Chapter 2382

After sitting quietly for a little while, Xiao Feng caught a wisp of wandering invisible Qi Luck and refined it into his body.

This wisp of Qi Luck was actually the overflowing Luck from a nearby rocky Planet.

That Planet orbits a star, and judging by its Qi Luck intake, it should be about to give birth to life.

Having obtained Qi Luck, Xiao Feng teleported to the Planet's surface to observe up close.

Under the nourishment of great Qi Luck, this Planet is undergoing a transformation.

It constantly undergoes geological movements, with the ground trembling every second.

Underground, gases jet out, but they are not oxygen or nitrogen, rather hydrogen and chlorine.

The surface temperature of this Planet is about 380-plus degrees Celsius, with no water present, and even oxygen molecules cannot be sensed.

Xiao Feng was very curious what kind of lifeform it could give birth to.

He waited a day, and during a great earthquake, he saw magma jet out from underground, leaving a huge mass of metal.

That metal seemed to carry a faint foundation of Qi Luck; under high temperature it did not solidify immediately, but slowly cooled and softened, gradually approaching some form.

After three days, the metal mass took shape, and at the same time Xiao Feng sensed the presence of a life aura.

It resembled a box, its surface golden-yellow, without legs, capable of rolling to move.

It also had no hands or eyes, no nose for breathing.

But it had a mouth and also a digestive system.

However, unlike humans, beasts, or even plants, it does not absorb organic matter or water to grow; instead, it eats other metal.

Its digestive system is like a furnace, with extremely high temperature.

Rolling on the ground, it found a lump of natural metal and, with a few crack sounds, swallowed

down

Then, after several hours of digestion, it was smelted into part of its body.

Then this iron ball grew larger by a ring.

"What a strange life..."

Xiao Feng felt it unbelievable; if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would hardly believe a lump of metal could grow freely.

Here there is neither water nor air; for flesh-and-blood life, not only is survival impossible, but even the necessary conditions for synthesis are lacking.

Xiao Feng tried to find oxygen molecules, but in the atmosphere they were almost completely absent.

For this metallic life, oxygen and water are absolutely not the "source of life" but a deadly poison.

Because oxygen reacts with the metallic life's body, causing the metal to rust.

To humans, metal rusting is a quite normal natural phenomenon.

But in this world, metal rusting is like humans getting sick; it could be an incurable illness, and death would come soon.

The facts proved Xiao Feng's guess.

Under the nourishment of Qi Luck, this Planet soon gave birth to hundreds of thousands of metallic lives.

Their appearances varied, but most were spherical, with a mouth, capable of moving and eating.

Some were born larger than other metal balls; even when encountering their own kind, they would devour them, taking a big bite into their stomachs to slowly refine.

Xiao Feng discovered that a metallic life had accidentally fallen into a ground fissure, which was cracked open by geological movement, and below there existed a small amount of combined oxygen atoms.

Originally, metallic life is very resistant to falls; even a drop from several hundred meters is fine.

But after contacting those oxygen-containing substances, it quickly underwent a displacement reaction; the metal on its body surface began to deteriorate, and spread to the digestive

system.

Not long after, it died, becoming a lifeless metal sphere.

Xiao Feng spent more than three days witnessing the entire process of metallic life from birth to death; looking at the thriving, continually developing metallic civilization Planet, he couldn't help but wonder whether these little fellows would someday evolve into a civilization like the Mechanoid Race.

If this is indeed the prototype of the Mechanoid Race, then how did they evolve language and technology?

This should be a very long evolutionary journey.

At the current initial stage, with great Qi Luck supporting it, it appears to be developing quickly.

But it's merely that hundreds of thousands of lives were born in a short time; it's still far from true civilization development.

From seeing a spot and knowing the whole leopard, Xiao Feng couldn't help but start thinking again: how did the earliest human civilization come about?

Could it also be like this, with Qi Luck boosting, then suddenly the first batch of humans appeared, then they gradually interacted, making a living on the land, and slowly accumulated wisdom?

This is a problem worth pondering.

If one could find a similar primitive Planet, it could be observed and studied.

Or, in the future, mastering the laws of time, one could also look back into past spacetime to see how one's mother Planet gave birth to human civilization.

Soon after, Xiao Feng learned that Chiyou the Great Emperor and company were almost there, and he once again confirmed his position.

He told Han Zichen the location of the metallic life Planet he was on.

Half an hour later, with the appearance of a spatial fluctuation, a huge palace structure emerged in the outer space of this Planet.

"Lord of the Heavens." A powerful Divine Sense call came from within the palace.

Xiao Feng looked up; that palace was over a thousand meters high, hexagonal

shape, with blue stone pillars, black tiles, earth-yellow high walls; overall majestic and magnificent, comparable to a great mountain.

This is Chiyou the Great Emperor's Supreme Treasure palace, named the Pole of Magic Palace, built from precious materials over a long time, inscribed with the formation unique to the Nine Provinces civilization, its sturdiness comparable to an 11th‑rank Supreme Treasure; plus the palace itself has effects of suppressing, imprisoning enemies, accommodating one's own people for cultivation, etc., its comprehensive value is at least that of a 12th‑rank Supreme Treasure!

Simply residing in this palace grants immunity to many attacks from eternal‑level powerhouses, and many hazardous environments in the universe can be avoided using it; many powerhouses desire such a palace.

Unfortunately, the construction cost is excessively extravagant; ordinary people cannot afford it, and even peers like Xuan Nu and Ying Long, ancient powerhouses of the Nine Provinces, cannot produce such a treasure.

Xiao Feng teleported to the outside of the Pole of Magic Palace.

Outside the gate of the Pole of Magic Palace there is a platform; at this moment Han Zichen and Xue Ningzhen are waiting for him on the platform, and old friends Shen Chuo, Zhuo Yijian, Zhian Bingfeng, etc., are also present.

Directly beneath the hundred‑zhang‑high gate stood a burly middle‑aged man in black robes, his breath restrained yet giving an intensely oppressive impression; obviously he was the master of this palace.

"Chiyou Old Ancestor." Xiao Feng bowed and said.

"No need for much ceremony, Lord of the Heavens, how did you cross the cosmic border in such a short few years and arrive here?" Chiyou Emperor asked curiously.

Xiao Feng said: "You are my senior; just call me by name. After I arrived in the new universe, I wandered in the Space Turbulence for a long time, constantly drifting between the First Growth Era and the Second Growth Era. Not long ago I obtained a high‑level starship with space"

jump function, so I have been traveling constantly from tens of billions of light‑years away and arrived here.

This answer surprised everyone.

"You can actually travel freely in the Space Turbulence without fearing danger?"