4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

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A cell that was born at the beginning of the life of a planet will see the rise and decline of countless civilizations, the speciation and extinction of organisms. Under the endless calamities of the world, nothing remains unchanging. Only by continuously changing oneself and evolving in the face of adversity could one achieve perfect victory.

The story starts from a little cell…

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进化的四十六亿重奏
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  3. Peak Non-Cultivation / Progression Fantasy
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  5. quality novel for veteran reader

Latest Release

Date Group Release
02/21/22 Dreams of Jianghu v3c15
01/26/22 Dreams of Jianghu v3c14
01/05/22 Dreams of Jianghu v3c13
11/19/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c12
10/17/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c11
08/12/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c10
07/10/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c9
06/24/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c8
05/31/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c7
05/07/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c6
04/19/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c5
03/27/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c4
02/19/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c3
02/13/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c2
02/05/21 Dreams of Jianghu v3c1
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taoria
taoria rated it
March 17, 2018
Status: --
actually the girl is some kind of cthulhu-style god in author's another book.

It's chinese version now has thousands chapters.

the author's perspective go beyond humanity. In the later chapter, the books turn the background into entire universe where the main character 'lin' behave like a observer with curiosity.

Words, Sentences are written in a way of lin's understanding of world, not normal human, All those description and explanation of lin's encounter over thousands chapter are written in such way, which is very amazing and interesting.

Wonder if the writer is human
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Nom de Plume
Nom de Plume rated it
January 7, 2017
Status: c2c21
8 chapter in:
I want to say that this series has a very unique start and I am excited to see what direction it will take.

Description
A little girl (a cultivator?) decides to play creator when she discovers an empty world that contains an ocean. She sows the seeds and leaves immediately after, letting fate decide what they will grow into.

The story follows a cell that the girl left a bit of consciousness in.

I recommend at least trying it out. I expect it will be a long... more>> time before we can even leave the ocean!!

Update as of v2c21: So I've finally realised this is primarily a Spore fan fiction, but the the main character is a hive mind due to gaining sentience before a body. Lin ends up sending out smaller detachments of its own cells to retrieve food. The way the story reads you may have met Lin in Spore... as the undefeatable enemy under the ocean controlling the larger aggressive rival cells. Still 5/5. <<less
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KKristen
KKristen rated it
May 23, 2017
Status: c12
Summary:

A girl has the opportunity to play "Creator" when she discovers an ocean with no life. She leaves some primitive cells and a tiny bit of her consciousness in the water and quickly departs. One of these cells awakes, feeds, slowly gains intelligence, and evolves...

Preliminary Review:

This story takes place on the microscopic level, and while it the evolution sounds scientific, it's really fantasy. The main character is a genderless cellular creature with very limited intelligence. As it eats, some of its cells start to evolve and gain new appearances and... more>> abilities. (Don't think of Darwin's Theory... think of Spore, the game.)

At this point (Ch.12) everything is still on the tiny, primitive level. The "action" consists of encounters with different cellular lifeforms, competing over food, and brushes with hazardous temperatures. The evolutions are minuscule and the process is somewhat similar to simple grinding/leveling: swim --> eat --> divide --> eat --> divide --> mutate --> swim --> eat --> repeat.

The tone of this story is similar to "Slice of life, " with a tiny bit of "Adventure." You have to be in the right, mellow, science-y sort of mood to read this. If you are looking for drama, fight scenes, and quick leveling up (like in other creature-evolution stories, such as "Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken" or "Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?"), you won't find it here. However, I will say that even though I enjoyed those stories more, I also enjoyed this one. 4.6 Billion Years just moves at a much, much slower pace.

Translation:

As always, the translation quality at Dreams of Jianghu is excellent. This story doesn't have Chinese terminology to learn, like in their other series.

However, the new chapters for this series are released VERY slowly (so far, we've had 12 chapters in 6 months), and the story has barely developed at all yet. If you are looking for a new story to binge and follow, this may not be the right one for you.

(I may update this review later after more chapters come out and the story actually starts going somewhere. We'll see.) <<less
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kristall77
kristall77 rated it
August 9, 2020
Status: c2301
Wow, its been a while since I wrote a review, but this masterpiece definitly deserves one.

First of all, I can say that this is the best novel I have ever read.

The story is about "Lin", an organism created by a god/overwordly being"?"... more>>
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(though that isnt relevant further in the novel since the god isnt mentioned anymore)

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In the beginning it is only a cell. Over time it starts exploring it surrounding and it encounters other organisms and learns from them. Over time it goes from multiple one cells to whole cellstructures and it starts to create its own bodies to hunt.
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Later on it leaves the ocean and witnesses the evolution of the whole planet. It watches whole civilizations rising and falling, while becoming worshipped as a god. Later on it even starts leaving its own planet and it comes across other alien species trying to invade its planet. It learns multiple different knowledge about things like interstellar travel, while also guiding its followers to become a multistellar species populating other planets. It experiences multiple wars and always comes out stronger. It gives me a little star wars vibe, but it is also different (in a better way).

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"Lin"'s personality is extremly calm (probably from its old age) and it never changes into one of those cringy MC's that suddenly become completely different then from the start.

The action scenes are from multiple POV's, with many new interesting characters being introduced.

Storywise, I sometimes had problems to keep reading since so much background information was there, but I never regret reading more since it always gets more interesting after the informations.

The world setting in itself is in a planet that just started with its evolution. Its a bit similar to earth
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(like big animals/dinosaurs in the beginning and tribes being formed waging war.

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Overall the different scenes are pretty well depicted so that you get the feeling that you are there yourself.

All in all I can only say that this was one well read and that im happy that I have read it. I feel like it has given me a new perspective on things.

I can only recommend it to anyone looking for a good, long read that stays interesting over the long run. <<less
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Yunusa13
Yunusa13 rated it
January 21, 2021
Status: v3c10
Unique. I always dreamed of reading a novel like this, seeing a being evolve from a cell to who-knows-what. It has fantasy features in it (like in the first chapter we see a cultivator-like girl spraying the cells, and lin having consciousness because of it etc.) and seems to be at least trying to be realistic.

So yeah it is really fun lol hope it gains more attention
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MrsWollfang
MrsWollfang rated it
October 6, 2021
Status: v3c10
Great novel. I can barely wait until the civilization arc!!

I also love Lin, it's so cute and practical and smart!

But seriously, this novel is romance/harem-free, deals with evolution (though not accurately or in number like normal rpg), it's a slice of life, but, because Lin likes to explore and is curious, we do get a few battle scenes, especially with the natural disasters.

... more>> It is a little complex to understand some of its descriptions, but if you follow the translation, you might have a better idea.

Speaking of translation, Dream of Jianghu, the translator, did a great job, although slow. They put a lot of images or videos of animals our MC encounters, which helps a lot. <<less
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Azigard
Azigard rated it
September 7, 2017
Status: c16
Sorry for my incompetent English, because the rules of the site prohibit writing in other languages. The original and interesting idea intrigued me and makes me want to continue. I only think of a couple of remotely similar novels, but they do not start... with so far a start. I expected to see something like Cheating Monster, but despite the fact that my expectations deceived me, I still found an interesting novelty. However, the goddess loli in the beginning makes me afraid of the slide. If the main character suddenly... more>> becomes OJS (an ordinary Japanese schoolboy) and he is accompanied by a loli goddess, then I just wipe my teeth into a powder with indignation (I also have enough in anime). Long translation distresses my reader's spirit, but with this to regret nothing can be done. But almost 3, 000 chapters in the original introduced me into indignation. With such a long translation, I'll read for the rest of my life. Why it is not translated as well as MGA? Although probably I'm asking too much... Well, all we have to do is wait and hope that the story does not repeat itself as with At the Northern Fort, which has been idle for half a year already. <<less
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admira
admira rated it
April 9, 2017
Status: c11
It's kind of weird. My biology is more or less at the high school level, but a lot of the stuff in this seems closer to "fantasy" (impossible) than sci-fi (improbable, but still in the realm of possibility). Still, it's pretty interesting. There's an untethered consciousness that magically controls a collective of cells. If you're familiar with the JP/OEL dungeon core theme, it's like that.
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Nepagear
Nepagear rated it
January 31, 2021
Status: v10c52
it's very wholesome because it kinda depicts the history of evolution while kinda not, ... more>>
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MC is lin, she is very different from other creatures, for me I image her as a zerg queen because she can create units, limbs, organs and cells for her bidding, also she is kinda invincible and immortal because her consciousness can encompass all of her cells, so she can survive as long as one cell is alive, she also created a heart but even if someday someone pierce or destroy his/her heart... she will still live at best it would only slow down the transport of nutrients

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eternialogic
eternialogic
December 18, 2019
Status: c800
One of the few semi-realistic evolution stories, besides the fact that MC can divide his consciousness. The story starts with a singular cell and replicates through multiple mass extinction events.

The story loses it's realism when it gets into the bug arc and continues to deteriorate in realism afterwards, but evens off later.

(You can continue reading if you can stand google translate on comrademao. Com)
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TheDaoOfBrickSmashing
TheDaoOfBrickSmashing rated it
July 10, 2021
Status: --
S tier novel, extremely smart protag no arrogance, no harem or romance basically my kind of story like I just want to play the game quietly
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MaguNexiWarSurvi
MaguNexiWarSurvi rated it
August 13, 2020
Status: v2c41
  1. This is AMAZING. the amount of potential this has and the writing style of the author makes me have high hopes for this.
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First off we have our MC Lin, a seemingly formless organism, and he is able to control his 'body' without the need of the nervous system, but he is also very emotionless, but he does have signs of main character syndrome, being sympathetic and having a "just do it" mindset, while also being calculative and smart.

  1. 100/10

Second, the way the author wrote this is amazing, having more complicated and philosophical writing the more cells Lin has, while also making Lin have jumbled up and chaotic thoughts whenever something bad suddenly happens, or intense pain is inflicted on him.

100/10

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OctipiesAreFriends6 rated it
December 13, 2023
Status: v3c3
Another great and interesting series that got me hooked and then got dropped.
fascinating story and concept of a single cell going through billions of years of development on a planet, competing with other organisms to survive and thrive.
It’s a story with great depth especially in the “sciences” as it walks a fine line between reality and fiction, which to my surprise greatly expanded my interest in microbiology among other things. It’s awesome reading about an organism or creature only to later finds a historicaly similar one in reality.
translator did a great job adding references to this. Making me go into several deep dives.

give this a chance and... more>> you won’t regret it except for when you realize that no new translated chapter has come out since 2022. Even worse is the realization that the OG novel supposedly has over a 1000 chapters.

so if somebody feels capable and inclined to pick this up again then that would be greatly appreciated by a whole bunch of us novelnerds. <<less
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muchinx
muchinx rated it
April 10, 2023
Status: c820
I read it more than 800 chapter it quality novel but not quiet my cup of tea now, I really like it when in earlier chapter MC guide someone or race

reason that I stop reading

1. MC become full time observer did not guide anything

... more>> 2. She did not care even someone fron race that her used to guide use his name to force other to do thing that she did not approve

3. She do many unsung thing and protect everyone only for other claim it for their own god

4. Boss that she fight always be some kind of hive mind being

5.i expect some cultivation or magic but look like it go full bionic, technology

those thing are not bad but I want more wish fulfilment or play god <<less
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Klarel
Klarel rated it
September 15, 2021
Status: --
For at least the entire first book this follows the tired pattern of 'thing nearly kills MC, only for MC to survive and become stronger because of it' but it also has massive setbacks that just happen every few chapters. I also feel that the inclusion of real biological terms feels forced and only brings attention to how most of the cell stuff is pure fantasy rather than the plausibility of sy-fi. Decent story if you enjoy reading the type where it seems like the author goes out of their... more>> way to make it hard for the MC. <<less
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