Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Giant of Light

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"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.

Every source world that belongs to the cultivators must be included.

"Not only must we take back the territory, 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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Chapter 949 The Excited Sirius Guest

"The two sides of rules!"

"Spiral ascent?"

Upon hearing Lu Yunhe's philosophy, Yuan instantly understood, since the two of them were indeed quite similar in their understanding of the Great Dao, and therefore shared many similar ideas.

Yuan also follows the same path of rule operation, and his ideals are naturally closer to the rules of Heaven.

Although the cultivator camp only has seven or eight lords, their ideologies are still divided into three parts. One part consists of lords like the Phoenix Lord who care about life and have compassion for the weak.

In the eyes of the Lord of the Netherworld, life is worthy of care, and any sin needs to be punished. He even created a merit system in his own territory.

Lord Wulan admires Lord Minghuang and is also offering his support.

One type is the kind of catastrophic cultivators like Jin and Naigu, who allow slaughter and destruction to take hold, and nurture life within death.

While Lord Moman was not extreme, he still leaned towards the law of the jungle.

The two sides are at odds with each other.

As for the last part, it consists of the middle faction, such as Yuanhe and Xingmang, or the Heavenly Dao faction.

Whether it's life or destruction, it's all part of the world's rules.

Destruction is acceptable, salvation is also acceptable; the choice is left to the cultivator.

Although the starlight also leans towards life, it is situated within the infinite space and time limits, placing this concept at the overall level rather than as a single individual.

"Looking at the source's philosophy, it's very similar to mine, which is great." Yuan was very satisfied.

Both Jin and Minghuang are somewhat extreme. If it weren't for him and Xingmang suppressing them, and if it weren't for the immense pressure from the innate chaotic life forms outside, these two lords would probably have started fighting on their own.

Therefore, in Yuan's view, the more centrists the better, as they can firmly suppress both camps and prevent them from overstepping their bounds.

Although there are only two centrists, Wulan and Naigu are nominally part of the other two factions, but because they are not extreme enough, they are more of a mediator to prevent one side from becoming unbalanced.

“Xingmang, Yuan, and I are arguably the three strongest in our faction. We’ve all chosen the middle ground, so it seems we won’t have to worry about internal conflicts for a long time.” Yuan watched the two arguing lords and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's normal for a faction to have many factions within it, but there must be a main force; otherwise, it's impossible to unify the power of so many factions.

The path of a spiritual practitioner often reflects their inner inclinations.

Embracing destruction, nature is accustomed to killing; wielding thunder, one cannot bear to see evil.

When the various fundamental principles harmonize with each other, extreme mental states will naturally not arise.

"Just like Brother Yuan!" Jin smiled at Lu Yunhe.

Although they are not catastrophic cultivators like him, they are also not extremists when it comes to life, so they can still cooperate with each other when the time comes.

As long as you don't indiscriminately slaughter in front of the other side, the impact won't be significant.