"That's impossible!"
One of the Yuanying scholars couldn't hold it any longer. He slapped the table and rose up. "Fellow Cultivator Li, spiritual energy is the most powerful force in the universe. Where does the energy come from if there is absolutely no spiritual energy? How can ordinary people train themselves? How can they destroy the world if they don't train themselves? "
"With oil, coal, gunpowder, electromagnetic energy, and nuclear energy," Li Yao said solemnly. "Of course, it is hard to say whether or not electromagnetic energy and nuclear energy can still be used when the interference of spiritual energy is very serious, but the first three sources of energy are guaranteed!"
"Oil, coal, and gunpowder?"
The theorist was slightly dazed. With a weird expression, he said, "Those are the most barren sources of energy. Compared with crystals of the same volume, oil contains more than a hundred times less energy. What can they do?"
In the forty thousand years of the Cultivators, a lot of planets in the three thousand Sectors boasted abundant oil and coal, too.
In the field of theoretical studies of spiritual energy, regarding the cause of spiritual energy, oil, and coal, there was a hypothesis called 'corpses of ancient civilizations'.
According to the hypothesis, before the civilization of mankind was born, in the billions of years of history of the universe, countless ancient civilizations had been born. However prosperous and strong the ancient civilizations were, they could not escape from the natural law of life and death. In the end, they all perished and perished.
Although the civilizations perished, the corpses of the ancient civilizations did not vanish into thin air.
After the civilizations perished and the corpses were decomposed, the enormous souls of the ancient civilizations would rise to the sea of stars and be transformed into spiritual energy after billions of years of cosmic storms and stellar radiation.
The corpses that had lost their souls, on the other hand, would be buried deep below the ground. After billions of years of refinement under high temperature and pressure, the essence of the corpses would become mother lodes of crystals, and the less important parts would become coal and oil.
It was without a doubt that the soul was much more important than the body in the world of Cultivators. Therefore, the spiritual energy transformed from the souls of ancient civilizations was much more powerful than the oil and coal transformed from the bodies of ancient civilizations!
To give a simple example, if Li Yao, the 'Yuanying expert', was suddenly buried deep underground after his death, after billions of years of refinement, his brain, spine, and tailbone would have expanded, and it was very likely that they would have been condensed into mother lodes of crystals, while his limbs would have turned into oil, and his hair would have turned into coal.
The spiritual energy contained in the brain and spine was, of course, a hundred times more than the spiritual energy contained in the limbs!
It was exactly because the entire universe was filled with spiritual energy that the civilization of mankind had embarked on the path of making use of spiritual energy since its birth. They had never thought of exploiting oil and coal on a large scale.
In the past, some Cultivators were curious about the black liquids and solids and wanted to exploit the energy contained in them.
After trying it out, he found that oil and coal not only contained very little energy per unit volume, but also produced heavy pollution during the mining process, which destroyed the flow of spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Most importantly, it could not be directly absorbed by the human body and could not be used for cultivation!
What was the use of such a source of energy that was both tasteless and unregrettable to be discarded?
Therefore, in the age of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, in the age of the Star Ocean Imperium ten thousand years ago, and in the age of the Star Glory Federation right now, the Heaven's Origin Sector, the human beings of the Flying Star Sector, and the demons of the Blood Demon Sector all despised coal and oil and never bothered to study them.
Li Yao, however, was different.
In the bizarre dreams that he had when he was a child, the place named 'Earth' did not have the slightest drop of spiritual energy. Only oil and coal had supported a prosperous civilization that was able to step out of the planet and explore the universe!
Therefore, Li Yao was very clear about the unbelievable potential that could be exploited from the seemingly barren raw materials such as oil and coal!
Whispers were echoing below the platform. Most of the Yuanying experts, including Professor Mo Xuan, supported the theory of spiritual energy and had serious doubts about Li Yao's opinion.
It had nothing to do with their wisdom and computational ability; it was purely a matter of vision. However strong and smart a jellyfish living in the deep ocean was, it was impossible for them to imagine the ferocious beasts on the continent!
Li Yao said confidently, "I know that the brand-new strength system is in conflict with your previous beliefs. It will not be accepted easily!
"Therefore, in the past few months, I have mobilized all my computational ability and deduction ability without any rest. I even burnt my soul and life without hesitation. Finally, I have completed the preliminary development of the 'Soulless World'. Please take a look, everybody!"
On the 3D light beam behind Li Yao, a blue planet surrounded by seawater appeared.
The picture was enlarged and enlarged until, on one of the continents, at the edge of the plains and forests, a bunch of primitive apes approached a burning tree that had been hit by lightning carefully!
Then, the apes waved the burning branches and polished stone axes and spears. They gradually shed their hair and straightened their backs. Then, they smelted bronze and iron, developed carriages and cavalries, put on magnificent armor, established enormous tribes and countries, explored and conquered the environment, discovered the mysteries of coal and oil, and established a magnificent industrial system. In the end, tens of thousands of iron torrents, fighter jets that broke the speed of sound, and powerful fleets that dominated the sea were produced!
The development of tens of thousands of years was displayed in front of the Yuanying experts in only several minutes.
In the meantime, waterfall-like streams of data and information flooded into the crystal processors of the Yuanying experts crazily, too.
Li Yao said, "Even without spiritual energy, ordinary people can still explore the mysteries of the universe and figure out the basic rules of the universe!
"I put myself in the shoes of an ordinary person and pretended that I had spent thousands of years in a world without spiritual energy. I tried to explore the rules of the world and established many disciplines in the end!
"Among them, the discipline that studies the fundamental principles of all things, the rules of motion, and the fundamental structure is called 'physics'!
"The discipline that studies the mutual promotion and suppression of all things is called 'chemistry'!
"With physics, chemistry, and mathematics as the foundation, I will be able to establish many other disciplines such as electricity, engineering, optics, materials science, and so on. By gathering the essence of all the disciplines, I will be able to exploit the fundamental force contained in all things except for spiritual energy and build all kinds of terrifying war machines!"
Behind Li Yao, light and shadow interweaved, and an iron tank with heavy armor and heavy weapons that looked like an iron fortress appeared. It was somewhat similar to a crystal tank.
"I've named such a weapon 'tank', which means that it is invincible and undefeatable. It does not need to be powered by spiritual energy, and it can still invade like fire and roar like thunder!"
The picture changed, and a second weapon that looked like a crystal railgun showed up.
"Such a cannon is purely powered by gunpowder and is simpler in structure than a crystal railgun. Although it is not as powerful as a crystal railgun, if thousands of them are produced, it will not be a problem for them to cover a hundred square kilometers when they are fired at the same time. The Immortal Cultivators will still be smashed into smithereens. As expected of the 'God of War'!"
The scene changed again, and the third weapon was a lead-gray iron bird. Its body was streamlined, and there was not a single gap to be seen. There was even a huge dragon engraved on its tail!
"Such a supersonic stealth fighter can carry passengers at a speed three times higher than normal. It can fly above the atmosphere at an altitude that is extremely low and lacks oxygen. The pilots are ordinary people! I repeat, ordinary people who do not have any spiritual energy and have never practiced any techniques!
"I've drawn the basic structure designs of the three weapons. Fellow Cultivators, especially the masters of refining, you can study them carefully and see if it is possible to produce such weapons theoretically.
"These are just the few basic war machines. Other than them, there are also super weapons such as strategic missiles, nuclear submarines, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and so on. None of them require spiritual energy and can be operated by ordinary people. However, they boast the strength to raze a city easily! Although they are all my imagination, I feel that they are all theoretically possible to be produced. Fellow Cultivators, please give me your comments and see if there are any flaws. "
The files that were as vast as an ocean flooded into all the Yuanying crystal processors crazily, dazzling them and making them feel that the world was swirling!
To be honest, the 'history of the development of the world without spiritual energy' that Li Yao compiled was not very complicated. Neither the physics nor the chemistry was more advanced than the high schools on Earth. It was basically a copy of a high school textbook.
As for the tanks, cannons, and supersonic fighters, they were just generalities that did not touch the essence.
After all, in the uncanny dream, he was just an ordinary person on Earth, not a physicist or a chemist. As for atomic bombs and nuclear physics, he did not know the first thing about them at all!
Therefore, the only thing he could do was to recall as many details on Earth as possible with his extraordinary memory and repeat the content in the textbooks and military magazines.
For example, in the uncanny dream, he had seen the model of the engine of a supersonic fighter in a military magazine. Therefore, he could copy the model of the engine.
As for materials science, dynamics, and other subjects, some of them were not his specialties. Therefore, he could only avoid them.
Even so, the brand-new strength system was still a shocking shock for all the Yuanying and demon emperors!
Many Yuanying were suspicious and even dismissive at first. They only glanced at the materials casually for the sake of Li Yao, the 'hero of the Special Level Federation'.
But after a few glances, their eyeballs seemed to have been attracted by magnets and could not be moved away at all!
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