The online discussion was even more overwhelming.
"So cultivators in the Primordial Era weren't incapable; they just didn't have Flame Spirit Stones?"
"Spiritual energy turning into Flame Spirit Stones—isn't that just going from diluted to concentrated? They used to drink watered-down juice, and now we're drinking pure concentrate?"
"LMAO. The mighty cultivators of the Primordial Era: 'We wanted to temper our bodies too! We just didn't have the resources!'"
"So Professor Li means our generation has a higher starting point than the cultivators of the Primordial Era?"
"Has it occurred to anyone that those ancient cultivators could fly through the skies and burrow through the earth, while you can't even finish the first Limit Arcana sequence?"
"The person above is right. I'm shattered."
Yang Wanqing sat on the living room floor, holding her tablet and scrolling through the comments one by one, rocking back and forth with laughter.
"Siyao! Look at this one—'Since spiritual energy turned into Flame Spirit Stones, did the spirit beasts of the Primordial Era turn into today's Demonic Beasts too? So those Demonic Beasts aren't invaders, but natives?' Someone replied, 'Then we're the invaders.' Hahahahaha—"
Chen Siyao ignored her.
She had read Professor Li's paper three times from beginning to end.
The paper drew its data from two sources: ancient documents from the Thirty-Six Legacy Islands, and measurements taken by energy monitoring stations around the world over the past four months.
The cross-validation between the two datasets was beautifully done. Li Wenyuan had used a thermodynamic model to explain the transformation of spiritual energy, with rigorous mathematical derivations and a complete chain of reasoning.
But what truly concerned Chen Siyao wasn't the paper itself.
It was the conclusion.
Flame Spirit Stones were purer than spiritual energy. Direct application was more efficient than storing energy before using