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In fact, it was not just the Song Family. For all ordinary citizens of Kindling Human Civilization who had yet to awaken, the matter of lifespan was an eternal pain in their hearts.

As for having these citizens pursue other extraordinary systems, such as immortal cultivation, starry-sky martial arts, magic, and the like, how could the upper echelons of Kindling Civilization not have considered it?

More than that, the four great empires had all conducted pilot programs in designated regions, yet none had ultimately been permitted for full-scale implementation.

The reason was simple. Ordinary citizens still made up the overwhelming majority of Kindling Human Civilization. If they were truly allowed to freely cultivate other extraordinary systems, then even methods wholly unrelated to the Kindling warship system would consume terrifying amounts of resources.

After repeated trials, the conclusions reached by the four great empires were all the same.

No matter what extraordinary system was chosen, once it was combined with the Kindling warship system, there might not be much difference at first. Yet as time passed, it would eventually affect the Kindling warship system in that region to varying degrees, and the levels of Kindling captains there would generally fall below those in other starfields.

And that was only after several centuries. If the timespan continued to grow, the impact would undoubtedly become even greater.

For this reason, the upper echelons of the four great empires had tacitly abandoned this style of development where a hundred flowers bloomed.

The lived histories of countless star-sea civilizations clearly showed that the contention of a hundred schools could indeed promote the further development of civilized society, but that required a foundation of "peace and stability."

If they could wait without pressure for civilization to advance gradually, then the contention of a hundred schools would