Above The Sky-Chapter 1750 - 343: Magic Power and Magicians Are All in Position! (6000)
After personal experience, Ian can responsibly say that Aether places a significant burden on life.
This is an extremely advanced energy, causing unquantifiable micro-changes in the surrounding space-time. If used by ordinary people, even if Aether does not actively harm people, the changes it brings to the material world are enough to be deadly.
Only True Dragons and some extremely powerful Ancient Demonic Beasts can withstand the erosion of Aether, even Crystal Dragons cannot. The reason Aether Crystal Dragons can is due to their atavistic Ether Stardust Dragon bloodline.
According to predictions, Ian believes that for organisms and tools that can use Aether, the minimum level should be ’Interstellar Colonization Grade’.
Faster-than-light colonial ships, interstellar suppressive super battleships, the towering fortresses of the Interstellar Empire... or the colossal Behemoths wandering among many starfields, the super lifeforms capable of suppressing entire civilizations on their own...
Only entities of this level can use Aether without side effects.
The near-godlike ’Divine Power’.
Ian, with the Rites of the Star Gods, is no longer an ordinary Human in both body and soul. His sensitivity to Aether and his tolerance of Aether are unparalleled on Terra, yet even so, after using Aether each time, Ian feels a sense of fatigue.
Both body and soul tell him that ’he’ is still too ’young’ to use this power casually.
A juvenile form Star God—if the Rites of the Star Gods indeed hold this positioning—still cannot use Aether for long in battle.
However, Terra Ascendants merge their soul and bodily essence to create this formidable power, storing it within themselves, even compressing an entire Aether True Body into a human form.
Prior to this, the vast majority of Sublimators had only come into contact with Origin Quality.
They hadn’t even encountered Spirit Energy.
Honestly, Ian feels that messing around like this, even Fifth Energy Level Sublimators with over a hundred years of lifespan, is already a result of a thousand years of natural selection among Terra People, greatly optimizing many bloodlines, and the Path of Sublimation has been optimized considerably as well.
If it were the initial Fifth Energy Level, Ian suspects they would be nothing more than consumables that could only be deployed once or twice. To harness divine power with a human body leads to such outcomes.
"For ordinary Sublimators, only after reaching the Third Energy Level and obtaining Life Spirit Energy can they fuse it to become Primal Aether."
"Soul and body united, Aether self-generating, directly carrying divine power with a mortal body."
"In fact, this is somewhat late, but there is no other way. Before Artificial Souls appeared, Sublimators only gained a soul at the Second Energy Level, and people could not master similar powers in advance to adapt."
Walking with Adalbert on the path to the training ground, Ian rapidly calculated in his mind: "And now, due to my Arcane Pathway, every global power will attempt to popularize Artificial Souls since a soul is essentially a seed of Spirit Energy, advancing the point in time when Sublimators merge Spirit Energy with Origin Quality."
"No need to wait until the Third Energy Level, when Origin Quality and Spirit Energy have grown very powerful before merging, but rather, attempting to merge when the power is still weak, forming a weaker ’Degraded Ether’."
"Step by step gradually, perhaps it can further elevate the life essence of Sublimators!"
Clearly, with years of technological accumulation, Terra is about to undergo a major transformation in the Path of Sublimation. Even without Ian, someone else would emerge, and Ian is merely the one to unveil the curtain first, setting the tone for reform.
However, this way, although the Arcane Pathway becomes the main theme of the new era, the ’gap’ between Ian and other forces is indeed reduced.
Even if Ian is confident in synthesizing all research on the Arcane Pathway for his own use, and he still holds trump cards like the Heart of Terra, more trump cards are naturally better.
The ’Fighting Spirit’ discovered by Green Tide and other young cultivators of the Silverpeak Domain is evidently what Ian desires as a ’trump card’.
Moreover, this discovery has indeed inspired Ian’s thoughts.
Next, it’s about carefully observing the specific situation of Fighting Spirit and making further judgments.
But when Ian actually arrived at the training camp, he found the situation somewhat unexpected, yet anticipated.
"Why is it you again?"
The one who discovered the Fighting Spirit was none other than that survivor from the Avak Domain, one of the Azure City twin orphans, Miles.
And the one assisting him was also one of Ian’s disciples, the holder of Holy Light Spiritual Energy, Loran.
"After all, they indeed have the most talent." Adalbert was not surprised, he smiled, and the Green Tide on the playground along with other trainees noticed the Alchemy Supervisor and Lord walking together, and they all stood up and greeted Ian and Adalbert.
"My lord!"
This was a wild training camp located north of Xiahui City, surrounded by lush vegetation, and the playground was a special turf that had been leveled and cleaned. A four-kilometer training track constructed with artificial rubber surrounded it, and the two ends of the oval playground were soccer goals.
The first batch of trainees consisted of over sixty individuals from various parts of the South Ridge. They practiced the initial meditation and refining techniques drafted by Ian and received resource support from the Silverpeak Domain. Now, each possessed considerable strength, even without becoming Sublimators, their physical quality was already close to that of Sublimators, and their Soul Perception far surpassed them.
