Alina closes her eyes for a moment to calm herself and then opens them expecting to see incredulous or surprised faces…
But unfortunately that did not happen, no one reacted to the fact that she did not come from this world or that this was not her original body, nor much to the fact that she came from Earth, her face filled with completely visible confusion.
Feicui Long tells her: "Do you think we do not know here that it would not be possible to believe that you come from another world?, reincarnation, transmigration, rebirth, portals, travel between universes, all of this is possible and well known…"
Alina then is left in shock, but her shock would not end there because Feicui Long tells her: "Besides I doubt that you come from Earth, how is it that you come from Earth and have not seen anything similar to what happens in this world?, the whole world knows that world, I do not believe there is anyone who does not know it."
Alina tells him: "Well because on Earth those things like energy, alchemy or refinement do not exist, nor magical creatures or things like that, the world is governed by laws called natural laws such as laws of physics or chemistry."
Feicui Long smiles slightly and tells her: "That is impossible, on Earth there are also gods, energy, monsters and energetic beasts among others, I myself saw it and fought on the front, I attended people as a field medic."
Alina, frightened, raises her voice saying: "That is impossible!, I swear that I am not lying, my world, the planet Earth is not like that!"
Feicui Long then frowns and tells her: "Do you realize that what you are saying makes no sense?, it is not to be skeptical, but the Earth you describe no longer exists."
Alina shakes her head in disbelief saying: "No that cannot be, I remember that everything was normal, maybe you confused worlds?"
Then she adds, saying a bit proudly: "Surely if you lived on Earth you must have heard of me, I, Doctor Helga Schmidt, was one of the greatest geniuses of the moment, I won two Nobel prizes, one in physics and one in chemistry, my name resonated throughout the whole world."
Feicui Long then, thoughtful, sighs and explains himself: "It is not that I do not want to believe you… what happens is that what you are telling me is an era of Earth that happened such an extremely long time ago, that it is almost impossible to believe it, that era is older than the existence of this universe or even mature universes… and this universe already has more than 35 billion years."
Feicui Long then crosses his hands and says: "And although the time it takes for a soul to reincarnate can vary enormously from a few minutes, hours and days, to years, centuries, millennia or even a million years, such a brutal amount as the one you mention I had never heard before."
Alina turns pale while touching her head: "No… it is not impossible… it has to be it, I was only working on my new project, I remember it as clearly as day, the project was about the possibility of creating a warp engine as a possibility to travel between dimensions, I only know that there was a flash and nothing else…"
Feicui Long then stands up frowning, dominion over space and time is something of total knowledge for him, after all it is his domain, he approaches Alina who is in an existential crisis and touches her shoulder, only to then inject a bit of his energy…
And he executes the soul inspection technique to verify what she says… after a few moments he opens his eyes in the greatest and purest shock he has felt in his entire existence…
She is not lying, indeed her soul is even older than his…
Feicui Long then sits down and says: "I see that you are not lying… indeed your soul is that old and this is your first reincarnation."
Everyone in the room is also left in shock and opens their mouths wide enough to fit a fist, there was almost no noise, it seemed like the solemn wake of some person of royalty.
Then Feicui Long finally breaks the silence and says: "Even so I am sorry Alina, knowledge about physics is not really very useful, it does not contribute much."
Alina then comes out of her shock, already a bit more unconcerned about revealing her secret and says: "I know that physics may not be very useful at this moment, with my knowledge we can create firearms, modern technology, many things, please consider it."
Mariane, who also came out of the shock, answers her: "It is not to belittle your knowledge, but what you say has little use and really cannot help us much."
Feicui Long nods and says: "Mariane is right, but even leaving that aside, do you really know anything about how to create those things?, we do not even have the necessary tools to do it, this is not a story where you can magically put your physical knowledge into something real."
Alina wants to speak more, but Feicui Long interrupts her and says: "I know you are confused, but let me explain everything to you."
Feicui Long stands up and goes to the board he placed behind the table and begins to draw something while he speaks: "You see, Alina, what you call natural laws, which can be divided into laws of physics and laws of chemistry, such as gravity and others, are also known as mortal laws."
On the board Feicui Long draws an entire diagram where at the very bottom are the mortal laws and says: "These laws are in charge of making everything occupy its place, but they are really weak, they serve to maintain order, that is why although pure technology is good, it has its advantages, but it really is not a big deal."
Mariane speaks, continuing her master's explanation using her energy to construct physical shapes and says: "My master is being generous, really pure technology is honestly inferior in every sense, for you to understand it, a conventional firearm has difficulties injuring a cultivator of the elemental realm, they are practically useless."
Feicui Long stops her for a moment and says: "Let me clarify something, actually it depends, if we take a firearm such as a 9mm, a cultivator of the elemental realm is enough to resist its power if he uses his energy, but as its caliber and power increase they can for example even damage a mystic realm."
Feicui Long says: "That of course depends on the cultivation path, energy and attributes, as well as abilities or techniques, but in general the growth is like that, take for example the most powerful weapon of Earth before its release, the nuclear bomb."
Feicui Long draws an atomic explosion: "Its power output is terribly lethal, but a human in the epic realm can survive with very serious to mortal injuries, while a legendary realm can survive with moderate to severe injuries, a mystic realm with light to moderate injuries, for a spiritual palace realm it would directly be from scratches to light injuries."
Alina says with her eyes wide open: "How the hell is that possible!?"
Feicui Long tells her while raising his hand: "Do not get ahead of yourself, let me continue, that scenario is only considering a mortal and an internal cultivator, if we go to energetic beasts directly, what I said applies to astral king realms, astral emperor and astral sovereign, a great realm below the great mythic realm, the same applies to external cultivators who are more resistant."
Feicui Long finishes with this last part: "Now it is not like the path of pure technology cannot reach devastating power, I myself commanded a ship in a civilization at the peak of power, a ship capable of destroying stars, they could kill millions and their attack power… was equivalent to a terrestrial immortal, something quite incredible."
Then looking a bit sadly to the past he says: "But do you really think it was equivalent to one?, it was only equivalent in attack power and it was the huge main cannon that consumed brutal amounts of energy and took a long time to charge, a single terrestrial immortal was enough to destroy them… in fact what led to the fall of that empire were cultivators in the terrestrial immortal realm, because precisely you needed several of those costly ships to kill just one."
Mariane speaks again finally and says: "That is because of the limit, unfortunately for an incomplete path such as pure technology, there is not much further to go."
Feicui Long fully agrees with Mariane and says: "Yes, the reason for that is that when you use mortal materials and everything at a mortal level, you cannot violate mortal laws and those laws act as chains that prevent going beyond, in fact that is what cultivation consists of… using energy to break those mortal laws."
Feicui Long uses the example of this world: "According to the mortal laws that you know, a world like this that measures 52,135 km in radius would already be a gas giant or gravity would be so strong that it would kill us all… but energy prevents it and weakens the effects of gravity, that is how energy works to surpass the mortal limit."
Feicui Long then adds: "Now it is not like technology is not useful, that is why technoenergetic societies exist, which use both technology and energies and are a complete path and although they have their weaknesses since many times they do not have powerful artifacts or individuals because they prioritize quantity over quality, even so they can stand on equal footing and even reach divine realms or beyond."
Isabella, who had been silent, finally speaks and tells her: "Do you understand now Alina?, it is not that we do not want you, it is that we really do not have much use for you."
Feicui Long nods saying: "Exactly, it is not that I hate you or anything but you really do not contribute much and although I want to create a hybrid between a purely energetic society with a technoenergetic one, physics really does not contribute much…"
Alina sighs heavily and uses her last card: "If physics does not serve you, what about chemistry?, it just so happens that I am also a doctor in chemistry."
Feicui Long then suddenly his eyes light up and he tells her: "That is certainly interesting, alright I can use that, but you have to sign a contract like everyone here and it is not like a contract from Earth, here there is power and severe consequences."
Feicui Long changes his mind, a chemist does have many uses, from helping to prepare useful materials that facilitate the lives of his citizens, to being able to teach alchemy or inscription mastery.
Alina heard that and saw the light at the end of the tunnel… but she had heard about contracts, she had to think about it carefully, very carefully…