A Life for a Life

Why had they not entered a period of rapid civilizational growth?

Because they lacked massive amounts of energy.

"Great Octopus possesses enormous energy, enough to develop an immensely powerful civilization."

Xu Zhi pondered in secret and looked toward the side of the study.

The entire Crystal Wall System Bookshelf was stacked with crystalline structures, forming something that glittered like a translucent glass diamond.

It looked tiny, just a bookshelf, but it contained an endless Inner Space soul universe. How could its size be measured by the volume of the material world?

It was an unprecedented energy-devouring behemoth!

A bottomless pit beyond terrifying, one that even Xu Zhi had no way to fill.

"The previous Six Paths of Reincarnation hunted down a single Great Octopus, and that was enough to fill the entire world with dense spiritual energy, bringing about an age of prosperity for mortals and suppressing those with innate divine abilities in turn!"

"And this Great Octopus before us might also..."

More often than not, what civilizations lacked was energy.

They were preparing to travel outward, so Xu Zhi naturally wanted to take a look as well.

After all, Xu Zhi could naturally see the series of coordinates provided by Great Octopus.

Whoosh! With a wave of his hand, a pale-blue virtual star map of coordinates appeared in midair.

"Coordinates of races within the universe..."

Xu Zhi stood on the ground, his gaze cold.

He could not sense anything farther away, but even among the galaxies he could detect, there were more than ten locations.

Most were scattered throughout several nearby galaxies, very dispersed coordinates dotted here and there. They probably had not even reached the level of deities, likely much like the previous Great Octopus.

"This is a nomadic race of the universe. They roam around stars, carrying