Besides discussing military developments, Gongsun Wudi was also quite interested in the experiments Saine had conducted in the Kels Starfield over the past few years.
Saine had assumed Gongsun Wudi would ask about his activation experiments involving transforming giant War Fortresses into robots.
But unexpectedly, what Gongsun Wudi brought up was Saine's experiment of having the God of Black Mist Believers resume industrial operations.
Whether Gongsun Wudi understood it or not, Saine briefly introduced some of his experimental research and future plans to her.
He had not expected a martial artist like Gongsun Wudi to be so interested in his various studies.
When Saine spoke of unleashing the productivity and value-creating potential of lower-level beings, Gongsun Wudi responded with considerable feeling, "Our Martial Arts Civilization also wastes a great deal of lower-level strength."
"Even now, whether in the military or among Noble Families, most practitioners of martial arts are men. Female martial artists account for less than thirty percent."
"Furthermore, there are still vast numbers of commoners at the bottom of the Tianming Empire who cannot even gain access to martial arts cultivation."
"This has also resulted in their making too little contribution to the Empire's overall construction."
"If there were other ways to increase national strength, that would not be a bad path for expanding our power," Gongsun Wudi remarked thoughtfully.
Saine had not expected Gongsun Wudi to possess such lateral thinking. He nodded in agreement. "You're right."
"This model is indeed applicable to many cultivation civilizations, but ordinary Plane Worlds would find it difficult to make it work."
"The God of Black Mist using Faith Power to control his subjects is a rather clever shortcut, but I feel this method still has certain drawbacks."
"What if those so-called believers one day came into contact with and witnessed too