I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

If any problems arise here, they can immediately contact those more powerful beings who will take direct action. After all, they have connections with different forces and families on this planet, and the stronger the power, the less likely they are to obtain the necessary resources on their own.

So don't be fooled by the small number of people gathered here by these so-called forces and families; their strength is considerable, and they have intricate connections with the most powerful individuals. To some extent, they regularly provide cultivation resources to those powerful individuals.

During his cultivation period, Luo Yuan also learned about the places where powerful people lived on the planet. Apart from the lord who was not usually on the planet, there were many other powerful people. They were basically all beyond the star level, but had not reached the universe level.

Moreover, many of these people are the lord's trusted subordinates and are under his control. Otherwise, they would not be qualified to obtain the corresponding status here and continuously improve their strength. The lord is doing this to ensure his own position.

Moreover, if someone can completely control this planet, and their strength reaches the star level, they will either have to obey the lord's arrangements and orders or offer their loyalty if they want to continue to improve. Of course, a large portion of the abundant resources on this planet will become the lord's property.

The remaining portion is then distributed among these powerful forces and families, leaving only a very small amount of resources for those who haven't even reached the star level. Therefore, the status among the powerful individuals on the entire planet is structured in a pyramid pattern.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary strongmen to change their fate by fighting monsters and acquiring resources, just like ordinary strongmen. This is because these powerful forces and strongmen have already limited ordinary strongmen to a certain range when they set the rules.

No matter how hard they try, they cannot escape this predicament unless they encounter some so-called opportunity to get rid of their current status. However, such people are rare. Even if they can do it, they will be recruited by powerful forces and eventually become one of them.

For these lucky individuals who manage to escape their fate, their stories will continue to circulate among ordinary, strong people, becoming objects of their admiration and inspiration. This will motivate them to strive even harder, thereby creating more value for those powerful and influential individuals.

In reality, the true outcome, including the development of society as a whole and the allocation of important resources, can only be controlled and known by those at the very top. However, such information cannot be shared with the ordinary powerful individuals at the bottom, thus ensuring the normal operation of society.

In fact, to cultivate to a very high level, one needs corresponding talent and bloodline, especially the genetic level. Often, the descendants of those who are strong will grow faster because they not only have powerful genetic bloodlines, but also more cultivation resources, as well as some inherited methods.

Therefore, their cultivation speed far exceeds that of other powerful individuals. At least Luo Yuan knew from his observations that those who were truly at the top in the entire city were basically from these large families and forces. This pattern was the same everywhere.

Because as long as they possess the corresponding wisdom, regardless of their ethnicity, they will arrange things according to this model, so precious resources will always be controlled by only a few people.

Luo Yuan was well aware that it would be too difficult to acquire these resources on his own, so he simply waited until he became strong enough to break all the rules and become the one who set them.

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Chapter 868. Absolutely foolproof.

Luo Yuan's cultivation process went very smoothly and was not discovered by any powerful figures. This was because the methods of all the powerful figures on this planet could not reach the level that Luo Yuan possessed, and they could not possibly discover that Luo Yuan had actually caught up with them at a rapid pace.

In fact, Luo Yuan's strength increased at a speed far exceeding their expectations. Moreover, if Luo Yuan did not want to reveal his true strength, no one on this planet would be able to discover it. Luo Yuan was very cautious because he always believed in one thing: to keep a low profile until he finally became an invincible being.

Then he can demonstrate his strength and have everything. But before reaching that level, he cannot let others know his true situation in advance. Otherwise, if any problems arise, it will be very troublesome for him to solve them.

Although this city is home to many powerful individuals, they still maintain a relatively peaceful relationship with each other. After all, apart from going to other places to fight against demonic beasts and obtain more cultivation resources, they rarely stay in the city.

It's nothing more than exchanging some treasures with other powerful individuals. As for those families or powerful forces, their most obvious characteristic is that they control the most important commercial trade in this city, especially the price of any item exchanged, which is ultimately determined by them.

Therefore, they can make a lot of money from the price difference, which is an important reason why these forces have been able to stay here. They can obtain more cultivation resources in this way and thus cultivate more powerful beings.

Although many powerful individuals expressed their opposition, they were often lone wolves without any backing or background. Therefore, they usually chose to remain silent, because given their strength, those forces would offer them corresponding benefits.

Therefore, they have no need to oppose these powerful forces for the sake of so-called fairness and justice, because it would not benefit them at all. For those who have grown strong along the way, they value their own interests more, so the so-called fairness and justice are completely meaningless to them.

Luo Yuan also discovered this point after arriving here. There are no fixed rules in this city. The reason why everyone can maintain a balance is because these powerful forces abide by their respective rules, which requires the strong people living in their respective areas to do the same.

However, if anyone breaks the rules, they will be punished. Of course, if someone is strong enough, then these rules are meaningless to them and have no binding effect. So, in the end, these rules are only used to restrain those who are weak.

Therefore, in order to obtain sufficient cultivation resources, Luo Yuan could only temporarily go to some dangerous areas to snatch the corresponding cultivation resources from those powerful demonic beasts. However, Luo Yuan's main focus was on things that could quickly help him improve his strength.

As for the more precious treasures containing the power of origin, Luo Yuan had no need to waste time trying to seize them now. He knew very well that as long as he could control the entire city, he would have accumulated an unknown amount of time here.

All the original items that remain will become his spoils of war, and this method is much easier than obtaining them through hard cultivation. Before Luo Yuan thinks about what to do, he will obtain the relevant information and then formulate a detailed plan.

Moreover, in the process of planning here, he will definitely choose the most effective method as his first choice for execution, because only in this way can the best results be achieved in the shortest time. So far, Luo Yuan has never failed, because the plans he formulates take into account all aspects.

Luo Yuan believed in himself and thought that if he followed his plan, he could eventually get anything he wanted. Luo Yuan was that confident in himself, and it was precisely because of this confidence that he dared to take risks and do some dangerous things.

However, in doing these things, he always took his specific circumstances into account, so he could avoid many unpredictable dangers. Being cautious does not mean that you have to look ahead and behind in everything you do, but rather that you need to make sufficient preparations, as long as you can make these preparations to the point of being foolproof.

Luo Yuan believed that the probability of danger was very low. It was precisely because of this rational judgment and scientific analysis that he was always in a favorable position, allowing him to always maintain the initiative. Time flies, and decades have passed in the blink of an eye.

Luo Yuan had lived in this city for a long time, but he had not felt any changes. That was because time did not mean much to all the powerful people here, since they were all long-lived.

Perhaps ten years had passed in seclusion, so for them, several decades were just a blink of an eye. During this time, Luo Yuan's strength improved rapidly, and he had unknowingly reached the fifth level of the Stellar Realm. Although he was still unable to fight against that planetary lord, it was still quite impressive.

After all, according to Luo Yuan's investigation, the strongest person in this city is only at the third level of the Stellar Realm. The stronger ones are definitely in the core of the wilderness area. However, to get there, one must be at least at the fourth level of the Stellar Realm. Therefore, the strong people here are those who are quite powerful on this planet, but they cannot control everything.

Luo Yuan's current strength is actually enough to qualify him to go to the core area, but in order to ensure his safety, Luo Yuan decided to play it safe and wait until he has used up all the resources in the city and his strength has reached a point where it cannot be improved any further before he will choose to go to the core area.

By then, Luo Yuan might have already reached the peak of the Stellar Realm. If that's the case, then Luo Yuan will have nothing to worry about. He can start taking control of the planet. Even if the lord who was wandering outside returns, it won't help. Instead, he will be controlled by Luo Yuan, who will take all his achievements for himself.

However, Luo Yuan needs to be careful that the lord might suddenly break through to the cosmic level while adventuring in the universe, because Luo Yuan is not yet able to fight against cosmic level powerhouses. Even if he uses his own powerful methods, Luo Yuan dares not say that he can completely crush a cosmic level powerhouse, after all, Luo Yuan has a very good understanding of the strength of different realms.

Luo Yuan knew that although the difference between the cosmic level and the stellar level was only one major realm, the strength between the two was like an insurmountable chasm. This was because in the universe, only by reaching the cosmic level could one be considered to have embarked on the path of cultivation as a strong person; the previous realms were merely the lowest level.

In the universe, any powerful force or family must have a universe-level expert in charge. And this is only for the weakest forces. For example, the minimum standard for recruiting soldiers in the extraterrestrial battlefield is universe-level. So in the eyes of those true powerhouses, universe-level is nothing.

However, the current cosmic-level powerhouse is still very difficult for Luo Yuan to deal with, so it is better for him to control everything from behind the scenes. Once he truly controls this planet, he can act according to the situation when the lord returns. As long as he is strong enough, Luo Yuan has nothing to worry about.

Now that Luo Yuan can guarantee his strength is invincible in this desolate city, he can proceed with the second step of his plan: to control the high-ranking members of those powerful forces and families. In that case, he can indirectly control the city, and all its resources will become his.

To control any place, the best way is to control the most powerful and influential people in that place. As for the minor details, there is no need to care about them at all, because as long as you control these few people, you can use them to control the majority of powerful people to serve you.

When the time comes, Luo Yuan can simply make a request for whatever resources he wants, and countless powerful individuals will obtain them for him. This is the best method, rather than relying on himself to fight continuously in this wilderness.

Moreover, the families established by those powerful individuals who are able to occupy a large amount of resources and territory here have all spent a lot of time and effort to achieve this. Therefore, they need to stabilize their position, which will definitely come at a high cost and take a lot of time.

If Luo Yuan wants to truly control this place, his best approach is to control these most powerful beings, rather than rebuilding his own power or starting from scratch. Even if he possesses great strength, it would be extremely difficult to make those powerful individuals obey his commands.

Because establishing prestige requires long-term effort, Luo Yuan and his group did not intend to waste so much time on such matters. Logically speaking, the most powerful individuals would certainly reside in the most important places within their families or territories.

Because there will be many powerful guards there, it will be quite difficult to control them. After all, as long as Luo Yuan takes action against those people, they will discover the abnormality before they can get close enough to those high-ranking officials who control everything.

If they knew that Luo Yuan was much stronger than them, they would definitely choose to leave immediately. Even if Luo Yuan had the strongest power, it wouldn't be easy to keep them here. After all, these people have been operating here for so many years, and they must already have a very mature defense system and means of evacuation when encountering danger.

It's even highly likely that they've already installed the legendary teleportation device, allowing them to instantly leave this place. Therefore, he must completely control the space these powerful individuals occupy before they discover his arrival.

In this way, Luo Yuan wouldn't have to worry about them leaving while he was fighting. Luo Yuan had already mastered many of the magical abilities that those monsters possessed when he fought them before, including the ability to manipulate space and time.

Therefore, in order to better control the city, Luo Yuan has placed corresponding devices around it. Once activated, these devices can isolate the entire city from the outside world. Even if other powerful figures find out, they will only suspect that a powerful member of some family is plotting something.

Luo Yuan could take this opportunity to deal with those powerful figures. Luo Yuan's plan was very good. So after he made preparations, he activated the equipment he had set up earlier. Then he found that a beam of light appeared and enveloped the entire city.

However, this situation only lasted for a very short time, and before anyone could even react, it had already returned to its original state. Therefore, it was difficult for those who were not strong enough to detect it, even those who had reached the star level.

They would also be unaware that Luo Yuan had already taken control of the entire city's space through special means. The advantage of this was that once Luo Yuan took action, he wouldn't have to worry about those powerful individuals leaving the city. No matter how they tried to escape, they would be confined to a fixed area.

Luo Yuan began to approach the areas where the strongest individuals in those forces and families were located. Moreover, Luo Yuan possessed a very high level of concealment skills, so he didn't need to worry about those people easily discovering his presence. However, Luo Yuan still had to be careful, because he didn't know what to do next.

Did the powerful beings on this planet possess any special methods? After all, different worlds have different levels of technological and ability development. Luo Yuan never thought that the level of technology and strength possessed by his original universe was the same.

Even if the strongest beings in this universe have lost their strongest beings, they must have acquired many incredible methods and abilities after such a long period of development, and perhaps even some powerful legacies have been left behind.

So these powerful beings will more or less gain some control during their cultivation process. Luo Yuan had this idea because he knew that this universe was originally a high-dimensional existence, so it was not surprising that any abnormal situation would occur.

Luo Yuan had to consider all possible contingencies before he could take appropriate measures. He could think of more and more comprehensively than others, which was why he was always the victor and thus gained the greatest benefits.

Moreover, when Luo Yuan was cultivating in this city, he deliberately collected information on the strength rankings of different forces and families. In order to achieve his goal, Luo Yuan would definitely have to start with the weakest family or force, and the strong members of these families would have to reach a consensus.

They would intentionally or unintentionally release their aura, not only to have a deterrent effect, but also to show others that they had not perished, but still possessed the strongest fighting power.

After all, many powerful individuals encounter various accidents during their cultivation, and their lifespan is also limited. Once they reach the end of their lifespan, or if they encounter any problems during cultivation, they may perish. Therefore, they need to emit special aura fluctuations to demonstrate their existence.

This is a very common thing on this planet, but Luo Yuan can accurately judge the location of these powerful individuals by examining the direction of their aura fluctuations. Although these powerful individuals may not be the strongest, their strength and status within their respective families and forces are certainly very high.

Once Luo Yuan has them under his control, it will be very easy for him to find out what's going on behind their backs. So Luo Yuan is currently in action, and because his strength far surpasses that of all the other powerful figures in the city, his plan is being executed very smoothly.

In less than half a month, he had taken control of most of the high-ranking members of the families and forces in the city. Moreover, in order to ensure that his information would not be leaked, he used his own soul control methods.

Of course, this method has a quota limit, but Luo Yuan only needs to temporarily control them. When the entire planet becomes Luo Yuan's property, he will select the most outstanding individuals from among them and then eliminate those who occupy the quota but lack strength.

Then Luo Yuan could control the planet effortlessly, which would also reduce the pressure on the number of people he controlled. Once the lord walked into his trap, Luo Yuan would be able to truly control all life on the planet.

Time flew by, and only two months had passed. The entire city was now truly under Luo Yuan's control. He only needed to issue a single order, and all the powerful figures in the city would carry it out for him. So Luo Yuan simply had these people bring out all the resources containing the power of origin.

In this way, Luo Yuan could absorb them all, and he also ordered those people to collect such resources in large quantities in the wilderness.

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Chapter 869. Rapid Improvement

Wherever you are, having powerful strength makes things much easier. Therefore, Luo Yuan didn't waste his time on so-called conspiracies and schemes, because he knew that without strong support, these things were nothing but a mirage, especially in a universe where extraordinary abilities were controlled.

The reason why the various families and forces in this desolate city can occupy the best locations and even have priority in choosing precious resources is mainly because they have powerful experts in charge. Therefore, other experts dare not say anything, and even the value of treasures is determined by these forces and families.

Those lone travelers at the very bottom, even if they are quite strong and fight against monsters in the wilderness every day, end up with most of the precious resources they gain by risking their lives, ending up in the pockets of families and powerful forces. They only receive a very meager income.

Even if they were very dissatisfied, they were helpless because all the rules here were set by the higher-ups of these families and forces. If they were unwilling to abide by the rules, they could only leave or be eliminated. However, the resources in this core area were unmatched by any other place, both in terms of quantity and quality.

In particular, many resources are only available in this core area, and these resources play a very important role. Many powerful people cannot live without them, so even if they are unwilling, they can only abide by the rules here. This is the difference in status caused by the difference in strength.

This universe is completely different from the world Luo Yuan originally lived in. In Luo Yuan's original world, money could buy everything. The wealthy set the rules and used these rules to their advantage to collect and control the means of production, which in turn created class differences among people and led to different social statuses.

Of course, the economic foundation is ultimately determined by force. However, the world Luo Yuan originally lived in did not have extraordinary powers; everyone was an ordinary person. That's why they had power. This power could deter ordinary people, thus ensuring that the rules set by the higher-ups could be maintained in an orderly manner, and no one dared to oppose them.

But this universe is different. Once an individual's strength reaches a certain level, they can handle most problems. Even the strongest forces in the entire universe cannot suppress those super-strong individuals. Therefore, in the end, all the rules are set by those super-strong individuals. They are the true controllers of this universe, and the so-called rules are only meant to restrain the weak.

Because the strong can disregard the rules, even if they break the rules, no one dares to punish them. So as long as they obtain unparalleled power, they can do anything. Therefore, as soon as Luo Yuan's strength increased, he quickly achieved his goal and took control of the desolate city.

However, Luo Yuan knew that the strongest people on this planet, apart from the lord he had never met, were the top experts who had been cultivating in seclusion in the core area. These people were all experts at the intermediate star level or above. Although they did not usually show themselves in front of others, they were the real controllers behind this planet.

Most of the planet's resources are sent to the core area for use by the top experts. If any abnormal situation occurs, they are responsible for resolving it. They are like high-ranking gods looking down on all the powerful people on this planet, but they all need to obey the lord's orders.

All those top-tier experts can be seen as guards protecting the planet for that lord. If Luo Yuan shows any abnormal behavior, he will definitely attract the attention and be targeted by most of the star-level experts in the core area, and they may eliminate Luo Yuan in advance. However, Luo Yuan does not believe that those top-tier experts are all of one mind.

Based on Luo Yuan's understanding, there are various conflicts between different forces on this planet. In fact, these conflicts are often determined by the relationship between the strongest people who control these forces. Moreover, Luo Yuan does not believe that none of these top experts have the idea of ​​replacing any lord, since everyone wants to improve their strength and obtain more resources.

No strong person wants to remain subservient to others for long. Therefore, if their strength reaches a certain level, they will definitely hope to advance further. Even if they dare not rebel for the time being because the strength of that planetary lord far surpasses theirs.

However, if they were given the opportunity, they would definitely not hesitate to kill that lord, thus qualifying them to become planetary lords. If Luo Yuan could provide them with such an opportunity, there would certainly be strong individuals among them willing to take action.

Then Luo Yuan could take advantage of their fighting to reap the benefits and become the new ruler of the planet. However, Luo Yuan would not easily go to the core area before he had made full preparations.

Furthermore, he couldn't allow any information from here to reach the powerful figures there. That's why he initially used methods to cover the entire city, so that even if someone discovered a problem during his operation, they wouldn't be able to transmit the information in time.

Moreover, those who possess the means to communicate with the top experts in the core area must be high-ranking figures in this city. According to Luo Yuan's understanding, these high-ranking figures should be leaders of various families or forces.

Because only they possess such qualifications, once Luo Yuan successfully took control of all these powerful individuals, he was able to prevent information from being leaked out, and he no longer needed to worry about weaker individuals posing any threat to him.

Because these people are already struggling at the very bottom, fighting against monsters every day just to obtain the necessary resources, they simply don't have time to care about so many other things. Moreover, the battles or strategies between the higher-ups are meaningless to them.

Because they are the ones who obtain the most basic resources, Luo Yuan needs these people to collect more treasures with primordial power for him. However, if he wants to establish his own control system here, he will need to spend a lot of time.

However, once he gained control of the higher-ups of these families and forces, he no longer had this problem. He only needed to send out his orders, and these people would naturally relay them to every powerful figure in control. At that time, everyone in the entire wilderness would search for Luo Yuan.

Therefore, Luo Yuan only needs to cultivate in the most important place in this city, because he knows very well that his next plan is to target the most powerful beings in the core. As long as his strength is greater than theirs, he can successfully control them all.

Before that lord returns, Luo Yuan will have already taken control of the entire planet. However, Luo Yuan doesn't know when that lord will return, so he must hurry and achieve his goal in the shortest possible time.

However, Luo Yuan also noticed that among the resources he asked those powerful individuals to collect for him, in addition to the treasures that contained primordial power, there were also some resources that could quickly enhance strength, but these resources were somewhat harmful to any powerful individual.