Chapter 697: Chapter 385: The Escaping Great Wind Emperor
At this moment, many of the Shen Yu within the Association are not yet aware that the Great Wind Empire has decided to fully retreat.
After all, they have long since reaped the rewards of rescuing the High Martial World and obtained the Gray Mist.
Many Shen Yu are still immersed in the enormous resource gains.
The amount of resources in the treasury indeed far exceeded their expectations.
Not only did they obtain the high-level resources they initially hoped for, but they also made significant gains in high-level technology.
Moreover, there is an astonishing number of low-level resources, not only hundreds of times more than the Association currently has in reserve, but also of types that the Association had never owned before.
It’s important to know that as the types of resources increase, it means more possibilities for the entire civilization and the cultivators within the system.
Perhaps one’s talent in some domains is lacking, but in other areas, the talent might be powerful.
More choices, more types of resources, will always lead to more possibilities.
Especially since the Association has the Gray Mist Space.
It’s no exaggeration to say that with the Gray Mist Space, the Association can greatly shorten the time needed to absorb these resources.
Under normal circumstances, these resources represent hundreds of millions of years of accumulation from the Resource World and a million years of storage since the Great Wind Empire’s civilization entered the All Heavens World.
Even if freely used, it would take the entire civilization at least ten thousand years.
Refining resources takes time.
In fact, many resources need to be used at the appropriate stage.
However, the Gray Mist can solve all these problems, even with little consumption.
It merely accelerates the cultivation process.
"Within at most a hundred years, we can use these resources to increase the civilization’s scale to about ten times that of the Great Wind Empire." interstellar world Shen Yu quickly calculated the answer, "The biggest problem is that such a massive transformation in social strength might lead to numerous systemic social issues, causing chaos and affecting the Association’s normal development."
This is quite understandable.
Previously, even though all Association Worlds maintained rapid development, the individuals within the civilization had already become accustomed to the development speed.
For instance, when someone reaches a certain level at a specific time point, everyone else knows his talent, his hard work, and his opportunities.
They then accord him the respect and status he deserves.
However, if subsequently, someone rapidly enhances their power to far exceed this person’s level with the Association’s resources, and such people become more numerous, social perception becomes confused.
The boundaries between different strata will become more blurred.
Be aware, the development method the Association has always adopted involves clear stratification and a complete ascending path to motivate people to strive.
Otherwise, if you truly pursue equality between the strong and the weak, the motivation to become strong will be lost.
But if you distribute all these resources at once, aiming to consume them in the shortest time possible, it will inevitably disrupt the painstakingly established development balance.
"In that case, how long will it take to completely absorb these resources without impacting that balance?" Shen Yu asked interstellar world Shen Yu.
Calculatory tasks like these have always been the forte of interstellar world Shen Yu.
The answer came quickly again.
"Two thousand four hundred thirty-six years."
This is a very precise answer.
This made the eyebrows of other Shen Yu furrow.
Because, evidently, this time frame no longer suits the current war with the Great Wind Empire.
"Since that’s the case, we don’t necessarily need to wait for these resources to be completely consumed," Shen Yu narrowed his eyes and made a decision directly, "Still, as per the previous plan, we’ll extract a portion of the precious resources to enhance our own power. After gaining an advantage at the highest level of strength, the rest can be advanced gradually, step by step."
With the Gray Mist gains from the Tower World already in hand, the remaining strategic goal of this war is to seize benefits from the Great Wind Empire itself.
From previous discussions, to plunder such an empire comprehensively, there are only two methods.
The first, to nibble away at it bit by bit, without capturing too much at once; otherwise, it’s easy to trigger self-destructive harm.
The second, to have the Great Wind Emperor voluntarily surrender.
Given the Association’s understanding of the Great Wind Emperor, it’s not easy to make him surrender; if necessary, he might even abandon the entire Great Wind Empire, flee elsewhere, and create a new empire of his own.
This emperor possesses such patience.
However, these two directions are not mutually exclusive; they can, in fact, be pursued simultaneously.
On one hand, nibbles away gradually, on the other hand, find ways in the constant pressure to persuade the Great Wind Emperor.
Shen Yu’s decision received unanimous endorsement from all other Shen Yu.
Thus, the first step is to enhance their own power.
They didn’t reach it in one step, not because the resources were insufficient, but the Gray Mist was a bit lacking.
Although a large amount of Gray Mist was obtained from the Tower World, the previous consumption was not small, and to carry out future plans, a significant portion must be stored. Therefore, the best choice is to first elevate the power of Shen Yu to a level equivalent to the Twelfth Realm Middle Stage.
The entire process was rather ordinary.
With a large amount of resources and Gray Mist, all Shen Yu in core positions quickly passed through the accumulation phase and forcibly elevated their life level.
