The Earth Lineage as it stood now.
Yang Zheng was its undisputed spiritual leader and strongest protector, while actual administrative authority rested with his father, Wang Jiu.
Earth had not adopted rule by a single family. Instead, it had established a parliamentary system, with Wang Jiu as speaker-general, holding the final say over key affairs, including veto power.
The other seats were filled by true elites from every field of the Earth Lineage through a rigorous, transparent selection process: martial strength, technology, commerce, education, public welfare...
The finest minds from every field gathered together to decide the course of Earth's civilization.
As for Luo Feng's Luo Family.
After Luo Feng's ruthless purge all those years ago, the Luo Family's internal management had become extraordinarily strict.
Now, it focused solely on commercial development, integrating itself into the economic lifeblood of Earth's civilization as the enormous Luo Group.
The Earth Lineage as a whole developed at an astonishing pace. After forming a close alliance with the Fallen Lineage, it had gained an even greater advantage.
The Fallen Lineage had also given Yang Zheng a surprise-unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable. It was a bright spot he had noticed before without giving it enough attention.
This lineage had inherited an ancient and unique art of artifact refinement.
Rather than relying purely on technological forging, they incorporated profound formations and runic restrictions into the smelting of materials and the shaping of artifacts.
After entering the outside world and encountering the cutting-edge technological civilizations of the Human Race and even the Hongmeng Alliance, the Fallen Lineage's artifact refiners felt as though a door to a whole new world had opened.
They boldly experimented with blending their ancient formation-based artifact refinement principles with technology, creating a distinctive form of rune technology.
This path had only just taken its