Since the Age of Divine Revelation began, the South Sea Realm had continuously drawn nourishment from the Sacred Ones.
The Sacred Ones were like inexhaustible treasures. Even with mortal wisdom, three thousand years had only taken a drop from the vast ocean!
With that single drop alone, the South Sea Realm had grown into the overlord of this starfield, occupying dozens of worlds where life had arisen, as well as countless desolate worlds devoid of life and unfit for human survival.
All wisdom and technology derived from the Sacred Ones ultimately followed only two paths. One was to develop all manner of external instruments based on spiritual energy, eventually wielding supreme power capable of reaching the heavens and piercing the earth. The other was to study the mysteries of spiritual energy, mental power, and souls, eventually allowing everyone to achieve immortality in forms resembling data, spiritual bodies, or souls!
These two paths did not exist in isolation. They depended on one another and were bound by exceptionally close connections.
One day, if the South Sea Realm developed into an ultimate civilization, it could abandon its original fleshly bodies like the Sacred Ones and forge a "civilization vessel" belonging to the South Sea Realm. Billions upon billions of lives could rely upon a single block of metal, roam the cosmos, and endure through the ages without perishing.
At present, the South Sea Realm's research had already begun to bear fruit. Personal spirit brains, technology that implanted knowledge into human minds, and all kinds of spiritual-energy instruments were all embodiments of these research results.
All spiritual-energy instruments required mental power to operate.
On one hand, the source of power for these instruments came from a mysterious force drifting between heaven and earth. South Sea Realm spiritual-energy scholars called it spiritual-energy particles, or