Chapter 1: Mystical Pen

"Who is so lacking in morals, parabolic!" Chen Luo angrily touched his smashed forehead and picked up the pen on the ground. Chen Luo was about to spit up blood. It was a really bad day for him. First, he lost his wallet when he went out. Then, he arrived at the company only to be laid off.

Chen Luo picked up the "weapon" to search for the culprit but soon realized something was wrong. There was a big road nearby, and no tall buildings, meaning there couldn't have been a high-altitude throw. "Is it possible that someone deliberately smashed me with this pen?" Chen Luo looked around suspiciously but found that the people passing by hurriedly moved on as if they were in a different world and didn't notice him at all.

Chen Luo was speechless. Just as he was about to leave, he noticed something odd: the pen, stained with his blood, had disappeared. Chen Luo rubbed his eyes. He clearly saw the pen break his head, and there was blood on it. Why was it gone? Unbelievable, Chen Luo took the pen and glanced at it. It was really clean with no trace of blood.

Just then, a sudden roar came from his mind. [Successful analysis of blood, identification of the gene of godship...] [Successful detection, God Gene matches, God Soul meets, Bind Pen is successful...] "Who!?" Chen Luo looked around in confusion but found the crowd looking at him like he was crazy, quickly keeping their distance. Chen Luo froze for a moment and, feeling a bit embarrassed, quickly hurried back to his home.

Chen Luo is a native of Jiangcheng. His parents died very early, leaving him this house, which is his only property. When his parents died, several relatives wanted to fight for Chen Luo's custody to get their hands on this house and his parents' legacy. But for years, no one succeeded, and Chen Luo, having turned 18, recognized their true colors and gradually cut off contact with them.

When Chen Luo returned home, he cleaned the wound on his forehead and collapsed on the sofa, feeling lost and without a life goal. His life seemed boring and mediocre, living to 25 without doing anything extraordinary. Except for losing his parents as a teenager, he felt like a puppet, led by others, society, and fate. Step by step, he went to college, fell in love, broke up, found a job, and then got laid off due to poor management.

While Chen Luo was blankly thinking about his next move, a strange light appeared before him. He saw the pen on the table turn into a white light and penetrate his eyebrows. In an instant, his mind roared with countless pieces of information, but his brain capacity was too small, losing most of it, leaving only a key part deeply imprinted.

When Chen Luo woke up, it was already dark. He felt an extraordinary calmness because he knew what had gotten into his body. The pen that entered Chen Luo's mind is called the Hundred Yuan Pen, of unknown origin. It hit him because it was sent by his future self.

Though unreasonable, Chen Luo had no doubt. The pen contained the soul imprint of "Future Chen Luo," now fully integrated with him. This memory was too large, so it was sealed until he became stronger. The key information he now knew was that there would be a great horror in the future, and he must unlock the third-order genetic lock within three years, or he would surely die.

Chen Luo's heart sank. The voice from his soul and a sense of intrigue made him believe this. He immediately got up and quickly found a notebook. He reached out his hand, and the pen appeared out of thin air. Besides conveying the upcoming threats, there was also the method of using the Hundred Yuan Pen.

Chen Luo began to write on the notebook. As he wrote, he suddenly saw a flower in his eyes. Holding the Hundred Yuan Pen, he stepped into the darkness of chaos. [Light.] Chen Luo had expected this and quickly wrote the first word. The chaotic darkness burst into brilliant white light, and a sun appeared, illuminating the world instantly.

[Water], [Land], [Air], [Star]. As he wrote these words, an expansive sea emerged, waves surged, and the wind rose. At the end of the sea, countless giant peaks stretched endlessly. [Time.] When these words landed on the notebook, the sun started to move, creating day and night rotation.

[Life.] Bacteria and blue algae suddenly appeared in the ocean, quickly filling it and making it lively. At this point, Chen Luo suddenly softened and returned to his room, collapsing to the ground. When the next day dawned, Chen Luo woke up, feeling collapsed, weak, dizzy, and chest tight. Hunger gnawed at him.

Chen Luo struggled to the refrigerator, devouring everything he could find, feeling like he hadn't eaten for hundreds of years. After filling his stomach, he felt a bit better but still weak. Chen Luo smiled bitterly, "I can't believe creating a world consumes so much..."

The Hundred Yuan Pen is an innate spiritual treasure that can create a world. Whatever you write, it creates in the corresponding world. For example, when Chen Luo wrote "light," a sun was born, making him the creator. But such an extraordinary ability comes at a cost: it consumes the user's spirit, essentially their life.

Chen Luo's collapse improved slightly after a week of rest. He estimated it would take at least a month to recover fully. He couldn't confirm how much life he had lost, but his body felt as though he had lost around five years.

During this time, Chen Luo noticed three ancient seal characters "Genesis" had appeared on the cover of the notebook written by the Hunyuan Pen. Opening this "Genesis," Chen Luo could perceive the world he had created and even enter it with a thought. He had set the time flow ratio so that one day in the real world equated to 10,000 years in the created world. Now, seven days had passed, and 70,000 years had gone by in the created world, which had undergone significant changes.

In addition to the initial sky, ocean, sun, and moon, stars, gravity, air, clouds, and wind had appeared on Earth. After tens of thousands of years of evolution, bacteria and algae had spread green across the Earth. Numerous algae on the seabed evolved into shell invertebrates and even blue-striped fish, which Chen Luo called "blue fish."

Chen Luo was keen on the evolution of these blue fish because the Hunyuan Pen's second function was to extract the genes of creatures created in the world. By fusing these genes, he could enhance his god genes and unlock the gene lock.

With the different time speeds, Chen Luo watched the continuous alternation of day and night in Genesis like a fast-forward documentary. Within a day, the blue fish on the seabed had gone through several generations. By the next day, their population had grown, and a leader fish emerged, three to four times larger than the average blue fish, leading the group to become the marine world's overlords.

On the third day, as the blue fish population exploded, other seabed creatures became their food, and the first generation of fish died, succeeded by the second generation. On the fourth day, with their numbers continuing to rise, the blue fish began to devour each other as ocean microorganisms and algae couldn't sustain them.

Years flew by, and the blue fish split into dozens of groups, evolving larger sizes, sharp teeth, and militarized behavior. On the fifth day, two groups, unable to compete, fled to deeper seas, becoming deep-sea fish. Another group approached the mainland, evolving limbs for land adaptation.

On the sixth day, the blue fish's maritime hegemony battle ended, with the largest and fiercest group, named "Blue Devils" by Chen Luo, becoming the sole marine overlord. On the seventh day, the land-bound blue fish evolved into amphibians, rapidly multiplying and diversifying, enriching the Genesis world.

Watching this process, Chen Luo was amazed by life's tenacity and wonder. He then commanded, "Analyze the blue devil fish gene." Enhancing his god genes was crucial, as he only had 0.1% compared to the 5% needed to unlock the first-order gene lock.

The Hunyuan Pen could extract and integrate valuable genes from created creatures. However, the response was disappointing: "The primitive life has evolved to its peak, and its genetic value is low, and it cannot be integrated into the gene of Godborn. Evaluation: ordinary." The first overlord of the world had no value, leaving Chen Luo to create new, valuable species.

Not being a biologist, Chen Luo struggled with identifying valuable genes. He realized that while his knowledge was limited, many people in the world had the expertise he lacked. Inspired by a sandbox game called "Spores," where players evolved creatures from spores, he decided to turn "Genesis" into an online game.

By allowing others to enter Genesis and evolve species as a game, they could create new species for him. The Hunyuan Pen's ability to open up worlds meant it could easily handle this function.

"So... how can more people come in to help me create new species?" Chen Luo pondered. Inspired by the game, he thought, "Make 'Genesis' into an online game!" Letting others' consciousness enter the world to evolve species would help him immensely.