Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 89 The History of the Evolution of Intelligence: I Will Not Be King

Liu Jun did more than just help the other party fulfill their obsession and rescue their daughter.

I also took the opportunity to observe this mysterious "Ultimate Wisdom" mushroom.

It only took a few days.

It's exaggerated to this extent.

Like a great hero in a fairy tale, the clouds, the water, and the trees all came to life and obeyed his commands.

It really is full of fairytale charm.

It looks wonderful, but if it continues like this, it might turn into a horror fairy tale.

He slept against a tree, and the tree came to life, defeating the Tyrannosaurus Rex for him; its branches became his wooden legs.

He carried a water bottle for a while, and the water in the bottle fought for him, sacrificing itself to turn into dark clouds and obscure the moonlight.

As he travels across the land, who knows what strange things the world will become?

It's so distorted I can't even imagine!
The idea that you can get help based on what you desire in your heart is simply too idealistic!
And this is based on the premise that this person is a good person.

If he turns bad, the consequences will be even more serious.

Back then, it was only with the help of the Angel of Truth that the calamity of wisdom was resolved.

Should I now gamble on the other party cooperating a second time?
How can we work together from both inside and outside to solve it?
Liu Jun watched the other person leave and said softly:
"So I'm sorry, but I have to end your heroic beginning. The dragon-slaying story is the beginning, and it will also be your peak!"

"If you can't handle this mushroom, let me do it."

A myth comparable to the legend of Elephant Dhoma came to an end before it even began.

Liu Jun returned to the banquet.

Green shade collar.

This aristocratic banquet lasted for a full two weeks.

With various food and drink programs every day, the Angel Clan is very enthusiastic about enjoying themselves, and their lifestyle has gradually become extravagant.

"You're back? You've got some quick moves on?"

Ah Feng has no sense of time; she spends her days eating and drinking and seems quite happy here.

Liu Jun put it into hiding.

This little butterfly of hers searches for food everywhere, and no one knows it.

"Let's go." Liu Jun finished eating as well, and they returned to their room.

Sitting on the clean and beautiful cashmere bed, Liu Jun took out a metal box.

"It's not butterfly silk, just ordinary silk, so the bed isn't as soft."

Amber Swallowtail rolled around on the bed, unable to resist asking, "God, did you bring back a divine object this time? Even you had to personally go?"

Her innocent, clear college student eyes were full of curiosity.

Normally she wouldn't bother asking, but there seemed to be something in this box, and she felt a special sense of closeness to it.

But she was soon stunned.

The box suddenly spoke:

"O brave god of wisdom, I can feel your gaze, which makes me very shy. Could you touch me and let me feel the warmth of life?"

It seems to be a chatterbox:
"If that doesn't work, please put me on a fire to roast me; I want to feel warm."

"If that doesn't work, please treat me like a bowl for eating; I want to feel your tongue."

Ah!
Perverted fans!
The amber swallowtail butterfly was stunned, and startled, it flew to the nearby mural of Elephant Monk, hanging on Elephant Monk's head as a butterfly crown.
"W-what-what? It can talk! Metal can talk!"

"This is probably what Nachi was talking about. As a public deity, there will always be some perverted fans and haters, although I think 'perverted fans' would be a more appropriate term."

Metal box: "Waaaaah! God hates me! I don't want to live anymore!"

Amber Swallowtail: "How dare you talk to me like that?"

Liu Jun felt somewhat helpless.

This silly butterfly's IQ is truly locked at a certain level; it hasn't changed at all.

Of course, this is on the premise that she does not switch to the [Middle Intelligence] form.

Liu Jun explained, "What can talk isn't the metal, but a soul that resides inside. It's the soul inside that's communicating with you."

"This is... a new intelligent artifact?!"

She suddenly realized it and exclaimed happily:

"I and the Angel Queen, two goddesses of wisdom, bestow wisdom upon living things, yet it bestows wisdom upon inanimate objects? Even the metal box containing it can talk now?"

“Yes, this is wisdom, a divine power of wisdom never seen before. Even the box containing it will mutate and develop consciousness.” Liu Jun did not hide anything.

He was somewhat wary of the mushrooms in the box.

"If I'm not mistaken, if we stay close for a long time, even our clothes and boots will chatter like larks."

“We live in a castle, where cutlery and plates will hop around and prepare food for us, candles will light themselves, and even the tables, chairs, rugs, and brooms at night will play a band together.”

This "Ultimate Wisdom" does indeed resemble a fairy tale.

But it would be terrifying if it happened in real life!
What kind of mutated version of the intellectual disaster is this?
"Prophet, have you never seen this divine object either?" the Amber Swallowtail asked curiously.

"Never seen it before."

"Don't idolize me; admiration is the furthest distance from understanding."

Seeing Ah Feng's adoring gaze, Liu Jun sighed.

"I am a prophet, but not all-knowing."

"This divine object did not exist in the previous era, but it may have existed in a very distant era."

"Of course, it is also possible that this material appeared for the first time in this era as the world continues to evolve."

"Times are constantly progressing."

"There are also many wondrous things in the world that I have never seen before."

“I have only lived a little longer than you. I am also a god from a certain era in the past, and I am no different from you now, the angel of truth, like Thomo.”

"If you live to the next era, you will be just like me."

The amber swallowtail butterfly couldn't help but roll its eyes upon hearing this.

To live to see the next era.

It's easier said than done!
Otherwise, why would immortal deities be so respected?

No matter how powerful you are or how outstanding your talent, in the end you are nothing more than a flower that withers with time. Only the God of Immortality, though not good at fighting, has defeated them far too many times.

but.

The prophet rushed to grab the item because it was something very special.

It is a kind of wisdom that has never appeared before!
Wisdom itself is the spark of civilization and the cornerstone of life!
It is the most important divine object on earth.

Beyond the three wisdoms, an unprecedented fourth wisdom has suddenly emerged in this era. No wonder the prophet had to make a personal trip!

Liu Jun said to her:

"So, I asked you to help me study this. I've never seen this kind of wisdom before. You're clever Ah Feng, and you've studied wisdom a lot. You'll definitely help me, right?"

"Of course! I protected you from the last intellectual disaster back then with my intelligence-lowering aura," the Amber Swallowtail said smugly.

Instead of putting on a brave face, Liu Jun gently patted the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly's head and said, "Then I'll have to ask you for help."

Lying will eventually be discovered, or you'll have to cover it up with more lies.

and.

Behind Ah Feng's back, who trusted him most, did he independently research this "wisdom" just to show off and save face?
Isn't this just a classic case of being too proud to admit defeat and suffering for it?

I'm not stupid.

The intelligent series must be interconnected.

He needed this swallowtail butterfly, which possessed two kinds of intelligence, to help him study this thing.

Furthermore, he had raised Ah Feng for five or six hundred years, feeding her every day, and their relationship was much closer than that of his disciples.

Emotionally, you can naturally trust them.

Rationally, "low intelligence" is simplicity, while "medium intelligence" is sensibility, preventing it from turning bad and keeping it kind and upright like the original, first-generation butterfly race.

As for "high intelligence"?
Liu Jun didn't want it to blend in.

Because high intelligence is not just about high IQ, but also about rationality and ambition.

I gave it to the amber swallowtail butterfly, but I'm afraid it will go bad over time.

And let's not say that Liu Jun was judging a gentleman by the standards of a petty person.

Some things should always be prevented from happening in the first place.

Therefore, it would be good to give the "high intelligence" to the Angel of Truth.

It was a hot potato from the start, and someone had to help control it.

Anyway, that Angel Queen was half black-hearted when she was cut open, otherwise why would [High Wisdom] have chosen her back then?

This is arguably the most perfect distribution of intellectual talent.

For the next period of time.

Liu Jun wasn't in a hurry. He continued to eat and drink at the banquet, and then went back to his room every day to study the iron box.

After the banquet ends.

Using his noble status, Liu Jun sought connections with the Bloodline Knights Guild and purchased a noble estate in Green Shade Territory. He then recruited angel maids to temporarily reside there. The butterfly clan members on the Cangwu Tree could return periodically to bless the estate.

They reached level three very early on.

Furthermore, his cultivation level is still improving, and he has virtually no problems with his lifespan.

Elephant Dhamma originally had several thousand more years to live, but he insisted on courting death, which led to his early demise.

To put it bluntly.

With the constant buffs from the two great deities, [High Intelligence] and [Longevity], the little butterflies on the Cangwu tree could not possibly cultivate at a slow pace.

Unless they are so foolish as to insist on leaving their perfect homeland and coming to live on Earth.

Time flies.

After settling in.

Liu Jun began to study the iron box.

The box containing the "Ultimate Wisdom" is the closest to you, and you will receive the most power from it.

The iron box became increasingly talkative and intelligent, undergoing quite remarkable changes.

And as they continued their research.

"No other anomalies were found, or rather, no more advanced enlightenment or wisdom?"

Liu Jun was deep in thought.

Its low intelligence allowed the mass-produced intelligent brain of the Amber Swallowtail butterfly to awaken its wisdom and become a true life form.

And what about this "ultimate wisdom"?

Could it be that it activates wisdom everywhere, automatically creating souls and injecting them into the inanimate objects around it?

Is this the effect of ultimate wisdom?
"It's a bit mystical."

Liu Jun pondered.

And it seems that the function of this mushroom is far more complex than it appears.

Imparting wisdom is merely the most basic, superficial, and passive effect.

"call!"

Taking a deep breath, Liu Jun reflected on how he had spent the past few days studying wisdom with the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly, reorganizing the three forms of wisdom, and establishing the origin of the wisdom series.

They established a theory of "The Evolutionary History of Biological Intelligence".

The core concepts are as follows.

[Low intelligence]: Passive instincts in living beings.

[Time]: This corresponds to the moment when life on Earth was first born in the ocean more than four billion years ago.

In those days, the creatures were all low-intelligence paramecia, trilobites, and blue-green algae, characterized by only instinctive intelligence.

[Zhong Zhihui]: Average thinking ability, but very emotional.

[Time]: Corresponding to four billion to several hundred million years ago, when social organisms first appeared.

The beasts of this period were intelligent, simple, honest, and indeed "emotional."

They are so small that they will sacrifice their own survival to continuously feed their young.

They are so powerful that they would do all sorts of self-sacrificing things for the continuation of their race.

[High Intelligence]: Possesses exceptional thinking abilities, yet is highly rational.

[Time]: Compare with intelligent life forms that have become smarter, such as modern humans.

In fact, it is also a three-stage process of biological evolution.

Paramecium, wild animals, humans.

Each stage of life adds a new kind of wisdom.

Human beings today possess three kinds of wisdom.

and.

They must also complement each other.

If one element is missing, the balance will be disrupted.

During the intellectual disaster, the extreme and eccentric individuals with only a left brain have already made this point very clear.

"So, in the fourth stage of life, a fourth kind of wisdom is born?"

"Humanity is currently in the third stage of intelligence. The next stage will see the evolution of a fourth type of intelligence, at which point it will possess a certain 'divinity' and completely transform into an extraordinary, mythical life form?"

Liu Jun felt his brain cells burning wildly.

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed, and he found it quite amusing!
"Therefore, this thing will inevitably become as widespread among all living beings as the other three kinds of wisdom in the future."

A pleasant thought popped into Liu Jun's mind:

"The humans in the neighboring city of Rehe only have three types of intelligence, while I have four. We are at a higher level of evolution than them!"

"If we're going to make a comparison, they're just ordinary monkeys, while we're the extraordinary humans!"

The fourth kind of wisdom is absolutely epoch-making.

However, how do we popularize the fourth kind of wisdom?
Whether it's building a fourth brain or using some other method.

They would have to hand over the mushrooms they had to others for research, and then cultivate a god of ultimate wisdom to periodically bestow blessings?

I'm not at ease!
He felt this was suicidal.

We're still figuring out the details of this mushroom, so we need to keep it under our control from start to finish!
and.

As research continues, there is more good news.

This "wisdom" mushroom seems to have stopped affecting the host's intelligence and is no longer locking the IQ value.

This means that I can fit in!
If there are no problems, you can wait until the next 100% and then directly remove the mushroom!

Of course, this is the ideal situation; one must thoroughly understand the details of the mushroom before taking it again.

Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to be reckless.

Therefore, I am even less likely to release this mushroom to others so that they can integrate it!
"So, in other words, I have to study this mushroom myself and become the god of this [Ultimate Wisdom]?"

He pondered for a while, then frowned slightly.

The amber swallowtail butterfly, who was studying the same subject, was overjoyed. "Great! Prophet, you should also become a god of wisdom, like Hercules, and usher in a new era of mythology!"

Suddenly, the metal box burst into loud praise and sang a beautiful song:

"That must have been an era of boundless wisdom!"

"If you cry out for rain, dark clouds will roll in from the sky."

"You shall let there be stars after someone dies, and so the sky was filled with stars."

"You called the rainbow a bridge, and so the rainbow connected the two ends of the sky."

“You are God!” God said, and so it was done.

This metal box, having somehow overheard the bard's lyrics, is now wildly praising them.

The Amber Swallowtail also exclaimed, "Yes, yes, yes! You will become the king of the next era, ruling an age like Elephant Domo! No, you will be even greater!"

"His life has become a myth of creating life, and you will be a myth of creating heaven, earth, wind, fire, and the environment!"

She was looking forward to it.

In this way, she could play with God on earth, which was much better than staying in seclusion in the tree.

No, I have absolutely no interest in that.

Liu Jun sat in a chair, flipping through a magic book:
"You two, stop trying to incite me. And you metal box, I've been raising you for so long, you're almost fattened up by now."

"Do you think I should turn you into a golden toilet or a golden hoe?"

The golden box, which served as a container for storing mushrooms, had long anticipated that one day, after it had been nourished by the divine object, it would be taken away and used for other purposes.

But what he saw was nothing like what he had imagined.

The metal box wailed loudly:
"No, no, no, God, please forgive me! My dream is to become the divine weapon, the sword, spoken of by wandering bards, accompanying heroes on their great journey!"

"Instead of becoming those farm tools and furniture, I don't want to be a bouncing fork, waking up from the cupboard every morning and then having to cook the same boring meals every day."

Liu Jun smiled as he listened to him pleading loudly, "That depends on your performance."

"why?"

The amber swallowtail butterfly was somewhat confused: "Why don't you want to be a king?"

“During this period of time, every street I passed through in Greenfields heard them dream of becoming king.”

“At the fountain, young angels are learning to sing ‘The Wings of the Bird Without Feet,’ and bards are telling ‘The Creation Myth of Elephant Dhomo.’ Each story of the creation of an organ is so captivating and profound.”

"In front of the blacksmith's shop, there were many children with shining eyes, longing for a sword to embark on a great adventure to defeat the evil dragon."

On this land, countless young children grow up listening to the story of Hercules, wanting to become the next mythical epic, to live eternally in the poems of bards.

Liu Jun simply smiled and said, "They are different. Their lifespans are limited, so naturally they want to pursue glory."

"But when you live a long life and keep going, you will find that the glory of history is nothing more than a cold stone by the roadside."

"All glory will fade away with the sands of history."

He chuckled softly, flicking the pages of the book between his fingertips.

"The poems of history will be lost, the epics and myths will be forgotten, but I will not."

(End of this chapter)