As for Ding Yun at the core of the planet.
After discarding all the miscellaneous items from the myriad worlds that needed to be thrown away.
She carefully observed the death data of humans on the planet's surface and the number of souls of intelligent life.
At first, Ding Yun didn't notice anything wrong, but as time went by and more and more people died, she discovered that the number of deaths and the number of newly added souls of intelligent life simply didn't match.
The discrepancy was even quite large.
It wasn't an error of a few dozen.
But hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of discrepancies.
Sometimes ten people died, and the souls of intelligent life only increased by two; sometimes ten people died, and the souls of intelligent life increased by four to five; sometimes none increased. This was clearly not a matter of conversion ratio, but rather that some intelligent beings, after death,
did not increase the souls of intelligent life in the planet's core.
Or rather, their soul power didn't enter.
This made Ding Yun very puzzled.
Because the original body's memories clearly had no relevant information.
So many souls of intelligent life, born but not entering the planet's core, would be a huge loss.
Upon discovering this situation, Ding Yun immediately began to meticulously scan the entire planet, wanting to understand where those mysteriously disappeared souls of intelligent life had gone. If this wasn't understood and rectified, wouldn't it be like letting water pour in and leak out at the same time, with too much consumption in the process?
Originally, Ding Yun thought this would be very difficult.
After all, theoretically, if this matter were easy to understand, the original body Gaia wouldn't have remained unaware, nor would she have had no related memories.
But in reality, Ding Yun had only briefly surveyed the entire life-bearing planet before understanding where those missing souls of intelligent life had gone!
They entered the virtual planes attached to the side of the planet, virtual planes constructed from faith and souls.
Having found the root of the problem, Ding Yun, out of caution, did not immediately destroy those virtual planes. Instead, she first sent out a few wisps of spiritual power to probe each virtual plane, wanting to see what the situation was like and if there were any dangers.
"Heaven and hell, pure lands of the netherworld, the underworld..."
"Isn't this simply where many people on this planet fantasize about going after death? That's right, human thoughts and desires aren't enough to create true gods and immortals, but building a virtual plane that can store souls is still possible.
And compared to faith in gods and immortals.
Humanity's fear of death is clearly much deeper.
Therefore, the main reason these souls failed to enter the planet's core is that they themselves believed they would go to places like hell or the netherworld after death, so they were directly drawn to these corresponding planes.
Those who deeply believed they would go to heaven would enter the heavenly virtual plane; those who deeply believed they would go to hell would enter the hellish virtual plane; those who deeply believed they would enter the underworld would enter the underworld virtual plane.
Conversely, those who did not believe in the existence of heaven or hell.
Would enter the planet's core.
In this case, wouldn't the so-called karma and retribution of humans in this world be a joke? Even a great sinner, as long as they firmly believed they would enter the pure land.
Would directly enter the pure land after death?"
After observing those virtual planes carefully for a while, Ding Yun immediately understood why these things existed and why a large portion of human souls had entered these virtual planes.
If the souls of intelligent life could nourish Gaia, why couldn't they nourish a space to store souls?
Souls themselves were surreal products.
Sufficient souls and sufficient faith could naturally construct a virtual plane for storing souls.
As for why Gaia's memories didn't contain this information, it was most likely because, during the development of past civilizations that had already been destroyed, Gaia's own guidance was indispensable. At that time, Gaia had a unified explanation for death, which was that life returned to the earth after death.
And the earth was actually the planet itself.
The earth was actually Gaia herself.
When those intelligent beings firmly believed that they would return to the earth after death, their souls naturally all entered the planet's core and were absorbed by Gaia.
However, tens of millions of years ago, Gaia was severely injured and fell into a deep sleep. The original civilization was destroyed, and a new civilization was born. During the birth of this new civilization, it was not guided by Gaia. Therefore, their understanding of death became more divided, and they were not content with death being just death, but desired a new life after death.
After thousands of years of yearning and fantasy.
Virtual planes for storing souls were truly born.
And they began to compete with Gaia for souls.
Then, as soon as Gaia woke up, she was eager to destroy the world to quickly recover from her injuries. She didn't inspect, nor did she notice the error between the number of deaths and the souls of intelligent life she absorbed, so her memory naturally had no relevant information.
However, even after understanding the cause and effect, and after probing and finding that those virtual planes had no resistance at all, Ding Yun did not immediately tear them apart and snatch away the souls within.
Because since the virtual planes had no resistance.
Why rush to harvest them?
Wouldn't it be good to keep them as reserves?
Why was Gaia always feast or famine, sometimes having to sleep for tens of millions of years after sustaining an injury? It was precisely because she had no reserves. When the souls of intelligent life were abundant, she desperately absorbed them to strengthen herself, never thinking to save them. Later, when they were scarce and she was injured, the newly added ones were not enough to heal her wounds, so she had to sleep.
If she had stored more during times of abundance.
She wouldn't have had to destroy the world to recover after sustaining a minor injury!
Having made her decision, Ding Yun immediately pulled all the virtual planes attached to the side of the life-bearing planet into the center of the planet's core, protecting them.
And began to consider the next development plan:
"Not bad, not bad. Now we have soul reserves and a small balance of souls. At least for a long time to come, we won't be lacking in souls.
Therefore, some risky plans.
Can be tried now!"
"If we consider souls as money, increasing them can only be done by expanding revenue and reducing expenditure. Expenditure has temporarily been quite economical, so the most important thing is to expand revenue, and we must not deplete the source. We must enlarge the cake.
As long as the number of intelligent beings increases.
The income of souls from intelligent beings will naturally increase!
Humans have no prospect of further development; if their numbers increase further, there won't be enough food. However, humans only occupy the land, and the ocean area is much larger than the land area. It is too regrettable that such a vast ocean has no intelligent life. Therefore, the best way to expand revenue from now on is to let the ocean give birth to intelligent life.
Right, there can also be life within the earth's crust.
Under the earth, it's not all soil and rock; there are still open areas, where life can definitely be born. There's also the sky. If there were intelligent life in the sky that wouldn't affect the survival of humans below, it would be incredibly easy to add another hundred million or so intelligent beings!"
"Ah, destroying the world is truly a last resort!"
"Although there should be many problems, it's theoretically feasible, and I still have the Myriad Worlds Blind Box Machine, so there's no hurry. We'll take it slow, starting with the ocean first!"