There is no guarantee for the lottery? So what?

Geniuses can emerge from any race.

They possess an exceptional affinity for Source energy. Even through simple breathing, their total Source energy rapidly increases, far surpassing others.

However, that alone isn't enough.

While possessing powerful Source energy, they must also have potent skills to be considered geniuses.

These could be innate talents or extraordinary abilities acquired from traversing worlds.

Beyond these two attributes, they must also possess an exquisite mind.

Perseverance and keen perception are indispensable.

Many creatures satisfy one of these three criteria, fewer satisfy two, and even fewer satisfy all three.

Within ordinary races, one or two such individuals might appear every few years.

But once they do, they bring significant changes to their race.

Take, for example, the creators of those 'innate skills'.

Millennia ago, a Jyun Ape acquired the ability 'Size', which at the first four levels allowed it to enlarge or shrink anything related to its body.

But at the fifth level, an unexpected change occurred.

It managed to engrave its ability into its DNA!

This meant that all its descendants would inherit the 'Size' ability, gaining this powerful enlargement and shrinking capability.

Therefore, for the continuation and prosperity of its race, this Jyun Ape began a tireless mating life.

The marital relationships of the Jyun Apes collapsed instantly at that moment.

Regardless of whether she was the clan leader's nth spouse, the elder's nth daughter, or someone's mother or grandmother, as long as she was fertile, she had to 'learn' from it and bear offspring with its genes.

All males lost their mating rights, which were transferred to this single Jyun Ape.

Thus, the Jyun Apes' innate skill was born.

From then on, every one of them could alter the size of things related to themselves, and much learning experience and strengthening methods related to this ability emerged.

As for the downside, the Jyun Ape that contributed its genes every day died from exhaustion.

It could have become the strongest but died on the road to its descendants' prosperity, on the very day its ability reached level five.

Moreover, the drawbacks didn't stop there.

With only one male and N females, their offspring would inevitably decrease significantly, and their numbers would plummet.

The Jyun Apes' numbers also dwindled to less than one-tenth of their original size.

Yet, they all considered it worthwhile.

The clan leader, the elders, all the males who lost their mating rights, and all the females believed that improving the entire race's genes with a temporary decrease in numbers was a very worthwhile trade.

Temporary numbers cannot determine success or failure; eternal strength is the true victory!

Precisely because of their efforts, the Jyun Apes ultimately became one of the alien races that survived in the Giant Beast Mountain Range.

As for why only one of them?

Because most other alien races did the same.

The Shadow Lynx's 'Shadow', the Ethereal Bird's 'Ethereal', the Giant Treant's 'Branch', and so on; they were all fortunate enough to give birth to genius mentors who could pass down 'innate skills'.

No, it should be said that those who didn't do so were eliminated in the previous racial wars.

Without dimensional doors and innate skills, the number of ability users dwindled with each fight; how could that race endure?

However, some alien races were exceptions.

They didn't have innate skills, yet they continued to live well in this world.

Like the Demon Mushrooms, they didn't have any innate skills, but they also became one of the powerful alien races occupying the Giant Beast Mountain Range.

Their extreme 'genetic adaptability', allowing them to adapt to almost any environment, allowed them to occupy places in the Giant Beast Mountain Range where ordinary races couldn't survive, and their rapid reproduction maintained their original territory size.

No race wanted to live in the territory of Demon Mushrooms that could never be killed off completely.

But ultimately, they will all die.

They will all die under the crushing of the Walking Dragons, in their boundless esophagi, and in the wars with humans.

But one race is an exception.

The White Worms.

They don't have the innate skills that other races possess, nor the evolutionary adaptability of the Demon Mushrooms.

So what did they rely on to join the ranks of the powerful alien races?

Also a genius.

This White Worm didn't improve the genes of its entire race like other races, nor did it think about growing stronger through reproduction.

It relied only on itself and its ability.

That's right.

Like Hong Wei's idea, it, alone, sheltered its entire race!

No, the White Worms can no longer be called a race.

The White Worms is just the White Worm, the White Worm race has only it.

Because its ability is 'Worm Mother'.

Upon hearing the name of this ability, one might think that its ability is some kind of extraordinary breeding, a zerg-like reproductive ability.

But it's not, at least not entirely.

Its true ability is to fuse all other White Worms into its own body, enlarging its size as if combining.

But that's not the key.

The most crucial point is that it will possess all the abilities of the White Worms it has fused with!

And their abilities can still grow!

When this individual reaches level five, all the abilities it has fused with will also become level five.

Therefore, the entire White Worm race was fused into its body, and it, alone, possessed hundreds of millions of abilities!

Whether it's a trash ability like 'spitting out a mouthful of soil every morning' or an excellent single-word ability like 'Conceal', it has them all!

Normally speaking, it is invincible.

But judging from the fact that other races are still alive, it is abnormal.

This ability has a drawback: when it fuses, it not only fuses other worms' abilities but also fuses everything else, including their souls and thoughts.

Having already fused the entire race into itself, it absorbed hundreds of millions of thoughts and souls.

In short, it can no longer control its own thoughts.

It's like a madman containing a large number of abilities, sometimes drilling into the ground, sometimes eating soil, sometimes trembling, sometimes hitting itself.

No one knows what it will do next.

The only thing anyone knows is that every time it does something, it might be interrupted by something else.

For example, eating soil halfway and then starting to roll, and while rolling, it starts to hiccup, and while hiccupping, it wants to spit silk, causing it to be almost unable to leave the original place of the White Worm race.

Except for avoiding its own death, it will do almost anything, but it can't accomplish anything.

Therefore, this White Worm began to try to separate itself.

'Worm Mother' certainly has the ability to give birth to children.

Every day, it releases a large number of 'children' from its huge body, transferring the thoughts and abilities on its body to the bodies of these 'children' to reduce its burden.

It can also be considered an indirect reproduction of the White Worm race.

Of course, there are definitely not enough of these 'children'; each one has dozens or hundreds of abilities, and they must be taken back into the Worm Mother's body every seven days, otherwise, they will die.

But even so, it only slightly reduced the Worm Mother's mental burden; the remaining tens of millions of souls on its body still make its mind chaotic.