The Greymen haven't developed to that extent yet.
They only seem to have used starships to colonize a few distant, barren worlds and have not yet interacted with other civilizations in their universe.
Luo Yan could understand Miller's shock and his uncontainable longing as an ordinary researcher for the world behind the 178th Void Realm.
On Aus Continent, even in places like the Academic State, the most powerful Extraordinary Power isn't in the hands of those who truly study it.
Power and resources are tightly held by Sages and a few professors like Arist Thorne, whose morality and cultivation aren't much higher than ordinary people.
They build academic barriers, control the flow of knowledge, making most researchers like worker ants mining for them.
Researchers spend their lives longing to break the shackles of Soul Level, but even researchers like Arist, who have nearly reached the top of the tower, can't do it.
