Chapter 6308
When people debate whether the chicken or the egg came first, they usually limit the discussion to the species itself.
But chickens didn’t simply appear out of nowhere. They were the result of an extremely long evolutionary process.
Humans were no different.
Human civilization may have begun in Mesopotamia over five thousand years ago, but Homo sapiens have existed for more than three hundred thousand years. If humanity’s lineage is traced back even further to ape-like ancestors, the timeline stretches back nearly two million years.
That realization suddenly opened Charlie’s mind.
He finally understood that the cultivators who built the underground city beneath Antarctica might have had no connection whatsoever to modern human civilization.
As Charlie and Maria walked through the mountains and forests of Western Shu during the transition from spring into summer, their conversation peeled back layer after layer of mystery, gradually bringing the origins of Taoism into clearer focus.
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