Liu Chengen nodded.
"That's right. In short, the Gaia Consciousness is a superorganism, and we're merely cells. It's very difficult for us to clearly sense its existence."
"Every move it makes is incredibly slow, as though it were happening naturally. In fact, its actions really do occur through tiny natural processes, like the butterfly effect."
"Of course, not every planet has a Gaia Consciousness. It's a low-probability event."
Something suddenly occurred to Lin Mo, but it was only a fleeting flash of inspiration, and he failed to grasp it.
So he raised a hand to signal the two men to stop talking and carefully tried to recall that flash.
At last, he remembered and said quickly:
"Right, that captured Seventh-Order Demon Venerable said the reason their Demon Clan invaded intelligent civilizations was for the Gaia Core!"
"Could this Gaia be the Gaia Will, and the Gaia Core its actual body?"
Liu Chengen froze.
"Is that so? There wasn't any mention of a Gaia Core in the interrogation transcript, was there?"
Lin Mo waved a hand.
"I'm only the translator. It's like Chinese-the meaning can be the same even when the words are different. Translations can have discrepancies too, but since I was the translator myself, I know the original meaning."
Liu Chengen understood.
"Got it. We'll go ask that fellow ourselves later!"
"Continuing our earlier hypothesis, if Terra really has a Gaia Will, then cultivators are essentially drawing on the world's energy to strengthen themselves."
"It doesn't matter below the Sixth Rank, but the Seventh Order requires too much energy. It needs to give its approval, and what you sensed was precisely the Gaia Will."
"In that case, why doesn't it produce large numbers of Seventh-Order cultivators?"
As he spoke, he fell into thought. Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
"I've