The soldiers under his command, as long as they kill enough enemies, can undergo modifications from the Meditation Technique, becoming stronger, more powerful, and even gaining self-healing abilities and a certain degree of autonomous combat capability... This obvious upgrade is the uniqueness of Ian’s Meditation Technique!
This is a battle of creating souls, among the undying and immortal!
[Interesting, you can indeed withstand it—you must have surpassed the majority of this world’s people in soul research, including some of the Fifth Energy Level.]
Noticing the stalemate, the golden soul said in a deep voice: [You’ve even mastered the art of soul programming... If not for many details being off, I’d suspect you, like me, are an Echo of the humans from the Terra Federation period.]
"I see, this is your confidence." Ian raised the corner of his mouth and replied: "If a group of future Terra people came here, even if their power far surpasses yours, they wouldn’t be able to oppose you, because they don’t understand programming and would instead be crushed by you in the Domain of Void and the realm of imagination... But unfortunately for you, I just happen to know it."
"And very proficiently."
While speaking, behind Ian, the Three-Headed Crystalline Dragon collectively breathed out, a devastating explosive gale swept away a vast area of Titans and Mech Armor from the previous era’s civilization, leaving the entire land as nothing but lava and crystalline ground.
[This is not your current power.]
The golden soul contemplated, and behind it emerged a massive fortress main cannon, firing hydrogen ion cannonballs that were compressed to the extreme, landing amidst the battle array of the Swarm, incinerating vast numbers of swarm soldiers into a mist of blood: [This is the power you’ve foreseen.]
[A future disaster will unfold , won’t it? The Swarm, mechanical modification, and the amalgamation of soul Spirit Energy... enough to distort the souls within the Domain of Void mixed with steel and flesh and blood, eventually giving birth to all sorts of destruction, truly a terrifying calamity.]
Ian pondered for a moment: "...You guessed right."
[Indeed, clearly a Prophet, yet possessing two great legacies.]
At this moment, however, it was the Echoes who first sighed: [You’re really unreasonable.]
[Terra, and even this Milky Way, are destined for destruction, and yet you, holding two great legacies, why do you not agree with my plan?]
This too is a battle.
The confrontation of souls is nothing more than to distract the opponent, and whether it’s the pain of war and combat or the curiosity and astonishment in verbal exchanges, it’s all the same—Ian saw this as a trap, but in order to gather more intelligence, he stepped into it without hesitation: "Your plan? After seizing the Radiance of the Stars and the Body of Light, you will absorb the finest bloodline of this world. Then, you will head out beyond the Star Prison Tianyu... but this is not exploration at all, it’s escape."
[Escape? Perhaps. And you’re wrong, I’m collecting all the bloodlines on this planet. It’s just that my ally is inadequate, he has collected the vast majority of ordinary creatures and the bloodlines of Magical Beasts for me, and quite a few Sublimators too, but that topmost echelon of this world’s bloodline has always eluded me.]
The golden soul paid no mind to Ian’s sarcasm: [However, this time, those coming to the Exotic Species Research Institute, are the precious bloodlines I need... Truly exquisite, if they hadn’t gone down the wrong path from the start, their achievements could have been far greater.]
[But this is enough. These bloodlines, this information... combined with the total databank stored within the Research Institute, are enough to create the ’Spark.’]
Ian narrowed his eyes slightly, he knew, this was the true goal of the Echoes.
The third generation True Dragon was a ’super lifeform’ hatched using the Spark... But before the third generation True Dragon, there were many Sparks that nurtured other super lifeforms. Those super lifeforms were fundamentally the ’Protectors’ ensuring the Spark could successfully hatch into a complete civilization, capable of interstellar battleships, embodying all the technology and combat capabilities of that civilization.
In essence, the Echoes collecting this information is actually the most orthodox process of Spark creation: collecting all the civilization’s information, enclosing it completely. Then, outside this Spark core, creating an immensely powerful protective device that integrates all life force... and this protective device is very likely that Dark Gold Dragon!
After a moment of silence, Ian suddenly spoke: "There once was a war that spanned countless galaxies."
He said, making the Echoes look at him, the white-haired boy calmly stated his conjecture about the facts: "One side of this war was the creators of the True Dragons, the commanders behind many Sparks descended upon our planet, known as the ’Star God’ civilization."
"They were an ancient and powerful species, but their enemies were equally formidable, which caused the destruction of many civilizations, and before being completely obliterated by war, these civilizations left behind their Sparks... And for some reason I don’t yet know, these Sparks converged here, surrounding our Terra Starfield."
"Perhaps by coincidence, perhaps by inevitability, in accordance with the Anthropic Principle, we were chosen. The Terra people, clearly possessing strength comparable to other interstellar civilizations, yet they never developed spaceship technology, were they waiting for the Star God to take them away, or is Terra special enough to be preserved? All in all, back then, the Terra people surely knew of the Star God’s existence, and may have already joined the Star God’s camp."