In the end, perhaps for the sake of sustainability, the Blood Spirit Progenitors drove the Myriad Races Alliance into the very center of the universe and began openly keeping them in captivity.
The beings of the myriad races dared not speak out in anger and could only struggle to survive here. Yet they still had to reproduce. Every epoch, they had to offer blood food to the Blood Spirit Progenitors. Otherwise, the Blood Spirit Progenitors would enter and hunt on their own, harvesting blood food like cutting leeks.
The higher-ups of the myriad races could only adopt a rotation system. When a race's turn came, it had to sacrifice hundreds of millions of living beings as blood food during the year of the epoch. Otherwise, it would be expelled from the alliance and left to fend for itself.
The previous epoch had been the Monster Race's turn. They ruthlessly offered up clan members with lower bloodlines, while those who wished to resist were suppressed and sealed away. Whether they resisted or not made no difference at all.
The neighboring Human Race witnessed everything, and panic immediately spread through the clan. According to the rotation, the Human Race would be next to sacrifice blood food. Although there were still ten thousand years until the next epoch, what could ten thousand years accomplish? Could it allow the clan leader to break through to Universe Master, gain greater influence within the alliance, and push back the Human Race's turn?
Obviously not. Thus, three factions emerged within the Human Race. The first was the moderate faction, whose members were not within the sacrificial ranks. They did not care much about the blood food sacrifices, since it would not be their turn anyway.
The second was the proactive faction. They advocated paying any price and