Chapter 663: Chapter 591: Avatar Number One
Time swiftly passed, like an arrow in flight.
The alien race, since their total attack had failed, broke into smaller groups and scattered across the world to create chaos. It had been over three months now.
Beiting and Ancient Spirit had larger territories with dispersed defensive forces; hence, they were a focal point of the alien raceâs attention for quite a while. However, thanks to the convenience of the Transmission Array, from the moment an alien Transcendent attacked, they could send out a message and, in just a few minutes, Luo Zhe, Kong, or someone else would lead a reinforcement force to the scene.
Both Great Holy Lands inevitably suffered losses, but they were not substantial.
Conversely, not a single alien Transcendent that attacked managed to escape.
One after another, the alien Transcendents who perished in Ancient Spirit and Beiting numbered over a hundred.
However, those few Second Tier Transcendents never made a move themselves, preferring to remotely control the situation using special means. Grey Bladeâs Intelligence Department investigated for a long time but still could not catch any of the alien high command.
Gradually, the alien Transcendents learned their lesson. Sometimes they employed more covert and dispersed suicide squads for their attacks, sending disguised Awakener Tiers of the alien race to strike.
Such tactics also caused considerable trouble.
In addition to Green Shadow, Ancient Spirit, and Beiting, the other six Holy Land forces were prime targets for the alien raceâs attacks.
Places like the North American Hero Club and Frostwinter Castle, which held territories of a similar size, faced particularly severe harassment and attacks from the alien race.
Tang Yu had sent an envoy early on to ask if there was a need to build a Transmission Array, offering similar conditions to those in Ancient Spirit.
To establish an âExtreme Martial Arts Hallâ and a âTrading Houseâ within their domains.
With Ancient Spirit setting the precedent, the other major Holy Land forces were well aware of the immense profit of the Trading House. Their local products simply couldnât compete with those produced by Green Shadow, and the âExtreme Martial Arts Hallâ not only made money from student fees but also helped Green Shadow find and dig out quite a few talents.
The higher-ups at Frostwinter Castle were very clear about the benefits involved and, after some bargaining, accepted the terms. The Transmission Array was built, and Frostwinter Castle received reinforcements from Green Shadow.
The North American Hero Club, borne from the strongest nation before the apocalypse, had many high-ranking officials who were quite resentful of Daxia Countryâs forces setting up in their area. They had once proudly claimed, âEven if all of our people die and our city is reduced to rubble, we will not compromise with the people of Daxia!â
Three days after that statement, the Hero Club hastily sent an envoy, seeking assistance from Green Shadow.
Several of their smaller cities had been destroyed, with heavy casualties sustained. Faced with countless fearless survivors and Awakeners protesting, the leaders of the Hero Club couldnât hold out any longer. It wasnât just a matter of âeating oneâs wordsââthey would do anything, although eating shit⊠well, that might be a different story.
Over these three-plus months,
apart from the Mage Allianceâs small town, all other Holy Land forces had set up Sub-territories and built Transmission Arrays.
It wasnât that the small Mage town wasnât willing, but rather that Tang Yu wasnât interested. The Awakeners in the Mage Alliance were far fewer than those in the Three Great Countries, and the town wasnât open to the public. Mostly, it served as a place for mages to bring back their assistants.
Some mages and Great Mages had their own experimental venues in various locations, and each Alliance branch had its Secret Realm. The Allianceâs main base, the small town itself, might have less than a thousand permanent residents, and every single one was a reclusive mage. Tang Yu had visited once; the whole street was eerily deserted, akin to a ghost town. To establish a Sub-territory in such a place would be a sure loss for him.
Castle, Cultivation Room.
Tang Yu glanced at the Source Crystal and Telekinesis energy balance on the system panel and was overjoyed.
In these three months, he had been creating Sub-territories for income and supporting other forces, generating a hefty profit from the support fees alone. He, the Great Lord Tang, had never been so wealthy.
Unfortunately, while Source Crystals were plentiful, no more Divine Power Talisman Stones had surfaced.
He once sat in the market all day, silently chanting for a refresh, his gaze swiftly scanning each new item that appeared⊠Repeating this countless times, his eyelids began to twitch involuntarily from the strain. He had seen so many pieces of equipment, artifacts, and treasures that he felt nauseous, yet⊠he still couldnât find the item he desired.
Ignoring the wasted large amounts of Source Crystals, his own endurance was almost at its limit; during that period, whatever he saw, his eyes would act like a machine gun, wanting to check if the item had a color, if there was a price tag underneath, if the price was high or not, and whether the currency was Source Crystals or high-purity Source CrystalsâŠ
Phew!
He vigorously shook his head, pushing out the nearly obsessive thoughts from his mind.
Tang Yu stood up, ending his daily cultivation routine.
A map of the territoryâs mountains and rivers materialized in his mind. He casually picked an uninhabited area and with an âInstant Teleportationâ, he appeared in a dense forest hundreds of kilometers away from the Floating Island.
Rustle rustle~
Nearby, the dense shrubbery shook, and a two-meter-tall pangolin burrowed out. Upon seeing Tang Yu, this âbipedal creatureâ, the pangolin shuddered violently, recalling the terror of being dominated by humans. With its chubby paws covering its eyes, as if pretending not to see him, it turned around and swiftly scurried away.
Tang Yu: ââŠâ
He remembered where this was.
The Mutant Beast Protection Zone within the Defense Circle!
All Abyssal Rifts within the Green Shadow Defense Circle were guarded by the army, and Demonized Beasts were rarely seen. The few that were encountered were casually killed by Awakeners, and materials from low-level Demonized Beasts were now unwanted.
Mutant Beasts were different, not as violent as Demonized Beasts, and most importantly, there was a possibility of domesticating them.
Green Shadow had even implemented a âMutant Beast Protectionâ policy within its territory, driving the scattered Mutant Beasts into several areas, which became the âMutant Beast Protection Zonesâ.
Two months ago, he had seen a White Snake on the verge of making an extraordinary breakthrough. He wondered if it had now become the âNumber One Transcendent Mutant Beastâ within the protection zone.
Shaking his head, he dismissed further thoughts.
Tang Yu closed his eyes, inhaled, exhaled, and then opened them.
Buzzââ
The pale golden Kingâs Domain came into view, its invisible waves spreading out, making space seem to twist for an instant before returning to normal.
One kilometer, five kilometers, ten kilometers, twenty kilometersâŠ
His domain power enveloped half of the dense forest. Everything was covered with a layer of faint golden brilliance, as if everything had been placed in a different time and space for a moment.
Within the pale golden radiance, one could also seem to see clusters of flames, flickering uncertainly.
In the forest, numerous Mutant Beasts, including the two-meter pangolin, shivered, stretched their claws forward, and lay prostrate on the ground, as if worshipping.
âForty-nine kilometers now.â
Tang Yu revealed a look of joy.
After his breakthrough to the Second Tier, he had focused on cultivating his domain, progressing from the initial five-kilometer level to the current forty-nine-kilometer level, nearly a tenfold improvement. He was fast catching up with the veteran Domain Level experts!
Day and night, he pondered over the Glazed Flame Law Imprint, which had caused some changes to his Kingâs Domain. Tang Yu had no doubt about the power of those clusters of faint flames.
Performing a demonstration in front of a group of Mutant Beasts felt somewhat unfulfilling for the Lord. He was also not satisfied, and he couldnât simply spread his domain without restraint in Green Shadow Cityâthat would be affecting his own wealth.
With another Instant Teleportation, he appeared inside a cultivation base on the mountain behind.
Looking around, there stood human-shaped puppets, or rather, humanoid automata, crafted from the highest grade materials with lifelike detail.
These humanoid figures varied in height, build, and physique. Some were made of gold and iron and stood three meters tall; some were furnished with different types of Energy-gathering Cannons, with limbs, including their heads and hearts, that could open up; and others looked relatively normal, like one wearing gothic Lolita attireâŠ
Each humanoid possessed strength at the Transcendent level.
Standing before Tang Yu was a humanoid dressed in a black trench coat, looking exactly like himâa Tang Yu Number One.
Ahem, thatâs not right, it should be called Avatar Number One.