I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Lu Yuan racked his brains and came up with a few possibilities.

"The first possibility is to actually have two milestones."

"One is taming the anomaly."

"The other is utilizing the anomaly."

"Taming the anomaly is difficult, whereas utilizing it is simple, and I completed the more difficult taming of the anomaly... which is why I took the lead."

As for the second possibility, it is rather terrifying.

"Second Generation Civilization should not just consist of the Rize Civilization alone."

"So many Second Generation Civilizations, and there are really no living anomalies? Impossible."

"The most likely explanation is that most Second Generation Civilizations have been extinguished... that is, the Ninth Epoch has few Second Generation Civilizations. Naturally, I could take first place."

The Rize Civilization is not a true Second Generation Civilization.

According to the Undying Giant Turtle, the Rize Civilization is merely a group of domesticated livestock!

The initial prehistoric civilization was completely extinguished in a disastrous deluge.

Only a few eggs remained, becoming the escapees...

Eventually, these few eggs reproduced to become the Rize people.

Thus, the Rize Civilization and the prehistoric civilization are entirely disconnected, with no knowledge passed down.

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"Eggs can survive, but intelligent life, including anomalies, were almost entirely annihilated."

"Only the Undying Giant Turtle, an anomaly with exceptional survival abilities, barely managed to live, and then I had the good fortune to encounter it."

"It has already been over four thousand days in Pangu Continent, not the fourth day... If it weren’t for this reason, why would I have taken first place?!" n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

This was clearly a cause for concern.

That disaster was too powerful.

The "Great Lai Empire," which could capture "Ghosts," was wiped out.

Is there really a disaster stronger than "Ghosts"?

Is abandoning intelligence the only way to survive?

Lu Yuan shook his head, thinking to himself, "Of course, there’s a third possibility, the Second Generation Civilization may not count as part of the Ninth Epoch."

"It might have been judged under the earlier Epochs."

"These civilizations couldn’t partake in the Milestone competitions... If that’s the case, then God is quite fair."

Moreover, what left him bewildered was that more and more details indicated that the voice distributing the Milestone rewards was not a real "God."

It couldn’t even detect everything happening in that hidden room.

Clearly, there is a great distance from being omniscient and omnipotent.

"Sigh, it might not even be able to defeat a Ghost."

"There’s still too little information."

Thinking this, a familiar white light struck Lu Yuan’s mind!

The scorching, boiling aura was engraved into the depths of his soul.

At this moment, Lu Yuan’s soul strength was far greater than before, preventing him from falling unconscious.

Instead, he took a deep breath and entered a state of meditation.

He carefully experienced the complete process of gaining a new talent.

This feeling was strange, Lu Yuan vaguely sensed the "boundary" of his own being.

An extraordinary sensation continued in his mind, an extremely brief moment when his heart burst forth with powerful energy, his blood circulation sped up drastically, and his "self" kept expanding and swelling, expanding beyond his physical body in an indescribable way, directly contacting the natural world...

Normally, the soul is hard to sense.

But at that moment, he actually experienced a sensation of the soul leaving the body, even "seeing" that the shape of the soul underwent subtle changes.

Whether humans actually have souls is something modern science seems to have trouble detecting, appearing more like a religious statement.

Some say experiments verified that the soul weighs 21 grams, while others believe that experiment was totally wrong.

But now, Lu Yuan deeply sensed the existence of "myself."

As that white light entered his soul, "I" gained a bit more of something.

The evolved soul and the body were momentarily incompatible.

An indescribable scorching sensation surged to his heart, intense pain as if numerous steel needles were tumultuously swirling in his mind.

To put it plainly: because the soul was updated, a slight bug arose between it and the body, and now it needed to reinstall the "driver."

"I always said, gaining abilities is always this painful."

"Turns out it’s not that God’s technique is crude, but my own soul is playing tricks."

Lu Yuan opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of murky air, and recalled everything that had just happened.

Inconceivable, truly inconceivable.

Just like mice innately know how to burrow and fish instinctively know how to swim.

At this moment, Lu Yuan indeed had gained a bit of instinct: Insightful Rune Talent!

"God really does grant abilities corresponding to the milestones, Insightful Rune Talent sounds pretty awesome."

Blinking forcefully, Pangu Continent in his field of vision, appeared somewhat different.

The patterns on the back of the Undying Giant Turtle resembled an elongated Mobius strip, continuously changing and distorting.

The flowers and plants in the forest strictly adhered to the "Fibonacci Diagonal Spiral."

The beehives on the trees represented the optimal topological structure covering two-dimensional surfaces.

Even the Rize people’s designed speedboat structures also followed fluid dynamics—it appears that this speedboat was meticulously designed.

These details, previously unnoticed by him, were now perfectly presented before his eyes.

"Insightful Rune Talent," changed his way of thinking.

"What kind of force can cram a talent into the brain? How is it done?"

"If you could figure out the entire process, wouldn’t you have any ability you desired?"

Lu Yuan’s brain was extremely active, and his associative capabilities greatly enhanced.

This miraculous talent was simply essential for scientists!

Of course...

The talent could also be turned off.

In fact, this is a form of bodily protection; if it were always on, the ceaseless influx of details into the mind could easily cause fatigue.