Chapter 853: Shortage of Resources

The exploration and development of the soul realm requires an extremely high level of cultivation and a high realm as the foundation to be able to make progress.

Those ordinary soul bodies may be extremely efficient when feasting on soul resources, but it is obviously unreliable to rely on them to promote the advanced understanding of the soul realm of ancient civilizations.

Ordinary soul bodies do not even have the basic ability to deeply perceive the soul body and gain insight into the deep mysteries of the soul body, let alone study the deep nature of the soul.

At least in ancient civilizations, only super souls had the possibility of conducting in-depth research in these areas.

The level of research in these advanced fields will not only determine the future war mode and combat capability of the ancient civilization, but also determine the survival state of the soul of the ancient civilization in the material world, which is a fundamental matter related to the future development of the ancient civilization.

Therefore, whether it is the immediate combat power of civilization, or the prospect of the overall development of ancient civilizations in the future, the future of ancient civilizations depends to a large extent on these super soul bodies.

Those super souls who are not remnants of ancient civilizations, although the ancient civilizations cannot be pinned on them for the heavy tasks in the field of research and exploration in the future, but in some future operations, the ancient civilizations still need the existence of these mercenaries.

Therefore, as long as possible, the ancient civilization must ensure the existence of each super soul body as much as possible, so as to ensure the safety and development of the ancient civilization as much as possible, which reflects the will of the entire ancient civilization.

The most critical affairs of the entire ancient civilization revolve around these super soul bodies.

As for the reproduction of ordinary soul bodies themselves, although this is the individual's own choice, because only the existence of more ordinary soul bodies can ensure the survival of more super soul bodies in the material world, so it has also been valued by the entire ancient civilization and the focus of resources tilted.

It must be known that after the ancient civilization returned to the material world, because of the needs of the overall development of the civilization, as well as the absolute suppression of the super soul body over the ordinary soul body in terms of strength, the entire ancient civilization strictly implemented the system of unified resource allocation.

Among all the individuals of the ancient civilization, only a small part of them were out hunting and collecting resources, and many more individuals were concentrated in some special subspace environments to take turns on duty, running magic circles, and creating a space suitable for the survival of soul bodies.

These special spaces opened up and maintained by the ancient civilizations themselves are the base camp of the entire ancient civilization today, and more than half of all the remnants of the ancient civilization are living in these special spaces.

Although the soul body that went out hunting collected and sorted out almost all the soul and blood resources, under the strict institutional constraints of the ancient civilization, no soul body dared to swallow the resources without authorization.

Once this kind of behavior is discovered, those powerful remnants of ancient civilization are not afraid to devour these unruly guys alive.

Therefore, even these remnants of ancient civilizations who have come into contact with first-hand resources have to rely on the overall resource allocation of ancient civilizations.

Although the ancient civilization as a whole did not belong to the type of lack of resources because of the existence of abundant soul resources in the material world, it was inevitable that there would be some lack of resources in terms of each individual.

In any civilization, there is a problem of uneven distribution of resources, and this is naturally the same in ancient civilizations.

And because of the special status of those super soul bodies, the uneven distribution of resources in ancient civilizations is quite serious, and the resources of powerful soul bodies in the upper level are so many that they cannot be used up at all, while those soul bodies of ancient civilizations with lower status and relatively insufficient resources are allocated to them, but they often inevitably feel a little overfilled.

At this time, the ancient civilization was specially formulated to reproduce new soul individuals, and the targeted policies naturally aroused the attention of a large number of low-level soul bodies.

For each newly born soul individual in the ancient civilization, as well as each "parent" soul body that reproduces offspring, the ancient civilization has taken care of it to a large extent as a whole, and allocated a greater amount of resources to ensure the thriving growth of the new individual, as well as as as a reward for "encouraging fertility".

It is precisely under this circumstance that the souls of the ancient civilizations have exploded with great enthusiasm, and they have to increase their efforts to reproduce new individuals.

Anyway, for them, although the cost of reproducing new individuals is not small, it is actually quite beneficial, coupled with the resource tilt at the overall level of civilization, which gives them the motivation to give birth to the next generation.

Under the continuous effect of this stimulus policy, the number of soul bodies of the entire ancient civilization has more than doubled in just a few decades, and it has been continuously maintained, and after hundreds of years of accumulation, the number of soul bodies of the entire ancient civilization has actually risen to the scale of billions of soul bodies.

It is also to this extent that the ancient civilization has satisfied its huge demand for the soul body at the bottom to a certain extent, and temporarily stopped the continuation of the relevant stimulus policies.

However, even so, the comprehensive strength of the ancient civilization has also made a great breakthrough, not only the number of ordinary soul bodies has increased dozens of times, but under the supply of abundant resources in the material world, the ancient civilization has also made a great breakthrough in the top super soul body.

Some soul bodies that had already accumulated a high level in the world of another dimension, but had not been able to be promoted to the super soul body level due to resource limitations, have also completed breakthroughs and become new super soul bodies under the abundant resource supply over the years.

The importance of this for ancient civilizations is self-evident.

Today's super soul body of the ancient civilization holds the power of the entire civilization with one hand, but because of the large number of foreign super soul bodies, there are also some unstable factors within the ancient civilization.

It's just that the entire ancient civilization is one, and all the soul bodies have the same source and are relatively united internally, although these foreign soul bodies want to usurp the leadership of the civilization that belongs to the ancient civilization, they have always been unable to succeed.

And because these foreign super soul bodies must rely on the protection of the ancient civilization in order to survive in the material world for a long time and enjoy the endless soul resources here, they also have to compromise with the ancient civilization, and dare not directly inflict violence on the ancient civilization, lest once they annoy the ancient civilization, they will fight to the death.

But in fact, this internal contradiction of the ancient civilization has always existed, and because of the relative superiority of the number of foreign super soul bodies, even the ancient civilization has to be quite skeptical about these outsiders.

And now, with the continuous emergence of these new generation of super soul bodies, the number of super soul bodies within the ancient civilization has exceeded the number of outsiders for the first time, and the numerical advantage is still expanding, which is undoubtedly of great benefit to stabilizing the power structure of the ancient civilization.

Although these newly promoted super soul bodies are often very different from those outsiders in terms of strength, the pattern of the continuous development of the ancient civilization is there, and the possibility of outsiders trying to usurp the rights of the ancient civilization is constantly shrinking.

Some foreign super soul bodies who are aware of current affairs have gradually recognized the future development pattern, and even developed mates and reproduced the next generation in the ancient civilization, completely standing on the side of the ancient civilization.

And the other foreign super soul bodies, under the hands of the ancient civilization to win over a group of suppressors, have gradually not been able to make any waves, which means that the contradictions and risks within the ancient civilization have been bridged to the greatest extent, and the power that the ancient civilization can exert in the future will naturally be greatly enhanced.

However, the improvement of the comprehensive strength and population size of the ancient civilization is a good thing for the ancient civilization itself, but for the alien interstellar civilization of the meteorite star sea, it is a huge disaster.

If nothing else, just the huge increase in resource consumption caused by the expansion of the population size of the ancient civilization has already determined that the ancient civilization must take action.

Originally, with the population size of the ancient civilizations, their resource consumption could already be well satisfied even if they did not directly kill the interstellar civilizations.

Just the huge amount of soul resources born from the elimination of the natural populations of various planets and civilizations is already fully able to meet the resource needs of ancient civilizations, and it is more than enough.

But now, with the continuous explosion of the population size of the ancient civilization, this original relatively peaceful way of obtaining resources has completely failed to meet the resource needs of the ancient civilization.

The large number of new generation soul individuals newly born in the ancient civilization, although because of the short time of birth, the cultivation of each soul body is still relatively shallow, and the consumption of resources is not large, but the number of these new generations is too much.

Moreover, the soul bodies of the older generation in the ancient civilizations, after they devoured a large number of soul resources for a long time, the cultivation of each soul body also had a huge increase, and some of the best of them were promoted to super soul bodies, and their consumption of soul resources was also increasing day by day.

As for those super soul bodies, their consumption of resources is even more huge, because these powerful soul bodies not only have an amazing amount of food, but they are often also conducting cutting-edge research on soul bodies, any small experiment, often will consume a large amount of soul resources, and the soul resources consumed by these super soul bodies over time are simply amazing.

Under the combined effect of these factors, the resource consumption of the entire ancient civilization has increased dozens of times, just relying on the original way of picking up dead fish, the ancient civilization simply cannot make up the soul resource consumption required by the entire civilization.

Therefore, in the face of this dilemma of insufficient resources, the ancient civilization naturally had to open up new sources of resources and obtain a larger amount of soul resources.

In order to obtain more soul resources, the most convenient way is undoubtedly to kill, which is undoubtedly an extremely simple thing for ancient civilizations.

With the strength of the ancient civilizations, as long as they let go of their hands and feet, the many immigrant interstellar civilizations in the entire meteorite star sea would not be able to stop the killing of the ancient civilizations at all.

As long as the control of the soul virus is released, those infected virus soul bodies can instantly make the newly opened up in the meteorite star sea, and all the ecological planets fall into the strength of the hellish scene, and it is impossible for them to escape the butcher's knife of the ancient civilization.

At that time, the ancient civilization had just returned to the material world, and it was easy to destroy tens of thousands of interstellar civilizations and obtain a lot of soul resources under a small trial, and now the ancient civilization has a solid foundation in many habitable star fields in the meteorite star sea, and it can be said that there are a large number of controlled virus soul bodies in each planet.

Once the ancient civilization loosens its control, many interstellar civilizations in the entire meteorite star sea are afraid to die, and this is obviously not in line with the long-term interests of the ancient civilization.

After all, the vast pasture of the meteorite star sea is related to the livelihood of the ancient civilization, once it is slaughtered like this, without covering up its own behavior, this is undoubtedly a ruined behavior, and the territory that the ancient civilization has managed with great difficulty will become worthless.

At that time, not only here in the meteorite star sea, but also in the surrounding other large galaxies, people will find that the terrifying zombie disease has never left the meteorite star sea, and the previous peaceful coexistence is just a low-key lurk, once the disease breaks out again, all civilizations will be unspared, and they will be completely destroyed.

The outbreak of a zombie disease can also be said to be an accidental phenomenon, two successive large-scale destruction of civilizations, this is probably a temptation of great interests, and no civilization will be fooled, all interstellar civilizations will flee in a hurry, the farther away from the meteorite star sea, the better, it is impossible to re-enter the meteorite star sea, an extremely dangerous big galaxy half a step, let alone develop in depth here.

At that time, the situation that the ancient civilization needs to face is not just a shortage of resources, the ancient civilization will face the unprecedented dilemma of resource extinction, and the good days of the ancient civilization will be over.

And this is obviously something that the ancient civilizations did not want to see anyway.

So this seems to be the easiest way to do it, but it is the most impossible thing to do in ancient civilizations.

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