A month later.
The first fifty teams tasked with exploring the cosmic star systems had successively returned to Earth.
Though the major families kept their haul from this expedition confidential, so information leaked out and drew attention.
It was said that the exploration of the fifty teams brought many unexpected resources to the entire Earth’s cultivation world.
According to information from the Pill Association, the orders placed by the major families provided enough dicinal materials to refine 10,000 Core Formation elixirs.
And at least 200,000 Foundation Establishnt pills.
Leaks from inside the Artifact Refining guild indicated that they also received orders for materials sufficient to produce at least 500 magical treasures of the treasure level, and that the market now accepted the refinent of at least 50 types of diverse treasure categories.
This indicated that this exploration yielded blueprints for at least a hundred types of magical treasures!
Moreover, the appearance of more family cultivators using secret techniques in the arena also indicated that the exploration uncovered at least 50 new low-level secret techniques ranging from the Yellow level to the Profound level, and even the rare Human-level secret techniques allowed those lucky family cultivators to be invincible in the arena!
This news grabbed the attention of cultivators all over the globe, especially the loose cultivators who yearned to improve their cultivation as soon as possible to beco self-sufficient.
They were well aware that a portion of Earth’s cultivation resources had long been monopolized and controlled by the major families.
But not all loose cultivators could be noticed and recruited by families, and the opening of the great cosmic era presented them with the opportunity to explore and break new ground on their own!
Of course, this was just the case for a minority of loose cultivators.
For most loose cultivators, the preference was still to join a family as their first path.
After all, not every loose cultivator could easily cultivate to the Foundation Establishnt Stage with their impoverished resources.
This exploration mission had greatly inspired the entire Earth cultivation world, and the major families were filled with vigor.
"I’ve inquired with the Teleportation Array company, and nearly all teams were exploring around 3-dinsional planets this ti. With such great gains, it’s hard to imagine what abundant resources could be on those 4-dinsional and 5-dinsional planets not covered by the Teleportation Arrays in the entire Galaxy," one remarked.
At a eting of the Europe Cultivation Alliance, several clan leaders expressed their views on future developnts.
The Windsor Royal Family stated, "Moving forward, we should accept more talented loose cultivators into the Alliance, train them to quickly advance to the Foundation Establishnt Stage and then task them with consolidating resources from the 3-dinsional planets, while our focus should be on breaking through to the Nascent Soul as soon as possible!"
Speaking of the Nascent Soul, a covetous and intense desire was hardly concealable in the eyes of everyone present.
Earth was simply too small for high-level cultivators.
Survival and developnt were limited.
Thus, becoming the Lord of a star system was the prevailing trend!
Ownership of a 200-planet star system could accommodate any force and also protect the descendants of Earth’s families, providing a reliable support for them.
If before, everyone felt powerless about improving their strength, the return from this exploration had filled the major families with unprecedented ambition and a voracious desire for cosmic exploration.
As the CEO of the Cosmic Transmission company, Jack Ma had already received phone calls from at least one hundred clan leaders during a certain period.
All asking about the difficulty and risk assessnt for exploring 4th and 5th dinsional star systems.
After this exploration, all the top clan leaders and key mbers around the globe had made breakthroughs in Core Formation.
According to Forbes’ independently established ’Combat Power Rankings,’ several hundred Core Formation experts erged globally during this period!
Given the previously revealed assessnt of Core Formation dicinal resources, there will be an explosive growth in cultivators of this level.
These individuals will no longer be confined to exploring the resources of 3-dinsional planets and may aim for higher goals.
Therefore, for safety reasons, they inquired with Jack Ma, as the Cosmic Transmission company specializes in star system assessnts.
Jack Ma had received these calls and kindly warned them, "With your current Core Formation strength, I advise you not to take risks. The power threshold for the 4-dinsional world is at least at the Nascent Soul Early Stage. For safety’s sake, it’s best to be at the Late-Stage Nascent Soul!"
The major families, after getting this feedback, could only give up.
They then focused on welcoming more cultivators to join their families.
Before, each family had only a few mbers with high combat power, so they had no choice but to cooperate and explore together.
Now that each family had an even share of an abundant supply of [Core Formation] and [Foundation Establishnt] Elixirs and such, they could completely train their own combat-ready teams for exploration!
This way, the spoils of war could maximally belong to their own families.
This plan was almost implented within every family.
At the sa ti, the global Loose Cultivator market welcod an unprecedented opportunity, with large numbers of spirit-rooted and talented Loose Cultivators being fiercely recruited by the major families.
Nearly every talented Loose Cultivator received secret emails from at least a dozen families, with the contents offering various enticing benefits.
This scramble even crossed national borders, leading to a standoff between two camps, that eventually sparked discontent from the Angsa forces due to Europe’s camp taking in a certain special population.
They discovered that Europe had harbored a small group that Angsa had not completely cleaned up—the remnants of the You Tai Consortium!
It’s known that the You Tai Consortium once controlled more than half of the global wealth; their clan size spanned half of Earth.
The Angsa forces had been trying to eliminate these remnants; to their astonishnt, Europe, to spite and suppress Angsa, had actually given shelter to these leftover forces.
And even allowed them to transform from ordinary people into cultivators!
Clearly, these people harbored intentions of revenge; they would certainly hold a grudge against the Angsa forces.
When the Angsa forces found out, they imdiately rushed to Europe.
Led by Rockefeller David, accompanied by 20 Core Formation cultivators, they arrived in Europe and demanded that the Ying Empire turn over these remnants, or else they would take action!
Europe had its reasons as well.
They said, "We simply employed and sheltered them to manage our economy; we had no other intentions."
This was a plausible explanation since the You Tai people indeed had a knack for managing finances, and Europe’s family elders focused solely on cultivation, planning to entrust the family’s finances and all industries into their hands.
But David and his group were not willing to accept this.
After all, their present status was achieved by making a sacrifice of the You Tai Consortium!
Though, the remaining small group couldn’t make much of a difference in the current united world, they could not tolerate the existence of any remnants of the You Tai Consortium in their eyes.
"The path I laid out for you is there. If you don’t want to take it, then don’t bla us!" David, with a gloomy expression, hovered in the air, confronting the representatives of the various royal families of Europe.
The Ying Empire’s Prince William’s camp also had a dozen Core Formation cultivators and had long been equal to Angsa.
He snorted lightly, "If you want to fight, let’s fight. No more talking."
And with that, the two sides indeed started fighting.
This battle was Earth’s first major clash between cultivators since the push of the cultivation civilization, showcasing to the world the destructive power of Core Formation cultivators in combat.
The residual impact made life miserable for the innocent city people.
Even the Ying Imperial Palace was damaged by spells and magical treasures.
This spooked Daniel Liu, the overseas representative.
His face changed drastically upon receiving the call, "These bastards, have they forgotten that Great Experts are not allowed to engage in high-level magical combat on Earth?"
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