Time flew.
The Vermilion Bird Star Domains were changing.
Numerous human cultivators from the Fallen Immortal Realm brought vast numbers of mortal immigrants to the various clusters of great worlds, laying the groundwork for the development of immortal industries throughout the region.
Cultivators of the myriad races cooperated with utmost respect. They did not look down on these administrative cultivators from the Fallen Immortal Realm for their weakness.
In truth, they had no right to.
Even while the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden was in seclusion, Colored Jade, a prospective emperor, and Empress Fusang could each sweep across the world and crush all resistance from the cultivators of the myriad races.
Those cultivators had survived not because they were strong, but simply because they were useful. That was all.
In the eyes of the great powers of the immortal path, human mortals reproduced very quickly.
They reached maturity in their teens and could bear a child each year. In a mere century, seemingly the blink of an eye, mortals had flourished across many clusters of great worlds. Their numbers rose tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of times over, with no difficulty at all.
In the many worlds that had once belonged to the myriad races, humans had been scarce, present in only a few places.
Yet after just a century, numerous mortal kingdoms had appeared in those places, and vast numbers of mortals lived and multiplied there.
Among these immense mortal populations, gifted humans emerged one after another. They grew within a mature immortal-path education system, became the backbone of various branches of immortal industry, contributed their strength and wisdom, and received the compensation they needed in return.
Everything was developing at breakneck speed.
Across the Vermilion Bird Star Domains, the traces left by the Phoenix Immortal