Especially the researchers from several institutes—they were the most sensitive to all kinds of data. They knew deep down that no matter how one calculated it, nothing should have been able to directly resist alterations to fundamental constants.
There was a term called dimensionality reduction strike. The Empire's technology was precisely that: a dimensionality reduction strike. To lifeforms that had not mastered an equal power, it was tantamount to directly modifying a two-dimensional world from within a three-dimensional one.
Even if the Empire's research in this area was not yet deep enough, and the things it could modify were exceedingly limited, such modifications were still absolute to a two-dimensional world.
Yet now, their understanding had been utterly overturned.
What was happening before them was like someone from a three-dimensional world trying to capture a paper person in a two-dimensional world—only to encounter resistance.
In the distance, a sun condensed from magnetic light leaped up from the earth. Then Zhao Cheng reached out and swept his hand, and an unprecedentedly colossal pillar of magnetic light burst forth from the planet's core, carrying the immense kinetic potential generated by Earth's rotation as it crashed fiercely toward the warship.
Forbidden: Earth: Star Surge!
In that instant, the entire planet stopped rotating, and all its force, together with Zhao Cheng's own power, merged into this strike.
As Zhao Cheng had grown ever stronger, his power had ceased to be confined to himself. At the same time, he had begun constantly drawing upon the outside world, wielding all things and Myriad Phenomena to make himself stronger.
Of course, before devouring the Floating World Giant Beast—and even before Zhao Cheng's final awakening just now, before he transcended the Absolute Realm and comprehended ultimate power—he had only been able to borrow a portion of the planet's strength.