New Wildfire immediately discovered that Wang Yong, whom he had "swallowed," no longer possessed the core glow of life. This was a fact confirmed through the dual verification of Unranked Divine Power, Pure Observation, and New Wildfire's own scans.
At this moment, the hazy radiance of the Mirror of Appraisal also projected over. With a single sweep, it roughly retraced the subtle changes that had occurred to Wang Yong in the instant before and after Lava Island swallowed him.
He had shattered the Lava Giant prison, unleashed anomalous power to erase the suppression of the rules, and leapt upward... During that brief interval, Wang Yong's life glow had made an Astral Projection-like leap, even taking away a considerable portion of his life force, leaving behind only a cold shell.
And that shell, though flesh and blood, differed somewhat from a normal body in terms of its life structure.
This kind of method...
A clone? An Uploader?
The situation with this man was not Ronan's area of expertise, but New Wildfire was an expert in precisely this field. After several rounds of observation by various means, he had reached a preliminary conclusion:
It was probably a relatively primitive form of Uploader technology.
Not only had the "cloud backup" not been completed, they had yet to grasp the key technology of how the Cloud End truly backed up "life elements." Therefore, every transfer required an Astral Projection-like method to take away part of the life force. During cross-space transfer, some of that life force would be lost; after being "downloaded" into a new body, another portion would be consumed as a seed of power. Then came a relatively long cultivation period and recovery period.
If all Uploaders were like this, the Thought Star Cluster could practically be wiped out as a nation.