Swallowed Star: Inward Cultivation, Crying Luo Feng

Chapter 359 The Current State of the Human Race
While Luo Fan was in seclusion, the outside world was not actually very peaceful.

Recently, the human race has suffered many deaths among immortals and venerables due to constant targeting by the powerful races of the three races.

In fact, it wasn't just the three races targeting the human race.

After learning that the human race possessed a World Lord-level bloodline evolution agent, powerful figures from other forces began to subtly target human powerhouses in cosmic secret realms or extraterrestrial battlefields.

After all, apart from the Ancestral God Cult, no other force in the universe wants to have multiple universe lords or even the strongest beings in the universe again.

They don't want humanity to become something like the God-Eye Clan, or even surpass them.

The Divine Eye Clan was the dominant race in the first cycle of reincarnation.

The true God's miniature universe can exist in the cosmic ocean for three cycles of time.

Once three cycles of reincarnation have passed, those who have not transcended reincarnation will become true gods of the void.

Then, this miniature universe of the true god will shatter, and the race will perish.

Only by breaking through the void and becoming a true god, and transcending reincarnation, can a sacred universe be established, allowing the race to continue to exist.

The races of the primordial universe two eras ago were the races of the first era.

The current era of reincarnation that Luo Fan is in is known as the Third Reincarnation Era.

The previous cycle was the second cycle.

The Divine Eye Clan is a race from the first cycle of reincarnation.

Because their race produced seven of the strongest beings in the universe, they became the dominant race in the first cycle of reincarnation.

If it weren't for the fact that the Skeleton Clan in the first cycle of reincarnation also produced four of the strongest beings in the universe, barely able to contend with the God-Eye Clan.

In the first cycle of time, the world may fall completely under the control of the Divine Eye Clan.

Humanity could very well become like the Divine Eye Clan, something other forces in the primordial universe do not want to see.

Holding a sharp blade, the urge to kill arises spontaneously.

When humans possess sufficient power, they will only seize the territory of other races.

After all, in the primordial universe, the larger the territory, the more geniuses are born.

Although now humans can allow ordinary people to take World Lord-level bloodline evolution agents and become minor geniuses.

However, the effects might be even better for geniuses, potentially allowing them to go even further.

Therefore, territory remains extremely important to the human race today.

Is it that the human race does not want to expand its territory?
No, you can’t!
If the human race had that ability, they would definitely expand their territory like crazy.

After all, for the human race, the more geniuses the better.

Even if Luo Fan could bestow talent secret techniques in batches.

However, once geniuses possess secret techniques for cultivating their talents, the extent to which they can unleash their potential, and even their future limits, will far exceed those of ordinary people.

Just like the Starry Sky Beasts Alliance.

Just a few races, yet they are so terrifying.

It's important to know that the Starry Sky Beasts are among the nine most powerful forces in the primordial universe!

Their biggest drawback is actually that their population is too small.

The reproduction of the cosmic behemoths is extremely difficult.

Even those with the twelve peak bloodlines sometimes have to pay with their lives to reproduce.

The twelve peak bloodlines among the star beasts are all World Lord level bloodlines.

These twelve peak bloodlines have basically produced one or more universe lords!
This shows just how terrifying a peak bloodline can be.

The limitation on these peak bloodlines and world lord-level bloodlines is actually the birth rate.

Like the Zerg, the Zerg rely solely on the Zerg Queen, unlike the Humans and the Demons, which are composed of multiple branches and form alliances to become the dominant forces.

This demonstrates just how terrifying the potential of a top-tier race can be.

Besides resources and territory, the biggest factor limiting the Zerg's development is actually the Zerg Queen's fertility rate.

The Zerg Queen has a very low fertility rate.

This is because it is an ironclad rule of the universe: the stronger a creature is, the less likely it is to reproduce.

Just like the lord-level bloodline branches of the human race, their population is not large.

It is precisely because their bloodline is too strong that they have difficulty having offspring.

Moreover, even if they do have offspring, the number is very small.

Therefore, although these top races have exceptional talents, their population size is too small, so their number of strong individuals is actually similar to that of other top powers.

In fact, the number of Zerg Overlords is relatively small.

It's because it's difficult for offspring to reproduce.

However, the situation is different for humans.

Humans don't rely on bloodlines, they rely on potions!

In other words, the human race can maintain an incredibly high birth rate while still possessing a large number of top-tier bloodlines in the universe.

This is the most terrifying aspect of the human race, which possesses a World Lord-level bloodline evolution agent.

Even if I take the Bloodline Evolution Agent, my talent is still inferior to your Zerg Queen and the Starry Sky Behemoth with twelve peak bloodlines, so what?
My quantity is millions of times greater than yours!
And that's far more than that!
It's important to know that humans and demons were arguably the most common races in the primordial universe.

These two groups are not only distributed within their own territories.

Even in the territories of many other races, there are large numbers of humans and demons.

Although some of these were consumed as food, this also reveals the terrifying birth rate of the human race.

The cost for humans to manufacture Lord-level bloodline evolution agents is not low for ordinary people.

However, for a race, this is ridiculously low.

The original cost of a bottle of World Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agent was about ten Mixed Yuan Units.

Now, with countless resource planets and secret realms, the human race has enabled countless human pharmacists to begin cultivating the raw materials for world lord-level bloodline evolution agents.

The cost is incredibly low now!
A bottle of World Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agent costs less than three Mixed Yuan Units!
This is because Luo Fan hasn't been using the Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agent for very long.

If time continues to stretch on, human apothecaries will develop more and more methods for cultivating inexpensive raw materials.

At that time, the cost of World Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agent will be further reduced!
How terrifying is this?
Only a few of these twelve peak-bloodline star beasts can appear in an entire era.

How many humans could there be in an era if they took a World Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agent?
This is no longer a matter of a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times.

The difference is in the hundreds of millions!

So many geniuses could at least become world lords.

How many immortals can appear among them?
How many more revered beings can emerge from these immortals?
In the end, how many universe masters or even the strongest beings in the universe can emerge?
This is what other top powers in the universe fear.

Otherwise, the human race would never have produced a single peak bloodline.

Even if the human race has ten or a hundred more peak bloodlines, it won't matter.

Because the birth rate of truly elite bloodlines cannot be very high.

Humans, on the other hand, possess not only top-tier bloodline talent but also an astonishingly high birth rate compared to ordinary creatures.

If this goes on for too long, will other top powers in the universe be able to withstand such a terrifying human race?

Therefore, currently, apart from the human race, the only other top forces in the original universe that do not require territory are the Ancestral God Cult and the Starry Sky Beast Alliance, which have not targeted the human race.

The other five top races—the Insect Race, the Demon Race, the Mechanical Race, the Crystal Race, and the Prison Race—along with the top power, the Northern Frontier Alliance, all subtly show signs of targeting the human race.

After all, these six top powers all need a large amount of territory to reproduce.

If humanity truly becomes powerful, it will definitely turn against these forces.

Of course, the first to be attacked were the three races adjacent to the human race: the demon race, the insect race, and the machine race.

Therefore, the three races were also the first to unite against the human race.

The Crystal Clan, the Prison Clan, and the Northern Frontier Alliance are all located far from the human race's territory.

However, they also understood the principle of mutual dependence.

If the human race can truly occupy the territories of the three races, then they will definitely have the strength to continue expanding.

Then, they will be the ones facing the human race.

This is why they subtly unite to target the human race against the three races.

They are constantly eliminating the middle-level forces of the human race.

This greatly increases the difficulty for mid-level humans to gain experience.

After all, the best way to hone your skills is to face opponents who are similar to yourself.

Instead of being surrounded and attacked by multiple people as soon as they appear.

This has no training effect whatsoever, and the mortality rate is extremely high.

Without training grounds, it would be difficult for these geniuses of the human race with world lord-level bloodlines to gain experience.

Without experience, the rate of progress will be much slower.

Why does the Virtual Universe Company require its core geniuses to undergo training in cosmic secret realms or extraterrestrial battlefields after reaching the Realm Lord level?
It was through the experience of countless eras that the high-ranking members of the human race came to know.

Without experience and training, it is difficult to become a strong person.

This is the main reason why these top forces took action.

Moreover, because the human immortals and venerables are constantly being killed.

Therefore, the human race, the ruler of the universe, needs to resurrect these immortals and venerable beings.

Thus, even the human race's universe master is unable to explore the cosmic sea.

Without the ability to explore the cosmic sea, it is difficult to obtain the inheritance and treasures of ancient civilizations.

For those at the level of the Lord of the Universe, there is basically no path ahead.

Unlike in lower realms, there is no complete and systematic inheritance from ordinary life to the master of the universe.

The path from the Lord of the Universe to the strongest being in the universe is one that these Lords of the Universe in the primordial universe and the cosmic sea can only explore on their own.

Only in the two sacred sites of the Cosmic Sea can some of these traditions be passed down.

How important is inheritance?

In fact, the reason why the Divine Eye Clan in the first cycle of reincarnation had so many of the strongest beings in the universe was because they obtained a part of the ancient civilization, or rather, the inheritance from the Origin Continent.

They also possess a secret technique for combined attacks, allowing seven true gods to unleash a tenth-tier power.

However, the inheritance is not entirely complete.

Otherwise, the Divine Eye Clan would have more than just these True Gods by now.

There is even a possibility that a Void God might appear.

This is why the Lord of the Universe and the strongest beings in the universe both like to explore the cosmic sea.

It's not just about obtaining the treasure; more importantly, it's about preserving the ancient civilization.

(End of this chapter)