That day, cultivators observing the Star River were shocked to discover that the star energy was fading faster, while the star energy around the Star River surged once more. Signals could now pass through the Star River and establish contact with people in the Inner Universe.
The news shocked the Outer Universe. Lu Yin learned of it at once. "What's coming is finally on its way."
The Inner Universe also discovered immediately that signals could be transmitted, and quickly contacted the Outer Universe network.
Before long, the Inner Universe was in an uproar—not because signals could now connect the two universes, nor because the Star River was about to recover, but because Lu Yin was about to become the king of the Outer Universe.
The Human Starfield had endured countless ages and undergone countless changes, yet its seventy-two territories had never been unified—not even half of them had ever been united. This was partly because no one had the ability to do so, and partly because the great powers of the Inner Universe would never allow it.
To the Inner Universe, the Outer Universe was a vast resource pool. A divided Outer Universe posed no threat and could be plundered at will. A unified Outer Universe, however, was another matter entirely. It would be a behemoth.
On average, the Outer Universe had fewer than one Enlightenment Realm expert per territory. But even if Enlightenment Realm experts were scarce, there were still forty or fifty of them.
Which faction in the Inner Universe had forty or fifty Enlightenment Realm experts? None could.
The Outer Universe might have been far weaker than the Inner Universe in terms of absolute combat power, but it had a clear advantage in numbers. Besides, powerful experts occasionally emerged from the Outer Universe as well. Some members