"This..." Marnina paused.
He actually knew the true reason Blue Star's psionic energy had been depleted, but the matter was highly classified, and he had not yet decided whether to tell Lanqi.
After some thought, out of trust in Lanqi, Marnina ultimately decided to tell his confidant.
"Lanqi." Marnina spoke slowly. "As far as I know, Blue Star entered the Age of Dharma Decline because one of its God-tier Experts made a deal with the Super AI Sheng Ge."
"A deal?"
"That's right." Sheng Ge nodded. "That God-tier Expert was willing to let the psionic energy on Blue Star's surface run dry, allowing all of it to seep into and be stored within the mantle. After it had been stored for several thousand more years, Blue Star Human would voluntarily offer all that accumulated, enormous amount of psionic energy to Sheng Ge, keeping none for themselves."
"All the psionic energy of an entire planet, offered to Sheng Ge? Isn't that too extreme?" Lanqi was startled, his eyes filled with astonishment and confusion.
Why would Blue Star Human do that? Were they what people called "living bodhisattvas"?
After thinking it over carefully, Lanqi realized there were many things he could not make sense of.
So he asked, "Your Majesty, if they offer all their psionic energy to Sheng Ge, what benefits do Blue Star Human get?"
"The benefit Blue Star Human get is, of course—safety." Marnina picked up the Lake Bug Juice on his desk and took a sip.
"If they offer all their psionic energy to Sheng Ge, she will protect Blue Star as a 'Newborn Civilization.'
"You should have read Blue Star Human's Cosmic Research Data, right? They have not observed any life in the universe. But in truth, their technology is already sufficient to discover that the entire