Mecha Era, Punch the Stars

"How complicated is it? Chief of Staff Lin, you might as well explain in detail. Anyway, we have time now."

Li Yidao.

The four have already boarded the starship.

Their respective divine mechs were also quickly arranged and sent into it.

Upon arriving at the cockpit, Lin Jianlong waved and said:
"set off!"

The driver, sitting there, reached out and pulled the control lever at Lin Jianlong's signal.

boom! ! !
The starship trembled and took off from the spot.

Reaching a height of thirty meters, flames erupted from the stern of the ship, which suddenly accelerated, streaking across the sky as it flew toward the stargate descent entrance on the other side of the lunar fortress.

“Let’s go to another place, and I’ll talk about the discoveries at the Time Relics.”

Lin Jianlong glanced at the three of them and gestured for them to find another place to talk.

With that, he turned and left the cockpit, heading to the center of a small training area located at the lower end of the starship.

Li Yi's heart skipped a beat. So cautious?
This starship is capable of carrying out top-secret missions, so it should have been thoroughly investigated by now.

Why do we have to deliberately come to such an open space to even talk?

"Float up and don't touch anything."

"Then activate your divine will, cover your body, completely envelop it, and let nothing else in except air and free energy."

Lin Jianlong unleashed his divine power, suspending his body five meters in the air. He sat cross-legged in mid-air and transmitted his voice to the others.

"I think you've guessed something."

"That's right, there is some being watching us."

"Our dialogue must avoid the presence of physical media as much as possible."

medium?

This means that a powerful being is using some kind of conceptual characteristic to directly monitor the physical matter next to Lin Jianlong in a conceptual sense.
Since everyone's main skill has reached a point where it has conceptual characteristics, they have a general understanding of how to play this game.

For example, Li Yi's micro-electrical properties do not yet have conceptual characteristics, but he can use his powerful brainpower to combine the feedback of micro-electrical properties in other people's brains and build a model in his own mind.

Using this model, he can identify and decipher other people's brainwave signals.

This is the principle behind his mind-reading ability.

Of course, he rarely uses it on people; he only uses it when interrogation is necessary.

As his micro-electric properties gradually become stronger, until he possesses very strong conceptual characteristics, he can expand his range of perception through the medium of micro-electricity.

For example, when he wants to find a person with a special brainwave, he can achieve his goal over a wide area simply by activating this characteristic.

Similar to searching for people with specific characteristics within a range of 100,000 kilometers, this kind of operation, which is like finding a needle in a haystack, can be easily accomplished.

With stronger performance, it can even be precise down to a specific area or distance.

The more conceptual a feature is, the more abstract the gameplay can be.

Truly abstract.

Of course, Li Yi is far from being able to achieve that level yet.

At present, being able to influence spacetime with one's unique abilities is already a stage that even the most powerful beings might not be able to achieve easily.

Like other top-tier powerhouses in the Ice God sequence, they typically achieve remote monitoring through conceptualized ice, water, frost, and fog.

Each sequence has its own medium through which perception can be achieved.

The difference lies in the degree of conceptualization required.

Generally speaking, concepts that lean towards perception are easier to implement.

However, without exception, the ability to monitor a top-tier supreme being through a medium is a method that even a demigod cannot master.

But if it's so powerful, why bother monitoring it?

Each of the three had their own doubts. Li Yi and Tan Yaozu were completely unaware of the situation, while Xiao Pingchuan only knew part of it.

Hearing this statement now, everyone is somewhat surprised and doubtful.

They exchanged a glance, each activating their divine power, and floated into the air.

"Chief Lin, this so-called medium can even cover the special alloy floor of a starship? Just how conceptualized does this have to be? Who exactly are our monitors?"

Tan Yaozu voiced his question.

It's fortunate that air and free energy don't need to be shielded, otherwise they would be questioning their existence.

Lin Jianlong spoke:

"He is a top-tier quasi-god who claims to be a derivative of the Universal Supreme."

"The Supreme Being of Universal Response? Holy crap, it's him again? He's such a persistent ghost!"

Tan Yaozu was shocked.

Wasn't the Supreme Being Puying suppressed on the Enlightenment Mountain?
How can it have an impact on areas outside of the Enlightenment Mountain?
Li Yi frowned and said:
"Commander Lin should have read our battle logs before and know that we also encountered an avatar of the Supreme Being Puying. What I'm more curious about is, what exactly is the difference between this quasi-god-level avatar and the avatar within the Enlightenment Mountain?"

"The difference is that this differentiated entity wants to devour its master."

Lin Jianlong said:
"When I was searching for 'Flame' in the Ruins of Time, I encountered this quasi-god who was highly connected with the Supreme Being of Universal Response."

"However, he had no intention of killing me at the time."

"He claimed that he wanted to make a deal with humans in order to take the supreme position held by the Supreme Being Pu Ying and gain a promotion."

Hearing this, everyone became curious.

"The supreme position?"

what is this?
Is there a concept of "slots" for advancing to the Supreme level?

Is it true that the higher up you go, the fewer positions you have?

Lin Jianlong nodded and said:

"As you can probably guess, if we can't master high-precision, high-control spacetime abilities to alleviate the burden the universe places on us, we can only break through the limitations of quasi-gods through the Supreme Position."

"It is said that at the beginning of the first era, there was no Supreme level of power between Quasi-Gods and True Gods."

"It wasn't until more and more quasi-gods got stuck at their bottlenecks and couldn't advance any further that a supreme level slowly developed out of this situation."

"But when there are more Supremes, the newcomers find that as long as a Supreme is not promoted through spacetime abilities, they will interfere with the subsequent promotion of other lower-level ranks."

"In most cases, only one supreme being can appear in a sequence."

"At most, only two or three supreme beings can emerge from the major positions of ice, fire, wind, and thunder."

"Some of the alien god sequences can never even produce a supreme being."

Upon hearing this, Li Yi's heart stirred slightly.

This matches what Qin Longchuan had explained earlier.

No wonder it's so difficult to advance further in this day and age through other means.

Perhaps, not only the Supreme Position, but even the Quasi-God Position has been blocked.

Moreover, there were so many recorded Supreme beings in the previous eras, while the Fifth Era civilization, even though it was more brilliant and had stronger Supreme beings, had significantly fewer in total numbers.

In this era, even pseudo-gods are few and far between.

This is certainly partly due to the relatively short development period, but it's easy to imagine that predecessors have blocked many paths for successors.

It seems that Lin Jianlong has gained something from his encounter with the external manifestation of the Supreme Being of Universal Response.

Tan Yaozu had clearly figured something out as well, and said through gritted teeth:
"These ancestors were truly rubbish. Others are grateful for the source of their blessings, but they cut off the source of their water supply!"

Li Yi asked, "Then what about what Chief Lin said earlier about needing to wait for 'Flame' to awaken?" (End of Chapter)