Second update today: Chapter 2900! 2/4!
Although only a little over fifty thousand of the five million Cat Army soldiers had survived, whether they had awakened as Totem Wielders or merely survived because their bloodlines had been repaired, all those who had previously been sent to aid the Huang race had been at least War King Realm when they left. Those who returned...
Even the weakest among them were now at the initial stage of the Heavenly King Realm!
Advancing in realm was not as simple as drinking water or eating a meal. It required tempering the body, elevating the soul, and developing one's bloodline. No matter which aspect it was, aside from time, the only way to improve quickly was to invest resources.
The vast majority of members of any race—not just the cat race; there had been many such examples among humanity in the past as well—were stuck before the bottleneck of the upper realm corresponding to their bloodline or talent.
For those with low- to mid-grade bloodlines or talents, reaching their own upper realm did not actually require many resources. But every race operated the same way: resources were tilted toward those with high-grade talents or bloodlines.
Even the scraps they let spill over were enough for those below to break through.
But as the saying went, while wine and meat spoiled behind vermilion gates, there were frozen corpses by the roadside. The strong would only hoard more resources. Even if they had no use for them themselves, it was better to benefit their descendants or exchange them for other resources than to give them to "inferiors."
(Mm~ I'm only talking about racial resources~)
Of course, if the strong had obtained their resources through countless near-death struggles, they naturally had no obligation to give them to