How to break the ego, and whether the ego is born again after the brain's gradation — there was no guessing either with any accuracy yet.

Shen Cong had put his mind at ease about it by now. He was already too far ahead of everyone else, a predator at the summit of the land, with no worry about his life, and no need to be so tense.

Now he was waiting for humanity to light up the technology tree that would carry him toward the sea of stars.

"I could hand over what I know about the Banner Body-Strengthening Method and the Firestarter Spirit and let the scientists work on it. The Banner Body-Strengthening Method needs an iron core of Beyond-Four-Star Talent or better, and even if it were spread far and wide, how many iron cores at Beyond-Four-Star are there to absorb? I killed the Black Iron Giant Bear by luck. Anyone else would have to prey on iron people at Beyond-Four-Star."

So far the only evolved beast at Beyond-Four-Star Talent anyone had seen was one Black Iron Giant Bear, and Shen Cong had swallowed it.

Among iron people, apart from Shen Cong the predator himself, there was Hu Wei of the Provisional Government, also at Beyond-Four-Star. And of course, if the Eastern Theater Command's super-grade iron people made progress with the Primal Energy Fluctuation Method, Chen Xiuni and Zhang Changde had some hope of reaching Beyond-Four-Star as well.

But every one of them was a great organization's key investment, at the level of a strategic nuclear asset. Apart from Shen Cong, nobody could kill them and take their iron cores at will.

And Shen Cong had no interest in killing them.

So the Banner Body-Strengthening Method was essentially a theory, and no help to anyone trying to catch up with him.

As for the Firestarter Spirit, it was a good way to raise Talent directly. But Shen Cong had thought about that too. Even if he said nothing, any large organization that found a Firestarter Spirit would work out easily enough that devouring fire-spirit medium raises Talent.