Civilization Tier Division, The Trend of Wholly Devouring the World

Ye Chen rubbed his brow and turned to look at the massive world map behind him.

This world map bore the names of every country on the planet during this era, and the portion belonging to the Yanhuang Empire stood out conspicuously.

Because, on the North American continental plate where the Yanhuang Empire was located, there wasn't a single other country around it.

From the map, it was clear that the Yanhuang Empire's territory was absurdly vast, covering two-thirds of the entire North American continent.

Yet within this sprawling land, most of it was uninhabited—after all, the empire's population was only so large.

Back when the empire was first founded, its territory was merely one percent of North America, and the entire population was less than a million.

Even the land they claimed at that time was simply marked out on horseback, roughly drawn into the Yanhuang Empire's borders, with many areas completely empty.

Now, after two hundred years of development and population growth, most of the territory was gradually being filled with people.

Moreover, ever since the Yanhuang Empire was established, Ye Chen had never stopped expanding into the surrounding wilderness while simultaneously growing the population. But in the early days, poor transportation limited the speed of expansion.

The empire's current enormous territory had only reached this extent after entering the industrial age.

Since the empire entered the industrial age, the economy took off, transportation routes opened up, and the national transport network was connected. Distance was no longer an issue, and the speed of territorial expansion was like walking into an uninhabited land—no obstacles at all.

After all, across the entire North American continent, aside from the indigenous tribes, there wasn't even a mature country to speak of—not a single one that could put up a fight.

Ye Chen planned to incorporate all of North America into the Yanhuang Empire, then begin forming the three major branches of the military: land, sea, and air.

After that, he would launch a war of unification, using overwhelming force to swallow up all of Asia, Europe, South America, Oceania, Africa, and Antarctica, thereby achieving true world unification.

At that point, he would accumulate the resources and strength of the entire globe, go all out on aerospace technology, and prepare for the Taotie Civilization's invasion several hundred years from now, fighting the enemy beyond the stars.

Knowing the plot, he understood exactly what he would face in the future—the Taotie Civilization's invasion and the chaotic war among the gods—none of it was simple.

Without the system, Ye Chen might have just given up.

But now, with the Civilization System, he believed that by the time the future plot began, he could raise the Yanhuang Empire's civilization level to Level 2 Interstellar Civilization, which would be more than enough to deal with the Taotie Civilization.

As for dealing with the Demon Civilization and the Styx Civilization, he would have to rely on the Angel Civilization's power to buy time and develop the Yanhuang Empire.

As long as he could stall long enough to develop the empire to Level 3 Interstellar Civilization and acquire space technology, then even if Keisha died, he wouldn't fear any civilization.

According to the Civilization System's classification, it divided civilizations into nine levels, as follows:

Below Level 1 was the Homeworld Civilization, which, as the name implied, referred to civilizations that could not yet survive outside their home planet.

Homeworld Civilizations were also called low-level civilizations.

After the Homeworld Civilization came Level 1 Interstellar Civilization, also known as the Star System Level.

The boundary was marked by the initial solution to energy problems—namely, controlled nuclear fusion.

Controlled nuclear fusion technology was the foundation for entering the stars; without it, there simply wasn't enough energy for long-distance space travel.

Level 2 Interstellar Civilization was called the Nebula Level, with the boundary being the development of faster-than-light engines, specifically warp drives.

At the peak of Level 2 civilization, three fundamental faster-than-light technologies needed to be developed: faster-than-light engines, faster-than-light attacks, and faster-than-light communications.

The hallmark of Level 3 Interstellar Civilization was short-distance space jump technology, along with a series of improvements in space-based weaponry.

This level was also called the Galaxy Level, and such civilizations could already exploit the resources of an entire galaxy.

The hallmark of Level 4 Galaxy Civilization was possessing large-scale cross-galaxy jump technology, and this level was called the Star Domain Level.

As everyone knew, the distances between galaxies were enormous. Relying solely on faster-than-light flight or short-distance space wormhole jumps to cross that distance was far too slow—a round trip would take hundreds or thousands of years.

The difference between Level 3 and Level 4 civilizations was roughly demarcated by the distance they could cover in a short time, which essentially boiled down to the amount of resources they could acquire.

Just as an empire's strength was measured by its territory, the larger the territory, the more resources could be mined, and the stronger the civilization could become.

As for Level 5 Galaxy Civilization, it was called the Inner Universe Level. Such civilizations were absolute rulers within a single universe.

Because they possessed dimensional technology, allowing them to control the dimensional space of their parent universe, and through dimensional weapons, they could carry out dimensional attacks and even elevate dimensions.

This god-like capability earned this level the title of God-level Civilization.

Level 6 Civilization was called the Outer Universe Level. Such civilizations could survive independently of their parent universe; even if the parent universe restarted and reset to zero, they would remain unaffected.

Level 7 Civilization was called the Multiverse Level, meaning it could traverse multiple universes.

According to the Civilization System's classification, the God-making Civilizations in the Super God Universe roughly corresponded to Level 4 Interstellar Civilization, both capable of crossing large galaxies in a short time.

However, the God-making Civilizations in the Super God Universe differed from the Level 4 civilizations defined by the Civilization System.

Because the God-making Civilizations in the Super God Universe developed too extremely—their tech tree was entirely focused on gene technology and Dark Dimension technology, emphasizing that one person could be a civilization, one person could be an army.

This development method was a fusion of genes and the Dark Dimension.

To put it metaphorically, it was like replicating all the functions of a spaceship one-to-one within the Dark Dimension.

Then, in the three-dimensional universe, the data ports of those replicated functions inside the Dark Dimension were connected to a human body, with the Super God Gene serving as the connection port password. Thus, the human body became equivalent to a humanoid spaceship.

This was the essence of the Super God system, which made it easy for others to launch targeted attacks. Once someone cut off the connection to the Dark Dimension, all those Super Soldiers and divine bodies became nothing more than meat shields with high HP.

Moreover, the Dark Dimension in the Super God world was a very special thing, unique to that world. It both belonged to three-dimensional space and did not belong to it.

It was like an artificially created layer outside three-dimensional space, capable of storing matter and information data.

Regarding this Dark Dimension, Ye Chen's inclination was that it had been created by some fifth-level civilization at tremendous resource cost, specifically to assist that civilization in ruling the universe.

But this God-level Civilization, for reasons unknown, had suddenly vanished—or perhaps left this universe—yet did not destroy the Dark Dimension they had built.

If Ye Chen's speculation proved true, then this Dark Dimension was essentially the legacy left behind by a fifth-level civilization.

When a whale falls, all things thrive. A single artifact left by a fifth-level civilization had allowed so many civilizations to benefit from it.

Sometimes, the gap between civilizations was truly absurdly vast.

This chapter wrote quite a bit about world setting and civilization classification, which should give everyone a more intuitive view. If any fellow readers find something off, please do point it out ()