Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 381 The Universe: A Persistent Ominous Premonition
'I didn't expect the earth's ley lines to have developed such obvious spirituality. Is it happening so fast?'
Not long ago, this ley line was like an embryo, without any self-awareness. The ley line array built based on the Earth's ley lines couldn't even stop the Ice Cube.

It's only been about a year, and it's already like a baby?

On the way to Mars, Luo Qing pondered to himself.

In fact, Luo Qing was quite knowledgeable about ley lines. This was common knowledge after the final chapter of the first playthrough of Kyushu. He also guessed that Earth's ley lines were only tens of millions of years old, rather than formed when Earth was first formed 50 billion years ago.

The reason for this is that the appearance of ley lines requires a very special prerequisite.

That is the despair of the will of all living beings.

In his hometown, the first birth of the Kyushu Earth Vein occurred before the Human Emperor's era, when the entire Kyushu was still embroiled in intrigue, when three Earth Immortal-level monsters attacked the Kyushu cultivation world one after another.

Originally, with the luxurious setup of over a dozen Tribulation Transcending cultivators plus one Earth Immortal-level elder cultivator in the Nine Provinces cultivation world, they would have been able to withstand the attack of three extraterrestrial demons.

However, the cultivation world in Kyushu at that time was still a typical dark cultivation world. The dozen or so cultivators in the Tribulation Transcending stage from different factions schemed against each other. Instead of uniting to fight the enemy, they were defeated one by one by the Earth Immortal level monsters, and more than half of them perished.

Under these circumstances, the hundreds of billions of humans on the Nine Provinces Continent inevitably felt despair that the cultivation world was about to be destroyed by extraterrestrial demons. After the power of these desperate wishes of all living beings was gathered, the rudimentary form of the Nine Provinces Earth Veins was born.

After this, the rudimentary earth veins of the Nine Provinces took shape. The power of the wishes of all living beings was channeled into a certain Tribulation Transcending cultivator, who briefly reached the combat power of a Land Immortal, repelled the attack of another extraterrestrial demon, and became the first cultivator chosen by the earth veins.

This cultivator was, in fact, the first generation of human emperors selected from the earth's veins.

From the moment Luo Qing arrived in this world, he naturally assumed that the humans here were also sentient beings. They possessed the power of the will of all living beings, but because spiritual energy was scarce and cultivators did not manifest it, this power of will remained unreleased and was therefore useless.

The formation of ley lines is also related to intense feelings of despair.

As far as Luo Qing knew, the most desperate period for humanity, as the only intelligent species on Earth, was during World War II, the anti-fascist war. However, even then, the Allied powers held an overwhelming advantage over the Axis powers. Moreover, regardless of who won World War II, humanity as a whole was still far from true despair.

Therefore, World War I and World War II alone could not generate ley lines.

Creatures without intelligence, that is, non-intelligent beings, naturally do not experience the emotion of despair.

Therefore, we need to trace the origins of the earth's veins back further back.

Luo Qing was reminded of the five mass extinctions in Earth's biological history.

The first mass extinction was likely the Ordovician-Paleogene extinction event, but this extinction primarily affected marine species, and given the level of evolution of life on Earth, intelligent beings were far from emerging.

The Devonian extinction event, which also primarily affected marine life, can be ruled out, as it did not involve the desperate will of all living beings.

The Permian-Triassic extinction event was the most severe mass extinction, with approximately 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species disappearing. It was associated with the Earth's own crustal activity and did not present the preconditions for the formation of ley lines.

The Jurassic extinction event provided space for the rise of dinosaurs, but these dinosaurs also failed to develop intelligence and become intelligent beings.

That would mean the fifth mass extinction.

That was the mass extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth. Only this extinction met the prerequisite for the birth of the earth's veins: intelligent life and all living beings possessing the emotion of despair.

The destruction of the dragon-ant civilization, the explosion of antimatter bombs such as the Poseidon Moon, and the fact that some dinosaurs built Noah's Ark (the first ring) to escape, accidentally triggered an asteroid to fall to Earth, impacting what is now northern Mexico, which directly led to this mass extinction.

"It seems that the ley lines were born during this mass extinction. The dinosaurs on Earth must have been filled with despair before their extinction, although some of them evolved into birds... But it still feels like there are many loopholes."

Luo Qing fell into deep thought

To give himself enough time to think, he deliberately reduced his flight speed to 50% of the speed of light.

"If mass extinctions could give rise to nascent ley lines, then there must be countless civilizations and intelligent beings that have perished in this universe. Didn't they also have ley lines? Considering the prevalence of the Dark Forest phenomenon and the widespread extinction of civilizations, other planets certainly don't possess ley line consciousness." "Could it be that nascent ley lines have only recently emerged?"

Thinking of this, Luo Qing couldn't help but look back at the Earth, which had now become just a single blue dot of light.

"However, human civilization as a whole did not fall into despair. During the Doomsday War, although the Solar System Fleet fell into despair, the size of the entire Solar System Fleet was insignificant compared to the total number of individuals in human civilization."

Moreover, they were far away on Jupiter. By the time news of their defeat reached Earth, the Ice Cube had already been activated. And after the Ice Cube was deactivated, the Trisolaran world had completely surrendered. The people of Earth never experienced despair. So how did this nascent ley line form come about?”

Luo Qing was puzzled, but then her eyes gradually sharpened.

"Could it be..."

He looked at himself.

"Could it be the spirit stone I buried in the courtyard years ago?"

Thinking of this, Luo Qing pondered, "It seems that it really is so. The prerequisite for the birth of earth veins must be the presence of spiritual energy, and that spirit stone just happens to meet the minimum requirement of spiritual energy. Although the spiritual energy content of the entire solar system is now infinitely close to 0, there is indeed a tiny bit."

If you crack an egg into the Pacific Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean can also be called egg drop soup, which makes perfect sense.

"But there's still a problem. In the 200 years since I buried the spirit stone, no despair has appeared in the will of all living beings. Even the great trough has turned into a small trough..."

Luo Qing was completely confused; he couldn't quite figure out why.

It is important to know that the energy level of the earth vein is extremely high. Even at the very beginning of the earth vein's formation, its consciousness is already at the Golden Immortal level. To erase the nascent earth vein, it would require at least several Golden Immortals to take action.

The complete earth vein formed after the rudimentary earth vein matures has the terrifying potential to give birth to the rudimentary form of the Heavenly Dao. Once the rudimentary form of the Heavenly Dao is born, it would require at least a large number of Golden Immortals or even Primordial Limitless Immortals to work together to kill it.

Back then, the Immortal Realm was hesitant to destroy all the heavens and myriad worlds because it was worried about the birth of the nascent earth veins. It was afraid that a Heavenly Dao consciousness might be born and cause a great disaster. So, it had no choice but to slowly destroy the world by boiling the frog in lukewarm water.

Luo Qing didn't believe he had the ability to create a ley line with his bare hands, and besides, he never did that. He just thought that ley lines should exist, and that's when he happened to discover the other party.

"Judging from the birth of the rudimentary ley lines, it seems that Earth has a hidden history. Perhaps those Chinese myths are true. You know, their myths have corresponding prototypes in my hometown."

Thinking of this, Luo Qing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, startled by his own conjecture. His imagination unconsciously wandered into ancient myths: the creation of the world, the great calamity of the witches and demons, the Three Pure Ones and the Four Emperors... He was soon terrified.

I was so scared!

"Phew, I can't let my mind wander."

Regardless, the birth of the nascent ley lines is a good thing for the entire solar system. The only problem now is that it is difficult for the nascent ley lines to grow into complete ley lines in a peaceful world. As for the nascent ley lines, their usefulness to Luo Qing is indeed quite limited.

Luo Qing hoped that the earth vein would grow into a complete earth vein, and ideally, a rudimentary form of the Heavenly Dao consciousness would also emerge.

After talking with Ding Yi and the others, Luo Qing felt that this problematic universe really needed to be disciplined by the Heavenly Dao.

However, if we want the ley lines to grow rapidly, we must make all living beings in the solar system feel despair. This is naturally impossible; we can't just play the role of an extraterrestrial demon and personally frighten humanity.

How dark was it?
It seems that we should place our hopes on the will of all living beings and give ourselves as much time as possible to cultivate and consolidate our strength and realm, so that we may be able to glimpse the Great Dao.

Luo Qing glanced discreetly at the edge of the universe, then accelerated to the speed of light and flew towards Mars.

(End of this chapter)