"Sir, we've got a lead!"
While they waited, the others naturally hadn't been sitting idle.
Liu Zhi had never given up trying to detect traces of the Shepherd Civilization's members.
Several hours later.
Hard work paid off.
As he continued his uninterrupted observations, he finally discovered something!
"The Shepherd Civilization's members indeed have no physical form in the conventional sense.
Instead, they exist in a form resembling plasma—I'd prefer to call this state a spiritual-energy form.
That's because the Shepherd Civilization's members rely primarily on Tidal Spiritual Energy to display their various abilities.
Their own forms are also better adapted to Tidal Spiritual Energy.
The Shepherd Civilization's members grow and reproduce by absorbing the mental seas of intelligent life.
From a certain perspective, they're a bunch of parasites!"
It was Gao Luanqin who explained this.
Although Liu Zhi had used his own ability in conjunction with the Abyss Eye to discover some outward manifestations of the Shepherd Civilization's members,
it was Gao Luanqin, the biology expert, who had ultimately analyzed and deduced what they meant.
But Wang Dong wasn't satisfied with the information Gao Luanqin had provided.
"Have you discovered anything else about the Shepherd Civilization's members' combat methods or other abilities?"
He asked bluntly.
"Yes!"
Gao Luanqin answered with certainty.
"Judging from the traces left behind on those habitable planets,
the Shepherd Civilization's members routinely carried out mass extinctions there.
Their motive is obvious.
And it was precisely these frequent mass extinctions that allowed the emergent intelligent civilizations on those habitable planets
to glimpse a few clues about the Shepherd Civilization."
Gao Luanqin's words prompted everyone to nod.
Never underestimate any intelligent civilization.
Their strength might be insufficient,
but purely in terms of intelligence,
they were often not far behind advanced civilizations.
"Those low-level civilizations might be unable to