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

The mysterious voice continued:

[In the Ninth Epoch, the Pangu Continent is being formed.]

[Earth, human race, a total of 17 participating cities, each representing 17 branches of human civilization.]

[Currently sending all participating civilizations to the safe zone on the Pangu Continent...]

"What the hell?"

Then, just as Lu Yuan was hiding in the Different Space, completely baffled, something even more astonishing happened!

Earth...

Earth...

Gone!!

In the blink of an eye, the ground beneath him had vanished.

This dramatic scene shocked Lu Yuan's soul, nearly stopping his heart and turning him into a vegetable.

What kind of mighty power could make the Earth disappear into thin air?

This was beyond Lu Yuan's imagination.

If one must use human terms to describe it, it could only be referred to as "God's" power!

Whether it is "God," "Jade Emperor," or "Divine-level civilization," "super divine civilization," humans explain things they do not understand as "God," a lazy yet efficient approach.

By the time Lu Yuan slowly recovered from his vegetative state, he found that Earth had inexplicably disappeared, and he himself was left in outer space.

A famous quote unconsciously flashed through his mind: "This is one small step for me, a giant leap for mankind."

"I am the first person to physically fly into outer space, the answer is Earth itself disappeared, but I'm still here."

...

"What the hell is this!"

In that moment, Lu Yuan completely broke down.

The entire world had left with the Earth, leaving him behind all alone.

This scene was not tragic but bizarrely comedic.

Did Earth explode or what?

What about my food and water needs? How will I relieve myself?

How am I going to survive!

Lu Yuan recalled a character named "Kaz" from an anime who, out of sheer boredom after being sent into space, chose to stop thinking.

Now, he found himself in a similar predicament.

But he was not an ultimate life form or an immortal; he was just an ordinary human. How could he survive in space?

Lu Yuan felt as if his brain had had a stroke, all its cortex turned to mush.

"Wait a minute... What is that?"

Lu Yuan squinted and saw cities enclosed in "soap bubbles," a total of 17!

These cities seemed to have been specifically selected by "God"; they hadn't disappeared with Earth.

They were shimmering with golden light and moving swiftly towards a direction, like comets streaking across the sky.

"Safe Zone... Are these cities heading to a safe zone?"

"Take me with you, I am part of the human race too!!!" Lu Yuan shouted loudly.

But obviously, "God" ignored him.

Only that cold voice appeared every 10 minutes or so.

[Harmonizing biological colonies...]

[Reconstructing the Pangu Continent's weather system...]

[Accounting for the number of remaining extraordinary lives... Scrambling their distribution...]

[Harmonizing gravity data...]

[Spreading Extraordinary Sparks...]

Only in hindsight would one realize that the ability "Different Space" had doomed him.

If Lu Yuan hadn't hidden in Different Space, he clearly would have "disappeared" with Earth or otherwise would have flown away with those 17 cities.

In any case, with such a huge event happening, hiding in a city would have allowed him to huddle together with fellow humans for warmth.

But now, hiding in Different Space, "God" didn't consider him a part of human civilization.

Thus, he was left behind.

Once Lu Yuan realized what had happened, he wanted to deactivate the Different Space.

But he worried about the lack of air in outer space.

At least in Different Space, there was some oxygen, so he wouldn't die immediately.

Moreover, "God" wouldn't care about the thoughts of an ant.

He didn't know how much time had passed when the cold voice spoke again: [All civilizational branches have reached their designated locations, safe zones activated.]

[Please note, the flow of time within the safe zone is only one hundredth of that on Pangu Continent.]

[Inside the safe zone, resources are scarce, development is slow.]

[Civilizations may deactivate the safe zone at will to actively explore the Pangu Continent.]

[Once deactivated, the safe zone cannot be restored, and they will directly face external risks.]

[All civilizations, please adapt to environmental changes swiftly.]

[Ninth Epoch, civilization selection, officially begins!]

As Lu Yuan despaired, he briefly analyzed this segment of text.

"God's" purpose might be to select the so-called "strongest civilization of the Ninth Epoch?"

Each city represents a civilization...

Including Yunhai City, which Lu Yuan had just been a part of, possibly representing the Great Xia Civilization?

But even the strongest race, faced with such an event, would inevitably be thrown into chaos.

Thus, the "kind-hearted" "God" set up the concept of "safe zones."

If a civilization has completed its internal integration, it can actively deactivate the "safe zone" and formally proceed towards the Pangu Continent.

Of course, they could also choose not to deactivate and keep hiding in the safe zone.

But the price is, the passage of time is only one percent of that on the Pangu Continent.

While other civilizations develop for a hundred years on the Pangu Continent, you only develop for one year in the safe zone, clearly an impossible way to pass "God's" selection, equivalent to self-extinction.

"But what does it have to do with me? Am I a whole civilization myself?!" Lu Yuan was utterly distraught.

Then he saw what was called the "Pangu Continent," slowly appearing in the universe.

It was like an immensely vast ink painting scroll, endlessly stretching into cosmic space, from azure oceans to golden shores, from verdant oases to barren deserts, from snow-capped mountains to flat grasslands, from pale blue lakes to majestic plateaus...