Devouring the Starry Sky: Giants of Light at the beginning

Chapter 949 Territory Allocation and Disagreements

"It's good that it didn't have any impact!"

Lords like Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. There might be some impact, but judging from Yuan's attitude, it probably wouldn't be significant, and they could handle it themselves.

“Yuan, if you need anything, just tell us,” Lord Jin said.

"That's right..."

Many lords have a very good attitude towards the Lord Source, not only because the former is powerful, but more importantly because it has many methods that can complement the other lords.

If you can explore various mysterious places with Yuan, the effect will be absolutely fantastic.

"It won't be long before Yuan becomes an immortal being. At that time, our cultivator camp will have eight seats in the Eternal Land," Yuan said excitedly.

“Even if he hasn’t reached the Eternal Realm yet, I estimate that no one in the Infinite Chaos Space could kill the Source,” the Star Lord laughed.

Given Yuan's size and methods, there is currently no one in the Chaotic Origin Space who can restrain him; the only way is to destroy his life core with absolute strength.

The reason it doesn't exist forever is because of its weakness—the life core—making it vulnerable to being killed, though this is still very difficult to achieve in practice.

Only by igniting another all-out battle between the two factions can we have a chance to break through the source's life core.

However, the difficulty is still very high. After all, cultivators have a higher level of cultivation and are not like those Primordial Ancestors who could not detect the extent of their injuries.

"The naturally formed Chaotic Life Force shouldn't be a concern for the time being; they're probably still licking their wounds and processing the effects of the war," Yuan said with a smile. "Then let's distribute the spoils of war first!"

"In this war, we killed nine Primordial Ancestors of Hunyuan out of thin air, one of whom was the Giant God Emperor, one of the Nine Emperors of Hunyuan Life."

At this point, Yuan was also very excited. Although the death of the Giant God Emperor was not the most perfect ending, such a victory was still worth celebrating for the entire cultivator camp.

"Before this war, over countless years, we had only killed fourteen progenitors in total," Lord Moman exclaimed. "This war alone has killed nine of them."

"Hehe, that Giant God Emperor alone is equivalent to at least five or six Primordial Ancestors, or even more." Lord Jin chuckled.

"If we can also kill the other four progenitors who do not possess the characteristic of eternity, the entire innate chaotic life force will probably collapse."

“Jin, don’t get your hopes up. We were lucky to kill the Giant God Emperor this time. It just so happened that Yuan and I were able to counter him.” Yuan said with a smile.

"Not only that, but because of the sudden appearance of the Source and its superb methods, the corpse of the deceased Primordial Ancestor, apart from the Giant God Emperor, is also very intact. This is also a great gain." Lord Naigu was very happy.

As the lord of the Hunyuan Bloodline Path, his greatest concern was the corpse of the Hunyuan Ancestor.

Although they had killed more than a dozen Hunyuan Ancestors before, they had collected very few corpses.

Before their deaths, those Primordial Ancestors did not want their corpses to fall into the hands of cultivators.

If the primordial ancestor had been even a step slower, he could have caused his body to collapse before he died.

However, thanks to Lu Yunhe's methods and his cooperation with Xingmang, they managed to obtain the corpses of eight Hunyuan Ancestors, all of which were very intact.

For Lord Nagu, nothing could be more surprising than this.

"Even the combined efforts of the Primordial Chaos Life Force couldn't defeat us. The situation has reversed, and it's time for us to counterattack," Xingmang laughed.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! I've been getting suppressed the whole time, I'm itching to take the initiative!" Lord Jin said impatiently.

"Let's distribute the spoils first!" Yuan said helplessly. "The old rules still apply. Each of us lords will take 10% of the corpse of the Primordial Ancestor and the spoils on his body, and the rest will be shared by the entire camp."

Unlike other factions, the lords of the cultivator faction value their own Dao more. Apart from Lord Naigu, the other lords have little need for these things.

Therefore, loot is always distributed equally, and there is no need to consider the degree of contribution; it's unnecessary.

Not only these spoils of war, but even the various precious treasures produced within the territory were of little use to the lords. They were either given as rewards to their subordinates or kept in the treasury.

Without a life core, there is no such thing as potential; there is only the Dao as the core.

That being said, the cultivator lords still occupied the most prosperous locations without hesitation, precisely to nurture their successors, much to the envy of the progenitors of other factions.

Innate, primordial life forms can indeed absorb these resources to continue growing stronger.

If the cultivator lord hadn't been so powerful, they probably would have been besieged by the entire Chaos Origin Space long ago.

Now, thanks to the Life Core, Lu Yunhe can also absorb this precious resource to improve his strength, which can be considered a benefit.

"Once I've exhausted all the resources of the cultivator camp and then dealt with the weakness of the Life Core, I probably won't even need a second Chaotic Origin Path to be comparable to Star Radiance," Lu Yunhe thought.

After all, his situation is special. Whether he chooses the path of a primordial life form, the path of a cultivator, or even the path of imitating the source world, there is great potential for progress. When all three are combined, it is impossible to calculate using common sense.

"The distribution of spoils is complete," Yuan continued. He didn't seem to care much about the spoils, so no one had any objections.

"Next matter: territory allocation!"

“With a new lord born, according to the previous rules, new territories need to be divided and subordinates redistributed.” Yuan looked at the other lords, and seeing that they had no objections, he continued.

"First, the Dark World Group, as the source's home, will become his absolute domain."

"Secondly, there is the responsibility of guarding the borders, and the responsibility of the world groups that bear the burden of the borders."

Above the round table, miniatures of the 3,600 world clusters began to appear, and the Yuan began to be distributed.

The eight lords each have their own absolute territory, which eventually extends to the border. Each lord's territory is somewhat shaped like a twisted fish.

Absolute territories are areas that lords can completely control, mainly because the Hunyuan Space is too large, and other places are difficult to take care of.

Even within a cultivator's own territory, it would take a considerable amount of time for a Hunyuan Lord to travel in a straight line, let alone manage every detail.

Therefore, even lords are centered around their absolute territory and then radiate out to a large area of ​​the world cluster, so exchanges within their territory have little impact.

"Three thousand six hundred world clusters—that was what we had when we had seven lords. Now that we have one more lord, it's time for a change," Lord Minghuang said excitedly, looking at the miniature world.

Lord Minghuang has a great love in his heart, and it is not limited to his own territory. However, due to his limited strength, he is unable to extend his influence to other territories.

If possible, Minghuang would even like to make the entire Endless Chaos Space follow the rules of her territory.

"No rush, let's take back the lost territories first." Yuan Shen's expression turned cold as he thought of those camps that had taken advantage of the situation.

Previously, due to the threat posed by the naturally formed chaotic life force, the lords could only turn a blind eye and temporarily set aside their concerns.

Now that we've won, it's time to use this momentum to eliminate those other factions.

Not a single source world should be lost from those that belong to the cultivators. "Not only must we take back the territories, but we must also make them pay compensation," the Star Lord said solemnly.

As the builder of the entire spacetime network, Starburst naturally has a clear understanding of the fallen territories and the situation within them.

They only asked for some compensation, considering that there were simply too many invading forces, and many of them were immortal beings that couldn't be completely wiped out.

Otherwise, Starburst would have wanted to lead the lords to attack other factions directly.

The Endless Primordial Space is vast, but the number of Primordial Ancestors is very small. It is not right that such a small number of people have given rise to so many factions.

There are too many factions in the Hunyuan Space.

"We'll have to get rid of them sooner or later!" Lord Jin said coldly.

“Eliminate the other factions!” Yuan thought of those immortal beings and couldn’t help but shake his head, saying to Yuan:

“Yuan, this time you are only assigned 22 world-class Hunyuan and ten million high-level Hunyuan as subordinates. The number is a bit small. You'd better train them yourself.”

"enough!"

Lu Yunhe glanced at them and saw that these cultivators were also used as managers, while the actual work was done by those naturally born chaotic beings who were enslaved.

However, in Yuan's eyes, these enslaved people were not even human.

Tens of millions of cultivators of Hunyuan, and billions of enslaved innate Hunyuan beings, are sufficient for the management of the territory.

With these subordinates and territory, Lu Yunhe could finally be considered a true lord.

The reason why the progenitor level cultivators are called lords is naturally because they are actually managing their territories and building their domains.

Unlike other Primordial Ancestors, who were basically focused on devouring the Origin World.

The world groups visited by the Primordial Ancestor of Chaos were all dilapidated and could no longer be considered territorial lords.

Having become the lord of a territory, one naturally needs to shoulder one's responsibilities.

However, for cultivator lords, the importance of defending against external enemies is too high, so relatively speaking, they have little responsibility for building up their territories.

After all, those Primordial Ancestors were truly aiming to destroy the world; their first priority was survival, and only then could they consider anything else.

Even the Lord of Destruction, Gold, would not destroy individual source worlds.

“If the allocation of territories is fine, then I’ll go down with him.” Yuan looked at the other lords.

Although these subordinates are not significant in terms of power, as cultivators born from weakness, their social attributes are ingrained in their bones, which is why they have the unique title of lord.

"Yuan, we trust you to handle things. You can decide all these matters," Lord Naigu said nonchalantly.

If it weren't for respect for other lords, one could simply give a heads-up about matters on their territory.

After all, Yuan wouldn't touch their core territory, their own trained disciples and subordinates, and so on.

“The matter of the new lord has been resolved. Next, we need to decide on the strategy for the entire cultivator camp for the foreseeable future,” Yuan said.

On the external front, there's not much to say; there's no need for any compromise with other factions, and the occupied territories must be reclaimed first.

The territory encompassed by the Spacetime Network belongs to their cultivators.

Although they were constantly suppressed by the naturally born chaotic life force, to be precise, they were only suppressed by many chaotic ancestors in group battles. In terms of dominance, even naturally born chaotic life forces were not as good as cultivators.

Only a cultivator lord would do something like excluding the most powerful group in the entire endless primordial space.

There were seven eternal beings, yet none of them were Hunyuan Ancestors in the faction. You can imagine how domineering and contemptuous they were.

Secondly, there is the future development strategy of the cultivator camp, which mainly focuses on the cultivation of the next generation.

"First, we'll reclaim all the resources from all the previous world clusters," Lord Moman said directly.

Previously, with the threat of territorial destruction looming, the lords opened up many exchange resources. Now that the crisis has passed, they naturally have to take them back.

Although the lords don't care much about resources, they can't waste them like this, since they've worked hard to accumulate them.

"Not only should we reclaim high-level resources, but we should also reduce the supply of ordinary resources and intensify competition among cultivators," the Golden Lord said calmly.

“Gold, reducing resources and increasing competition, isn’t that a bit too radical?” Lord Wu Lan frowned.

"Hmph, they've enjoyed so many benefits from us, yet they haven't achieved anything. I think we've protected them too well; they have no sense of crisis at all," Jin said, shaking his head.

"The lords present were all born during the most critical moment for the cultivators, but since the birth of the Star Lord, the cultivators in the territory have been living too comfortably, which is not good."

"As for the Source Lord, it has little to do with our training, and it has never even been to the Holy Land World, so it did not consume any resources at all."

"In that case, giving resources to those little guys who haven't even escaped their cages is a complete waste," Jin said bluntly.

“With scarce resources and a harsh environment, it is indeed easier to squeeze out potential,” Lu Yunhe remarked.

Although he himself was not involved in this, the growth of ordinary cultivators does indeed require a lot of tempering.

How can we force ourselves to evolve without experiencing life-or-death crises?

“Intense competition is fine, but world destruction is not allowed,” Lord Minghuang said instantly. As soon as Jin spoke, she understood what he meant.

Not to mention the destruction of the world, Minghuang even wondered if everyone should engage in excessive killing, but the difficulty was too high, so she could only take a step back for now.

"Without destroying the world or triggering a global catastrophe, how can we select highly qualified cultivators from the entire world?" Jin asked.

"During the cataclysmic calamity, I will select those cultivators who will face the great tribulation. Minghuang, you will guide those who will save the world. Both sides will get what they need. Is there any problem?"

"Jin, I absolutely will not stoop to your level," Lord Minghuang said through gritted teeth.

If she were to do that, she might as well just die.

"Yuan, what do you think?" Lord Minghuang looked at Lu Yunhe and said, "To save the territory, he was willing to give up the Great Dao. Perhaps he is also a being with great love."

“Life and destruction are like two sides of yin and yang; neither can exist without the other,” Lu Yunhe said. “However, as cultivators, we must ultimately face life.”

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(End of this chapter)