"That's right, and...that's all."
"That's all? Aren't there any other inventions? Like a pistol that fires with psychic energy?" Chu Yao was very surprised by this answer.
"There are very complicated reasons behind this... You know about the war between immortals and mortals, right? Do you want me to tell you about the history of junior high school?" Shen Yu ate the duck meat with a beaming smile on his face. He seemed quite happy chatting.
"No, I still know this part."
"Okay. For a long time after the Immortal-Mortal War, the Alliance banned the study of psychic energy, so there was a hiatus in this area of research. However, in the last few hundred years, due to the discovery of more psychic civilizations through outward exploration, research on them... and you, has been revived.
The result of the research is that psychic powers seem to be of little use.”
Chu Yao was about to take a sip of water when she almost choked and spit it out because of these words.
"What kind of words are you using?" She put down the water cup. "Putting aside other things, aren't you celestial beings interested in immortality?"
Long age and eternal life should be a fatal temptation to any race or civilization.
"You've hit the nail on the head. The initial research was indeed centered around 'immortality,' but it wasn't going smoothly. Your physiological structure seems to be different from ours. While psychic energy can coexist peacefully within your bodies, it becomes highly toxic when injected into ordinary people."
So you guys really used a syringe filled with spiritual power to poke me in the head.
"Historical oppression of psychics, prevalent discrimination against barbarians, blind faith in technology, the enormous cost of psychic development, and pressure from conservative factions in the Senate... In short, these various factors have made this area of research difficult. Furthermore, considering the various problems that 'immortality' would bring, research in this area has become a forbidden zone."
When saying these words, Shen Yu was like a bystander, not a pure celestial being.
"What problems will longevity bring?" Chu Yao had never thought about this kind of problem before, and she didn't understand.
"You still don't have a deep understanding of our society, Miss Chu." Chen Yu smiled. "Let me ask you, if the technology to extend lifespan is realized, who will benefit first? And this isn't just a simple extension, but an extension of hundreds or thousands of years."
"...Of course, rich people." Chu Yao thought about it and understood a little.
Wealth, status, power—these things determine that people are inherently unequal. If there's one thing that's equal between rich and poor, it's that everyone has only one life.
If equality in life is broken again, it will not be a blessing but a disaster for a civilization like Tianren with hundreds of billions of people.
Unless such technology is popularized to everyone, which is easier said than done, even bigger problems may arise after it is popularized.
"Furthermore, researchers have discovered that psionic energy can only be extracted from you psionicists, and its uses are very limited. It can be used as a substitute for some energy sources, but the conversion process results in astonishingly large losses. For example, the conversion ratio between magical energy and psionic energy seems to be several hundred to one... I've forgotten the exact number."
What the hell is magic power?
Chu Yao decided to temporarily put aside the doubts in her heart and listen to Chen Yu's words first.
"Psychics cannot be used, but their abilities are too powerful, unpredictable and uncontrollable. Even if they were alone, they would be a disaster to society... Don't get excited, I don't mean to target you.
In short, with interstellar colonization, more and more psionic civilizations were discovered, and more and more psionicists were captured. These psionicists could neither be effectively utilized nor left alone, as killing them would be a waste of ammunition... Thus, the technology of 'refining' was born."
In other words, it's a technique that destroys cultivation, Chu Yao thought silently.
"This technology can preserve the psykers' long lifespans while destroying their abilities. This way, these otherwise unemployed psykers can finally be put to use—at least as a basic labor force. With the advent of refined technology, a psyker-centric industry chain has gradually emerged... You've probably experienced the rest, so I won't go into detail."
For example, being sold to a mine for manual mining, right?
Chu Yao recalled the hard life she and her senior sister had in the mines.
However, there are still many problems here...
"Since the psychic energy of a psyker cannot be effectively utilized, where do the matrices and measuring instruments come from?"
Moreover, there is a crucial issue... Psychic power, or the spiritual power in Chu Yao's body, is not innate!
The celestial beings don’t know, but the cultivators know very well that all their magical powers come from cultivation.
The source of cultivation could be the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the light of the sun and moon, spiritual springs and stones, or even the inner elixir of demonic beasts... Even Chu Yao's cultivation was cultivated by drawing on the Yin energy of heaven and earth. Strictly speaking, these were all energy sources, and could be transformed into a part of one's own cultivation through the use of techniques.
But Chen Yu just said that psychic energy can only be extracted from psychics?
The Celestial Alliance has colonized and developed so many planets. Apart from anything else, have they never discovered spirit stone mines?
Even the celestial beings themselves can practice cultivation. Lu Xiaoye, who has spiritual roots, is an example. He just mentioned that the "physiological structure" of psychics and celestial beings is different.
There must be some deeper reason behind this.
"These two inventions, or rather discoveries, were both unearthed from relics left over from the Dark Ages."
The "Dark Ages" that Shen Yu refers to is the period when the celestial beings were oppressed by the cultivators.
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