Chapter 3 The Dharma-ending Era!
"About 35 billion to 42 billion years ago."
"Blue stars didn't have the oxygen we see now."
"At that time, of all life in the world was of the same species."
"That's a purple archaea."
"This archaea occupies every corner of the planet."
"From the ocean to the land, there is a purple carpet of archaea."
At that time, the air of Blue Star was filled with the burning smell of hydrogen sulfide.
Although it looks full of life.
But there is only one life, which is too monotonous.
Ye Zhen is doing serious science popularization. This is an area that no one has ever been exposed to.
"It's in such an almost desperate environment."
"At that time, wherever there was life on the Blue Star, it was all filled with purple archaea."
"These archaea have super vitality and can live for a long time."
"If this continues, the rest of life will never stand a chance."
"After hundreds of millions of years of evolution."
"The first trace of spiritual energy appears, which is oxygen."
"Life before the birth of oxygen was almost immortal."
"From then on, the concept of lifespan came into being."
"There is a group of life forms called cyanobacteria. They have developed an extremely complex photosynthetic system."
“That’s how photosynthesis was born.”
"They absorb sunlight and water and continuously produce oxygen."
"This process lasted for a billion years!"
Billion years! How long does it take for human history to be full?
“Finally, quantitative changes led to qualitative changes, and oxygen began to emerge from the sea into the air.”
"In biology this is called the 'Great Oxidation Event.'"
"And I like to call it the first spiritual revival."
"Why do I say oxygen is highly toxic."
"Because this time the spiritual energy is revived, all creatures in Blue Star will be attacked indiscriminately."
"Oxygen is like the God of Death passing through, killing all living things in the world."
"With its omnipotent oxidation."
"Even the oldest biological archaea, the purple archaea of the former Blue Star Emperor, have all been wiped out."
"No matter what kind of creature you are, there is only one way to die in front of oxygen."
Because the blue star environment at that time was filled with substances such as hydrogen sulfide, methane and carbon dioxide.
Living things at that time relied on these substances to survive.
"At that time, oxygen came in overwhelmingly, oxidizing every ferrous ion in the ocean into rust."
This is the geographical banded iron layer.
"Every hydrogen sulfide in the air was oxidized and turned into sulfates with the rain."
"Oxygen is the enemy of life."
"Oxygen will indiscriminately oxidize the material basis and organic matter that constitute living things."
"That's why I say oxygen is extremely toxic to life."
Coupled with the example Ye Zhen gave before, oxygen is really poisonous.
Ye Zhen was not kidding!
"My dear, was Blue Star once so wonderful?"
"The first spiritual energy recovery! Is the legendary cultivation of immortality true?"
"I'm starting to believe what the host says now."
"How come I haven't seen such an exciting program before!"
The lighting engineers present were even fascinated by Ye Zhen's popular science.
The camera teacher kept giving the camera to Ye Zhen.
The props on the table were not originally these things.
It's just that before going on stage, Ye Zhen proposed to replace all these things.
It was unclear why Ye Zhen did this.
Now it seems that these are real examples of oxygen being toxic! "There was a first spiritual energy revival, and there was a second spiritual energy recovery." "The second spiritual energy recovery allowed these beings to practice aerobic breathing."
"These creatures that know how to breathe aerobically are the products of the second spiritual energy recovery."
"And this is known in the biological world as the Cambrian explosion."
"Lots of different creatures are here at the same time."
"It is precisely because of the second revival of spiritual energy that we have such a colorful and gorgeous world now."
"That's why I say oxygen is also spiritual energy."
"If it weren't for this oxygen, we wouldn't be where we are today."
Ye Zhen's voice seems to have an unknown charm, drawing the audience into that world.
"Then the oxygen goes into a burst phase."
"Ocean-adapted organisms continue to appear."
"The most famous ones are us dinosaurs."
"That era of dinosaurs, whether they were plants or animals."
"They are all much bigger than what we are now."
"Dragonflies more than one meter, mosquitoes the size of a palm."
"In that era when spiritual energy was abundant, there were many such things."
"Grass tens of meters high, and huge creatures."
"Everything is so huge and full of life."
"Because that era had more spiritual energy than we have now."
"That means the oxygen concentration is much higher than what we have now."
"So both animals and plants back then were much bigger than we are now."
"But as time passed, the spiritual energy began to disappear."
"That is, the oxygen concentration is getting lower and lower."
“We’ve been clearest in recent years.”
"The result of oxygen getting lower and lower is increasing carbon dioxide."
"The greenhouse effect has appeared, and the oxygen in our era has been much less than that of our ancients."
Ye Zhen explained to everyone logically and clearly.
But Ye Zhen calls oxygen spiritual energy, which gives people a strange feeling.
It is precisely because of this that Ye Zhen was in a previous life.
Only then will they be cast aside by the scientific community and excluded by the mainstream scientific community.
At that time, Ye Zhen could only study silently by himself.
Finally discovered by Ye Zhen, these two spiritual energy revivals were not accidental.
Rather, there is an invisible hand controlling everything behind the scenes.
Our appearance is not accidental or a miraculous work of nature.
It seems like someone is controlling all of this! At that time, Ye Zhen was also shocked by the conclusion of his research.
So it has never been published.
"There are immortals in some of our legends and myths."
"Everyone has heard of it a lot, like Lu Zulu Dongbin."
"Zuo Ci from the Three Kingdoms period or something like that."
"As we move into modern times, there seem to be fewer and fewer monks."
"Because at this time our spiritual energy is no longer as sufficient as it was in ancient times."
"Compared to the Jurassic era of dinosaurs, they are even rarer."
"This is our Anthropocene."
"But I prefer to call it the Age of Dharma Ending."
Oxygen is highly toxic and will corrode everything and make us humans age.
At the same time, oxygen is also spiritual energy. It is through killing that life is created, and only then can we have the current prosperous world.
Listening to Ye Zhen's science popularization, this is the first time for everyone to see such interesting science popularization.
Some children who were watching the show asked their parents to come out and watch it together.
But at this time, Ye Zhen was just warming up.
"Next, are you ready to subvert your worldview?" Ye Zhen showed an intriguing smile.
(End of this chapter)