[Even though I think this should be the power of your own talent, Ian, but if it's really like what your senior brother Mahdi said in the City of Knowledge, that every Arcane Path Practitioner can condense a 'Standard Origin Model' for themselves through meditation... then every Standard Origin Model could devour and replace each other!]
Xike's guess was indeed correct. Ian's ability to extract the Origin Model from Xike's body came from Ian himself having the Rites of the Star Gods and Heart of Terra, two Divine Artifacts that could directly scan and forcefully extract specific Origin Models with ultra-high computational power.
No one else could do it, not even by creating a second Heart of Terra, unless they were a Pioneer.
But in the future.
If in the future, the Arcane Path truly flourishes, and everyone practices the same Standard Origin Model and condenses a Standard Sublimation Organ for themselves...
Then mutual plundering might really become a possibility.
