25: Chapter 25 Dramatic Changes in the Divine Kingdom

When Wang Pingan's consciousness descended upon the firmament of the Divine Kingdom, the entire continent quieted down.

Within the small town, Wang Mu and Wang Shan were the first to detect the aura of the Divine Lord, and the two immediately led the crowd to kneel in worship.

"Greetings, Divine Lord!"

The voices of tens of thousands of citizens simultaneously resounded from the three residential areas, the spiritual fields, the martial arenas, and the foot of the mountain, overriding the sound of the wind.

Wang Pingan stood above the firmament, his gaze sweeping across this continent of the Divine Kingdom that had already been crowded to its absolute limit.

Houses were squeezed against houses, spiritual fields clung to roads, and the tents outside the military camp lined up almost to the edge of the continent.

On the Northern Plains, the one thousand Heavy Immortal-Martial Legion were still parked outside the martial arts training ground; their formations could not be stretched out, and their battle arrays could not be fully set up.

Wang Shan looked up at the firmament, his face still carrying the stifled frustration afterência the failure of the thousand-person sword formation drill.

Wang Mu stood by his side, his expression also very heavy. The dilemma of the spiritual fields and the military camp competing for land pressed down on him so hard that he could hardly breathe.

Wang Pingan did not speak any superfluous nonsense; three Grade B cards slowly emerged above the palm of his hand.

The silver-white medium spatial expansion card, the cyan-white spiritual mist source card, and the blood-red blood-jade ley line card.

As soon as the three cards appeared, the rules of the Divine Kingdom were stirred, and the void mist at the edge of the entire continent began to churn.

Wang Mu felt the Spiritual Qi riot, a shocked expression appearing on his face, but he quickly suppressed the shock in his heart.

The qi and blood within Wang Shan's body were drawn by the blood-jade ley line card, and the heavy sword in his hand emitted a slight vibration.

All the citizens raised their heads to look at the sky, their eyes filled with tension and fanaticism.

They did not know what the Divine Lord was going to do, but they could sense that this blessing would definitely change the entire Divine Kingdom.

Wang Pingan raised his hand, and the silver-white card flew up into the firmament first.

"Today, this deity shall open up new territories."

The divine decree fell, and the silver-white spatial expansion card shattered on the spot.

Boom!

The spatial Law transformed into a golden storm, sweeping in all directions from the center of the firmament.

The storm swept across the small town, swept past the spiritual fields, swept past the Mysterious Blood Pool, and also swept past the void barrier at the edge of the continent.

The entire land of the Divine Kingdom began to vibrate violently.

It was not an ordinary earthquake, but rather the Foundation of the Divine Kingdom being forcefully pushed, with the originally fixed boundaries being forced open inch by inch.

The void mist at the outermost layer of the continent was held against by the golden storm, rapidly retreating backwards.

The edge of the void emitted a heavy roar, and countless silver-white light patterns cracked open along the originally blurred boundary.

Wang Shan stood up abruptly, his eyes turning red, staring closely at the northern end.

That should have been the end of the continent, and any further out would be the void mist where the citizens could not set foot.

But at this moment, the void mist was retreating.

One zhang, ten zhang, a hundred zhang.

The earth extended outward from the old boundary, and dark brown soil surged out from the void.

The new land continuously unfolded, first plains, then hills, and then low mountain ranges rose abruptly from the ground.

Streak by streak of ley line patterns lit up beneath the newborn land, firmly connecting the old continent and the new continent together.

The Northern Military Camp, which originally clung to the edge of the continent, instantly became an inland area.

Outside the crowded martial arts training ground, a large expanse of flat land unfolded into the distance, almost endless to the eye.

The one thousand Heavy Immortal-Martial Legion stood in place, completely dumbfounded.

The place that had just been so blocked that one could not take a step now featured a vast plain sufficient for ten thousand people to form an array.

Wang Shan's chest heaved violently, and he could not suppress the wild joy on his face.

"The Divine Lord has expanded the territory!"

With his roar, all the legion citizens on the Northern Plains knelt down.

"Long live the Divine Lord!"

The cheers spread, and the three residential areas also boiled over.

Women and children, the elderly, teenagers, Cultivation Citizens, and Martial Dao Citizens all rushed to the open space to kneel and worship the firmament.

But the dramatic changes in the Divine Kingdom were not yet over.

Wang Pingan raised his hand, and the cyan-white spiritual mist source card shattered.

The card transformed into a cyan-white stream of light, plunging deep into the newborn eastern plains.

The ground split open accordingly, and dozens of spiritual mist springs gushed out from underground.

The springs did not spew clear water, but instead gushed out dense spiritual mist.

The spiritual mist spread along the ground, rapidly covering the new eastern land, and then flowed with the wind into the old cultivation area.

At the foot of the mountain of the Small Spirit Vein, Wang Mu clearly felt that the surrounding Spiritual Qi had risen once again.

The Purple Cloud peach trees that had been compressed together due to insufficient land immediately stretched out their branches and leaves.

The rice leaves in the spiritual fields rustled, and the growth that had been slowed down by the competition for Spiritual Qi became vigorous once again.

Wang Mu knelt down abruptly, his voice slightly trembling.

"The Divine Lord's bountiful gift—the cultivation area is saved!"

The Cultivation Citizens followed suit and knelt in worship. Many people immediately circulated the Green Wood Breathing Technique on the spot, causing the Spiritual Qi within their bodies to uncontrollably accelerate its flow.

The cyan-white spiritual mist continued to spread, and before long, it formed an area suitable for opening up spiritual fields on the newborn land.

Wang Pingan did not pause; the third blood-red card flew out from his palm.

The blood-jade ley line card shattered in the firmament, transforming into a heavy blood-red light that plunged into the new northwestern land.

Rumble!

After the blood-jade ley line entered the ground, the entire new soil in the northwest direction lit up with red light.

A blood-colored ley line buried underground slowly took shape, and the dense power of qi and blood spread outward along the ground patterns.

Over at the Mysterious Blood Pool, an immediate response was triggered; the pool water surged, and red mist rose, even thicker and heavier than before.

At the edge of the Red Blood Ginseng Field, the ginseng seedlings swayed in unison, their leaves once again dyed with a deep red luster.

Wang Shan took just one breath of the blood qi, and the qi and blood of the fifth layer of Body Forging within his body began to surge.

He grasped his heavy sword and laughed out loud.

"With this blood-jade ley line, the Shield Armor Battalion can train until their hands go soft!"

The Martial Dao Citizens also cheered.

They knew all too well what the supply of qi and blood meant.

With blood qi, one could undergo Body Tempering.

With Body Tempering resources, one could wear armor, charge, hold shields, and engage in close combat for long periods.

After the ground of the new northwestern land gradually stabilized, an expansive red-soil plain took shape.

That place was far from the residential area and closely bordered the Mysterious Blood Pool, making it just right for building a martial dao training ground.

At the same time, tremendous changes also took place at the southern edge of the continent.

After the newborn land continuously extended outward, the southern terrain sagged.

The underground water veins were drawn by the spatial expansion, and patches of clear water gushed out from underground.

The water currents converged into a lake and continued to spread toward the lower depressions, finally forming a blue-black body of water at the edge of the continent.

That body of water could not yet be considered a true ocean, but it already had the sound of tides lapping against the shore.

The embryonic form of a miniature ocean had appeared.

A large number of ordinary citizens looked at the southern body of water with faces full of shock.

To them, in the past, the Divine Kingdom only had mountains, fields, forests, and ponds; it had never possessed such an expansive water surface.

Children stood behind the adults, timidly looking at the churning waves in the distance.

An elderly man knelt on the ground, his forehead pressed against the mud, his voice choked with emotion.

"The Divine Lord has changed heaven and earth, and the Divine Kingdom has come alive again!"

This sentence ignited the emotions of countless citizens.

The tribe, which had originally been uneasy due to the crowded land, now saw with their own eyes the Divine Lord wave his hand to carve out a new world.

Whatever competition for land, whatever congestion, whatever inability of the legions to fully display their prowess—all of it was shattered in one fell swoop by the Divine Lord.

What they saw was not cards, nor source power points, but the supreme might of the Divine Lord.

"Long live the Divine Lord!"

"Long live the Divine Lord!"

"Long live the Divine Lord!"

The cheers rose higher and higher, spreading from the small town to the Northern Plains, and from the foot of the Spiritual Vein mountain to the southern coast.

Wang Pingan stood atop the firmament with a calm expression, letting out a sigh of relief in his heart.

Nearly seventy million source power points had not been spent in vain.

The area of the Divine Kingdom directly skyrocketed from one hundred square kilometers to two hundred and fifty square kilometers.

The terrain of the newborn region was not chaotic; there were plains, hills, mountains, and water bodies, and the ley lines were stable.

More importantly, the spiritual mist source and the blood-jade ley line made up for the risk of energy being diluted.

Wang Pingan pulled up the Divine Kingdom panel.

[Divine Kingdom Area: 250 square kilometers.]

[Spatial Bottleneck: Broken.]

[Population Limit: 30,000.]

[Current Population: 9,687.]

[Ecological Cycle Rank: Upgraded.]

[Embryonic Form of Miniature Ocean: Born.]

[Spiritual Qi Output: Increased.]

[Qi and Blood Output: Increased.]

[Legion Drill Space: Sufficient.]

[Residential Area Expansion Pressure: Decreased.]

Wang Pingan looked at these prompts, a look of satisfaction appearing in his eyes.

The population limit unlocking to 30,000 meant that the Divine Kingdom could continue to reproduce and expand.

The upgrading of the ecological cycle Rank meant that this Divine Kingdom was no longer just a miniature landmass, but was beginning to possess a more complete natural cycle.

Although the miniature ocean was still small, it could regulate the climate, provide aquatic products, and undertake more complex ecological layouts in the future.

Most crucially, the legion drill space changed from a high-pressure state to being sufficient.

The new northern plain could completely be planned into a ten-thousand-person-level martial arts drill area.

The northwestern red-soil plain could be converted into a Martial Dao area.

The eastern spiritual mist plain could open up new spiritual fields and breathing grounds.

The southern coast could accommodate some new residential settlements, alleviating the density of the small town.

Wang Pingan raised his hand and issued a divine decree.

"Wang Mu, Wang Shan."

The two immediately knelt prostrate.

"Your subordinate is here!"

"Your subordinate is here!"

Wang Pingan looked down at the earth, his tone calm.

"The new eastern land belongs to the cultivation area; open up spiritual fields, build breathing grounds, and relocate the crowded residences."

"Obey the divine decree of the Divine Lord!"

Wang Mu's voice trembled, unable to suppress his joy.

"The new northwestern land belongs to the Martial Dao area, rebuild the martial arts drill ground on the periphery of the Mysterious Blood Pool, and change the Northern Plains into the legion's grand camp."

"Wang Shan receives the order!"

Wang Shan heavily kowtowed, his forehead hitting the ground, and the stifled frustration that had been pent up in his chest for several years was swept away completely.

Wang Pingan continued to speak: "Designate the southern body of water as the coastal area, select citizens to explore it, and do not venture deep into it rashly."

Among the ordinary citizens, someone immediately responded to receive the order.

After the divine decree fell, the entire Divine Kingdom began to move.

Wang Mu led the Cultivation Citizens to rush to the eastern spiritual mist plain, beginning to delineate spiritual fields, medicine fields, breathing grounds, and new living quarters.

Wang Shan led the legion citizens to charge toward the new northern plain, practically running to measure the scope of the martial arts training ground.

Ordinary citizens packed up their tools, preparing to relocate their residential areas, and many young people's faces were full of smiles.

The land issue that had previously caused them to argue until their faces were red vanished like smoke in thin air at this moment.

The place was simply too large.

So large that for a moment they actually didn't know where to develop first.

Wang Pingan did not continue to intervene.

He watched the citizens running around on the new land, watched the legions being able to spread out their formations, and watched the spiritual mist and blood qi flowing once again.

This was the process of converting resources into combat power.

Pouring money in was only the beginning.

What truly satisfied him was that the Divine Kingdom had re-entered high-speed operation.

After Wang Shan led the one thousand Heavy Immortal-Martial Legion to rush to the Northern Plains, they immediately began to reform their array on the spot.

This time, there were no warehouses blocking the way, no residences to detour around, and no ditches of the Red Blood Ginseng Field tripping up their steps.

The Shield Armor Battalion spread out, the Sword Qi Battalion followed up, and the reserve battalion stayed in the rear.

Wang Shan raised his heavy sword, his voice resounding across the plain.

"Army-Breaking Sword Formation, rise!"

One thousand citizens stepped simultaneously, their qi and blood and Spiritual Qi connecting smoothly.

The sharpness of the sword formation lit up from the front of the army array, horizontally suppressing a hundred zhang of the plain.

Wang Shan's eye sockets grew hot, but he did not stop commanding.

"Again!"

Wang Mu stood on the eastern spiritual mist plain, looking at the large expanse of breathing grounds that had just been demarcated, and tightly gripped the longsword in his hand.

He knew that the Cultivation Citizens also had a place to truly showcase their skills.

Above the firmament, Wang Pingan watched all this, and the panel popped up with prompts once more.

[Divine Kingdom Cohesion: Increased.]

[Citizens' Sense of Belonging: Increased.]

[Divine Lord's Prestige: Greatly Increased.]

Wang Pingan glanced at it without any surprise.

The citizens were naturally loyal, but loyalty also had strengths and weaknesses.

When they saw with their own eyes the Divine Lord carve out heaven and earth for them, that kind of fanaticism and cohesion would be pushed to an even higher level.

The entire Divine Kingdom was still roaring, and the expanded ley lines were still self-stabilizing.

The golden spatial storm gradually dissipated, and the new boundaries slowly took shape in the distant void.

Wang Pingan looked down at the new Divine Kingdom of two hundred and fifty square kilometers and confirmed one thing.

The first major hurdle of the troop-spawning build had been crossed over.