The evolution of civilization always took place in all sorts of unexpected ways.
For example, among the various divine systems, the carbon-based divine system had the greatest reputation and was universally acknowledged to have the greatest potential.
And yet, the legendary ninth-level carbon-based civilization that stood at the peak of carbon-based civilization had not taken the path of a divine system.
Ironically, on this seemingly incompatible path with a "divine system," the legendary ninth-level mechanical civilization—the Church of Creation—was actually a divine-system civilization.
Regardless of whether they belonged to the mechanical or carbon-based systems, everyone who knew this news had been somewhat unable to hold it together at first.
Yet in the core territory of this ninth-level mechanical civilization, Gao Gong did not see anything related to machinery.
There was no roar of interlocking gears, no pulsing energy conduits, no cold gleam from alloy structures, no waterfall of data streams, no icy statue of a Logic God, and no energy patterns from a faith network.
Space itself seemed to have been paved with the purest "logic foundations." It had no form or substance, yet anyone who entered could clearly sense an aura of order.
What flowed through the air was visible "information." It consisted of "creation formulas" and "evolution equations," like living stars that slowly rotated, collided, merged, and multiplied in the void according to some harmony beyond imagination.
Gao Gong could even "sense" some deeper, more ineffable "wills of existence." They were like the background of this "ethereal realm," omnipresent yet impossible to grasp. Their naturally radiated presence alone made Gao Gong feel that his "conceptual body" and the "ancient mechanical imprint" within him had begun to undergo some extremely subtle optimization on their own.
They were truly being optimized. The ancient, intricate patterns of the imprint itself