The temporal echo faded, leaving Elias and Kaelen in the silent, dust-laden interior of the alien ship, the humble rag with its immense secret now clutched in Elias's hand. While Kaelen was still processing the profound implications for Xianwu's history, Elias, ever the pragmatist, turned his attention to the remaining physical texts scattered in what the echo had revealed to be the alien's "library."
With his Quantum Divine Sense (QDS), he didn't merely "read" them; he assimilated their information in an instant, downloading the vast knowledge directly into his Divine Processor. He quickly gleaned more about the general universal cultivation realms – the very same system of Planet, Star, Galaxy, and up to Reality Realms that he himself had partially reverse-engineered or instinctively understood. The alien texts merely provided a formalized, galactic standard.
