Zhang Yingying's eyes rolled around. She felt this man was being too mature, which would ruin the effect, so she immediately started arguing nonsense. "Still too abstract. Got anything more practical? You said the Inner World was messing around blindly..."
"When did I—"
"Wasn't that what you meant? Since you said it, aren't you going to give us a relatively clear marker? Or are we supposed to follow Deep Blue's lead?"
Ronan shook his head. "That won't be necessary. Look at the Burners. At the visible level, they're highly effective. Extrapolating upward from there shouldn't pose much of a problem, and the prospects are very broad. But judging from their current form of realization, they're still only an illusory Fire Seed."
"Illusory? Fire Seed?"
"Mhm. Human body modification is one path, and one we can't avoid. But if we can't delve down to the genetic level and affect the birth, death, inheritance, and logic of the life substrate, there will always be regrets."
"Then why don't you segment them? I think you did a pretty convincing job of it." Zhang Yingying waggled her brows, clearly hoping for chaos.
"Unfortunately, I can't." Ronan spoke honestly. "At its core, my method is also illusory. It is still built on a conceptual model rather than an entity-based foundation."
"...Could you make that clearer?"
"What I mean is, I still relied on Soul Power's reverse interference with the physical body to construct an ideal model for igniting the 'Format Fire.' If one day, or in some extreme environment, Soul Power stops functioning, this model will fall apart."
"Soul Power stops functioning?" Zhang Yingying was half Mental Side herself, but she had never experienced anything like that, so she could only make guesses based on her existing knowledge. "Do you mean before the Aberration Era,