"Efficiency" here was more like an advantage over others, a measure of the differences between living beings.
Of course, it was also a struggle and a race between people and the laws of the Material Universe.
For Death Witch in Earth Spacetime and Luande in the Red Silicon Star System, the greater challenge was probably not beating other people, but breaking free from birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Whether they struggled against people or against the laws of the universe, the contest was bound to be complex, with each side rising and falling in turn...
Yet across countless epochs in the vast River of Time, the lofty Myriad Heavens Gods—the suspected makers and beneficiaries of the Local Universe's ultimate rules—had always held on to their advantage.
By that logic, hadn't their "favorable rules" also supplied fuel to the Six Heavens God Calamity for ages?
The Deities ruled the Order World, while the Six Heavens God Calamity roamed its shadowy fringes. Together, they formed a stable ecology that had lasted billions of years.
But no system began fully formed and stable.
As a historian, Ronan habitually traced things back to their source.
Who had created this ecology, so enduring it seemed immutable, yet so perilous at its foundations?
The Shadow Domain held by the Six Heavens God Calamity had endured and grown for so long that it must have needed "fuel" and "food."
But the Six Heavens God Calamity had appeared before the Myriad Heavens Gods...
Then had the Ancient Gods been the ones who built the earlier system of rules and supplied its "fuel"?
But the Ancient Gods were natural bearers of the rules. Their sheer scale and existence made them embodiments of power and law, even as the Local Universe confined and tore at them.
There was no question