Hot Spring Cabin

He had come to deeply understand what it meant to "know more, and bear greater pressure."

From what he had discovered so far, the Lord System was raising gu.

It wanted to cultivate an absolute overlord from among billions of lords!

Of course, if this batch failed to meet its requirements, the Lord System would let things go for a while. It might even revoke their lord privileges, allowing them to develop naturally while deliberately suppressing social productivity and conflicts.

Like an eraser, it would wipe away the traces left by the previous batch of lords and assimilate them into the Endless Continent.

Then it would wait for a new batch of "lords" to be deployed.

Every batch of "lords" consisted of intelligent beings, but they were not necessarily human. They could also belong to other races.

And so the cycle would continue, over and over, until a breakthrough candidate that met the requirements appeared.

That was why the Lord System kept setting trials—not just now, but even in the future.

Even the Epoch War gave Zong Shen reason to suspect that it was one of the trials set by the Lord System.

Clearly, those people from the previous epoch had failed the test.

However, the human Kingdoms of this epoch did not seem to have suffered the invasion of a dimensional war yet.

He wondered whether there was something worth examining there.

Perhaps the current seven Kingdoms had accepted other challenges back then.

After ultimately failing, they had settled into stability from then on.

That challenge might not have been as earth-shattering as a dimensional invasion.

Zong Shen pondered for a while and more or less worked it out in his mind.

Although the Strategy Module was incredibly useful, it could not completely replace his own brain.

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