The Earth Lineage

What would Earth be like after more than a hundred thousand years?

Verdant and vibrant, uniquely designed residential buildings dotted the lush greenery. Birds frequently soared across the deep blue sky, and the air was fresh. By the standards of human territory, Earth was undoubtedly an SSS-tier life planet.

Nature and technology had achieved perfect harmony.

Men and women, some in training attire, others in casual clothes, walked along the streets. The cities, at a glance, had no cars or other vehicles. Instead, underground tunnels connected Earth's cities, allowing people to travel at 30,000 kilometers per hour, easily reaching any city on Earth.

Of course, the ability to create tunnels connecting several continents beneath the sea was also due to Luo Feng's authority.

“Earth is completely different,” Luo Feng exclaimed.

“It will be even more different in the future,” Xu Xin said with a smile.

The couple walked along the street, just like any ordinary pair, indistinguishable from others. In fact, even if someone saw Luo Feng, their memories of him would vanish in an instant, making it impossible to remember him.

Luo Feng observed everything carefully. Although he had long ago stationed his Youhai clone on Earth, the Youhai clone merely sat cross-legged in silent meditation within a quiet room deep inside the Luo family ancestral home, only appearing when important situations arose. Aside from the two times Luo Feng personally visited his family, the Youhai clone had taken no other action.

“Xu Xin, I’ve noticed that Planet-level beings are quite common on the streets,” Luo Feng couldn’t help but say. “Have Planet-level beings become so widespread?”

“After more than a hundred thousand years, Earth hasn’t developed to the point where the vast majority are Planet-level,” Xu Xin shook her head. “It’s like this: the secrets of Earth are a top-level secret, though not publicly disclosed. However, the great families of the five major powers—the Virtual Universe Company, Giant Axe Martial Arena, Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, and others—are doing everything they can to get into Earth! You can imagine how hotly Earth’s residency rights are being speculated.”

Luo Feng nodded.

“Previously, Earth’s oceans were for alien immigrants, while the land was for us Earthlings,” Xu Xin explained. “After more than a hundred thousand years of development, Earthlings have long since spread throughout the Ganwu Universe Nation and even other Cosmic Nations, their numbers incredibly vast.”

Luo Feng smiled and nodded, “In the past, Earth’s population couldn’t break through its limits due to land restrictions. Without those restrictions, and with abundant food supplies… it’s only natural for the Earth population to multiply rapidly.”

“Indeed,” Xu Xin said. “That’s precisely it. Earth’s population has grown to an incredibly massive scale. Not to mention others, just my Luo family’s population is astonishingly large.”

Luo Feng nodded. The Luo family’s population had long surpassed that of a star field. One must realize that with unrestricted development, a population increase of a hundred millionfold in five thousand years is normal. After more than a hundred thousand years of development… how exaggerated must the population be? Even with the Luo family’s power, they are now limited by territory, causing many Luo family descendants to disperse to numerous planets and even other Cosmic Nations.

If this is true for the Luo family alone, how much more so for the entire Earth lineage? Even with the aid of the ‘Virtual Universe,’ Earth’s management could not record the identity of every Earthling. After all, in the vast universe, cosmic accidents, being captured and enslaved on mining planets… with such a massive population, the Earth Management Association couldn’t cover all bases.

“With such a large population, identifying Earthlings now relies on two methods,” Xu Xin explained. “First, identity registration! Over 99% are recorded. Second, genetic identification. Our Earth lineage has unique genetic characteristics, significantly different from other human races. On Earth, only Earthlings are permitted to reside in the land areas. Other races, no matter how powerful or wealthy, are forbidden from living there.”

“As time passed… because Earth’s residency rights were so hotly traded,” Xu Xin continued, “some internal residents of Earth, desiring a more luxurious life, sold their residency rights and left for other planets. Perhaps they could become planet lords or something similar. Because residency rights for Earth’s land can only be traded between Earthlings, the price isn’t as exaggerated as what alien immigrants speculate, but it’s still extremely high.”

“Whether they want to become planet lords, live incredibly luxurious lives, or become powerful individuals who purchase vast resources… in short, Earth’s land residency rights are constantly being traded. Some influential and powerful Earth elites continuously enter Earth.”

“Generations change.”

“Those who can enter Earth are all exceptionally outstanding individuals who have made their mark in the universe, either by establishing commercial empires or becoming powerful warriors or Mental-Power Users.”

“Thus,” Xu Xin smiled, “on our Earth, more than half of the elites among our billions of Earth lineage citizens are gathered. So, Planet-level beings are very common on Earth. Even Star-level and Universe-level beings can often be seen, and there are several Undying Gods residing on Earth.”

Luo Feng nodded with a sigh. Undying Gods… Yes, with sufficient cultivation, Earthlings indeed have an extremely high probability of becoming powerful. Currently, there are 11 Undying Gods in the Earth lineage (including Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen), with 5 residing on Earth! There are also many Sector Lords… It is precisely because of Earth’s power that the Universe Masters of humanity’s five major factions value Earth so highly.

“These Earth land residency rights, are they really traded so freely?” Luo Feng asked.

“They can only be traded between Earthlings, and… free trade is the best option,” Xu Xin shook her head. “One wishes to buy, one wishes to sell! How can we stop it? This also continuously elevates the status of Earth, our lineage’s sacred land, as it gathers over half of the Earth lineage’s elites.”

“Any Earthling with high status and strong influence desires their descendants to be powerful. Even if those Earthlings are accustomed to living on other planets, for the sake of their descendants, they will purchase residency rights on Earth and send two or three family members to live here.”

“It can be said that—”

“Earth gathers over 50% of the Earth lineage’s elites, and 99% of the top one million Earth elites have residency rights on Earth.”

Luo Feng nodded. This was good too… The longer time passed, the higher the status of Earth, the sacred land of the Earth lineage, would become. After all, the Earth lineage had only developed for over a hundred thousand years since entering the universe, and their number of powerhouses, commercial influence, and so on were not yet extraordinary. As time passed, the elites would gradually emerge. One must know that, according to the calculations of humanity’s high-level officials, the Earth lineage alone, if allowed to develop, would be comparable to at least one-tenth of the entire human race! How many Undying Gods would that be? How many Universe Knights? Clearly, the potential of the Earth lineage had only just begun to show and had not yet fully erupted. This eruption… required sufficient time.

“The biggest challenge now is that the outstanding descendants of our Earth lineage cannot receive the best cultivation,” Xu Xin said. “According to the data we obtained from alien immigrants, if a wife becomes pregnant and enters Earth within three months of conception, the fetus, developing and growing until birth, will be affected by Earth, leading to changes. They must arrive on Earth within three months of pregnancy; any later, and the effect will be much weaker.”

“Our Earth Management Association manages a large number of young Earthlings, carefully cultivating them and then selecting and further training the elites among them.”

“We have wealth,” Xu Xin continued, “but the resources needed to educate them are vast, such as good teachers and environments suitable for their training. Our Luo family alone cannot do it well enough. What our Luo family does is even inferior to the cultivation system of the Ganwu Universe Nation. This has, to some extent, affected the rise of the Earth lineage.”

Luo Feng nodded, pondering for a moment.

“I will arrange it soon,” Luo Feng said.

Cultivation was crucial. If Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen had not left Earth and ventured into the universe, if Luo Feng had not obtained the treasures of the Yunmo Star Master and the guidance of Babata, they would have undoubtedly sacrificed themselves when encountering the Golden Horned Beast. Their achievements would have been severely limited, with even a low probability of reaching Universe-level.

But once they received cultivation… the three of them shone brightly, and everything changed completely. For the Earth lineage to rise, the cultivation of the new generation was clearly paramount.

“The cultivation mechanisms of other Universe Masters for their families are already very mature. I can simply draw inspiration from them and use my resources to implement it,” Luo Feng secretly nodded. The human race had many places for cultivating individuals, but even Universe Knights were not qualified to arrange for large numbers of members to train. However, Universe Masters could! For example, sending them to the Xueluo World, or other such places… Of course, Luo Feng would need to pay a price for this, but for Luo Feng, it was a piece of cake.

…

After the great migration of alien immigrants away from Earth, Earth began another transformation, utilizing ocean resources and coordinating marine and land areas to perfect the entire Earth’s natural system. The floating cities of the alien immigrants were also modified to be more suitable for Earthlings. These floating cities were typically hundreds or even thousands of stories high. If land residency utilized one or two layers, the alien immigrants’ floating cities effectively utilized vertical space!

Adding the ocean area, which was much larger than the land area. Although each floating city was far apart, the combined floating cities above the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and other great oceans could house hundreds of billions of humans!

“Hundreds of billions can reside here.”

“Then we can massively encourage young Earthling pregnant women to quickly come to Earth, ideally arriving within three months of pregnancy.”

“Earthlings born on Earth… have stronger cultivation potential. Earthlings born on alien planets… have a terrifyingly low probability of becoming powerhouses.”

…

Various plans were quickly formulated and then implemented one by one.

Luo Feng’s first priority upon returning to Earth was to use his power to perfectly promote the development of the Earth lineage! Combining his resources with the resources of the race would allow the Earth lineage to develop even more rapidly. He believed that in the future, it would not be a pipe dream for the Earth lineage to become stronger than even the Yan God Clan.

“I hope the Earth lineage produces some Universe Knights, a large group of Undying Gods, and perhaps even another Universe Master. That would be even better,” Luo Feng silently anticipated.

However, that would require a long time.