The mystery of how the New Army had activated the Activation Terminal's energy source ahead of schedule was revealed. The answer was somewhat unimaginable, yet perfectly suited to their extremism and the destructive nature of Shilin Technology—the power of the apocalypse.
The Shilin civilization's definition of "energy" differed from that of ordinary races. In fact, every race that developed into a cross-world civilization would arrive at an entirely new definition of energy. For a race trapped within its own universe and unable to access the void, the upper limit of energy was the existing products of its universe. Its definition of energy would be narrow, often confined by its own worldview—the cyclical system of a closed universe. But for a cross-world civilization, "energy" had to be an open concept, for a very simple reason—
Once they left their home universe, many things would probably cease to function immediately. Just as oxygen-dependent lifeforms could not survive in a vacuum without bringing their own oxygen, a civilization reliant on the energy of its own world would often discover, upon reaching another universe, that the "energy" it knew either did not exist there at all or followed entirely different circulation laws. This was the result of differences between worlds. The most extreme example was, naturally, the Void Quadrant. Thus, resolving the "conversion" between Void Quadrants and making energies of every level universally usable in other universes was the first lesson every cross-world civilization had to master.
Under this requirement, the concept of energy became broad, and "high-level energy" gained a higher and broader range of application. Whether it was holy light or psionic energy, the other divine arts of the Star Domain God Race or the Truth Power used by the Huron God Race, it all ultimately amounted to a "First Force," or