The Mother Universe's innate top-tier Lifeform Root Perception was still different from the Golden Apple.
After eating the Golden Apple, one could continuously and clearly sense everything around them for 168 hours.
But the ancient god's perception was different. She had to consciously and intensely activate it. It was not passive, and its strength was unstable under different circumstances and at different times.
When fighting the Society members, she had actually been focusing on sensing their abilities the entire time.
Even so, learning a target's characteristics at the first opportunity was still too difficult.
After all, Root Perception was vague and unreliable. Reading anything useful right away depended on luck.
Take the panda from before, for example. Before Mo Qiong said it could perform an invincible roll, Gaia had tried sensing it, but all she had felt was that the panda had not been born of a mother...
As time passed, after being suppressed by Mo Qiong for over ten minutes, she sensed that the panda had an overflowing affinity with Mo Qiong.
She had never managed to sense the invincible roll Mo Qiong had mentioned.
That was why even the ancient god needed humans as test subjects. The things she sensed were simply too chaotic and irregular.
After several thousand years, Gaia had clearly wanted to remove the lock-on of the Coordinate Gloves, yet she had instead obtained an indestructible characteristic from another Contained Object.
That showed just how treacherous the Root Algorithm was.
Compared to that, the Golden Apple Effect was actually better than the ancient god's Root Sense. The information was fuller—roughly the difference between a television and a radio.
The ancient god could absorb characteristics from Contained Objects through this "free" Root Perception.
That showed that the ancient god's sensitivity to various roots was probably on