"Our technology has given us a deeper understanding of the nature of life and the universe's celestial bodies. Our humanistic philosophy is different from you. Your rationality is dominating social behavior, while we are just the opposite. Our sentiment is dominating social behavior!"

"Or it is actually a group of guys who weave their dreams in a comfortable environment, warm and moist. We have never known what cold and drought are since the beginning of evolution. Since we began to learn to make biological tools, there has been no survival crisis."

"We have a long lifespan, but our reproductive ability is very weak. We often cannot reproduce a descendant for thousands of years. The development of science and technology is too fast. More importantly, the earth was much larger than now. At that time, the diameter of the earth was more than 26,000 kilometers, and the surface area was more than four times that of now. Therefore, there was no dispute between us in interest, almost no war, and no knowledge of what killing is. Without the crisis of existence, we focused more on art and religion!"

Lu Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "In our opinion, this kind of society is not far from heaven! But, do you think the diameter of the earth at that time was twice that of now?"

The old dragon man (from then on, he called them "Dragon Man") sneered: "There is an ending day in heaven. Our technology quickly brought us into the universe. We encountered another civilization, which made us realize for the first time what war is, what is killing and destruction without mercy. We call them the Shell tribe. They have no hometown. Maybe they have had it before, but it is obvious that they gave up their hometown and wandered in the universe. When they encountered galaxies, they would plunder all the resources they could develop, and then continue to drive the spaceship around..."

Lu Xuan suddenly said, "It's like a nomadic people?"

"Indeed, they are like nomads in the starry sky, but their destructive power is much stronger than that of nomads. Wherever they pass, they extract metal from the planet's star core and extract metalized hydrogen deuterium and tritium from gaseous planets. If they have the technological power to extract star resources, I think they will never be ruthless. The planets they plunder will become planets full of harmful waste. At the same time, because the star core is extracted, the volume will collapse several times!"

"You said that the diameter of the earth was twice as big as it is now, and this is also because the earth was extracted by them?"

The old dragon man was stunned: "Of course not. They did not attack the earth. In fact, their technology is weaker than us. Although we paid a huge price, we still defeated them. They did not even have the power to break through the solar system defense circle. Moreover, as interstellar nomadic peoples, the shell race does not need to fight with a nation like us who concentrate on managing the planet, so we signed a peace treaty!"

"But decades after they left, the Earth was hit, and a neutron degenerate material the size of a fist was sent to the Earth!"

"Neon degenerate matter?" Lu Xuan was shocked. This substance is actually the neutron star matter mentioned earlier. From a microscopic point of view, neutron degenerate matter is because of the extremely high external pressure. The Pauli incompatibility principle prohibits different constituent particles from occupying the same quantum state. Therefore, reducing the volume will force the particles to enter a high-energy state, thereby generating huge degenerate pressure. Because the particles composed of different particles also produce electron degenerate matter, neutron degenerate matter, which corresponds to white dwarfs and neutron stars respectively. As for what kind of matter black holes are, humans still don't know.

In fact, the metal hydrogen that Lu Xuan and the others have been pursuing is also a degenerate substance.

From a macroscopic perspective, neutron stars are celestial bodies between ordinary matter and black holes. The density is very large, so large that ordinary humans cannot imagine. A cubic centimeter contains hundreds of millions of tons of matter. Because of its extremely dense, any matter is as easy as an iron anchor breaking water. Therefore, the planet will be pierced quickly. This substance will penetrate from the other side of the planet. Due to the effect of the gravity of the planet, it will be sucked back and penetrate the planet again. After that, the planet will become riddled with holes and will collapse in no time.

"If that's the case, the earth no longer exists?"

The old dragon man sighed: "I said that our technological strength is actually stronger than them. Since they can all use neutron degenerate matter as weapons, we certainly have a way to deal with it!"

"The easiest way is to use the force field controller to isolate the force field it emits. In the end, we controlled this material. Although the earth was damaged, with our technological strength, there were no casualties from any personnel. In order to show our strong technological strength, we even created a museum for this neutron degenerate material. After the war, we have matured a lot. Since the other party did not keep its promise and attacked us without authorization, we certainly would not sit back and wait for death, so we planned to fight back, but the disaster came next, and we had not had time to fight back!"

"The so-called disaster is very simple. Among the ten new children we had that year, eight were unawakened!"

"Unawakened? What is that concept?" Lu Xuanqi said.

"Our race is different from you humans. Except for your innate dysplasia, almost all of you can have wisdom through enlightenment. But we are different. Our genes are extremely stable, and our genes are born with the code to store knowledge. Our previous generation's knowledge can be directly passed on to the next generation through genetics. In theory, this kind of 'unawakened person' is simply impossible!"

The old dragon man touched the little dragon man's head and said, "Just like this child, he has no wisdom at all. Except for his better brain, he is no different from those creatures. Our descendants have all experienced this 'wisdomless' situation, and this trend has begun to extend to our ordinary members. The wisdom of ordinary members has also faded, and our civilization has begun to die. During this period, we have used all means to find out the root cause of this happening!"

The old dragon man showed a sarcastic look on his face: "In those crazy days, some people even proposed to purify bloodlines, killing those members who gave birth to the 'unawakened' and degenerate wisdom to ensure the continuation of the race. Sadly, the madman actually succeeded. He kidnapped the entire race. Don't they understand that our race belongs to the triple spiral gene and will not change in tens of millions of years!"

"And his high-pressure cleaning policy was not successful, but instead caused a sharp decline in the number of our ethnic groups. The population of our manager only reached 30 million in millions of years, but in just two years it decreased to less than one million. That bastard almost destroyed the entire race. Not only the population, but also the technology industry retreated for decades, and finally did not find a way to save our race. In the end, one of us proposed the concept of 'spirit'!"

"Spirit?" Lu Xuan's heart moved. The old dragon man, like everyone else, chose to use the word "Spirit" to express a concept. Could it be the same thing?

"All things have spirits. This was originally the concept of primitive religion, but it may not be wrong. Smart life often makes correct decisions under the choice of instinctively. Now you humans have also proposed the concept of "Gaia consciousness". However, in his concept, Gaia consciousness is not composed of all life and material cycles, but the doctors owned by the earth themselves. Based on this, that person proposed the "cultivation theory"!"

"The earth is a magical place. A small planet has a powerful magnetic field that can isolate harmful rays from the outside world. The movement of magma releases a large amount of gas, forming a dense atmosphere, a suitable distance from the sun, and giving it a suitable temperature. This is simply a cradle for life. If all this is manipulated by a consciousness, then can this phenomenon be regarded as this consciousness to raise life, then what is his purpose next?"

"It's very easy to explain here. If we assume that an energy that can constitute wisdom can be named 'spiritual energy', and that organisms, especially intelligent creatures, can possess and develop and expand this spiritual energy, then the purpose of 'it' is very simple. The purpose of raising intelligent creatures should be this 'spiritual energy'!"

"The earth suffered a huge blow from neutron star matter, and perhaps more spiritual energy is needed to remedy it. Our descendants lost their wisdom because they were deprived of spiritual energy. So in the end, we divided into two factions, one faction built long-distance spacecraft, which decided the principle galaxies and abandoned their hometowns just like those interstellar nomads. Our faction chose to establish a shelter on the earth's "last hometown". Through our research and understanding of the "spirit", we used our technology to isolate external influences, which is the place you see! But obviously we were wrong. It has been a hundred years since this little guy was born, but he is still confused. In fact, they may not be right. Long-distance..."

Lu Xuan frowned and said, "Indeed, according to what you said, if the long voyage is really a way out, the shell tribe you encountered may not be of that level!"

The old dragon man smiled and said, "You are indeed quick-minded. If the theory of 'spirit' is correct, then after leaving the planet, without the absorption of the planet, spiritual energy will explode, and a large number of members of the race with spiritual energy will appear. The entire racial civilization should have a leap-like development!"

"But it is obviously not the case. After leaving the planet, their evolution became slower and even retreated. The relationship between the planet's spirit and intelligent life may not be a breeding relationship, but a symbiotic relationship, just like a crocodile and a swallow's thousand-dragon!"
Chapter completed!