliness in various ways.
Normally, biological evolution heads in a beneficial direction, but that’s not the case here, emphasizing chaos, as these are fast-growing cells without long timelines to sift through evolutionary paths.
Every part that can be stuffed into the body will emerge.
The final outcome is a tumor of indescribable form, either an entity with a massive information load, unnameable, causing mental breakdowns, or something causing direct visual impacts, making eyes and brains wail.
"Very disgusting." Senluo looked at the gradually expanding ’cage’ and gave her verdict. Even her kind mentioned feeling gross, demonstrating how utterly revolting the contents were.
"That’s why it’s better to have a framework." Equally disgusted, Zheng Yichen tossed a flame of Hellfire.
