Put plainly, the difficulties in advancing to a God-tier Civilization mainly lay in two aspects.
One was whether a civilization could obtain enough Dark Energy Crystals while at the Ninth Order. The other was whether it possessed sufficient potential and scientific research capability to perfectly decipher the Black Hole Cavity data at the Ninth Order and thoroughly integrate the four major technological systems.
The vast majority of civilizations were like those in the Azure Dragon Universe. The first batch of Advanced Civilizations had taken the wrong path, leaving them able to stop only at Super Civilizations or Transcendent Civilizations. As a result, all Dark Energy Crystals had been monopolized by those Super Civilizations, making it impossible for later civilizations to obtain enough Dark Energy Crystals at the Ninth Order.
As a consequence, a God-tier Civilization had never been able to emerge in the entire universe.
That was precisely why nearly ninety-nine percent of the universes within the Black Hole Cavity were like the Azure Dragon Universe, with no God-tier Civilization in existence.
It had to be said that the Black Mang Empire's move, coupled with the Sun River Empire's betrayal, had instead accomplished the plan the Alphart had worked on for hundreds of thousands of years without success, opening a door for the birth of a God-tier Civilization in the Azure Dragon Universe.
After all, if the Sun River Empire had not pulled this stunt, Lin Aotian would never have given the Dark Energy Crystals to Lin Fan.
In that case, even if Lin Fan had exhausted all of the Moy Union's Dark Energy Crystals, he would not have been able to perfectly decipher the Black Hole Cavity data. The Federation would then have had only one path left: continuing down the route of Tenth Order Civilization and Super Civilization.