"Hurricane, this ends here. We won't pursue this further, and you shouldn't secretly do things behind our backs anymore... otherwise, misunderstandings will arise, and similar incidents may happen again."

"We don't want a second war between apostles!"

The Apostle of the Night and the Apostle of the Ocean spoke with extreme seriousness, their meaning clear: they were warning the Apostle of the Hurricane.

Saying such things was almost the same as directly telling the Apostle of the Hurricane: your status compared to ours has changed. From now on, you will lose your sovereignty!

Faced with the pressure from the three apostles, the Apostle of the Hurricane stood blankly in place. After a long while, he laughed maniacally and miserably, looking at the ruins of the volcanic cave, looking at the subordinates who had died in the ruins, and said in a trembling voice:

"Good! Good! I understand! I will do as you say!"

...

On Hurricane Island.

Li Tianran did not know that his act of letting go of the Hurricane's followers had achieved unexpectedly good results, almost completely pushing the Apostle of the Hurricane to the opposite side of the other three apostles.

When he had formulated the plan earlier, he merely felt that the Apostle of the Hurricane's solo attack on Base 550 was somewhat abnormal. In addition, he learned about the formation of the ancient civilization from the Apostle of the Sky's memories, so he made a bold guess about the relationship between the apostles, feeling that they didn't seem to be a monolithic entity.

Thus, the events that followed occurred.

In fact, from the very beginning, the entire plan stemmed from one of Li Tianran's guesses, but now the facts proved that he was right.

As the Apostle of the Hurricane's followers were released, the entire human world became stable again, and the shipping routes at sea were no longer attacked.

Under the special training of the Apostle of the Earth's followers, the combat power of the Pioneers was also increasing day by day. With the blessing of gene potions made from LV5 fruits, everyone's strength had undergone earth-shaking changes.

If it once took seven Pioneers to barely fight to a draw with a follower of an apostle other than the Apostle of the Earth, now it might only take three or four people to achieve the same effect!

Although the Pioneers' strength was increasing day by day, there was still a long way to go before they could truly complete their secondary evolution.

If the process of [evolution] were data-driven, then even the most elite warriors among the Pioneers might only have completed about 20% of their secondary evolution!

It was foreseeable that, based on the current combat power and level of evolution, once the Pioneers completed their secondary evolution, their combat power would be enough to crush the other apostles' followers.

But completing secondary evolution in a short period of time was indeed very difficult.

Gene evolution has nothing to do with special training.

To complete secondary evolution, one can only rely on biotechnology, using drugs for gene modification to slowly release the gene locks.

According to the latest data from Bai Jingyan's laboratory, at least 30,000 LV5 fruits would be needed to allow all members of the Pioneer Legion to complete their secondary evolution.

LV5 fruits are extremely difficult to grow, and their growth cycle is very long. Most importantly, this extremely special material can even shake the upper limit of post-secondary evolution, allowing creatures to enhance themselves without limits, theoretically even allowing creatures to complete tertiary evolution!

Even for the apostles and their followers, LV5 fruits are extremely attractive!

Once discovered by other apostles, they would definitely launch a crazy attack on the plantation. Even if they could not seize it, they would definitely destroy it, so that Li Tianran could not harvest it.

Therefore, under these circumstances, Li Tianran only dared to plant LV5 fruits in the safest core area of Hurricane Island. Due to the limitations of the terrain, it might take 45 days or even longer to collect 30,000 LV5 fruits!

For the current human civilization, every day is a race against time, 45 days... it's really too long!