For more than a hundred years, the Star Gate had opened at irregular intervals, and everyone had long since grown used to it.
They treated the planet on the other side as a dungeon, transporting vast quantities of materials, minerals, and treasures back to Blue Star.
The Qin Kingdom's government also encouraged its people to hunt beyond the Star Gate.
Killing ferocious beasts and members of other races earned Merit Points, which could be exchanged for Spirit Stones throughout the kingdom.
According to legend, Father God had created this merit system, and no one could alter it or cheat it.
Merit Points could be exchanged for Spirit Stone rewards.
This, too, encouraged everyone to eagerly slay their enemies.
When they achieved their tenth Star War victory, some cultivators stuck at ninth grade Foundation Establishment actually broke through.
The first to advance were Ying Zheng, Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Shang Yang, and other important officials.
Though they had started later, they overtook cultivators who had been stalled for over a century and successfully broke through to the Golden Core Realm.
Fortune once again became the hottest commodity in the world.
Clearly, this had everything to do with fortune.
Otherwise, why had eighteen of the nineteen additional slots gone to the Qin Kingdom's leadership?
And why had they so miraculously broken through to the Golden Core Realm in order of official rank?
The remaining slot had not gone to a rogue cultivator either. The president of the Artifact Refining Association had claimed it.
Thanks to his position as president, he successfully advanced from ninth grade Foundation Establishment to the Golden Core Realm.
This provoked extreme dissatisfaction among many cultivators, and a different kind of sentiment took root in their hearts.
Especially among those who had spent over a century at ninth grade