Que Cai's reception went without incident. Wang Ping arranged for her to stay on Taiyan Planet, where she and Zi Luan would jointly oversee the Taiyan Sect headquarters.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Wang Ping carefully observed the development of the Ecological Zones around Central Continent Star. This expanse of stars was tiny to the True Lords, but vast to everyone else.
Several hundred years had passed. Though these Ecological Zones had developed rapidly, even the areas near the asteroid belt, where resources were most abundant, had seen less than one ten-thousandth of their potential developed.
The ordinary population had already approached one billion, while the number of Qi practitioners neared ten million. Their existence better stabilized spirituality and the five elements, yin and yang spiritual energy, yet Tiangong and Lieyang were not satisfied. Everything had two sides; if so many living beings with spiritual consciousness were suddenly destroyed one day, the resulting spiritual chaos would be anything but ordinary.
Fortunately, resources and territory in outer space were still plentiful. Aside from a small number of cultivators acting on impulse and causing one or two insignificant conflicts, these Ecological Zones remained cooperative for the most part.
Among these Ecological Zones, several developed by the Star God Alliance were the largest. Their most prosperous Ecological Zone was called "Myriad Phenomena Continent," signifying "when spring arrives, tender buds first sprout, and all things take on a new face."
It was one-third the size of Central Continent. Most of its land was used to cultivate Spirit Grass, while hundreds of smaller Ecological Zones around it gathered energy crystals. These resources allowed the Star God Alliance to trade for quite a few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures during the war on the front lines.
When the True Lords later rewarded those Third Realm cultivators