When the students saw the words on the big screen, their first reaction was that there was nothing new about them.
Who didn't know about Mind Power? Besides, Philosophical Contemplation of Mind Power was a mandatory core course at the academy, and Ouyang Shanyue had already discussed many analyses related to it.
Now that Guan Tong had chosen it as his topic, the students found it cliché on one hand, but were also curious about what new angle he could offer.
"Everything I want to say is speculation based on my personal experiences. It may not be correct, so just listen and judge for yourselves. I'll skip the basics—you definitely already understand those."
"At present, there are two main schools of thought regarding the nature of Mind Power. One believes it is an idealist medium that humans can use to reshape the real world, and thus calls itself the Idealist Origin Faction."
"The other believes it is a special energy system created by the Fire Thief, existing purely to serve the Apocalypse Rules. Like an energy bar in a game, it has little to do with humanity itself. This school is therefore called the Fire Thief Tool Faction."
"The two viewpoints have roughly equal numbers of supporters. The Idealist Origin Faction argues that humans can use Mind Power to create energy and matter from nothing, and can even interfere with or resist the Apocalypse Rules to a certain degree. Therefore, it could not have originated from the Fire Thief—would a game's GM hand cheat codes to the players?"
"The Fire Thief Tool Faction's rebuttal is equally strong. If Mind Power comes from humans themselves, why can the Fire Thief increase or diminish it through rules? What changes in the same person between the second before a Rule End and the