Chapter 7497 Outlining the Path We Take.
When people argue about which came first, the chicken or the egg, they instinctively limit their thinking to just the chicken species itself.
But actually, chickens don’t just appear out of thin air.
Its emergence requires a long process in the form of species iteration.
Chickens are like that, and humans are naturally no exception in this development process.
Human civilization began in Mesopotamia and has only existed for a little over five thousand years.
However, the history of Homo sapiens is more than 300,000 years old.
If we trace back further to ape-men, we can trace back up to two million years.
This way of thinking immediately broadened Charlie’s perspective. He suddenly realized that the cultivators who built the underground city in Antarctica should have no connection to current human civilization.
As Charlie and Maria walk through the forests of western Sichuan at the turn of spring and summer, they chat, as if solving a mystery or sketching a portrait of a suspect, gradually outlining the path they have taken on the road of cultivation.
Charlie sighed: “In the span of five thousand years of human civilization, the average lifespan of ordinary people has increased from twenty or thirty years at the beginning to today. Even after five thousand years, they are only a little over seventy years old. Five thousand years of civilization have been inherited and carried forward by at least a hundred generations.”
“Of the two key parameters, five thousand years and more than one hundred generations, what really matters is not five thousand years, but more than one hundred generations.”
“If a generation lives for five thousand years, its ability to innovate is bound to be very poor. Only when a new generation of young people emerges, bringing new thoughts, new visions, and new ideas, can civilization thrive.”
“A highly advanced modern civilization took five thousand years and over a hundred generations to develop, so what about a highly advanced cultivation civilization? It would probably take tens or even hundreds of generations to reach its peak.”
Maria nodded in agreement, her expression serious as she sighed, “Then the question arises: as you said, the average lifespan of a generation of cultivators is probably at least ten times that of ordinary people, or even more. If we calculate the development of cultivation civilization according to this parameter, the time span is probably at least tens of thousands of years. In other words, if our deduction is correct, then in the billions of years of Earth’s development, there has been a cultivation civilization that has lasted for at least tens of thousands of years.”
Charlie said seriously, “We’re only counting the timeline after this civilization was truly established, that is, when chickens truly became chickens. What about the generations before chickens? Did those cultivators also need millions of years of continuous iteration and evolution from ancient ape-men to hominids, and then to Homo sapiens?”
Maria suddenly frowned and said very seriously, “I suddenly realized a mistake.”
Charlie pressed further, “What mistake?”
Maria explains, “From a civilizational perspective, it’s nearly impossible for human-made objects to slowly dissolve over very long periods of time. However, from a biological perspective, the traces left by humans are extremely difficult to erase over time. Fossils are the best example.”
After a pause, Maria continued, “I studied at Harvard many years ago. At that time, evolutionary biology was just emerging, and scientists all over the world were studying evolution. Many people were obsessed with digging up fossils of various ancient creatures. The craze was comparable to a gold rush. Among the universities that pioneered this discipline, Harvard was at the forefront.”
“Scientists at that time already had a sufficient and comprehensive set of biological evidence to prove that evolution was real. From Cambrian trilobite fossils to Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, and then to ancient ape fossils from millions of years ago, all constitute biological evidence. In modern times, scientists have also discovered microbial fossils from more than 3 billion years ago. This biological evidence fully reveals the entire process from the birth of life on Earth to the birth of humanity.”
“In recent decades, although it is inconvenient for me to get involved in worldly affairs, many of the companies and institutions I invested in at the time have continued to conduct research in related fields, and have further confirmed the uniqueness of the theory of evolution through fossil excavations, gene sequencing, and other aspects.”
Charlie listened with a confused expression, waiting for Maria’s final conclusion.
Maria took a deep breath and said seriously, “Young Master, the main point I want to make is that we, modern humans, are unique in the theory of evolution. All the biological evidence proves that our existence is the result of gradual evolution. However, there is no evidence to prove that there was another human evolutionary history during the evolution of life on Earth. If the cultivation civilization we previously inferred truly existed, then the real contradiction is that they lack the biological evidence in the theory of evolution.”
At that moment, Maria muttered in horror, “This also means that they are not native to Earth!”
Charlie suddenly gasped!
Maria’s ability to unravel complexity is indeed very strong.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he completely uncovered the essence of the contradiction.
Modern humans, as evidenced by the history of Earth’s development, are indigenous people with established lineages.
However, these cultivators with extraordinary supernatural powers have no bloodline or any clues. The microorganisms, dinosaurs, monkeys, apes, ancient apes, and Homo sapiens on Earth have no connection to them. Over the past two or three hundred years, countless scientists and biologists have dug deep into the earth, but have yet to find any clues related to them.
Thinking about this is a bit unsettling.
Charlie asked in surprise, “If what we are talking about is true, then they must have come to Earth from another planet and then left?”
Maria nodded slowly, unable to hide her surprise, and said, “In other words, they might be like interstellar invaders or interstellar robbers in science fiction novels. To cultivate, they depleted the resources of their home planet. To maintain their existence, they began searching for other planets in the universe that had cultivation resources. Earth might be one of them.”
At this point, Maria sighed, “So, young master, consider this: why was there an era of Dharma decline where the world no longer had Qi? Before that era, did it mean that the world was filled with Qi nurtured by the Earth for billions of years? There may have been spirit stone mines all over the world, but what about the Qi and spirit stones scattered throughout the world?”