"Let's state the conclusion outright. Power can overcome finesse. No matter how exquisite the design, it means nothing before an absolute gap. If we want this to truly work, we have to... create a god!"
It made perfect sense. Those fragments were probably still Tier 11.
No matter how watered down they became after repeated degradation, an eighth-tier creature was simply too far below them in terms of scale to have any effect.
You were trying to move a thousand pounds with four ounces—you could not even get the lever onto its fulcrum.
And to nurture a "deity," they could only proceed step by step.
"First, the cradle that nurtures a deity has to be high enough grade. Your cauldron is too weak."
It was the most straightforward reality, pointed out directly by the big shots.
As a bound, accompanying rule-bound object of Lu PingAn, Lu PingAn's Life Cauldron was linked to his own strength. In essence, it was the manifestation of his World's Logic.
But Lu PingAn was only Tier 8, so the cauldron was naturally Tier 8 as well. Even a Tier 9 cauldron would still be insufficient to nurture a deity.
Force an upgrade? If they added the power and materials of other big shots, they could indeed raise its tier. But "nurturing life," its Core Ability, was part of Lu PingAn's World's Logic. If that remained unchanged, then replacing the shell... with a gold cauldron inlaid with dragon patterns and complimentary automatic defense cannons might certainly make it higher-tier than before, but it would have no actual meaning.
"...There is a shortcut. Your Courtyard is actually Tier 10."
The Courtyard was God's Ark, a colony ship that Chris had brought to this planet after inheriting the legacy of a certain Race God. Though in the end,