Joint Siege

"Phew."

Gu Jinlai let out a long breath, bringing this century-long cultivation to an end.

"Hm?"

However, when he withdrew his consciousness from its overclocked state, he was somewhat surprised to discover that around the outskirts of the star, there were actually some...

Cultivators?

"This energy level... It rivals the Saint Realm?"

Gu Jinlai's gaze shifted.

Wherever his eyes fell, there were palace-like structures, resembling satellites, constantly orbiting the star where he had secluded himself to cultivate.

And the other gravitational focal points of these palaces were the two other habitable stars in this stellar system.

"So these two stars actually developed cultivator civilizations?"

Gu Jinlai was somewhat surprised.

He remembered glancing at those two stars a century ago.

The civilizations that had developed on the two stars were rather backward, at most comparable to ancient Blue Star, and furthermore...

The environments of those two stars did not support the cultivator system either.

After all, once cultivators reached the Core Forming stage, they needed to consume enormous amounts of energy. A world without "spiritual energy" could hardly support such life forms.

It was like how Blue Star, with the declining oxygen concentration in its atmosphere, could no longer give birth to large creatures like dinosaurs.

He estimated that, a century ago, those capable of cultivating true qi in that world had all been exceedingly rare. Practitioners who could refine qi into astral force appeared only once in a hundred years, while Core Forming experts were the stuff of legend and myth. Looking across the thousands of years of these races' history, there had probably been only a scant handful of them.

But now...

Even Saints had appeared?

"Good grief, has spiritual energy been revived?"

Gu Jinlai curiously looked toward the cultivators who had forged those special "palaces" and set them