Gavin Carter began his secluded cultivation with peace of mind, but unexpectedly, due to the severity of his injuries, he couldn’t control the overflow of spiritual energy after entering meditation. The powerful immortal aura spilling from his body, combined with the effect of the spirit-gathering formation drawing in cosmic energy, gradually transformed the planet’s environment, making it rich in spiritual energy and increasingly habitable.

　　This planet was already similar to Earth in environment, having existed for billions of years, with life already evolving. Once it became saturated with powerful spiritual energy, life forms evolved rapidly, skipping the long evolutionary process under the baptism of spiritual energy, and directly advancing toward the form of Gavin Carter—that is, the human form.

　　Although they were humanoid, they still retained some animal traits, precisely because of this process.

　　Thus, the various divine-blooded races were born. They were not the conventional “demons” who cultivated from animals into humans, but an entirely new race.

　　This era is known in history as the “Era of the Father God’s Creation of Man” and the “Awakening of the Divine-blooded.”

　　Two hundred and fifty years later, Gavin Carter had actually been in seclusion for twenty-five thousand years, and the divine-blooded had existed for over twenty thousand years. By this time, a flourishing cultivation civilization had gradually developed in this world.

　　The divine-blooded bathed in Gavin Carter’s spiritual energy and the cosmic energy gathered by the spirit-gathering formation, and most of the insights they gained were from Gavin Carter’s “principles.”

　　From transforming into human form, to understanding the Great Dao, to human culture, language, and knowledge—all of it was inherited from Gavin Carter’s system. From this perspective, he was the “origin of civilization,” the father and teacher of all living beings.

　　Gavin Carter sorted out this situation and was left speechless.

　　The “Father God” imagined by the divine-blooded was undoubtedly himself.

　　Over more than twenty thousand years, such a long span of time, many powerful beings had emerged among the divine-blooded. Records show that wars such as “struggles over the Dao,” “battles between good and evil,” and “clan supremacy” had occurred many times.

　　Gavin Carter could imagine that the formations he had hastily set up before his seclusion were not very sturdy and must have been destroyed during these wars.

　　No wonder that after coming out of seclusion, he could no longer sense any anomalies in time and space, and the effect of the spirit-gathering formation was almost gone. Now, no new divine-blooded were being born; all were being produced through normal reproduction.

　　This planet had long since lost its time-space difference and was now aligned with the cosmic timeline.

　　This is what happens when you bring trouble upon yourself—eventually, life from the outside world noticed this place, and invaders began to arrive.

　　This is known in history as the invasion of the “Outer Demons.”

　　The divine-blooded, who had been fighting each other fiercely, suffered a crushing defeat. In the midst of crisis, a fleet from the distant Milky Way accidentally entered a space-time wormhole, got lost, and ended up here. Together with the divine-blooded, they repelled the invaders and then settled down on this planet.

　　This is known in history as “the good Outer Demons drove away the bad Outer Demons.”

　　Human history calls it: “Can you guys stop being so stubborn?”

　　The divine-blooded admitted: “Fine, aliens.”

　　Gavin Carter once again found the ways of the world truly wondrous. A fleet from the Milky Way… these alien humans were actually fellow Earthlings…

　　He himself was a Chinese from Earth, a cultivator from ancient China. He wasn’t originally surnamed Xia; Xia was a commemoration of an era.

　　Although he had left his homeland and cultivated across multiple planes, China was always his home. Back when he was cultivating in other planes, he would return every few centuries to see how things had changed. Even when he roamed the universe, he made a point to pass by, experiencing cars and cell phones, and instantly picked up the current official language.

　　In a sense, future generations of Chinese could also be considered his descendants…

　　“Descendants” and “offspring”—on this distant, desolate planet, civilizations met and intertwined.

　　Gavin Carter couldn’t help but laugh.

　　Truly, fate works in mysterious ways.

Chapter 7: The Butler’s Counterattack

　　Come to think of it, Earth’s humans are really impressive. Even though his seclusion lasted a long time, it was only two hundred and fifty years for Earth, and they had already achieved interstellar migration…

　　Of course, there might have been some technical issues, which led to the wormhole mishap, and this group of Earthlings could no longer contact their home planet. It was precisely because of this wormhole traversal—otherwise, at the speed of light, it would have taken over ten thousand years to get here from Earth, and they would never have made it.

　　One wonders what humans thought when they first met the divine-blooded and heard these alien “monsters” from ten thousand light-years away speaking fluent Chinese… Maybe that was the reason humans decided to help the divine-blooded?

　　In any case, humans settled here, and after another two hundred years on the normal timeline, things developed into the current situation.

　　From an immigrant fleet of a million people, they had now grown into a nation of tens of millions. Their technological development might no longer match Earth’s, having adapted to the unique features of this planet.

　　This year, Gavin Carter had been in seclusion for over twenty-five thousand two hundred years, which was nearly five hundred years in actual cosmic time.

　　“Almost five hundred years…” Gavin Carter murmured to himself, a little lost in thought. “I wonder if she… if they, are close to finding this place?”

　　“My injuries still haven’t healed. How embarrassing…” Gavin Carter looked at his palm. “I hope this planet can still bring me more surprises.”

　　Even after twenty-five thousand years of seclusion, Gavin Carter’s injuries still hadn’t fully healed. At their level, ordinary wounds were easy to deal with, but once the source was injured, it became extremely troublesome—never fully recovering was not uncommon.

　　Now, his physical injuries had healed, and his power was fully restored, but the key issue was that his soul was still incomplete and his Dao was lacking, so he could only exert seventy to eighty percent of his peak strength.