"What was cultivation? In the terms of Format Theory, it was nothing more than the harmonious unity of the Self Format, Social Format, and Heaven and Earth Format.
"During this time, President Abner had probably been pondering the composition of his own Extraordinary Power as well. But focusing on oneself alone was not enough. Since we lived in this spacetime, we had to understand the Space-Time Architecture we occupied and its true underlying nature.
"How would such a special High-Energy Environment, with its vast quantities of fragmented Deformation genes and Rule Fragments, affect each of us? How did those effects come about?
"At the beginning, we could ignore all that and use them to build a ladder of power. But if we wanted to go further in the future, we had to figure it out."
At this point, Ronan suddenly asked a question.
"After the last Summit Conference, President Abner, did you make any speculative comparisons between our current environment and the bits of information you knew about the Central Star Zone?"
Abner answered with a smile. "Of course I did."
"Right? It was unavoidable. I was making comparisons too."
Ronan was smiling as well. "In my view, from the perspective of cultivation, there was no doubt that Inner Earth, already a pot of boiling high-energy soup, far surpassed Outer Earth, as well as other spacetime environments not covered by the Abyssal Spirit Net.
"That left everyone with only two options: one, cultivate this local spacetime in depth; two, jump into the Abyssal Spirit Net system of the Central Star Zone.
"But as I said at the Summit Conference, whether it was the Reclamation Corps or Li Wei, neither looked like decent people, nor did they seem like a legitimate resource-development team. And over in the Central Star Zone, the