It wasn't that these civilization leaders were incapable of wielding the power of civilization and could only rely on hand-to-hand combat like those extreme lifeforms.
The exact opposite was true. Every civilization leader present was wielding the power of the "technology tree," to one degree or another.
Within the "Chaotic Mechanical Demon Cloud" evolved by that Elephant Lord, Gao Gong sensed an intense "colossal presence," as if at least one galaxy-level giant were supporting its attacks from behind. Every attack carried a force field capable of annihilating an entire subspace.
Essentially, colossal-entity technology simulated "species" that could not possibly exist in the universe—such as galactic species, galaxy-cluster lifeforms, and supercluster lifeforms—through some means or another.
As for methods like the "Seed Lord's," which resembled biological invasion, there had to be hundreds or thousands of genetic planets behind them, using planet-level biological calculations and gene editing to decipher the Queen's authority in real time.
And the billions upon billions of lives on those planets, along with the various biological models they had constructed—did they not count as the power of civilization?
There was even less need to mention this Grand Speaker. Not only was he the sole person capable of controlling this cosmic relic, but the mechanical tide beneath his feet had at least touched the threshold of "quantum mode," even if it had yet to reach "deep quantum mode." From Gao Gong's perspective, traces of quantum space faintly surrounded the Grand Speaker.
In other words, to injure him, one had to break through the "observer effect" and completely shatter this layer of quantum space.
But honestly speaking—
Even after wielding the power of the technology tree, not one of the civilization leaders present had advanced into an "Immortal Leader" or an "Undying Leader."
In professional terms, civilizations in their middle