- Standing on the top of the mountain.

The words of the second prince echoed in Ian's ears.

- Standing on the top of the mountain, people are like ants, and they can't even see their existence, let alone their happiness and dreams.

- Standing on the top of a mountain, you can only see a city, a province, and a whole country.

- People who stand on the top of the mountain will become cold-blooded, and for a future that cannot be touched, they will bury a group of people now.

- As long as you stand on the top of the mountain, everyone is a tyrant.

Mikael had expected Ian to refute his somewhat cold-blooded words, or nod silently in understanding—he could feel similar emotions, two complex and conflicting emotions echoing in Ian's mind, and his mind could sense such fluctuations.

However, as a result, after a brief pause, Ian only asked with some confusion: "The top of the imperial capital...... Is it high? ”

Ian was genuinely confused.

The prince was stunned, and he didn't know whether to laugh or sigh: "No." It is true that the top of the mountain is not high, but further up, there is nothing. ”

"Everything that human beings can have is above the earth, and any higher level is meaningless."

- Not true.

Ian thought so.

- That's not right.

——There is meaning in the high heavens, which is obviously so vast.

There is more to human beings than just what can be seen from the top of a mountain...... And everything you can see when you look at the starry sky!

He couldn't deny that Mikael's words had a certain amount of justification in the Terra Continent, but with such a powerful force, the fifth energy level that still checked and balanced each other on the Terra Continent, as well as various technologies that had already reached the threshold of the interstellar society, should not have made this land so dire.

They shouldn't have used these techniques that can go to the stars to kill each other, and they shouldn't have been so internally tormented......

They could have gone farther......

But soon, the white-haired boy understood, or rather, recalled the reason.

He recalled the starry and dim, pitch-black, abyss-like sky he had seen when he looked up in the golden field.

That piece of emptiness cannot inspire people to have any romance, imagination and reverie, and cannot provide people with imagination, fascination and thinking.

There are no stars there.

Oh, yes...... Ian, suddenly, he finally understood.

- The people of Terra World...... Growing up in a world without stars.

They never look forward to, nor do they fantasize about the sparkle of the night sky.

They are never curious, they don't think about what's in the galaxy.

They don't feel that there is anything in the heavens to look forward to and explore.

The people of this world...... I lost the stars in my heart.

Their highest point is nothing but the top of a mere mountain.

That's all.

- So.

Ian thought to himself.

They are all prisoners wandering above the earth.

So...... All the strong people in this world are checking and balancing each other, and they are vainly draining all their strength.

Unless......

- A sixth level appears.

That's what Mikael really wants to tell Ian when he comes to see him this time.

He encourages Ian's ambitions and approves of Ian's wisdom, but tells him through various tactful methods not to care about ordinary people.

No, it's not.

There was a great deal of sorrow in the depths of Mikael's heart, as he told himself, that he had walked the borders of the Empire, that he had met the poorest men, and that he had done anything that a normal man would do—a prince who had barely concealed his admiration for Inaga II, who, like his grandfather, longed for the happiness of all mankind.

He cares a lot about people. Whether it is an ordinary person or an ascendant, he cares about these beings.

That's why he understood...... Just to make a few more vials, just to develop some technology, is nothing more than to increase some of the production capacity that has long been surplus. Technology can't change today's predicament.

For the world with the fifth energy level, for this land with extraordinary power, sublimation skills and spiritual energy, it is only productivity and some technology, which is meaningless.

The nations check and balance each other, and the major forces depend on each other and fight, like a crab in a bucket, no one can climb out alone.

There are already ways to make everyone in the world happy, and all the answers are available, but still because of the people themselves, these answers can't answer the questions.

Only the pinnacle and the most powerful sublimators can break this sad impasse.

Enough to suppress the ...... of the whole world Black Sun.

Ian's wisdom, in Mikael's opinion, even if it can't become the fifth energy level, it will definitely be able to accumulate nourishment and experience for the descendants of future generations, so it must not be wasted - if you want to completely change the Terra continent, you must accumulate a path that can lead to the sixth energy level step by step.

And, not just empires. I am afraid that all other countries and major powers think the same way.

No matter who it is, no matter which path it is.

As long as there is ...... The land that has been bound, and the people who have been imprisoned in the starless realm, will be able to move forward again.

After the second prince left, Ian was still sitting in a chair in the laboratory. His mood became a little heavy, but at the end of the day, everything Mikael said to him, the boy had actually thought about.

The social problems here are countless times more complex and simpler than those of the earth...... Because the essence of all problems must return to the ravines of ordinary people and sublimators.

and more fundamentally, on human desires.

How can we restrain human desires and maintain a great order without being eaten up by them? This is an eternal subject.

"Indeed, now is not the time to use the identity of the first energy level on the surface to fight against a behemoth like the Alchemy Group, Mikael's advice in this regard is correct, let's change the research direction first."

Standing up, Ian prepared to continue to count the equipment in the laboratory: "The affairs of the territory also have to start planning, and I have to think about the future development plan." ”

"The study of the Extreme Domain also has to be put on the agenda, the sixth energy level...... The teacher's conjecture was just conjecture, and although it did make me stronger, I wasn't completely sure that I would be able to reach the sixth level by cultivating it all. ”

"The sixth energy level is definitely not as complicated as the five extreme domains, but it is not as simple as just cultivating to achieve it."

Thinking of this, Ian closed his eyes, and he recorded a large string of schedules in the silver chip, and then smiled.

"Interesting, a wasteland, waiting to be explored. That's the challenge. ”

The white-haired young man laughed and said, "Yes, how boring is such a world? The powerhouses of the fifth energy level check and balance each other, the great powers throw endless wealth and resources into the abyss of confrontation and constraints, the cutting-edge technology of the pre-era civilization and the peak sublimation skills of the current Terra almost reaching the threshold will gradually stagnate, and even the slightest development will in turn destroy the civilization itself and drag the entire civilization system into the abyss. ”

"A world that rots in crisis and silence, a world in which technology in turn destroys civilization, a world without stars, a world where all souls are bound by gravity."

"It's so boring in a world like this."

"I'm glad I did."

He stood up, his eyes glowing with a silvery cyan glow, "I really want to thank His Highness Mikael - he pointed out to me what really is wrong with this world. ”

"Not only the absolute power of the sixth energy level, but also the stars that reshape people's hearts and yearn for - otherwise, no one will look up to the heavens."

"It seems that I still have a lot to prepare before I actually go back to my hometown to farm."