Sixty epochs after the Ethnic Group War ended, the expansion of Human Territory in the Primal Universe came to a temporary halt.
In their home territory, humanity had expanded by the five hundred star districts (Universe Countries) originally planned, but many problems remained within them.
Humanity chose to occupy the territory first and prioritize developing the first hundred star districts. Once those could accommodate normal human population growth, they would develop the second hundred.
The "enclaves" scattered throughout the universe had also become somewhat stable.
The leaders of many "enclaves" were Universe Venerables. Counted individually, their strength only matched that of ordinary ethnic groups, not even powerful ethnic groups.
Thus, the other powers in the universe simply recognized each as a human "branch ethnic group." If its territory remained within the standard limits, they left it alone; if it exceeded those limits, they suppressed it.
After all, they had humanity behind them, and unlike the alien races in the Hongmeng Alliance, they truly belonged to the same race. Thus, another privilege was tacitly granted to them: "Land selection."
The size of their territory was determined by their strength. Their backing merely gave them priority in Land Selection.
In essence, if others could not afford to provoke them, they could afford to avoid them.
In fact, the territorial divisions between the universe's various ethnic groups had been shaped over long ages. Exceeding them could easily cause all kinds of problems.
With this as the general state of affairs, the situation stabilized.
During this process, building up a power in unfamiliar territory was hard labor. Most of those involved were humans released from Divine Kingdoms and Cosmic Secret Realms. After all, this too counted as a kind of progress.
During this process, teams from the Sacred Number Civilization, led by World Lords,