In the following days, the Human race, Goblin, and Aquamarine Federation of the Cultivator Continent all worked hard to improve their strength.
In the blink of an eye, 700 years had passed, which meant that the Aquamarine Federation and the Cultivator Continent had been in existence for a thousand years.
In the past thousand years, the major forces were relatively peaceful. Although there were some small conflicts, they were tolerated. Today, after a thousand years, whether it was the strength of the Aquamarine Federation or the Cultivator Continent, both had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Human race and Goblin of the Cultivator Continent were no longer the same as they were a thousand years ago. The current Cultivator Continent was extremely prosperous.
This was a world of cultivators that had been led astray, which developed into a world where technology and cultivation were fused together.
This was a true super fantasy era of technology.
Buildings over a thousand meters tall, unique modern cities, magic treasures, formations, and technological flying cars were just the tip of the iceberg of this super fantasy era.
What was worth mentioning was that the online games that came from Aquamarine had truly influenced countless generations of Goblin after they reached the Cultivator Continent.
In the past, he would cultivate, cultivate, and occasionally play the Human race.
But now, whenever he had time, he would play games. Some even played games until they died, neglecting their cultivation.
Was it really better to play games than to cultivate?
Actually, that wasn't the case.
It was just that people of various races who had lived in a cultivation environment since they were young were already used to cultivation and weren't sensitive to it at all.
Even if you worked hard and cultivated, could you still become a Nascent Soul cultivator?
This was what most ordinary people of various races thought.
They still had to play when they needed to.
Just like Liu Yu when he was still on Earth, his monthly salary was only six thousand. Even if you worked hard for a few decades, you still wouldn't be able to afford a house. Even if you fell sick or something, you would die in a day.
And this was only enough to support one person. What was even more amazing was that most factories in the country only had a base salary of two thousand. Even if you worked overtime, you would only get four thousand.
This was the Goblin of this era. Human race thought: no matter how hard you worked, could you still become a Nascent Soul cultivator?
Stop dreaming.
Just work for a month and play games for half a year.
For a Goblin with a bit of cultivation, not eating for half a year was still acceptable.
This was an era of idleness.
Of course, the upper echelons of the Goblin race did not change this status quo, because the world was a pyramid. Below 10% of the rich were 90% of the people at the bottom, producing wealth for them. Of course, there was no lack of capable people, but this was just an exception.
No matter how many salted fish there were in this era, the society of this era was still progressing.
At this time, the Goblin of the Cultivator Continent was dissatisfied with the trade with the Human race and the Aquamarine Federation and requested to raise the tariffs.
Raise tariffs?
This was simply impossible. Neither the Human race nor the Aquamarine Federation would agree to Goblin's proposal.
Was this a joke?
Just how big was the Cultivator Continent? Even if they were to casually give away a portion of the profits, it would still be an unimaginable amount of wealth.
Okay.
Since they didn't come to an agreement, they naturally had to fight.
Goblin was indeed huge in size in this era, and their technology was not inferior to anyone else.
This was the advantage of occupying a huge territory. With a little effort, they could gather a large amount of manpower and material resources to carry out construction.
Of course, the Human race of the Cultivator Continent and the Aquamarine Federation had developed for thousands of years. Their self-confidence was naturally strong. Although they were generally stronger than them, in this era, the outcome could not be decided by numbers.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be better if they just directly reported the numbers?
The numbers were so bad that they would directly admit defeat.
This was naturally impossible.
At this time, the Goblin population had already reached 70 trillion. This was the transformed Goblin, the Goblin that lived in the city.
Human race's population had naturally increased by several times after advanced production technology. From the original 5 to 6 trillion, it had reached 30 trillion.
After all, the Aquamarine Federation was still lacking. They had completely developed and utilized the entire Aquamarine Star System and built a space city with a diameter of 30,000 kilometers. Their population was less than a trillion. This was after relying on various technologies in exchange for the resources of the Cultivator Continent.
Once a war broke out with the Cultivator Continent, the Aquamarine Star System would collapse due to lack of transportation. Unless the war ended in a short period of time.
Aquamarine's population was small, but this was only when compared to the Cultivator Continent. Currently, the Aquamarine Star System's various planets, asteroids, and space cities were supporting close to a trillion people. This was actually very difficult for the Aquamarine Federation. The amount of resources they consumed every day was astronomical.
Without the Cultivator Continent, the Aquamarine Star System's population would at most reach 100 billion. Moreover, this population would not be maintained for long due to the lack of resources.
To the Aquamarine Federation, increasing the tariffs on the Goblin Star System was simply cutting off their flesh. Not to mention the Aquamarine Federation, even those large financial groups would not agree.
Thus, the entire world instantly became quiet.
Basically, the entire Cultivator Continent could smell the scent of war.
For ordinary people of various races who lived in peacetime, war was a terrifying thing.
Even though the Goblin Star System was very powerful, it was a military taboo to wage war against both the Human race and the Aquamarine Federation at the same time. Unless they had absolute strength, they would be dragged down sooner or later.
At this time, the Aquamarine Federation was naturally not afraid of going to war against the Goblin Star System. This was because the Aquamarine Federation had spent a lot of resources in the past thousand years to cultivate more than ten Body Integration Stage experts and a large number of Spirit Severing Stage and Out of Body Stage experts.
However, these experts did not exist in the Cultivator Continent.
With the current Super Fantasy Technology, it was difficult to eliminate Body Integration Stage experts unless they used human wave tactics to continuously deplete the Body Integration Stage experts' strength.
However, this price was difficult to accept. Moreover, Body Integration Stage experts would not fight to the death with you, right?
On the Cultivator Continent, the Human race and the Goblin Star System had already begun to gather an army. The number of soldiers at the border had reached hundreds of billions of soldiers.
In outer space, the Goblin Star System had mobilized millions of battleships to fight against the Aquamarine Federation and the Human race's battleships.
At this time, if the higher-ups gave an order, the originally peaceful world would be filled with the flames of war, resulting in the deaths of countless lives.
In fact, the Goblin Court was also seriously considering whether to go to war at this time.
They only wanted to use their powerful military force to force them to give up resistance so that they would return to the negotiating table and increase the tariffs.
However, the Human race and the Aquamarine Federation's strength was not as weak as the Goblin Star System had imagined.
The Goblin Court's strength was indeed several times stronger than theirs. However, it was not impossible to win a war with fewer people.
If they lost, the Goblin Star System would lose its position as the overlord of the world. It would still be the overlord of the world if the status quo remained.
Naturally, there were many accidents in the huge army.
No one knew which soldier fired the first shot.
Before the higher-ups gave the final order, there was a chain reaction.
A large-scale war had already begun.
PS: Ahem, good evening!