Whether the Jue Teng Tree Demon's tactic of offering two peaches to entice three warriors—or even N warriors—was merely writing empty checks, the fact remained that it had successfully moved many people.
This included the Dark Emperor, who had previously left the Dimensional Battlefield with a face full of resentment.
The top-level civilization under the Dark Emperor's command, the Dark Empire, was situated amid a hazy, profound expanse of dark starry sky.
Though it was called the Dark Empire, there were actually quite a few fire-element and light-element planets within this top-level civilization's territory. It was not entirely a world of darkness.
As a top-level civilization, the Dark Empire was a World Civilization in an exceptionally proactive and upward phase of development.
Whether some top-level civilizations had potential could generally be seen from their development cycles in recent years, as well as their conquests of the Surrounding Starfield.
Civilizations with limited growth potential generally plateaued after reaching a certain threshold.
They might even decline after reaching a certain peak due to various issues.
But top-level civilizations with astonishing developmental potential would remain in a constant snowballing state.
Merely a few thousand years could bring earth-shaking changes to them.
And when measured in units of ten thousand years, such top-level civilizations would rise to a new tier every few tens of thousands of years!
Wizard Civilization and the Immortal Domain were clearly among such civilizations.
As for the Dark Empire before them... while it might be inferior to the Wizard Civilization and the Immortal Domain in such monstrous fashion, it still counted among the best of the many top-level civilizations.
The Dark Emperor himself had never for a moment given up on the path of growth and strength.
He went straight to the deepest reaches of the Dark Empire. Amid the