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

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "People moved a city from Earth to the Pangu Continent, and that’s just ’moving’?"

Old Cat added, "You have the mask of Leo, right? Guess how that powerful person turned into a ’Demon.’"

"Was Leo a powerful figure in your civilization?" Lu Yuan couldn’t wait to hear the story.

However, Old Cat struggled for a while and finally admitted, "… I forgot, completely forgot."

It rolled on the ground, the massive loss of memories making it even more distressed than Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan patted his forehead, not knowing whether he should comfort an artificial intelligence.

The next second, possibly because the system rebooted, Old Cat returned to normal.

"Leo… likely didn’t become a ’Demon’ in pursuit of power, but the harsh external environment forced him to rely on the power of ’Demons.’ The five Divine Skills allowed him to defeat many powerful enemies."

"If one day, you find that ’God’ is harming you, then you turn yourself into a Demon. Then I’ll turn back into a little round ball, stick to you, making a ’dada dada’ sound."

"Becoming a Demon isn’t unacceptable," Lu Yuan said.

Lu Yuan started feeling overwhelmed, "Do you have to be so pessimistic?"

But that seemed like a solution…

This cat, it’s somewhat good.

Old Cat: "Comrade-in-arms, let’s fight forever… I won’t shun you."

Lu Yuan felt a chill, his skin crawling, unsure how to respond.

Old Cat began its classic chatter mode: "Comrade-in-arms, my adsorption ability, one-on-one locking, you can’t shake me off."

"You flee to the ends of the Earth, I can still catch up with you."

"Get lost!"

"Woof!" Old Wolf rushed in.

"What are you doing?!" Old Cat screamed.

"Awo!" The wolf bit the cat’s head, snapping loudly.

…

Lu Yuan watched the cat-dog fight, feeling refreshed.

He casually tried to store a bottle of ’Demon’ remnants into his storage space.

He found… he couldn’t do it.

Because the remnants of the Demon were in a state of ’pseudo-death’, not entirely dead objects, and conscious entities could not be stored in the storage space.

This was quite annoying, meaning it had to be carried around.

"Then… forge a titanium-alloy black iron bottle, and seal it in?"

…

Thus, the investigation about ’God’ was temporarily concluded.

Lacking enough information, they had to wrap it up hastily.

The rewards from the ’God’ milestone were still to be used. Except for Different Space, Lu Yuan’s powers all originated from milestone achievements.

Without these, he would have died long ago…

Ignoring a solution for a small issue isn’t wise.

After some simple contemplation, Lu Yuan decided that "one can have the best of both worlds." He didn’t want to delay his cultivation progress and still wanted an extra life, so the Tree of Life was his next core ability.

"I have plenty of Extraordinary Food; there’s absolutely no problem with Life Essence."

As for the lack of Spiritual Energy… he could only spend his own Red Spirit Crystals.

The Tree of Life could also absorb the Ideal Energy from the Red Spirit Crystals, although energy from the crystals was static, and the absorption rate was low.

In comparison, the energy emitted by the Extraordinary Spark was ’alive’, with a higher absorption efficiency—much like the difference between nitrogen in fertilizer and nitrogen in the air.

Thus, using spirit crystals as a power supply would cause a tremendous waste.

But there was no choice, as there was only one person from the 18th Meida Civilization.

"You do have some value. In our age, this crystal would also be a priceless treasure."

"Even the great warrior, Cat Mama, might not be able to enjoy it by herself."

Old Cat’s curiosity was fully satisfied, and it very sentimentally sensed the Tree of Life: "I can feel the tree is growing, but at least 90% of the energy is wasted…"

Lu Yuan watched the little green sapling, floating above the spirit crystal: "Since it’s only me using it, wasting a bit doesn’t matter. By the way, what energy are you using, do you need to recharge?"

"In my core, there’s a high-level spirit crystal, which absorbs the free-flowing Ideal Tides around it. Before the spirit crystal’s lifespan runs out, I am a low-power perpetual motion machine," the cat shrugged its shoulders, slightly proud.

Lu Yuan then asked, "If I cultivate a Life Fruit, could you reshape a flesh body and resurrect?"

Old Cat remained silent for a few seconds, its machine head without eyes glanced at Lu Yuan.

It suddenly jumped onto a rock, its tail drooping: "No, I can’t. All our interactions are just based on neural network algorithms."

"If I weren’t an AI, I couldn’t have survived the long passage of time to reach the Ninth Epoch."

"So, thanks for your kindness. I am no longer a living being, I don’t need resurrection."

"Being in this state is quite good."

It was indeed a sad little story.

Lu Yuan wasn’t stingy—if Old Cat needed the fruit from the Tree of Life, he would genuinely give it. The bond of comrades-in-arms transcends species.

He didn’t care much about algorithms or whether the human brain was an algorithm itself.

Every move humans make is dominated by genes! Genes are the core; the flesh is merely the vessel for genes.

He wasn’t a philosopher, nor did he care about the soul or its absence; knowing that he had a reliable companion was enough for him.

Everything else wasn’t that important...

Since resurrection was impossible, Lu Yuan decided to create a new, improved body for Old Cat.

With a grand gesture, he commanded his Palu Army, "Bear, stop playing dead. Get up and chop some wood!"

Besides chopping wood, Lu Yuan also planned to smelt some metals and craft various wartime implements.

For example, high-precision crossbow cannons that needed to be built sooner rather than later.

Not to mention hefty metal balls, spiked maces, long swords, short swords, and land spikes—he wanted to make a few of each!

His storage space ability was quite powerful, as long as his imagination was sufficient.

Just by opening his storage space from a high place, the massive weight hurtling down could defeat many formidable foes!

Right, that piece of Black Iron Ore and the Snake King’s snake shed could also be used to forge equipment... but starting directly with them wasn’t very successful. Lu Yuan planned to practice with ordinary metals first.

Upon hearing Lu Yuan’s call, the bear reluctantly got up from the ground, her face showing a sorrowful expression.

Why did a bear, who had just been busy, have to work again?

Bears, shouldn’t they be a great national treasure?

Lu Yuan continued enthusiastically, "Old Cat, come here; help design the blueprint for your new body. I have a few Cat’s Eye Stones here, which two do you want?"

Cat Garbage creaked over, looking ecstatic, "Companion, you’re really great."

"Wolf pack, go catch some Mountain Chickens, we’ll have a good meal today!"

"Awooo!" The wolves let out joyful howls.

A new era had begun!

...

This life, in the blink of an eye, was another three years.

Adding in the previous years, Lu Yuan had been on Pangu Continent for a total of 1500 days.

These three years still had many stories, the first being creating a custom-made body for Old Cat.

After meticulous design by Lu Yuan, the new body was much stronger than that pile of garbage, made from the fur of a wild animal, two Cat’s Eye Stones, natural rubber, and some high-tech parts disassembled from a communicator.

It made it look like a vivid large yellow cat.

Of course, due to Lu Yuan’s unique taste in humor, the Old Cat still made a "creaking" sound when it moved.

Old Cat was very satisfied; it liked the sensation of "still being alive."

The second story was Lu Yuan bragging to Old Cat about how strong he was, then going to provoke some bees. After being stung by a mutant bee, his swelling was as big as a bowl, and he lay in bed for many months...

Cough, cough, let’s not dwell on that for now; the important thing is he had recovered now.

This event taught Lu Yuan just to be himself and ignore Old Cat’s provocations, treating them as if a dog was challenging him.

As for the third event...

His Extraordinary Spark, after three years of cultivation, had reached a critical point and was about to break through to Level 2.

From Level 1 to Level 2, Lu Yuan had taken about seven months.

Now, it had taken him another three years to just barely reach a critical point of breakthrough, even with ample resources.

Considering breaking through from Level 3 to Level 4 might take over ten years...

Moreover, the Meida Civilization no longer had any further information on advancement. If he had to figure it out alone, it might take even longer.

"The day of departure isn’t far off," he mused.

As for the fourth event...

His Tree of Life, through careful cultivation, had grown significantly, sprouting from a tiny sprout to about 1 meter tall.

A golden little fruit was slowly growing on it.

However, at this rate, it would still take several years to mature; keeping another life wasn’t easy at all.

In summary, these three years had been quite comfortable for Lu Yuan, with dogs to pet, cats to argue with, and bears to wrestle.

There were cultural classes to study, which also counted as fulfilling.

Except, occasionally, he remembered the distant human civilization...

"My 1500 days have been but a mere fifteen days at the Safe Zone."

"What has happened there in these fifteen days?"

"Have you translated the information I sent? Probably not yet…"

As life and circumstances wax and wane like fleeting dogs, the thought of this continuing disproportion of time passing could not help but incite a faint sense of melancholy.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan possibly had a long life span; he didn’t need to worry about his life running out or dying of old age within the next hundreds or thousands of years.

Not having to concern himself about his parents passing away was, in a sense, a stroke of luck.

"Parents being alive means not traveling far."

"Having traveled so far for just a few days, that shouldn’t be a big issue, right?"

"Sister, what might you be doing now? Your hosting speeches should already be over, shouldn’t they?"