Knowledge from Idle Chatter

Micro-Birds could easily pass through human bodies, buildings, and even worlds. They were difficult to observe and ordinarily could not affect other matter.

Thus, combined with their birdlike yet fishlike appearance, they were named Micro-Birds.

It was actually rather casual, but naming civilizations had always been like that.

One had to know that many worlds did not even have names. They were all just numbers.

Yan Cong continued explaining Micro-Birds to the others in the team.

Li Qi listened intently as well.

But as he listened, the diviner Youxiong Gong suddenly asked, "Why are so many of these traits merely conjecture? Do we not understand them yet?"

Yan Cong, the technical expert, shook his head. "Of course not. To be honest, communication with Micro-Birds has been extremely difficult and abstract thus far. Both sides find it hard to understand the other. We can only communicate through complex mathematical language. After all, mathematics is universal—but even mathematics finds it difficult to convey actual information."

"Why?" Even Li Qi grew curious now.

Yan Cong continued, "Because they really are completely different. A Second Rank World must have its own peculiarities. The way Micro-Birds think is fundamentally different from ours, making communication impossible."

"At first, we thought it was merely a language barrier. We joined forces with the Spirit Path and found a third-rank master of the Spirit Path, hoping to use their attainments in pure thought to establish a mental connection with the Micro-Birds. We wanted to bypass the differences between our material worlds, directly break through the senses and the five aggregates, and engage in a thorough conversation of the mind."

"This was not difficult. Honestly, it was quite easy. But once the mental dialogue was established, we discovered that even through communication of pure thought, we still could not understand