Devouring a Resource Planet brought far greater gains than consuming an ordinary Ōtsutsuki. Uchiha Gen calculated that, under the same conditions, a planet capable of growing fruit produced ten times the energy.
A planet that could originally yield one Yitong of energy was equivalent to consuming ten Ōtsutsuki if devoured directly.
"Could this be... cutting out the middleman?"
Uchiha Gen suddenly understood, deeply feeling that the ancients had not deceived him!!
He immediately opened the Interstellar Map and counted them one by one, discovering that there were still several Resource Planets nearby.
If he devoured those planets too, he could just about reach the evolutionary limit of one hundred Yitong. Yet at that thought, Uchiha Gen did not feel particularly happy.
"A coincidence? How could there be so many coincidences..."
Looking again at the fine print beneath the Resource Planets marked on the map, he found that it did indeed conceal some information.
Uchiha Gen immediately called Kaguya over and pointed at several Resource Planets marked with numbers as he asked:
"Why are some planets marked with numbers? What do they represent?"
"...Hmm." Kaguya pinched her chin as she recalled it. Too much time had passed, and only after a while did she say, "I think it was the number of lifeforms deployed."
"Deployed... lifeforms?"
"Yes. Resources would not simply fall into your hands; someone had to gather them. Not every Resource Planet was used to grow God Trees, either. They also contained other valuable resources."
As she spoke, Princess Kaguya's pace gradually became smoother, as though she had witnessed it firsthand.
"The ores, fuel, stellar cores, and all sorts of other things on those Resource Planets were not nutrients that God Trees could directly absorb, so people had to collect them."
"One more thing: planets where lifeforms had been