With over seven hundred Subsidiary Planets, they were already a regional hegemon with formidable strength.
The many Star Lords believed the claim that they were about to advance to a fourth-level civilization.
There were no particularly strict standards for advancing to a fourth-level civilization.
Having 2,000 Subsidiary Planets under your command unlocked the level-four shop.
Put plainly, you declared that you were planting your flag here. If you could withstand the punitive campaigns of other fourth-level Star Lords, your advancement counted as a success.
The number of planets a Star Lord ruled served as a measure of their strength.
To advance to a fifth-level Star Lord, you needed a hundred fourth-level Star Lords under your command, allowing you to rule an entire galaxy.
This led to one thing.
If you wanted to advance to a fifth-level Star Lord, you had to wage war against other fourth-level Star Lords.
And becoming a fourth-level Star Lord required 2,000 third-level Subsidiary Planets.
This kept the universe perpetually at war. It maintained the universe's fighting strength, while also serving as a process of raising venomous creatures in a jar until only the strongest survived.
The Cosmic Shop had everything you wanted. It all depended on your strength and wealth.
Zhang Yang wanted to establish a foothold first, then vigorously develop Blue Star's various industries and sell elixirs, talisman scripts, and other supplies.
As the Star Lords signed Enslavement Contracts, all their planets became Subsidiary Planets of Blue Star.
Blue Star's Subsidiary Planets increased to forty.
Those forty planets alone could contribute two million energy points to Blue Star every year.
This was the terrifying power of colonial expansion.
And that did not even include the secondary benefits.
As time passed and these planets recovered their strength, they would be scattered across the Star Map