"You seemed to have a question you couldn't find an answer to."
The faster-than-light creatures were patrolling in pairs when one Successor noticed that its companion was preoccupied.
The questioned individual replied, "Yes, I have a question, but I don't know how to seek an answer, or who to ask."
The questioning individual was puzzled. Whenever someone in the species had a question they truly could not solve alone, they would generally voice it, and everyone would discuss it together and pool their wisdom to find an answer.
It was the first time it had encountered someone with an unsolvable question who nevertheless did not take the initiative to tell the species about it.
"There is no problem the species cannot solve," the individual answered.
The Successor that had been questioned earlier thought for a moment. Though somewhat hesitant, it ultimately followed its companion's advice and voiced the question troubling it.
"What must the species do to attain salvation?"
"The species already has an answer to the Spiritual Realm problem. Within a hundred thousand years, we must find a civilization capable of replacing the species..."
Assuming it was worried about the Spiritual Realm, the individual repeated the species' strategy.
"That is not what I mean. I am referring to another question," replied the questioning Successor.
Recalling its question, the Successor began explaining it to its companion.
"Come to think of it, my question is also related to the Spiritual Realm. It was inspired by the interaction between this river system and the Spiritual Realm."
"All intelligent species in this river system regard the existence of the Spiritual Realm as an objective natural law, and they have built civilizations utterly different from ours by relying on the interaction between the Spiritual Realm and matter."
"To the divine races and cultivators of