The Source of a Thousand-Year Lifespan! How Was Huaxia So Far Ahead? (Please Keep Reading)

The people across the Douluo Continent

had long since been captivated by everything the sky screen had said.

Perhaps to Spirit Hall's leaders and people like Yu Xiaogang, the Douluo Continent—even Douluo Star as a whole—was a picture of peace and prosperity!

Everything seemed harmonious and carefree!

But for the countless people at the bottom and low-level Soul Masters,

life was far too hard!

Every form of exploitation the sky screen had just exposed was their reality.

Whether it was abuse from high-level Soul Masters or oppression by nobles and other powers, it left them struggling to breathe.

"If it weren't for these damned Martial Souls, we might have starved to death long ago!"

In desolate villages scattered across the continent, villagers said this as they looked down at their hungry stomachs.

Their voices were full of hatred for Martial Souls!

Martial Souls might have kept them from starving to death, but their existence had also brought painful memories.

Nearly everyone looked up at the sky screen, waiting to see Huaxia Star.

At that very moment, as the images on the sky screen continued to reveal why lifespans on Douluo Star were so short, over on Huaxia Star,

the long-silent members of the Huaxia Federation's council in Tianjing finally could not hold back their criticism.

Xuan Yuan Tian was even more merciless.

"Ridiculous Douluo Star. It makes me sick. After all these years, they're still squeezing the common people dry."

"How can they call this a Soul Master civilization? It disgraces the very words 'Soul Master.'"

Shen Nong, beside him, could not have agreed more.

What was the point of a civilization where people had to struggle just to eat their fill?

As the man who had ensured that billions on Huaxia Star ate well, Shen Nong found such treatment especially hateful.

And it was not only Federation councilors like Shen Nong who despised it.

When Huaxia Star's billions saw the pitiful lifespans and miserable lives of the people on Douluo Star,

they could not help voicing their sympathy!

"Can anyone really live like that? Have they never thought of changing things?"

"Sixty-seven years? That's less than even a baby on Huaxia Star could expect. It's unbelievable."

"But perhaps it makes sense. They don't have a system as advanced as ours, or the Creation God to guide them."

The people of Huaxia voiced their disbelief and quickly began picking apart the differences between Huaxia Star and Douluo Star.

As they reflected and compared the two, the images on the dual-comparison sky screen changed once more.

A voice rang out from the sky screen, and the reasons behind Huaxia Star's long lifespans were made public at last.

Chen Tian, who was steering a planet through the void of the universe, turned his gaze toward it too.

"Douluo Star's situation was no surprise. But where will the sky screen begin its analysis of Huaxia Star?"

Chen Tian shared the same question as countless people on Douluo Star.

Across Douluo Star, countless Soul Masters stared wide-eyed at the screen. Yu Xiaogang, who was particularly invested, did the same. They all wanted to find a flaw.

"Let's see what reason you can come up with. I, Yu Xiaogang, am not so easily fooled."

Anxious, Yu Xiaogang glared at the sky screen, his bearded face set in a look that seemed ready to challenge heaven and earth!

[Comparative analysis of the sources of Huaxia Star's average lifespan begins!]

[First: There is no hunger on Huaxia Star, much less malnutrition!]

That one sentence was enough to shatter everyone on Douluo Star!

There was no lofty explanation, only words grounded in the most basic reality.

The people of Huaxia Star did not have to worry about going hungry?

For a moment, people and even Soul Masters across Douluo Star, from the Douluo Continent to the Sun Moon Continent, stared fixedly at the sky screen.

Some even wondered whether they had misheard!

"No hunger? Hiss... Can that be true? How much food would they need?"

At Spirit Hall, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, who knew the continent's circumstances well, exclaimed in surprise.

Though he lived far removed from ordinary concerns, his travels across the continent over the years had shown him hardship in many places.

He knew that hunger was no small problem on the Douluo Continent.

The Spirit Hall leaders present all acknowledged this to some degree.

Each had, in one way or another, seen the continent's hunger problem firsthand.

In recent years, Spirit Hall's efforts had increased the number of people awakening Martial Souls across the continent, creating a larger workforce.

Yet various problems still stood in the way of solving hunger.

Now the sky screen told them Huaxia Star had solved it. How could they believe that?

Even Bibi Dong sounded doubtful. "Could this sky screen really be trying to belittle Douluo Star?"

"Not necessarily. Perhaps Huaxia Star truly has solved it. Just because we can't doesn't mean no one else can," Qian Daoliu added. With age had come cunning, and he had long since learned to question authority!

At his old friend's words, Golden Crocodile Douluo nodded, his golden hair bobbing. Clearly, he agreed.

While Spirit Hall's leaders disagreed among themselves,

the Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang, had already raised what he considered the question of a lifetime at Shrek Academy.

"What a joke! Solve hunger? Who does it think it is? Does it have any idea how much food a planet needs to feed everyone?"

"What nonsense. It's nothing but empty boasting!"

Yu Xiaogang, an expert at boasting himself, believed he had seen through the sky screen's bluster. He began lecturing the Shrek Seven Devils gathered around him about the hunger common throughout the continent.

In truth, Oscar and Ma Hongjun, the two common-born members of the Shrek Seven Devils, needed no lecture. They already thought the sky screen was lying.

They had gone hungry many times as children and knew all too well how ordinary hunger was across the continent.

Even Ning Rongrong, the pampered young lady who knew little of ordinary life, had seen villagers go hungry in lands under the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's rule.

She had once even naïvely given them food out of charity.

Ning Rongrong held her head high as she challenged the sky screen, joining Yu Xiaogang in his doubts.

"The Grandmaster is right. How could hunger be so easy to solve? The sky screen is far too naïve."

Her earnest tone left even Zhu Zhuqing a little incredulous.

Who would have thought a young lady like Ning Rongrong could spare a thought for the suffering of ordinary people!

Still, Zhu Zhuqing held on to a sliver of hope. "Perhaps Huaxia Star will show us a miracle."

"If there really is a miracle, I'd gladly eat that wooden house."

Pointing at the wooden house nearby, Yu Xiaogang kept making wild claims and swore his oath without the slightest thought that the sky screen might be telling the truth!

Tang San, cut from the same cloth, confidently told Xiao Wu beside him what he believed.

"Xiao Wu, this is definitely false. How could hunger across the continent be solved so easily? We're talking about feeding billions of people across an entire planet.

"If it were that easy, I'd have solved it long ago and become a sage."

Clearly, Tang San had immense faith in his own abilities!

What gave Huaxia Star the right to be so far ahead?

Solving hunger, no less?

If even I, Tang San, couldn't solve it, how could those people on Huaxia Star?

It had to be false!

And Xiao Wu, hopelessly devoted to him, readily agreed with her third brother.

Just as Tang San finished speaking to Xiao Wu, the images on the sky screen quietly changed. A scene from Huaxia Star appeared before everyone's eyes.

Wind swept through waves of wheat. Fields stretched silently to the horizon, but every stalk was extraordinary.

They stood taller than three-meter giants, bore ears of grain larger than a person's head, and had leaves broad enough to serve as blankets!