With a new plan in place, Ding Yun quickly began to consider how to create intelligent races in the ocean.
She then sifted through the remaining Myriad World items, selecting those beneficial for the birth of intelligent life.
Finding that there wasn't enough, she quickly exchanged many ordinary souls for currency and continued to draw from blind boxes.
She drew, unpacked, and sorted.
Soon, she felt numb, having long lost the initial excitement and sense of mystery that came with drawing blind boxes. Instead, she felt more a sense of disgust from the repetitive labor of unpacking.
Even the most delicious food becomes tiresome when eaten daily.
Even the most enjoyable game becomes unbearable when played for twenty-four hours straight, leading to aversion.
Unpacking blind boxes was similar. Opening a few or a dozen a day was a pastime, but opening tens of thousands a day was no different from work. Once something becomes work, it's hard to muster any interest.
After unpacking for some time, Ding Yun decided she had to free herself from this repetitive labor. Thus, she quickly accessed Gaia's memories and, using the items she had unpacked, meticulously crafted a puppet that, while lacking true intelligence, was capable of unpacking blind boxes.
This freed her from the task of unpacking blind boxes herself.
The knowledge for creating puppets did not come from Ding Yun; it was already present in Gaia's memories. After all, Gaia had experienced and destroyed countless civilizations; she had seen it all.
With a little recollection and summarization, Ding Yun could decipher some basic technologies from various civilizations. Combined with the ample materials, creating a puppet was a simple matter.
With the puppet in hand, Ding Yun no longer needed to unpack blind boxes. She only needed to carefully sort and select the items drawn from them. After more than half a month, Ding Yun finally gathered all the necessary items and officially began her experiment to ignite intelligence.
She named her experiment "Nuwa Creating Humans."
Her first experimental subject was the dolphin.
After all, there weren't many highly intelligent species in the ocean, and dolphins were a relatively numerous and well-known species.
"Dolphins already possess a certain level of intelligence, so my task is merely to enhance it.
Furthermore, intelligence alone, without tools, makes it difficult to develop into a large intelligent race and birth a civilization. However, given the dolphins' appearance, manufacturing and using tools would be quite challenging.
When it comes to creating and using tools,
Having multiple limbs is indeed more convenient.
It seems I'll need to let the dolphins evolve. There are currently two evolutionary directions: one is to evolve them towards a humanoid form. If they become more like humans, then creating and using tools will be simpler. Another direction is to grant them special abilities, such as the ability to manipulate water currents.
This would also allow them to create and use tools."
"Indeed, that's about it. To enhance intelligence, I can use this batch of low-quality Enlightenment Pills. This batch of Wisdom Grass should also be useful and can be used in conjunction. We can conduct comparative experiments. Additionally, there are brain development potions, all of which can be utilized.
The ability to manipulate water currents is simple; I believe these water-attribute spirit beast cores will be effective. As for transforming into human form, it will likely depend on whether the Transformation Pill and Transformation Grass are effective, and their specific effects.
Let's divide them into ten groups for comparative experiments!"
Ding Yun had no experience in helping ordinary species increase their intelligence and develop civilizations. If anything went wrong in this area, it could lead to the extinction of a race, so she naturally didn't dare to proceed carelessly.
To ensure no problems arose,
More attempts and comparative experiments were the proper course of action.
Following this, Ding Yun, using her authority as the planet's consciousness, relocated a group of dolphins into the planet's core for experimentation. Some were given Enlightenment Pills to help increase their intelligence, some were given Wisdom Grass, some received brain development potions, some received wisdom fruits, and some received a combination of these.
Similarly, for activating special abilities and transforming into human form, the same approach was taken.
The entire experimental process lasted a long time. After excluding all failed and definitely unworkable experimental schemes, three nearly identical results remained.
Ding Yun could not definitively choose which one to pursue, so she ultimately decided to let nature take its course.
What did she mean by that?
She meant allowing all three mutated evolutions to occur simultaneously.
They would then see which one could adapt to the environment and develop.
Even if all three could adapt, it wouldn't matter. Humans have different skin colors, so why would having several different types of dolphins be a problem? Thus, not long after, Ding Yun released the successfully modified dolphins back into the ocean and relocated most of the remaining dolphins into the core for similar modifications.
The transformation of the dolphin race was quickly completed.
As for how to create a dolphin civilization, that was truly difficult and something dolphins could not develop on their own in a short period. Furthermore, Ding Yun reasoned that since these dolphins were already artificially accelerated, there was no harm in artificially accelerating their civilization as well. Therefore, she directly used her mental power to replicate the technology, history, and other aspects of a certain oceanic civilization from Gaia's memories onto those dolphins, thereby artificially accelerating the development of a civilization.
With the successful modification of the first dolphin civilization,
Subsequent modifications to other marine species became much smoother. Any marine species with slightly larger brains and a relatively substantial population was essentially modified by Ding Yun one by one, including whales, sharks, and octopuses.
None escaped her modifications.
By the end of the modifications, Ding Yun's greatest regret was her inability to help the marine shrimps and similar small species develop intelligence.
Compared to krill, which spawn hundreds of millions of offspring in a single brood,
What were dolphins and sharks?
The number of newborns in a single year for their entire species
Was less than what a pair of krill produced in one spawning.
If krill could also develop intelligence and become intelligent races, it would have been immensely profitable.
They would have numbered in the tens of billions in no time.
However, no matter how Ding Yun experimented, no matter the cost in spiritual medicines to help them gain intelligence and strengthen their bodies, she could not make the krill intelligent.
After numerous experiments, she had to give up.
Even so, after Ding Yun's extensive efforts, the number of intelligent races in the ocean exceeded one thousand. The marine civilizations she had artificially accelerated and developed also barely surpassed one thousand. In places unseen by humans, in the depths of the ocean, new cities and nations were gradually being built.
It was estimated that in the near future,
These developments would undoubtedly shock those self-righteous humans.
Of course, this was not the end. After dealing with the intelligent marine species, Ding Yun quickly began researching intelligent underground and sky-dwelling races.
The underground intelligent races were relatively easier to handle, as there were already species living underground that could be modified. The true challenge for Ding Yun, however, was the sky-dwelling intelligent races, because there was genuinely no life in the sky or clouds. She had to create life from scratch.
This difficulty undoubtedly far surpassed anything before!