However, Ding Yun truly couldn't do without it.
Because the spiritual energy recovery she had initiated in this world completely relied on items drawn from the Myriad Realms Blind Box Machine. The world's spiritual energy recovery had only just begun.
It was far from reaching its peak.
The planet was also far from transforming into an energy planet.
Therefore, Ding Yun was currently indispensable from this device. Once it was gone, the entire world's spiritual energy recovery would abruptly halt, leading to only one outcome: the complete disappearance of the myriad races flourishing, which was Ding Yun's plan. The mutated species she had created would merely become food and cultivation materials for humans.
The spiritual energy recovery Ding Yun initiated was not to help humans mutate, evolve, or cultivate.
The spiritual energy recovery she initiated was to help those mutated species and newly created races rapidly grow through cultivation to resist human technology.
It was difficult for a group of new species to develop technology comparable to humans in a short period and contend with them. Thus, to catch up, they could only take shortcuts, find easier paths, and tread roads humans hadn't explored.
Only in this way could they overtake, or at least, at minimum, reach the level of humans.
Possessing the ability to contend with humans.
This was the core of Ding Yun's plan.
Until the plan was completed, she truly couldn't leave this Myriad Realms Blind Box Machine, as the planet itself did not produce special species. All were brought and fused by Ding Yun using items from the Myriad Realms Blind Box Machine.
"Which black-hearted profiteer developed this thing."
Looking at the newly upgraded Myriad Realms Blind Box Machine, Ding Yun cursed the creator fiercely, but she still had to grudgingly continue using it.
As she used it, she gradually found peace. After all, it wasn't her money being spent, but Gaia's consciousness.
Playing with someone else's money.
Why should she be angry about it?
With this thought, Ding Yun glanced at the pile of junk drawn from the blind boxes that she hadn't had time to sort and found utterly useless. Her heart still itched, and she couldn't resist trying the new blind boxes for one thousand coins and ten thousand coins each.
Then she discovered that the ten thousand coin blind boxes yielded items each time that were exceptionally suitable for aiding spiritual energy recovery and creating new species.
Subsequently, Ding Yun, logically and naturally, began to continuously draw from the ten thousand coin Myriad Realms Blind Boxes.
Her work efficiency and the frequency of drawing desired items.
Suddenly increased manifold.
Almost none of the items drawn were junk; they were all useful good things. Therefore, in the following period, Ding Yun's workload for drawing blind boxes, unpacking them, and identifying their contents was reduced many times over. The speed of creating new species and promoting further spiritual energy recovery on the planet also increased manifold.
It had to be said, the power of money was truly intoxicating.
Especially when it wasn't her own money, it felt even better.
Five years later, the amount of ordinary soul power without intelligence that Gaia's consciousness had kept unused directly decreased by more than ten zeros, and the spiritual energy recovery of this world was thoroughly completed. The entire planet had completely transformed from its original ordinary state into an energy planet.
It was at this time that Gaia revived.
The transformation of the planet greatly aided the planet's consciousness.
How to describe it? It was like in a game where many characters advance, and their old injuries instantly heal. Gaia's consciousness, because the planet transformed from an ordinary planet into an energy planet, instantly received a portion of the universe's origin energy gained from the planet's advancement, allowing it to revive.
The fully revived Gaia's consciousness did not immediately appear before Ding Yun. Instead, it still felt its current changes with some confusion, and after striving to convert most of the benefits gained from this planetary transformation into its own, it then had the energy to understand the specific situation.
To understand what had happened after its slumber.
To understand the changes on the planet now.
To understand why the planet could transform.
Only then did it manifest in a virtual human form, appearing before Ding Yun with slightly complex emotions:
"Thank you so much!
Although what you did was somewhat different from my original plan, the final outcome was far beyond my expectations. I don't even know how to thank you.
How about this: I obtained a considerable amount of the universe's origin energy from this planetary transformation. A portion will be used for planetary evolution.
A portion will be used for my recovery.
The remaining portion, I will bestow upon you!"
After speaking, Gaia took out all the remaining universe's origin energy and gifted it to Ding Yun.
There was no other way. Ding Yun's actions had been of immense help to it. If some compensation were not given appropriately, it would likely continue to dwell on the matter.
The karmic debt would be hard to resolve.
How to describe the help Ding Yun gave it? Before this, Gaia's consciousness was merely an ordinary planetary consciousness, only able to grow and improve by devouring the souls of intelligent life, and to repair its own injuries.
After the transformation, Gaia's consciousness could now call itself the Heavenly Dao. Its growth and progress no longer required reliance on the souls of intelligent life. Instead, it could grow independently, by cultivating itself and absorbing cosmic energy. Although intelligent life still aided it, it was no longer dependent on their souls; now, the help from intelligent life was solely in their wisdom.
That is, the insights into cultivation and the understanding of natural laws gained by intelligent life could help it, unlike before when only their souls were useful.
All of this meant that Gaia's consciousness no longer needed to frequently bring about world-ending calamities. Moreover, the longer intelligent life lived and the more insights they gained, the greater the help they provided to it.
What a tremendous change this was.
How could Gaia not be grateful to Ding Yun?
But in reality, Ding Yun herself didn't know that her actions would bring such great help to Gaia, because she had no idea what changes would occur when an ordinary planet transformed into an energy planet. She simply wanted to create more intelligent life and have them fight amongst themselves to produce more intelligent life souls.
However, since the other party was so grateful, Ding Yun naturally accepted it and offered a few humble words.
Stating that it was all within her duty.
Then, she happily accepted those portions of the universe's origin energy:
"Um, do you have any other matters? Does this mean my commission for this task is considered successful?"
"The commission is naturally successful.
The promise I made when I commissioned you, that not a single bit of planetary origin energy for a living planet would be reneged, will be kept. Now, we just need to exchange planetary authority, and the commission will be concluded."
Gaia replied, then extended her hand to touch Ding Yun.
Ding Yun immediately proceeded with the exchange of authority with it.
And as soon as the exchange was completed, she returned with satisfaction.
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Many years later, the entire world, just as Ding Yun had predicted, entered a period of flourishing diverse races.
All the species created by Ding Yun, and all the species that gained intelligence, except for a small number that ultimately perished due to being unable to adapt to the environment, the vast majority became races with top-tier strength comparable to humans.
And they contended for survival territory with humans and other races.
Among them, the conflict between the human race and the sea race was the most intense.
However, human civilization's development was ultimately thousands of years longer than other races, and their cunning schemes were also much more experienced than those of other races. Thus, under human manipulation and the deployment of various stratagems, other races eventually fell behind and were schemed against.
Within a century, the human race rose again.
Re-establishing their dominance over all races.
Becoming the apex predators of the food chain.
They even established organizations like the Heavenly Court and the Divine Court based on different mythologies, enslaving all races.
If it were only this.
Gaia would have been too lazy to intervene.
But they should not have, after all this, engaged in internal warfare, fighting so fiercely that the heavens and earth were darkened and mountains and rivers shattered.
Even as the Heavenly Dao, Gaia still relied on the planet itself. If the planet were destroyed, it would also die.
Gaia could ignore the fighting to the death between humans and myriad races, and it could ignore the fighting to the death amongst humans themselves, but if it threatened the planet, or even endangered the planet's origin, it couldn't afford not to intervene.
After all, who would willingly die if they could live?
Especially to die for others.
Thus, about a century after Ding Yun's departure, Gaia, in its anger, once again initiated a world-ending catastrophe.
It annihilated all humans and other warring races who had reached a cultivation level high enough to damage the planet itself. Furthermore, it imposed numerous restrictions on humanity to prevent them from engaging in large-scale wars again once they became powerful.
From then on, the human race declined.
However, the nature of many intelligent beings was quite similar. As the human race weakened, naturally, other races would prosper. And when they reached a certain level of prosperity.
It would undoubtedly lead to another war.
Forming a new cycle.