The story of the Immortal civilization was like a bolt of lightning, illuminating the fog-shrouded reaches of Divine King's mind.
His dormant current of thought suddenly surged, throwing up fresh sparks of inspiration.
"When innate gifts fall short, turn to outside tools," Divine King murmured, a gleam appearing in his eyes.
He reorganized the Undying Race's path in his mind.
The biological Bio-Brain path they had pioneered was, in essence, a highly integrated Personal Terminal.
It used DNA as a database for recording information, and the brain's ability to construct dreams as an extraordinarily powerful simulation processor.
Whatever knowledge they needed, they downloaded from their DNA.
Whatever they needed to extrapolate, they constructed a dream sandbox within their consciousness.
This system was immensely powerful, yet completely closed.
Their DNA could not interconnect, nor could they share the contents of their dreams.
Each member of the Undying Race was an isolated island of intelligence, exceptionally capable yet cut off from the world.
Their civilization's knowledge was divided and sealed within countless independent "bloodline hard drives."
At this stage, no amount of looking inward could allow the Undying Race to break through its bottleneck.
They gradually realized that their innate gifts had reached a limit in this direction that was difficult to overcome. The wisest choice was not to exhaust their efforts in a dead end, but to explore outward, seeking external assistance that could remedy their shortcomings and break the impasse.
Their solution resembled technology that existed in reality.
They wanted to build an external mechanical network, similar to the Internet in reality, connecting all those biological islands and transforming individuals into networked terminals that were half machine, half living being.
Their direction was not wrong. Their mistake lay in investing far too many resources with their eyes fixed entirely on