The people of the Eternal Star Domain valued insight into and understanding of the Dao, but almost none of its cultivators tempered their bodies. They relied on external forces to achieve physical breakthroughs.
Moreover, they mostly fought by piloting spaceships, battleships, and mecha, with very few engaging in close combat.
Outside the Eternal Kingdom, life-bearing star domains such as the Big Dipper focused entirely on cultivating oneself. Cultivators strengthened their bodies, dharma power, and divine souls through their own arduous practice, generally using external objects only as cultivation aids.
Thus, to people of the Eternal Kingdom such as Zi Yan and Zi Chuan, someone like Lu Chen was an ascetic cultivator, a representative of an inferior, backward civilization.
As for which method of cultivation held the greater advantage, that was probably difficult to say.
Perhaps the Eternal Kingdom would be stronger in large-scale warfare.
But in contests between individuals, the cultivation methods of the Big Dipper should have the upper hand.
In the Eternal Kingdom, very few people could truly refine supreme bloodline evolution liquid. Even the superpowers ruled by princes and lords were no exception.
But they had other ways to strengthen their bodies: traveling to other star domains, capturing powerful life-forms, and extracting their blood to refine potent elixirs that would help them evolve.
That was why Zi Yan and the others had captured all manner of powerful creatures in the Big Dipper, and why they had set their sights on Lu Chen.
In the end, however, they had lost both the lady and the troops. They had forfeited their Saint-Level Spaceship and supreme bloodline evolution liquid, and become prisoners themselves.
Now, however, Zi Yan and the others saw hope of escape, because that native named Lu Chen actually intended to visit the Eternal Kingdom. In their eyes,