15: Chapter 15 Military Merits

Wang Guo raised an eyebrow, looking at him with slight surprise: "Oh? Let's hear your thoughts!"

"A single creature can never cultivate a top-tier race."

Lin Ye's gaze was clear, every word ringing with conviction: "A mature Divine Kingdom must build a complete food chain. If there is only one kind of kindred in the entire land, with no natural enemies, no competition, and no life-or-death crisis, the fierce beasts will become content with the status quo, their bloodlines will stagnate, and they will degenerate into laziness."

"Therefore, I deliberately introduced three types of kindred: the canine type for frontal crushing, the fox type for stealth reconnaissance, and the snake type for sinister assassination. The three are hostile to each other, hunt each other, and keep each other in check. A constant sense of crisis is the best catalyst to force bloodline purification and racial evolution."

"The combination of multiple kindred and natural life-and-death selection is the fastest way to elevate the combat power of the race."

After this straightforward and insightful speech fell, Wang Guo's pupils contracted imperceptibly.

This cultivation theory was knowledge that could only be acquired after entering university, but now it came from the mouth of a young man who had just awakened not long ago.

Wang Hu, standing aside, listened with half-understanding, only feeling that what Lin Ye said was exceptionally impressive.

Lin Ye lowered his eyes, hiding a trace of imperceptible apprehension in his heart, and continued to add: "Moreover, I also need a large amount of materials recently. In just a few days, my Shagu Devouring Hounds will be able to complete their secondary metamorphosis and evolve into Marrow-Eating Demon Hounds."

Mentioning his fierce beasts, his tone grew a bit more serious: "After evolution, the fiendish aura completely permeates the bones and marrow, the canine teeth are hollow like needles, specializing in the bone marrow of demonic beasts and sucking out the pure marrow essence. The body shape is lightweight once again, and the speed surges several times over. The most crucial point is that the Marrow-Eating Demon Hounds have broken through racial restrictions, able to devour the residual energy within all demonic beasts and corpses, feeding it back to themselves and refining their bloodlines."

"By then, my legion will possess true devouring capabilities."

Wang Guo's expression grew increasingly solemn. After two seconds of silence, he bluntly made a request: "I want to take a look at your Divine Kingdom."

Without beating around the bush, his tone was crisp and tough.

The Divine Kingdom was a demigod's greatest privacy, and prying into someone else's Divine Kingdom was a major taboo.

But Wang Guo was truly curious about what kind of trump card this youth, judged by everyone as a ruined god, was hiding.

Lin Ye did not hesitate at all and readily agreed: "Yes."

He knew clearly in his heart that sooner or later he would have to display a part of his strength.

Wang Guo was trustworthy; rather than deliberately hiding it, it was better to let the other party see the bottom line clearly, which could also reduce many obstacles in subsequent actions.

"Follow me."

Wang Guo stood up, said no more, led the two out of the villa, and got into an entirely pitch-black military hover car.

The car rose steadily into the air, avoiding the bustling downtown area, and drove all the way to the hinterland of the military garrison in Cangnan City.

The defense here was heavily guarded, with armed soldiers standing guard layer upon layer. High-tier protective formations enveloped the entire area, and ordinary people did not even have the qualification to approach, but Wang Guo only presented a few credentials and passed through smoothly all the way.

"This is the City Defense Military Observation Building."

Wang Guo led the two into a minimalist off-white building. Both sides of the long corridor were covered with precision instruments, and the cold white lights exuded a metallic chill.

Finally, the three stopped in a sealed observation room.

In the center of the room stood a hemispherical silver-gray precision instrument with intricate patterns on its surface. Spiritual light flowed slowly, and its whole body exuded steady rule fluctuations.

"The Divine Kingdom Concrete Mapping Instrument, this is the exact type your school uses."

Wang Guo briefly introduced: "It's special equipment for the military. It does not invade the core of the Divine Kingdom or touch its origin, but only maps the real-life scenery of the Divine Kingdom over long distances through spiritual links. Used by the government and the military to observe high-risk Divine Kingdoms and investigate otherworldly rifts, its confidentiality level is the highest."

Even nobles found it difficult to touch such an instrument; only high-ranking military officials and active True Gods had the authority to use it.

Lin Ye raised his hand as told, his fingertips pressing against the cold sensing panel, and a trace of weak spiritual power slowly injected into the instrument.

Hum—

A low mechanical hum sounded, and the center of the instrument's hemisphere suddenly projected a three-dimensional holographic light and shadow.

The gloomy and overcast sky, the black-and-red barren land, and the winding, pitch-black fiendish river came into view.

The next second, densely packed fierce beasts covered the entire wasteland.

Black-scaled devouring hounds trampled the black soil, their fangs chilling; grey-haired nether foxes hid in the shadows, their eyes gleaming; crimson magic snakes coiled around the river channels, wrapped in fiendish aura.

At the peak of the Bone Spur Mountain, a five-meter-tall corpse-armor bone hound stood at the summit, the fiendish aura around its body condensing into a substantial domain, and the piercing pressure rushed over through the holographic light and shadow.

The processing plant's machinery roared, spiritual herbs grew all over the ground, the underground fiendish crystals emitted a faint dark light, and the entire wasteland had clear order and an ecological closed-loop, both savage and prosperous.

Inside the observation room, it instantly fell into a dead silence.

Wang Hu widened his eyes, his mouth slightly open, completely stunned, and even his breathing unconsciously slowed down.

Meanwhile, Wang Guo beside him, whose pupils had always been calm and wave-less, suddenly constricted, his iron-willed and resolute facial muscles tightening slightly, and monstrous waves churning in his heart.

He had anticipated that Lin Ye's Divine Kingdom would not be ordinary, but he never expected that this F-minus-grade wasteland, spurned by the world, could actually cultivate such a terrifying fierce beast legion.

Two thousand six hundred fierce beasts! Three tribes keeping each other in check! Self-contained ecological closed-loop! And a B-grade leader who controlled a fiendish aura domain!

Even many newly born Divine Kingdoms with C-grade ratings were far from reaching such a terrifying scale.

"No wonder you dared to mortgage your property."

Wang Guo's Adam's apple rolled, and he whispered softly, his tone full of shock, "No wonder you were certain you wouldn't lose... What kind of wasteland Divine Kingdom is this of yours? It's clearly a purgatory of slaughter."

He had always thought that Lin Ye was just stubborn and obstinate, holding on purely by a burst of hot-blooded passion. Only now did he understand that this son of an old friend had seen through the true meaning of the wasteland that everyone else failed to understand from the very beginning.

The holographic light and shadow slowly dissipated, and the instrument stopped running.

Wang Guo took a deep breath, suppressed the churning shock in his heart, turned to look at the calm-looking youth, his tone incomparably solemn, without the slightest bit of contempt or skepticism left.

"Lin Ye, there is something I haven't told you all along."

"After your parents died in battle, they left behind an exclusive military merit authority."

"The authority is bound to your soul. Except for you, no one in this world can use it."

Wang Guo spoke slowly, every word heavy: "Originally, I planned to wait until you awakened normally and your rating met the standards before telling you about this. But on the day you awakened, it was judged as an F-minus-grade polluted Divine Kingdom, and thinking that it would be difficult for you to improve in this lifetime, I temporarily suppressed the news."

His gaze was firm and his tone serious: "But now, you are qualified to use this military merit."

"Military merits can be exchanged for Faith Points, Faith Liquid, high-tier fierce beast materials, Divine Kingdom expansion resources, and even restricted-level special kindred cards."

"There are all kinds of things you can only imagine, nothing the military doesn't have, and our exchange price is much cheaper than outside!"

"The main evolution materials and Marrow-Eating Demon Hound advancement resources you need can be directly exchanged using your military merits."

Lin Ye's pitch-black eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of ripples stirred in his heart.

Military merits left behind by his parents.

This was a heavyweight trump card he had never known about, yet it had arrived so suddenly.