"Once you cultivated to the Longevity Realm, you became part of the polluted logic and its system of mechanisms. Naturally, the pollution could no longer affect you."
A flash of insight rose in his mind. "That's it. There seem to be gaps in the True Realm's history, too."
"I'm afraid the first True Spirits and Intelligent Spirits, and even those cultivators, died in great numbers under the pollution of the Aberrant Principle."
"Those who came after built on their work and worked out a new cultivation system, adapting to the Void Lord's Aberrant Principle pollution."
"The True Realm's current experts and cultivation system may already belong to its second, third, or even fourth civilization."
"After that, for reasons unknown, Sourceflows emerged in the True Realm and raised its civilization far beyond the Void Origin Civilization."
He pondered. "Behind that Historical Turning Point, some mighty force may have been guiding events from the shadows."
"It caused the Sea of Void to give rise to the Void Civilization, then used the Void Civilization to bring forth the Reality Civilization, and finally used the Reality Civilization to bring forth Sourceflows."
"It was driving the endless Sea of Void to produce an essence like the Sourceflows."
Li Qing pieced together everything he knew and arrived at the most likely truth. An inexplicable chill rose in his heart.
He shook his head. "If that's true, the force behind it all is terrifying."
"Everything seems to run like a program. It reminds me of a theory I heard on Earth in my previous life."
"All carbon-based life is merely a starter for silicon-based life."
"The universe spent countless years nurturing life, all so that life could ultimately give rise to undying silicon-based beings."
"Only silicon-based life is a true cosmic species."
"They can exist in the