Fifteen hundred years later!
After receiving technological gifts from the Pressure-Charged Civilization, the Ghost Spirit Sword Clan, and the Central Civilization, the Academic World's overall strength began to expand rapidly.
This period was also known as the Academic World's Fourth Golden Age.
Unlike the first three Golden Ages, the technological explosion of the Fourth Golden Age brought comprehensive, overall advancement. It did not stem from a breakthrough in a single field. From foundational materials and Alchemy to life genetics, energy-structure technology, Curvature Spacetime technology, and Law Weapons, the Academic World was like a vast sponge, greedily absorbing the strengths of other civilizations and turning them into Practical Technology suited to its own needs. It even began combining them with one another.
One event was particularly noteworthy.
Five hundred years ago, the Academic World achieved a breakthrough in controlled Artificial Sun technology—a landmark event!
From then on,
the Academic World's energy supply was virtually inexhaustible compared to what it had been. Scholars could continuously transform Law Power into various forms of energy, with an effectiveness that far surpassed anything the Energy Source of old could offer.
It could even be said with certainty that this was an advanced technology not even the Superhumans had mastered!
From that moment on, the Academic World had finally and completely left behind the fourth-level Cataclysm Civilization stage and transformed into a Five-Level Beacon Civilization. It would fear no disaster strike from Law Weapons in any form within the Star Curtain World, because it could rely on its immense energy to change every factor in its habitat that worked against it.
The only price was time.
And the Academic World's retaliation was something no lower-level civilization could withstand.
From that moment on, the Academic World's Pioneer luminaries stood atop the technology of controlled Artificial Suns and