Climb Higher, See Farther

'Hegemonic Stage...'

'It really looks like it ought to be worth something, but somehow it also feels like it isn't worth much.'

Xi Shenlian thought of how, back then, after the Atlantis Family had been imprisoned in Ont Prison, they had faced despair and struggled to survive.

He could not help shaking his head slightly.

Although they were a Destined Noble Race, the Hegemonic Stage was ultimately not a level that could be reached in a matter of minutes. This was especially true after restricting their profession to Awakened.

The development of the Awakened Power System relied far too heavily on innate talent.

If one lacked talent, then one truly lacked it.

With enough talent, one could spend every day eating and drinking and still progress just fine.

The so-called effort.

Within this Power System, effort was completely secondary.

It could not be said to be entirely meaningless.

But it could be said to serve only as icing on the cake.

However.

Although the interior of this new spacetime appeared to contain many Transcenders,

some had even been born as so-called Transcenders, possessing power close to that of a Hegemonic Stage Awakened from the moment of their birth.

This made it seem as though the spacetime could easily give birth to a large group of Hegemonic Stage Lifeforms, making the Hegemonic Stage appear exceedingly cheap and worthless.

But all of this had been built upon sufficient resources, sufficiently relaxed rules, and an extremely long passage of time...

The resources of an entire spacetime.

World rules that promoted growth.

An unknown number of billions upon billions of years that had passed through Time Acceleration.

Not one of these three elements could be missing!

Only under such conditions

could the present situation be brought about.

The Atlantis Family, which had been thrown