Here, some might have questions. Why did the promise for the Earth Ranking competition include becoming a lower-ranking race among the alien races?
Were there not only thirty-three alien races?
Of course not!
First of all, there were naturally far more than thirty-three alien races. There were actually a great many of them; it was simply that the vast majority had small clans and sparse populations.
Secondly, there were the Saints!
The Saint Realm and the Great Luo Realm were entirely different matters. This was not a realm that could be built up merely through the strength of a single race.
In fact, most Saints had become Saints almost entirely through their own talent and fortuitous opportunities. Let alone having their clans behind them as support—whether their clans had even still existed when they attained Sainthood was another matter altogether.
This was not something that could happen over a few hundred or few thousand years. It took ten-thousand-year spans, along with heaven-defying opportunities and luck, for success to even be possible.
For a clan, longevity alone made it difficult to endure. This was not a matter of a few generations or a few dozen generations, but hundreds or even thousands of generations.
Over such a vast stretch of time, nothing that happened would be strange.
Moreover, opportunities to become a Saint were scarce to begin with. Once one appeared, it would inevitably be fought over madly.
There might not be many Saints, but there were plenty of Great Luo cultivators.
The moment an opportunity to become a Saint was discovered, slaughter was unavoidable.
Why were the alien races so divided? It was not merely a matter of利益; it also involved private grudges.
An opportunity to become a Saint was far more serious than having one's parents murdered.
If someone seized