Seemingly having played enough, Po circled both hands. The divine dragon covering his entire body continuously coiled, then rushed into the mutant lizard's body.
Time seemingly paused. The mutant lizard's body froze in the air.
Its entire body's strength seemingly stripped away. An irresistible drowsiness left it unable to resist.
Finally, it fell unconscious.
"Exhausted me."
Po landed on the ground, looking at the mutant lizard in the air, wiping nonexistent sweat from his face.
Not that he didn't want to eliminate this mutant lizard—rather, no way to achieve it.
On the surface, though he'd suppressed the mutant lizard, as long as the mutant lizard landed on the ground, all his previous actions would lose effect.
In the air... he lacked moves with damage output explosive enough to eliminate the mutant lizard.
Its defense was too strong!
Next, just wait for Zhang Hai and Ethan Yates to return. Afterward, use Zhang Hai's spatial transmission to send it back to Vantora Capital Spiritual Energy Bureau, or teleport Skyler Quinn here.
"This world's technological path is growing increasingly crooked."
"However, this is also an inevitable result."
Following the Second Spiritual Energy Tide's arrival, humanity's research in the mystical far exceeded science.
Or rather—they used scientific instruments to research the mystical, thereby wanting ability users to become more powerful.
Compared to combining spiritual energy with technology to create weapons with more powerful might, this approach seemingly suited current development better?
Technology as support. Mystical as the main path.
After all, from current development, First Sequence already rivaled walking nuclear bombs—possessing unimaginably terrifying strength. Given enough time, could completely destroy a nation.
And from Spiritual Energy Revival until now—how long had passed?
Ten years? A hundred years?
No—not even one year.
What terrifying development speed!
And now—merely Spiritual Energy Revival's beginning, far from reaching spiritual energy's peak. They still had vastly broader space for progress.
Leave Earth, enter the Solar System? Or enter even deeper universe?
How long would relying on technology require to achieve this?
Unless several more technological explosions occurred.
But technological stagnation—how could that be so easily broken through?
Wanting to combine spiritual energy with technology wasn't an easy matter either. This unknown wondrous energy possessed too many possibilities. Wanting to utilize it required at least some understanding.
But who understood spiritual energy? What was spiritual energy's essence?
Until now, though they'd made attempts with some research results, that couldn't even be considered spiritual energy's crudest application—rather, something very directly created through abilities.
Whether the Spiritual Energy Bureau's detector for testing ability users' talents, or technology for detecting spiritual energy density concentration during Spiritual Energy Tides—both were ability users' results.
One ability user possessing perception abilities. One ability user possessing conversion abilities.
The latter converted the former's ability onto technology.
Such a machine was complete.
Very easy. Very simple. Very casual.
But what was the principle?
How was it achieved?
Why could this conversion ability perfectly convert the opponent's ability onto instruments? The opponent's ability wouldn't even disappear?
This involved too many unknowns—completely inexplicable using existing science.
Ability users themselves didn't know the principle either. To them, this was their ability—they simply could do it.
How to research this?
Research what bullshit.
Did this count as spiritual energy technology?
Ability users' abilities plus a machine—how did this not count?
Count what the hell!
Couldn't even explain principles—how could they have the nerve to call this spiritual energy technology?!
Time passing, though still researching, research directions increasingly leaned toward using technology as support—through conversion abilities attempting to combine abilities with technology, then create things useful to humanity.
Principles?
Were principles important?
As long as these ability users still lived—as many as wanted, right?
That's what they said, but did they truly want this in their hearts?
Scientific research's most important aspect was pursuing truth.
Results were very important, but this exploratory process in between was equally important—even more important—because this process very likely would derive many different interesting answers.
Rather than like now—two ability users plus a machine, directly skipping engineering to directly create results.
"Is this bad?"
"Even angels—if not for us already walking technology's path too long, plus our own world lacking spiritual energy—would likely walk such a path too."
Zhixin stood beside Brandon White, speaking incomprehensibly.
Descending to this world for so long, she increasingly marveled at humanity's progress speed under spiritual energy.
In combat power alone, current First Sequence already possessed strength not inferior to third-generation super soldiers—even surpassing in other aspects.
Moreover, current humanity would continue progressing at even faster speeds.
Each Spiritual Energy Tide was a massive enhancement.
Now already rivaling or even surpassing third-generation super soldiers—after several more Spiritual Energy Tides, those First Sequence's strength would likely surpass third-generation divine bodies.
How many years did angels take to develop to this degree?
Moreover, this was still far from their peak.
According to Sacred Treasury's speculation, plus information Brandon White provided—in the future, they very likely could burst forth power sufficient to destroy star systems through their own selves.
Without relying on technology, even Queen Keisha couldn't achieve this.
Technology was the path pursuing information and truth. The more knowledge they grasped, the farther they walked on technology's path. The civilization's possessed power also grew stronger.
Among the mystical also existed similar powerhouses pursuing knowledge and truth. But ultimately, both sides' paths before reaching convergence points were completely different.
Of course, most importantly—technology, like the mystical, possessed countless different systems.
Super Seminary's Divine Body System was one of them.
Though divine bodies' own combat power wasn't strong—seemingly disproportionate compared to consumed resources—technologies born under the Divine Body System were all extremely powerful.
Hand-rubbing black holes. Stellar flare bombardment. Igniting supernovas... and Void Engines.
Void Engine's functions—even in Brandon White's view—were extremely powerful. Relying on powerful computational power to rewrite concepts, redefining each fundamental particle, overturning this dimension's energy conservation law.
Strictly speaking, it could create everything—as long as you knew enough and computational power was sufficiently powerful.
"Technology and mysticism's mutual complementarity is based on conditions where both sides progress."
"If only one side continuously progresses, sooner or later the side falling far behind will be eliminated."
(End of Chapter)