Today's third update: Chapter 3219! 3/4!
The above was a general overview and comparison of talent races and bloodline races.
If their fundamental difference in developmental paths had to be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: the path of bloodline bearers was relatively singular and fixed, while the possibilities for talented individuals were ever-changing and full of the unknown!
Yet, since talent races had been able to flourish throughout vast history through the human race alone, and though they now accounted for only a tiny fraction of all races, no force dared to underestimate or ignore them. They naturally possessed unique strengths that bloodline races could scarcely hope to match!
To understand this, one had to look back through the river of history and examine how the human race, as a talent race, had repeatedly risen above brutal competition amid changing eras and powerful races, ultimately earning the supreme reputation of "ruling over eternity alone"!
Objectively speaking, the greatest advantage of bloodline races lay in their exceedingly high "floor."
This was evident in every aspect. For example, at the same realm and rank, outsiders trying to break through the Black Tortoise Race's inborn shell defense was practically a fool's dream. Then there was the Dragon Race's formidable dragon bodies, which they boasted were "perfect physiques," innately endowed with terrifying strength, defense, and Life Force. And then there were races like the Ba Snake Clan, whose bodies were born incomparably massive and could easily break the size limits of ordinary lifeforms...
Talent races, by contrast, were utterly disadvantaged before such innate "hardware." Their starting point was extremely low, even frail. How could a newly born human infant possibly compare to a Dragon Descendant or a Black Tortoise descendant of the same age?
However, the Heavenly Laws were