The Blue Star is rich in spiritual energy, and the apes living on the Blue Star have also been transformed by the spiritual energy and developed into spiritual beasts. A small number of them have already achieved a level of cultivation close to that of transcending tribulation.
This was not what Yang Fan expected. Growing up in a world where spirit beasts were respected, these apes only knew the law of the jungle and that strength was king. They had no intention of developing their intelligence or fostering teamwork.
If they continue to develop like this, even if they are given hundreds of millions of years, they will never be able to evolve into humans!
Yang Fan acted decisively and divided an area on Blue Star, letting the system drain the spiritual energy from this area, and established rules: except for spiritual beasts, all apes entering the area would be spared from being killed by outside creatures.
"Accelerated evolution, time flows a million times faster!"
At Yang Fan's command, the speed of time on Blue Star increased dramatically. Within an hour, earth-shaking changes had taken place on the planet!
When the reserve was first designated, almost no apes would voluntarily enter.
Although the environment inside is very safe and will not be attacked by external creatures, the spiritual energy has been drained. Even if you stay in there for a lifetime, you will never become a powerful spiritual ape that commands a region!
Entering a protected area is almost equivalent to admitting that you are a loser.
Blue Star is a world where spiritual beasts are respected. For those apes, retreating to a protected area means completely ruining their own future.
For a long time, the protected areas were regarded as a symbol of shame by apes. Some extreme apes would rather be hunted to death by their enemies or have their heads bitten off by wild beasts than retreat to the protected areas.
Seeing this situation, Yang Fan became a little anxious, but he still watched and waited.
He knew that when new things appeared, they would often be strongly resisted by old things and old ideas, but this resistance would not always be so impenetrable. One day, the protected area would not only be a shame in the eyes of apes, but would become the cradle of human civilization!
One hundred thousand years after the reserve was established, the first ape population to settle here finally appeared.
This group is not large, and the total number of individuals is just over a hundred.
In the eyes of apes outside, those who hide in the protected area are all trash, weaklings who have failed in the competition and are not qualified to gain a foothold in the outside world.
Most of the apes in this small group also think so. After all, this idea has lasted for 100,000 years and is deeply rooted and not so easy to eliminate.
Fortunately, these apes are not extreme. They know that they cannot compete with their peers outside, and they don’t want to become victims of fighting. They just want to follow their biological instincts and live well.
The protected area is their best and only option at the moment.
In addition to spiritual energy, the reserve has almost all environmental resources, including various minerals, plants, and water sources, which can fully meet the survival needs of apes.
The ape population here has grown rapidly. In just 20,000 years, its number has increased from barely over 100 to over 20,000 today.
The population is growing rapidly, but the resources within the reserve are limited.
The population explosion has brought many problems and triggered many fierce conflicts, but it has also brought new opportunities and new changes.
When there are enough resources, the apes in the protected area never go out. They just want to eat and die and reproduce, with no intention of development at all.
When these apes discovered that resources were gradually unable to support the survival of the tribe, they were just a little panicked, but still did not take any action.
When resources were almost exhausted, they could no longer hold back and organized a team to explore the outside world in search of food and water.
At this time, 20,000 years had passed since these apes entered the protected area.
Everything outside seemed to have changed, yet nothing seemed to have changed.
Spiritual beasts are still the overlords of the world, and wild beasts are still receiving the baptism of spiritual energy from generation to generation, constantly moving towards a higher level of life.
But the apes in the reserve have changed. Their ancestors themselves were not very powerful, and after retreating to the reserve, they became weaker than the previous generation.
By their generation, in terms of strength and combat, it is no exaggeration to say that they are waste.
A hunting team consisting of hundreds of apes was kicked by a sika deer and fled in panic. After struggling for a long time, they were so hungry that they could not bring back food for their tribesmen.
To make matters worse, on their way back to the reserve, they accidentally stepped into the territory of a solitary black bear. In an instant, most of the 100-man team was killed. The black bear's brutality and violence left an indelible shadow on the remaining apes.
However, this black bear, which is powerful enough to slaughter hundreds of apes, is just an ordinary beast that has only gone halfway on the road of cultivation and is still a long way from the Qi Refining Stage.
Beasts like this cannot be said to be as numerous as the hairs on a cow on the blue planet, but they can be said to be everywhere.
The ape population has suffered an unprecedented shock. They have been living a peaceful life in the protected area, completely unaware of the cruelty of the outside world.
It was not until now that they came to a profound realization of how appallingly weak they were.
But now it is not realistic for them to become stronger and resume the path of cultivation.
After more than 20,000 years of evolution, many of them find it difficult to adapt to the transformation of spiritual energy. If they stay outside for a long time, they will feel dizzy and vomit, let alone use spiritual energy to practice.
What's more, the most notable feature of the protected area is that there is not a single bit of spiritual energy. With their strength, it is simply a fantasy to want to find a place with rich spiritual energy suitable for cultivation in the outside world.
What to do? With the resources within the reserve nearly depleted, the only options are to constantly leave, risking their lives to bring back resources, or to expel their own kind to maintain the reserve’s population at a safe level, thus continuing their tradition of self-sufficiency.
The crisis broke out, and conflicts among the apes continued, gradually forming two factions.
One group believes that we should seek resources from the outside world and pursue our own development. The world is constantly changing, and if we don’t change, we will eventually be eliminated.
The other group believes that the protected area is very safe and stable, and that there will never be any accidents. They should protect this gift from God, continue the tradition of self-sufficiency, and live an eternal and stable life.
Most of those who seek change are young people. Their power is much weaker than that of the older generation, so they are suppressed at the beginning and are almost assimilated.
Yang Fan naturally would not support those conservatives who wanted to live a life of idleness and wait for death, so he waved his hand and let the system provide a lot of help to the radicals, both openly and covertly.
With Yang Fan's help, the radicals launched a swift counterattack. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the conservatives gradually accepted the views of the radicals.
Under the guidance of new ideas, the ape groups' course of action changed rapidly. They no longer pursued a stable life and stable racial continuation as before, but instead turned their attention to the outside world.
They actively observe all phenomena in the outside world and try their best to find ways to adapt to the external environment.
At the same time, they did not forget to think about themselves.
Only by knowing yourself can you better explore the direction of the future.
Soon, they realized that if they competed with creatures from the outside world in terms of strength, they would be defeated miserably.
The only thing they can rely on now is their relatively bright brains!
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