After collecting environmental data from the Sun God Nation for several days, Li Wen and his team from the Environmental Analysis Group at the Yunxia Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Base immediately used the newly available communication function of the Sun Wisdom Collection Token to contact the domestic Academy of Agricultural Sciences. They reported the situation and requested assistance:
"Dean Zhang, I've sent you the specific data. To summarize the current situation, the soil environment here in the God Nation differs significantly from our planet's native soil. Various trace elements show substantial discrepancies, and there are additional trace elements we don't have.
The water and air environments are similar. Another major difference is that the entire God Nation is permeated with Solar Power. Many young animals are not well-adapted to this; they died shortly after being released.
Therefore, we've quickly returned the remaining young animals to the保育舱 (bǎoyù cāng - preservation pods), and we're unsure what to do."
"We have seen the specific data, but due to a lack of samples, we cannot offer much assistance for now. Our preliminary suggestion is to mix the soil and water you brought with the soil and water from the Sun God Nation in various proportions.
Begin with small-scale potted planting.
See if any mixture allows our native plants to sprout and grow normally.
You can gradually increase the proportions later.
In any case, this is not something that can be achieved overnight, so don't be too anxious. It's acceptable if there are no results within three to five years. The development and release of many superior varieties take over ten years, let alone adapting to a new environment.
Another suggestion is that you can try nurturing various plant seeds and animal young with a small amount of Solar Power, especially those eggs in their embryonic development stage. See if they can adapt to an environment with Solar Power and induce mutations.
The embryonic development of organisms is magical; it can lead to deformities due to environmental issues, or it can lead to mutations and adaptation to the environment. In short, this is a matter of probability. You brought many eggs in their embryonic stage, so gambling on probability should be fine.
We will also cooperate with the research on our end.
When you return and enter again, we will provide you with plant seeds and animal embryos that have already adapted to Solar Power. Let's work together."
Assisting plant seeds and embryos in adapting to Solar Power can be done not only in the Sun God Nation but also in the outside world. After all, many Sun Warriors outside cultivate Solar Power themselves and possess sufficient Solar Power within their bodies to nurture seeds and embryos.
Therefore, the researchers' words are reasonable.
This was merely general guidance. Following this, experts from different disciplines at the research institute provided specialized guidance for various species, striving to ensure that some seeds and embryos could survive in the God Nation. Even if only one or two pairs survived, it would at least offer hope for successful survival.
Moreover, the current situation is that whichever country is the first to cultivate species adapted to the God Nation's environment will gain a competitive advantage, allowing its citizens to consume products from the God Nation.
Perhaps based on these adapted seeds, they could even reverse-engineer them to be brought back to their own territories, attempting to gradually introduce strong Solar Power to the human world.
In essence, the various countries were not entirely obedient. While they outwardly complied with Ding Yun, the Sun Goddess, and the Sun God Cult, they never abandoned their pursuit of independence.
Ding Yun was well aware of this.
However, she did not intervene.
After all, if they were too obedient, their civilization would completely lose its vitality and its value would diminish significantly. Furthermore, if Ding Yun truly only needed a civilization that could provide faith, she could have used the Buddhist practice of "Duhua" (度化 - to convert or save) to directly make all humans lose their self-will and fervently believe in her, turning everyone into devout believers who only knew how to ensure they didn't starve, work, and diligently offer their faith.
But such a civilization would have completely lost its dynamism and the potential for further advancement, akin to creating a group of puppets or manufacturing a large number of robots.
Their current state of outward compliance while secretly striving was precisely what Ding Yun needed.
If they ever lost hope and stopped trying,
Ding Yun might even have to give them some hope again.
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At the core of the sun, within the Sun Temple.
Seeing that the current situation had largely stabilized and would only require time for development and growth, Ding Yun immediately condensed another lower god's avatar to remain in place and oversee matters.
Then, she set off in search of new worlds.
The faith of eight billion people in one world was definitely not enough for her to advance further to become a supreme god, and even hundreds of billions or trillions might not suffice. Therefore, expanding her faith was a task she absolutely had to undertake.
Although theoretically, it is possible to break through from a main god to a supreme god through one's own efforts, the time required for self-advancement is excessively long, possibly taking hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Ding Yun, however, only has a thousand years, so she naturally has to take shortcuts.
She could only rely more on faith to break through.
Fortunately, as the God of the Sun, finding new worlds was relatively easy. She could enter a new star system almost every second, scan it, record it, and then move on to the next.
Star systems with intelligent civilizations were marked in red.
Star systems suitable for life were marked in green.
Star systems unsuitable for life but convertible to suitable habitats were marked in yellow, to be modified when time permitted.
Star systems with existing deities and intelligent life were marked in purple, and these were temporarily set aside to be tackled later as difficult targets.
Star systems that were too troublesome to modify and had no modification value were directly labeled as resource star systems, to be used later for mining and crafting divine artifacts.
This was in the beginning. Later, Ding Yun found the efficiency too slow and directly split herself into tens of thousands of avatars. After all, she was only going to check the situation and make a mark, not conquer. Therefore, even if the avatars were weak, it didn't matter as long as they could collect information.
Even so, after ten years,
Ding Yun had only managed to explore her own Milky Way galaxy. Outside this galaxy were hundreds of millions of other galaxies, still unknown and awaiting exploration.
However, Ding Yun knew that one shouldn't aim too high. Just conquering the current galaxy would take an unknown number of years. There was no need to rush the exploration of the outside world. Therefore, after mapping the Milky Way galaxy, she immediately returned to her base camp.