Xiahui Territory, Under Every Eye

Empire Holy Light—or rather, Light of Holy Healing.

Every awakened psychic naturally came to know the name of their psychic ability from within their own heart.

And this time, because Loren had obtained the power of holy light through resonance Ian had helped him achieve with his own strength, Ian too vaguely sensed the essence of this psychic ability.

It temporarily transformed spiritual power into pure vitality, a power used to heal, restore injuries, and replenish life.

An exceedingly rare psychic ability with no direct combat power, one primarily focused on "healing."

On Terra, Ian had actually encountered quite a few psychics. Their abilities included gathering intelligence, controlling other living beings, foreseeing the future, protecting others, direct destruction, and all manner of miscellaneous effects.

But "healing" was truly very rare.

Thinking about it carefully, it was only natural.

The resolve behind psychic abilities required emotions of the utmost intensity—when human emotions became extreme, they tended toward anger, despair, hatred, or overwhelming yearning, desire, and greed.

The psychic abilities catalyzed by such surging emotions naturally tended toward destructive power.

Ian surmised that Terra's humans had not actually fully prepared themselves to adapt to the power of "psychic abilities."

The spiritual strength of Terra's humans was still insufficient. Only intense emotional stimulation and heightened spirits allowed them to access the Great Aetheric Current.

But for civilizations that had truly awakened psychic abilities, transcended the mundane, and ascended through psychic power, perhaps individuals of those species did not need extreme emotions to awaken their abilities. They merely needed firm resolve, choosing a psychic ability as one might choose one's profession.

Only then would psychic abilities have the possibility of becoming "non-weaponized."

But nothing was absolute. So long as one could feel happiness, long for peace, and look forward to the future, one could