Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 8 The Trial of God to Defeat the Evil Dragon

Ninth year.

Under Liu Jun's guidance, the entire swallowtail butterfly population began to develop its own butterfly-shaped script.

They moved again and found a circular valley, where they established a new home in a huge tree, which they named Cangwu Tree.

They learned to carve words on stone slabs.

They learned to build double-layered tree cavities with insulated structures.

They learned to light campfires in fireplaces and preserve food in bamboo tubes.

They are omnivores, and under Liu Jun's guidance, they even built small fish ponds, raised cute little insects, and planted small flower fields.

They progressed slowly through reproduction and warfare, and even the fluttering butterflies began to dart among the jungle flowers and grasses, waging war against some small animals.

"Psychic power!"

"Let the wind blow!"

The aged Liu Jun also stepped down to the sidelines, sitting quietly on the flowers watching them set off.

Liu Jun has exceeded the average lifespan of this race and has begun to face death.

It was only thanks to being a second-tier, eighth-level Nen-type Swallowtail Butterfly that I was able to live for so long.

Liu Jun also began to ponder:

"However, this is ultimately just a dream. But if a large amount of matter is thrown into the mushroom soup, perhaps this world can become real from the unreal."

An uncontrollable surge of ambition rose within him, but this fervent thought was quickly defeated by reality.

"Sigh, I simply can't do it right now."

Driven by curiosity about the sage's brain within the mushroom soup, he began guiding the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly to become the strongest wise king in the entire species.

Under Liu Jun's command, they continued to complete the construction of various facilities, including building tree stumps for drying grain, tree holes for storing warehouses, underground insect farms, tree hole fish farms, and digging wells.

They conquered the entire valley and turned it into a kingdom.

The amber swallowtail butterfly is increasingly respected and loved.

Six butterflies with first-order wind-based psychic abilities have also appeared in the population.

They established egg chambers for unified breeding and began training the hatched green caterpillars to cultivate the land, train them in telekinesis, and then build cocoons.

They also learned to weave ropes and make clothes from shed silkworm cocoons.

They are small in size, but their mental power is as swift as the wind, more agile than the palm of a hand.

However, butterflies are ultimately the weakest of flying insects, and their ever-growing population has attracted even more terrifying predators.

"Dinosaur, delicious."

Amber Swallowtail chose to lead a group of subordinates to attack the Spinosaurus outside the valley. Their psychic powers were of no use in helping them overcome the dinosaur's tough hide, and instead, they suffered heavy casualties.

On this day, inside the tree hollow.

Amber Swallowtail approached Liu Jun: "Prophet, I want to find someone who can defeat the Spinosaurus."

Liu Jun was currently engaged in mental cultivation.

He hasn't paid any attention to the amber swallowtail butterfly for some time now.

In his view, this beautiful fairy tale book was nearing its final chapter, and he could simply leave it alone.

The movie will eventually come to an end.

Books always come to an end.

One day, the amber swallowtail butterfly will wake up from its dream, look at the empty mushroom soup, and discover the truth of everything.

The world is fake.

I was just a mushroom, but I dreamed that I was a butterfly living in the Jurassic period before my birth.

At that time
It was probably when he, the great villain, cackled and chuckled, and then melted down this timid and innocent little mushroom!
But looking into the other person's incredibly innocent eyes, Liu Jun was reminded of that timid, soft little life in the first winter, the little butterfly with its voice broken and pitiful, almost crying.

Liu Jun felt a strange pang of tenderness when Little Phoenix Butterfly stared at him with the same look in her eyes. He wanted to continue the fairy tale, so he began to tell the story of the hero fighting the dragon:
How can we defeat the evil dragon?

"In the distant sea, there is a mysterious umbrella of the sun, a treasure left behind by the great god who created all things, bestowed upon brave warriors, capable of blinding the eyes of evil dragons."

"On the endless high mountains, there is the left ear left by an ancient god, which can hear the sound of all things flowing away. As long as you possess it, you can gain the power to hear all sounds and block the hearing of evil dragons."

"In a secluded cave, there lies a deep, dark pool containing a dark fungal carpet that can alter power, mutate life, and change races." The three types of talent mushrooms still float in the fungal soup.

Since the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly can absorb one mushroom with the [Low Intelligence] talent, it can naturally absorb a second mushroom with the talent.

"That's wonderful!" the Amber Swallowtail exclaimed with immense joy.

Watching the other person leave, Liu Jun remained calm.

"Consider it a small experiment."

At first, Liu Jun only saw the first-level AI he threw into the mushroom soup as a project to make quick money.

Teach it to broaden its horizons, break through to the second and third order, sell it as a prototype, and make a lot of money.

Even if this brain is sold, there may be unexpected consequences. What will big companies outside think when they see this Jurassic fossil brain?
"We have discovered another third-order ancient sage butterfly. By tracing its memories from its previous life, we have discovered that a butterfly civilization that practiced slash-and-burn agriculture once existed in the ancient Jurassic period, hundreds of millions of years ago!"

"And it was the emperor of that era, and there was also a mysterious prophet among them."

This is one aspect of the problem.

Furthermore, emotionally, having raised them for so long, it's natural to feel a bit reluctant to part with them.

Liu Jun let out a long sigh:

Villains are truly inhuman.

They knew perfectly well that they could earn more money by abandoning their conscience, just like how Rehe City raised us students like livestock.

Besides, I was only refining a mushroom, not a person.
But it's a real struggle.

Furthermore, the opponent's true form is now a talent mushroom.

If you don't redeem this [Low Intelligence] talent yourself, you can't get it out, and it's also difficult to sell it.

If this talent is redeemed...
This "low intelligence" trait has appeared on me, isn't that a negative buff? Am I turning into the second silly butterfly?
Neither way will work.

Money is hard to earn and life is tough. After considering all these factors, the situation has changed in a way that leaves Liu Jun speechless.

"Let's see. Since we're not going to extract this talent mushroom, let's see if it can absorb the second talent."

After leaving behind the trial, Liu Jun departed.

After all, he was too old in this story, and occasional hibernation had become quite frequent, so it wouldn't attract attention.

After Liu Jun left this world, the silly Amber Swallowtail Butterfly followed the guidance left by the prophet and left the valley alone.

After trekking through mountains and rivers, crossing grasslands, and overcoming various crises, they finally witnessed a magical scene deep in a forest.

A round-headed mushroom that resembles a firefly emitting faint light, like an umbrella of light that never goes out, forming faint ripples of light beneath it.

The amber swallowtail butterfly walked under the umbrella and raised its head.

Wow!
It saw a dazzling golden light, filled with dreamlike colors, and the enormous radiant canopy seemed to envelop the entire world.

"This is the power of light." It seemed to hear a mysterious voice whispering, a voice gentle and profound, its own voice, as if from the distant horizon, from some more real high-altitude world.

When it carefully brought this umbrella of light back, the entire sky above the ancient Cangwu tree was illuminated.

slam-la-

Countless colorful butterflies rose with the wind, as if transforming into soft rainbows.

"Your Majesty! Is that the power of a god?" A swarm of colorful butterflies surrounded them, their wings trembling slightly, their eyes gleaming with awe.

"Have you passed God's test?"

"It's light! Light! Light!"

Amidst the rising and falling exclamations, the butterflies were stunned, their simple minds reverberating with a sense of awe at this sacred and powerful mysterious force.

On the Cangwu tree, swallowtail butterflies rose with the light, transforming into clusters of dancing, colorful flames that quickly arranged and combined in the air, forming a miniature rainbow bridge.

The amber swallowtail butterfly stepped onto the butterfly rainbow bridge and climbed to the top of the tree.

Below, innocent and naive butterfly historians wield carving knives, recording these lifelike murals and writing beautiful and complex butterfly-shaped characters:

[Butterfly Chronicles Year 20: The Trial of the Gods. The King endures hardships and finds a giant, glowing mushroom, but it doesn't taste good.]

How later generations translated this mysterious Butterfly Era script remains unknown.

(End of this chapter)