Death... and me

Kafan snorted. "What about them? I told you, didn't I? We at least had bigger cultivation than the Soul Devils on this side. We finally found a solution to get rid of the Dead Souls before they transformed into Soul Devils, and that's exactly what we did."

"Of course, there were the Soul Devils who were already alive. Nonetheless, the strongest ones by this time were still somewhere around the Void Tempering Realm, with a scant few having reached the Space Bending Realm level."

"Our Universal Transition Organization might not have many Death Spirits, but we definitely have many more at such a level or higher. At the moment, on this side of the Universe, my Universal Transition Organization has four Divinity Realm Death Spirits. Back then, it still had two. What could the Soul Devils of that time do against us? Nothing!"

"If they all gathered together and came to attack us, that would have been even better. With our individual power, we could easily get rid of all of them at once. The problem was truly the size of the Universe and the overall amount of them. With so few members of our race, it was simply impossible to eliminate more Soul Devils than there were born at the same time."

"Our race was to find a method to prevent them from becoming too strong to the point that we couldn't fight them anymore. Fortunately, we succeeded," Kafan explained.

Roan nodded. "So that's how it happened..."

Kafan continued. "Yes. From there on, it was quite simple. We got more Dead Souls that were transformed into Death Energy or new Death Spirit Copies. These Death Spirits went further and further away on this side of the Universe as Death Energy's range increased by the minute."

"That wasn't all. As I told you, there were some Devils that even managed to reach the Space Bending Realm. However, the majority were obviously in lower realms. With our Death Spirit Copies having a power equivalent to Nascent Soul Realm at least, these same Death Spirits Copies were able to deal with many weaker Soul Devils."

"You see, Soul Devils take a long time to organize their crazy minds until they become single consciousness. Usually, that doesn't happen before they are at least in the Elemental Transformation Realm. That means the Soul Devils below this level are just beasts that try to kill anything in their way and absorb more Dead Souls. Simply put, they are much, much weaker than normal experts at the same levels. That made getting rid of such Soul Devils even easier."

"Our Death Spirit Copies continued to multiply, and they killed countless low-level Soul Devils. As for stronger Soul Devils, we had our own Death Spirits to go out hunting them once they were within the Universal Transition Organization's Death Energy Range. After all, if a planet was within this range, the copies would often come by and take away any new Dead Souls. Soul Devils simply had no chance of spawning in such places anymore, so it was worth it getting rid of the strong ones in such places."

"At the same time, we were slowly getting rid of the issue of too many Dead Souls. The Soul Devils at the Transition Realm and above were able to open Spatial Gates, so they noticed our movements and moved further and further away from the center of this side of the Universe. They pretty much hoped that they could increase their strength before we covered everything."

"Well, it wasn't a bad idea. Even though our Death Energy Range was increasing nonstop, we are truly talking about half a Universe here. It was a ridiculously big place to cover with our Death Energy from the Universal Organization. By the time our Death Energy Range covered 50% of this side of the Universe, over fifty thousand years had gone by! The further we needed it to go, the longer it took as the area got bigger."

"To be honest, even our Death Spirits were a little concerned that some Soul Devils might really reach the Divinity Realm level if we took too long to cover the entire Universe with Death Energy."

"Hehe!" Kafan suddenly smiled. "However, the Soul Devils that had gained their consciousness and fled deeper into this side of the Universe quickly found another big problem. Can you imagine what it was?"

Roan pondered a bit. "Could it be you kept sending Death Spirits to hunt them down? That would make things a lot harder for them since they must cultivate fast."

"No," Kafan shook his head. "In the end, only our Real Death Spirits could use Spatial Gates instead of the Death Doors. Our numbers haven't changed much in the past fifty thousand years, so how could we cover such a big place and hunt them all down? Instead, the Soul Devils themselves began to kill each other. Hahaha!"

Roan's eyes lit up. "I see... with all the Soul Devils who could use Spatial Gates fleeing deeper into the Universe, that means the concentration of Soul Devils increased exponentially in such areas. Simply put, there weren't enough Dead Souls for all of them to cultivate anymore."

Kafan nodded with a satisfied expression. "Besides, once a being starts to cultivate, its energy can't be used by others. The good and old problem of energy compatibility. That should be the case for Soul Devils, too, so they couldn't absorb each other. They killed themselves to prevent the other from absorbing the Dead Souls they wanted for cultivation."

"Still, there were too many of them and not enough Dead Souls. In a certain way, the Soul Devils themselves helped us get rid of a lot of Dead Souls while also helping us kill other strong Soul Devils. We simply couldn't ask for anything else. Of course, I'm not an idiot. Do you remember those Space Bending Realm Soul Devils I told you about? They were unstoppable in such places and absolutely didn't attack each other, so they did manage to cultivate further. Too bad that it was still not enough."