The Silicon-Based Heavenly Court

Worldbuilding Core conflict: To survive, the highly advanced silicon-based civilization Yuanqiong must consume the spiritual energy of carbon-based civilizations. This sparks a fight to the death with Earth's cultivation civilization. Power system: Traditional cultivation stages and technological civilization levels form two parallel scales, while true essence energy and quantum technology combine in extraordinary ways. Time span: From the emergence of near-future technology to the end of the cosmic era, covering the entire course of civilization's evolution. Scope: An expanding hierarchy of worlds, from Earth to the solar system, the Milky Way, the Local Group, and the multiverse. Synopsis The Crucible Project: Nanoclouds deployed by the Yuanqiong civilization transform Earth into an incubator for cultivating spiritual energy, triggering global geological upheaval and a spiritual qi revival. The Entropy Defiers: A team of scientists led by Mo Heng uncovers a conspiracy behind the universe's law of increasing entropy and establishes humanity's last refuge in the Kunlun Mountains. The Waymarks Between Worlds: The discovery of an ancient star gate left behind by cultivators reveals that Earth was once a testing ground for a higher-dimensional civilization. The Silicon Harvest: The countdown to the Yuanqiong civilization's harvest of civilizations, conducted every thousand years, forces humanity and the cultivation world into a strategic alliance. Echoes at the End: At the edge of civilization, Mo Heng discovers a shocking truth: every civilization in the universe is an experimental unit in a data-gathering project run by some mysterious entity.