131: Chapter 131 The Law Hidden in the Broken Blade, A Generous Spending of 25,000

After the seclusion chamber was sealed, Wang Pingan sat cross-legged in the center of the Gathering Spirit Formation, his Divine Thought passing through the divine core and sinking into the newly expanded Divine Kingdom.

An 180,000-square-kilometer territory spread out beneath his Divine Thought. The old lands were densely packed with cities, while on the newly annexed 100,000-square-kilometer territory, mountains, river valleys, and plains crisscrossed.

Three high-grade Spiritual Veins converged at the center of the new territory, and Spiritual Qi diffused along the river channels, nourishing the land on both banks as patches of Spiritual Plants broke through the soil to grow.

The Northern Nether Earth and the southern spiritual fields maintained a rotation. During the day, Spiritual Qi surged, and after nightfall, Soul Power flowed along the ley lines, supporting the operation of the Soul-Nurturing Platform and the Shura Field.

The blood essence mineral veins brought back by the Xiuluo Fragment sank into the western mountains. Camps had already been built around the mineral veins, and tens of thousands of subjects were laying roads and excavating mine tunnels.

Only the outer walls of the twelve school cities were completed, and large areas inside remained empty plots. Convoys transporting timber and Formation materials traveled back and forth day and night without stopping.

Wang Pingan did not rush to activate the time authority. The 180,000-square-kilometer land had just finished stitching together; any deviation in any ley line would slow down the development for the next hundred years.

On the high platform of the Ancestral Court, Wang Mu had been waiting for a long time. In front of him were placed seven volumes of general loot ledgers, each recording the quantity and destination of the corresponding supplies.

Wang Pingan's will descended, and a phantom of the Divine Lord condensed above the high platform. The officials responsible for checking the accounts all stopped their work.

Wang Mu held up the general ledgers with both hands: "Reporting to the Divine Lord, the first round of inventory for the Xiuluo Fragment loot has been completed. Please review it, Divine Lord."

The seven volumes of ledgers unfolded sequentially, and dense texts and patterns rose into the air, itemizing the remains, mineral materials, weapons, medicine fields, and forging Legacy one by one.

Tens of thousands of Xiuluo remains were delivered separately to the Alchemy Pavilion and the Casting Workshop. The blood essence was used to study the medicinal properties of the alien race's blood and Qi, while the bones and fascia were disassembled and preserved. The unusable parts were purified and uniformly sealed for disposal.

The mineral materials left behind by the ten Xiuluo cities filled thirty new warehouses. Blood essence ores, red copper, black rock iron, and soul bones were classified and stacked, enough for the Hundred Arts Hall to consume for decades.

There were over 200,000 captured Xiuluo weapons, most of which were already damaged. After the Casting Workshop melted them down, they could obtain a batch of high-grade forging materials with stable quality.

The mother plants in the thousands-of-li medicine fields had been moved into the new plains. The Alchemy Pavilion dispatched 3,000 pharmacists to tend to them, and the first batch of seeds also completed regional cultivation.

Wang Mu turned to the last page of the general ledger. The altar fragments, Formation bone pillars, incomplete forging jade plates, and the relics of the Shura Grand Commander were listed separately in the highest-authority area.

"Ordinary resources have already been arranged with destinations. As for the incomplete blood blade left behind by the Grand Commander, the Hundred Arts Hall still dares not dismantle it to this day."

Wang Mu opened a sealed Formation box. The blood blade, broken into two sections, suspended in the center of the Formation patterns, and the blood patterns on the blade body were still swallowing the surrounding Spiritual Qi.

This blood blade had once borrowed the White Bone Altar to mobilize the Origin of the fragment, tearing open the military Formation's defense with a single strike. In that battle, without the backing of the entire army's hundred-year Foundation, the Immortal Martial Legion would have inevitably paid a heavy price.

Wang Pingan probed his Divine Thought into the broken blade, and the outer layer Restriction activated accordingly. The Law patterns inside the blood blade were revealed one by one in his consciousness.

Deep inside the broken blade was sealed a section of broken chains, every node carrying killing intent, surrounded by the blood and Qi imprints left behind by the Shura Grand Commander.

After losing their master, these imprints were still impacting external Divine Thoughts. If the Casting Workshop rashly ignited the furnace, the killing intent would invade the furnace fire and contaminate the entire smelter.

Wang Pingan mobilized the Origin of the Divine Kingdom, suppressing the residual Qi and blood back into the blade body, completely exposing the Law Foundation hidden deep within.

That was an incomplete Third-Order Law of Slaughter; most of its nodes were already broken, but the remaining power still far exceeded the level that a First-Order Deity's Divine Kingdom could naturally nurture.

The Law of Slaughter could enhance weapons' armor-piercing capabilities and also allow armor to counter-shock the enemy when bearing attacks. If it could be integrated into legion equipment, its value would far surpass repairing a single broken blade.

Fixing the blood blade could only serve one commander. Dismantling the Law into mass-producible Formation patterns would allow 20,000 Immortal Martial soldiers to benefit together.

"Dismantle the broken blade, no need to repair it."

The divine oracle fell, and guiding Formation patterns lit up in the direction of the Hundred Arts Hall, locking the broken blade and the Xiuluo forging Legacy together.

"Order the Casting Workshop to take the incomplete Law of Slaughter as the core, merge it with the Xiuluo blood refining method, and re-deduce the nether bone mysterious armor."

"The new armor must be suitable for military Formations and capable of stable mass production. If only a few pieces can be made, continue to dismantle the Law and modify the Formation patterns."

Wang Mu recorded the divine oracle and calculated slightly: "The Third-Order Law exceeds the Casting Workshop's current capabilities. Are they permitted to invoke the Ancestral Court's Origin to assist in the deduction?"

"Granted. All departments of the Hundred Arts Hall will participate together, the Formation Hall will be responsible for Law translation, and the Alchemy Pavilion will be responsible for resolving the blood refining backlash."

Wang Pingan did not set a deadline. A Third-Order Law could not be dismantled relying on orders alone; if the correct direction could not be found, it would be difficult to achieve results even after spending a hundred years.

After arranging the loot, Wang Pingan's consciousness withdrew from the Divine Kingdom. The divine core in the seclusion chamber continued to operate, gradually incorporating the feedback generated by the new territory into his body.

His wristwatch had already received a notification from the Xinghe University master brain, and the golden mission mark stayed in the center of the screen, waiting for him to confirm the settlement.

[The Xiuluo Race Third-Order Divine Kingdom Fragment mission is complete, personal contribution is one hundred percent, battlefield Origin devouring ratio is one hundred percent.]

[Comprehensive evaluation: S+. Additional reward of 30,000 points of Divine Power, granting a 30% discount purchasing privilege for the Class-A exclusive mall once.]

Wang Pingan completed identity verification, and the 30,000 points of Divine Power were transferred into his personal account. The balance, which had been close to empty, became fully replenished again.

This reward alone was enough for an ordinary First-Order Deity to manage a Divine Kingdom for many years. If all of it were taken to purchase armaments, an elite legion could also be pulled together in the short term.

Wang Pingan was not affected by the numbers in his account. The Immortal Martial Legion was already capable of crossing Ranks to slay Golden Core Peak beings; continuing to procure weapons of the same Rank would bring limited improvements.

With an 180,000-square-kilometer territory placed before him, a population of 8 million could not fill the twelve school cities, nor could it support the continued expansion of the Hundred Arts system.

The Casting Workshop, Alchemy Pavilion, Formation Hall, and Academy were all competing for talent, and many critical positions were still held concurrently by the older generation, limiting the speed of development.

Another shortcoming came from high-grade deductions. The gap between the Third-Order Law, Xiuluo forging Legacy, and the Immortal Martial system was too large; relying solely on accumulating time could not guarantee a successful deduction.

Wang Pingan opened the Class-A exclusive mall, filtering out all armaments, Formation diagrams, and Spiritual Veins, retaining only two types of resources: population reproduction and Comprehension Ability enhancement.

The mall page refreshed, and hundreds of resources were arranged according to Rank. Among them, the marked prices of two B-Grade strategic resources were far higher than the rest of the items.

The first resource was named Life Creation Pool, capable of connecting to the Divine Kingdom's ley lines, improving the subjects' Physique, and increasing birth rates and the Cultivate Aptitude of newborns.

This item did not require repeated replenishment of Origin power. As long as the Divine Kingdom's ley lines were still operating, the pool water would integrate into the heaven and earth cycle, nourishing generation after generation of subjects over the long term.

The second resource was named Dao-Enlightenment Bodhi Tree. Cultivators beneath the tree could more easily sort out Legacies, deduce Spells, and crack Formation patterns, making it suitable for use by the Hundred Arts system.

Wang Pingan possessed A-Grade Comprehension talent, and his Divine Kingdom subjects naturally came with a twenty percent success rate bonus for deductions. Coupled with the Dao-Enlightenment Bodhi Tree, the Hundred Arts Hall's efficiency in deducing high-grade Legacies could be further enhanced.

The original price of the two permanent-type resources totaled over 35,000 points of Divine Power. After using the 30% discount privilege, the settlement price dropped to 25,000 points.

Wang Pingan did not buy them in batches, nor did he reserve a large amount of Divine Power for emergencies. He directly confirmed the settlement, pouring most of the newly acquired rewards into the Divine Kingdom.

[Life Creation Pool purchased successfully, deducting 13,000 points of Divine Power.]

[Dao-Enlightenment Bodhi Tree purchased successfully, deducting 12,000 points of Divine Power.]

[Class-A exclusive mall 30% discount privilege has been used; the two resources will be sent into the Divine Kingdom after confirming the deployment coordinates.]

Only slightly over 5,000 points remained in the account balance. Wang Pingan closed the mall interface with a calm expression. Resources left in the account were merely a string of numbers; only by pouring them into the Divine Kingdom could they be converted into true national strength.

Ordinary First-Order Deities were rarely willing to bear this investment. The two B-Grade resources would take decades to exert full returns and could not enhance front-line combat strength in the short term.

Wang Pingan had enough time. Ten days in the outside world allowed a civilization evolution lasting up to a hundred years to be completed within the Divine Kingdom.

His Divine Thought sank back into the Divine Kingdom, marking the deployment coordinates separately at the Ancestral Court ley line and the core of the Hundred Arts Hall. Two spatial passages opened in the firmament.

The first pillar of light fell deep into the Ancestral Court, and the strata shook accordingly. A hundred-zhang spiritual pool pushed aside the rock layers, and clear pool water flowed in all directions along the ley lines.

Natural Formation patterns grew on the pool walls; without the subjects' control, it could extract Spiritual Qi, convert it into the power of creation, and then send this power into the rivers and land.

The second pillar of light fell on the central plaza of the Hundred Arts Hall. A chi-tall sapling rooted itself into the soil, its root system piercing through the Formation base to connect with the three underground Spiritual Veins.

The mall's deployment Law began to take effect. The sapling swallowed Spiritual Qi, its branches grew upward, and its canopy propped open the Formation light curtain above the Hundred Arts Hall, covering the plaza and the surrounding twelve Legacy buildings.

Leaves collided, and crisp sounds spread into each workshop. The blacksmiths studying the broken blade stopped their arguments, and the deduction train of thought that had entangled their brains for days gradually straightened out.

Wang Mu rushed to the Hundred Arts Hall, looked up to check the state of the Bodhi Tree, and summoned guards to seal off the plaza, demarcating quotas for enlightenment beneath the tree according to the tasks and merits of each department.

On the other side of the Ancestral Court, the Life Creation Pool had already completed its connection with the main ley line. Pool water flowed underground, water wells in various cities of the Divine Kingdom gushed with Spiritual Qi, and the power of creation began to enter the heaven and earth cycle.

Wang Pingan confirmed that the two resources had landed stably, mobilized the Law of Time deep within the divine core, and completely covered the 180,000-square-kilometer territory.

The sun and moon in the firmament accelerated their operation, river waters surged, crops headed, and city bells rang out one after another amidst the passage of years.

One day outside, ten years in the Divine Kingdom.

A new round of evolution thus began.