(PS: There will only be two updates on Saturday and Sunday. I've been too exhausted lately, running back and forth between the hospital and home. Luckily, my parents-in-law have been helping. There will be two updates this Saturday and Sunday as well. I need to catch my breath.)
"Impossible!"
"There can't possibly be any surviving Progenitors!"
When Mazda transmitted Wu Pifu's information to the government's central administration, the entire upper echelon was shaken. Beyond the measures already taken, an extremely secret organization hidden within the government immediately began an internal discussion.
"We all know that the maximum lifespans of the physical body, mental consciousness, and spirit-particle essence differ. The body has the shortest lifespan, followed by mental consciousness, while spirit-particle essence can last for nearly an era on the scale of a multidimensional universe. But no matter what, they all have limits, right?"
Dozens of men and women, young and old, gathered in a secret virtual channel. A refined-looking middle-aged man was speaking loudly.
Individuals trickled into the secret channel from time to time, yet the middle-aged man continued speaking.
"Everyone present is currently fifth generation. The previous generation—the fourth generation—rapidly aged and died within the first hundred years after our initial embodiment. Even after exhausting all our strength, we couldn't save them. Therefore, the relationship between the Progenitors and the second, third, fourth, and fifth generations isn't simply one of descendants reproducing. It is a relationship of spirit-particle inheritance. Do you understand?"
At that, a bespectacled woman spoke up. "Yes. Within the Ark, spirit particles are conserved. Pure spirit-particle essence cannot truly reproduce descendants. What we call the second and third generations is the process by which the previous generation's essential structure completely dissipates, and their spirit particles reorganize into new life. Thus, one generation refers to the entire