The attribute of "immortal power never wearing away" manifested most vividly in individuals whose cultivation had reached a sufficiently lofty level. For civilizations, this was also an incomparably convenient arrangement—at least for civilizations with enough Immortals.
In truth, this was the sort of environment that had emerged from the "aura" within the Aura Universe. Integrated magical items naturally held an advantage over organisms composed of multiple parts. And if an artifact's grade was high enough to stir the self-organizing movements of aura, then even if left untouched, it would gradually grow stronger rather than decay.
At most, it would merely... become obsolete.
Because of the Celestial Great Saint, dragonkind had already come into contact with the highest level of technology in this universe two hundred million years ago. Now, they had merely climbed to the same height by an entirely different path. Even if they redesigned their factories and fortresses now, their performance would not surpass these ruins. At most, they would be somewhat more "compatible with the current Transforming Method."
And the gains brought by "compatibility with the Transforming Method" were far outweighed by the resources consumed in rebuilding an industrial system.
Especially when most dragons were slumbering.
Therefore, their most important task at this stage remained demolishing and modifying planets to accommodate refugees.
Compared with the difficulties other dragons encountered, the situation facing Shi Long Jiu Ke, who was working in the Xuanse World, was somewhat more complicated.
Before him stood a group of lifeforms made of crystals.
They were a major branch of the Water Folk—ice-crystal lifeforms that could only exist stably on planets far from the sun.
These lifeforms looked square and orderly, like regular octahedrons, with four short conical legs growing beneath them. The crystal creatures were packed together in dense swarms. They fed on