He gave on trying to steal the world, but he did take one last look at the world after he left and said to himself, "I can’t do anything about it for now. But that may not be the case if I advance to rank 9. If I advance to rank 9, then we can have another round."
After promising himself to revisit this problem when he is strong enough to try and recruit the golden chains to capture worlds for him, he stopped looking at the small world. His attention went back to his Cave Heaven while his body continued the trip into the Blessed Heaven World.
There was always a lot of work to do in the Cave Heaven at any given time. But there is a lot of work to do now because of the fact that he recently assimilated two worlds.
Not only has his Cave Heaven increased in size, but the population of living things in his Cave Heaven has also increased. This has made the workload for weather control and creature management more than double in size.
The heart of the world in his Cave Heaven is always busy because of this. The only saving grace was that there was infinite energy, so it could do whatever it wanted as long as it didn’t need to spend some of its lifespan.
But the will of the world still needed to absorb the information of all of these creatures from their previous world, sort out these records, and use them to distribute the creatures throughout the world. Then it had to make changes to the weather schedule and ecological balance.
Loki helped the heart of the world do some things, like converting new environmental objects into elemental creatures. He also picked a few promising creatures to give the potential to cultivate.
While he was doing this, he took a look at Hammock’s budding army. When he saw that everything was going well, he used the Power Identification Ability to check the improvement to his power.
Because the world was small, the increase in the size of his Cave Heaven was only 9 million square kilometers. So his Cave Heaven increased in size from 106 million square kilometers to 115 million square kilometers.
He also took note that his law fragments had increased from 448,620 units to 512,256 law fragments. So the small world had provided a modest increase of 63,636 units of law fragments.
The other benefit was the increase in the population of living things in his world. The total number of mammalian creatures and other large reptiles and birds has reached 250 million. This represents a large amount of wealth to him.
All of the living things in his world represent a battery of lifespans that he can absorb in times of need. For now, they are batteries because he doesn’t need them yet. When he does need them, they will become snacks or food.
Since most of them aren’t as big and advanced as humans or can cultivate, he won’t be able to get a lot of lifespan from each one of them. But even if he can only get an average of one month of lifespan from them, it will still amount to a vast amount of lifespan.
One month of lifespan from 250 million individuals will reach a total of 20,833,333.3 years worth of lifespan for the taking. With this much lifespan on the line, it has become a must for him to create a good living environment for them to ensure that they don’t die.
But preserving the lives of these 250 million creatures is only the minimum goal for him. He also doesn’t want them to thrive and reproduce without stress.
He wants their population size to explode, so he has been going through the effort necessary to make his Cave Heaven a welcoming place for them to live in. This is all so that the amount of lifespan he can gain from them when they turn into food is higher than 20.8 million years.
When he thought of this, he clicked his tongue and thought to himself, saying, ’Even if their average remains the same, as long as I can double their population, I will directly double the amount of lifespan I will gain from them. But if I can increase their average, the amount of total lifespan will explode."
The task of increasing the size of the population of the creatures is somewhat easy. He already has the infinite energy, so all that he needs to increase their population is time.
But the matter of increasing the average lifespan that can be gained from each of them is a more difficult matter. This is a matter that can only be improved by helping the creatures cultivate. So this task will cost a lot of lifespan to initiate en masse.
The amount of lifespan that he needed to help 100 million creatures cultivate was already exorbitant at an average of 1 month for each creature. Now that the total population size of large creatures has reached 250 million creatures, the cost of helping all of them cultivate has only become more unbelievable.
Right now, at the very least, he would need to invest the same amount of lifespan that he stands to gain from them into helping them start cultivating. So he will need to spend 20.8 million years of his lifespan on that project.
The returns for the investment are guaranteed, and even getting up to 100% on the investment is highly possible, while some special creatures can provide up to 500% on the investment. But it is still too much lifespan to spend.
He can decide to solve this problem at all costs by eating every world and every living being that he encounters from today onward. But he is not going to do that because it would be prioritizing the prosperity of his farm over the increase in his strength.