"Shared inheritance" sounded wonderful, but none of the Beastfolk present could smile.
The inheritance left behind by the Beast God was no secret to the various races. It was precisely because of the Sacred Land of Inheritance that the Orc Empire had been passed down generation after generation.
Otherwise, judging by the Beastfolk's suicidal habits, civilizational regression would only have been a matter of time. Take the present, for example. Their ancestors had been too good at courting disaster, leaving all kinds of inheritances incomplete.
Powerful factions across the continent had gradually produced Holy Domain experts, yet the Orc Empire alone remained blank in this regard.
If this continued, either some peerless genius would have to complete the inheritance, or they would slowly decline amid competition.
There was no doubt that completing a race's cultivation inheritance required an immense reserve of knowledge.
Among humans, this was not a problem at all. One only needed to hole up in an academy to gain access to vast amounts of knowledge.
But the Orc Empire was half illiterate. Accumulating such a vast store of knowledge was practically asking the Beastfolk to do the impossible.
This was where the importance of the Sacred Land of Inheritance became apparent.
Perhaps it was the only place in the Orc Empire where equality among all races could be seen.
Whenever the Sacred Land of Inheritance emerged, representatives from every race had to be sent together before it could be opened.
The imperial races protected racial diversity because there had once been too few participating races in history, making it impossible to open the Sacred Land of Inheritance.
Left with no other choice, the races had engaged in cross-racial interbreeding and cultivated new races simply to make up the numbers.
If those were the only restrictions, everyone would