What direction was truly the right one for technological development?
Even on Earth in Yuangeng's previous life, where cultivation had no place at all, there had been no perfect answer to that question. People with utterly different ideals and expectations laid out their own blueprints for technological development.
Yuangeng suspected that even the technological civilizations Above the Heavens that had produced Immortal Emperors and Quasi-Immortal Emperors had not all developed in the same direction. After all, the paths of cultivation were endless. If the Immortal Dao could give rise to many utterly different Emperors, the technological path naturally possessed the same potential.
However, in the universe of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, where cultivation and individual might formed the overarching backdrop, technology had been destined from the moment of its discovery to take a path of development entirely different from the mainstream.
Although the Eternal Ancient Star was roughly the same size as Big Dipper and Ziwei, it was not powerful. Throughout the Mythical Era and the Primordial Era, this Life Origin Star had produced quite a few Quasi-Emperors, but no one had ever united with the Heavenly Heart and attained the Extreme Dao. Even the occasional cultivator on the verge of becoming a Dao Prover had usually served as little more than an also-ran beside an Ancient Emperor.
At the level Yuangeng and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor had reached, the many formation patterns surrounding the Eternal Ancient Star could not possibly detect them. They strolled casually through the void, and no one noticed their presence.
"This star... doesn't seem to have anything special about it."
The Human Emperor swept his gaze over the ancient star. It, too, had rolling mountains and densely interwoven dragon veins, with numerous ancient kingdoms, great sects, academies, and other lineages rooted upon