What a familiar military-to-civilian development path.
As Chen Ping looked at the projection screen before him, clearly a civilian product made by stripping down the Sun Moon Empire's High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool technology and brought out to rake in Gold Soul Coins, his lips felt a little dry.
On the Star Luo Empire's border, tens of thousands of troops stood arrayed, pressed down so hard by the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools-more than an entire era ahead of their own-that they could not even lift their heads.
Inside the Star Luo Empire's capital, the Star Emperor Hotel used a stripped-down Soul Power Detection Device purchased at who knew how steep a markup, while the Starlight Auction House used a severely stripped-down Soul Guidance Light Screen on which it had wasted who knew how much money.
The steep premiums on these products would flow back into the Sun Moon Empire, back to its soul engineers.
That gave them the incentive to develop more advanced, more powerful military soul tools, either adding them directly to their war reserves or stripping them down again for civilian use and repeating the process above.
Ultimately, without expending a single soldier, they could steadily make the Three Great Empires nourish the Sun Moon Empire's soul tool research and development with their own blood and sweat, while firmly believing that buying was better than building, and renting was better than buying.
Watching Qing Ya introduce the screen, her eyes subtly but clearly revealing her satisfaction with everyone's astonishment at it, Chen Ping shook his head almost imperceptibly.
Warriors hovered between life and death at the front, while beauties still sang and danced beneath the tents. This was more or less just that.
Was the Star Emperor Hotel wrong to install soul power detectors for the safety of