Five billion...
This was a number Li Tianming had not even dared to imagine at first.
"A myriad-cosmos-class stellar source world, with every citizen an Eonic God and hardly any Yanhuang descendants living within it—if I approached with the Nine Dragons Imperial Tomb and brought the masses along, the danger would be immense. So... unless I conquer a vast number of creation-class stellar source worlds across the Upper Star Ruins, form an encirclement around myriad-cosmos-class worlds, and become the Stellar Sea Emperor of the Upper Star Ruins, there is basically no way to use the power of the masses in a myriad-cosmos-class world."
Even myriad-cosmos-class worlds were difficult enough, let alone emperor-heaven-class ones.
It was said that the existing emperor-heaven-class worlds were all located in the innermost reaches of the Upper Star Ruins. They were few enough to count on one's fingers, and there were no creation-class worlds around them—there were not even myriad-cosmos-class worlds. A single star reigned alone over an endless starfield!
Therefore, Li Tianming knew very clearly that the key factor determining how far he could go in the Upper Star Ruins was still his own combat power. Although he now had five billion, its main purpose remained resolving the crisis of the Yanhuang descendants in the three Central Heaven stars.
"Unless quantitative change causes qualitative change!"
That qualitative change would be the prairie fire spreading across countless creation-class worlds throughout the Upper Star Ruins.
"But that depends on the distances between the various creation-class worlds, as well as the number of Yanhuang descendants in each world. Whether it can produce the same effect as the Destiny Imperial Dynasty in the Lower Star Ruins is still uncertain."
The Stellar Sea Emperor of the Infinitum Realm had existed because every star had a population of over a trillion.