322: Hongmeng Dao Stele

"Infinite Enhancement... Slaughter Supremacy..." Even with Lin Yuan's composure, a massive wave of shock surged in his heart! These two skills were simply divine tools for developing his Divine Domain, custom-made for him by the Heavenly Dao!

Infinite Enhancement gave him the ultimate ability to directly "pay to win" and become stronger using a massive amount of merit points! Combined with the despair-inducing 12 billion merit points in his hands, he could instantly push his newborn territory to an unimaginable height!

Slaughter Supremacy, on the other hand, perfectly matched the path he was destined to take—conquering all directions. Slaughter was growth; it was construction! This would allow his territory to expand at a speed far beyond common logic amidst the blood and fire of the future!

"Good! With these two divine skills, why worry that the Divine Domain won't flourish or that the great cause won't be achieved!" A light of unprecedented intensity erupted in Lin Yuan's eyes. Although the century-long deadline was tight, he already saw the hope of forging a supreme divine realm in blood and fire!

Without hesitation, his gaze first locked onto the core of the territory—the recently established grandmist dao foundation that was emitting a faint divine light.

"Infinite Enhancement, Target: grandmist dao foundation! Consume merit points—3 billion!"

Boom—!!!

As Lin Yuan's thoughts triggered the skill, the golden light of merit points, as vast as the sea, poured in like the Heavenly River flowing backward, madly surging into the base made of Chaos Divine Crystals! The entire Chaos Star Core shook violently because of it!

The grandmist dao foundation erupted with a divine light a hundred times stronger than when it was first established! The base grew taller and expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye! The Divine Runes engraved upon it became more complex and profound, as if they contained the ultimate principles of the Universe!

At the core of the base, a jade stele—crystal clear throughout, with Chaos Airflow swirling around it and nebulae appearing to live and die within—slowly took shape: the [grandmist dao stele]!

[grandmist dao foundation enhancement successful! Territory Rank increased!]

[grandmist dao foundation → grandmist dao stele (Super-God Grade Core Building)]

[Rank: Level 1 Village-Grade Core (0/100) → Level 8 Star City-Grade Core (0/100,000,000)!]

[Territory Rank synchronized increase: Level 1 Village → Level 8 Star City (0/100,000,000)!]

[Territory Trait Enhancement: Great Dao Affinity increased to 2000%; Source of Dao Veins effect increased to: Energy Recovery Speed 1500%, Territory Efficiency increased by 800%!]

[New Territory Trait: Stele Suppressing the World (Within the territory's range, all hostile units are suppressed by the Great Dao, weakening their strength by 20%; units belonging to the territory receive a blessing from the stele, increasing all attributes by 50%)!]

[Unlocked Core Building Subsidiary Functions: Hongmeng Dao Soldier Camp (Can recruit/train special unit 'Hongmeng Dao Soldier'), myriad dao enlightenment platform (Greatly increases enlightenment efficiency within the territory), Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation (Extremely gathers the power of the nine Chaos Dao Veins)! (Requires resource investment for construction)]

With 3 billion merit points poured in, the effect was immediate! The newborn village core reached the heavens in a single step, skipping all intermediate levels such as village, town, city, and Star Fortress, leaping directly to a Level 8 Star City core—the grandmist dao stele!

The territory range expanded instantly, encompassing the entire Chaos Star Core and the surrounding millions of miles of the Void Realm! The vast Chaos energy was drawn by the dao stele, forming a visible Energy Tide that nourished this newborn divine domain.

The aura of the Stele Suppressing the World trait instantly covered the entire territory, making this area Lin Yuan's absolute home field!

A Star City! And a Level 8 Star City at that! This meant that Lin Yuan's territory, in terms of its hardware core, already stood at the very peak of the trillions of territories in the 903 Divine Domain!

It was only two levels away from the highest, Level 10 Star City (star city lord)! And only ten thousand Level 10 Star Cities could form the foundation of a Star Continent!

This earth-shaking change once again triggered a heavenly dao announcement!

[heavenly dao announcement: Lord Lin Yuan (Territory: Unnamed) has jumped his territory Rank to Level 8 Star City within 15 days of the start of the New Era! Creating a feat of the era!]

[Awarded merit points: 500 million!]

[Current merit points: 9.52 billion!]

[Merit Rankings real-time update: Lin Yuan (merit points: 9.52 billion)]

As soon as the announcement came out, the entire 903 Divine Domain once again fell into a deathly silence of shock!

In a certain place, the lord Azure Heaven Emperor, who was commanding his army to clear out a nest of exotic beasts, had just spent a huge price to upgrade his territory to a Level 3 city.

Azure Heaven Emperor was looking at the "Energy Gathering Tower" of his city core taking shape with great satisfaction. Suddenly, two consecutive heavenly dao announcements exploded in his mind like thunderclaps!

"12 billion merit points? Clearing out Saint-Grade exotic beasts?!"

"Level... Level 8 Star City?! This is impossible!"

A precious Star Core he was playing with in his hand was crushed to pieces with a "crack," and his handsome face was filled with distorted horror and unwillingness.

He had spent a massive amount of resources prepared for him by the Imperial Dynasty, plus the acceleration of his own SSS-grade Lord Talent "Star Dominator," and had fought desperately just to upgrade his territory to a Level 3 city, thinking it would be enough to look down on everyone.

But Lin Yuan... that monster! He actually had a Level 8 Star City directly?! The gap between them was like a heavenly chasm!

Inside the Life Sanctuary, Su Yao, who had just used her "Natural Resonance" talent to grow an emerald forest, felt the reverence and trembling transmitted by the ancient tree of life beneath her feet toward that powerful aura rising into the sky in the distance. Her beautiful face lost all color.

"Level 8 Star City... Lin Yuan... what on earth are you..." she murmured to herself, the shock in her heart beyond words.

The Withering and Flourishing Saint stood on a bizarre territory intertwined with withered bones and newborn vines. Looking at the glaring name on the Merit Rankings and the despair-inducing number behind it, his eyes were so gloomy they could drip water. "Lin Yuan? Damn it!"

Mr. Yuan Mie Xu stood atop a massive palace emitting Imperial Dao Dragon Qi, gazing toward the Chaos Star Core. Even from hundreds of millions of miles away, the aura emitted by that Super-God Grade dao stele still made his heart skip a beat.

He clenched his fists, and the Nine-Dragon Patterns on his Black Imperial Robes seemed to let out an unwilling low groan. "Level 8 Star City... Lin Yuan, your starting point is too high!"

Lin Yuan ignored the massive waves outside. He stood beneath the towering grandmist dao stele that emitted tens of thousands of rays of divine light, feeling the surging Chaos energy within the entire Star City-grade territory and the vast pressure of the dao stele.

9.52 billion merit points was still an unimaginably large sum. But he did not continue to blindly strengthen the dao stele.

From Level 8 to Level 10, the required merit points would be astronomical. Moreover, if the core building level was too high, but the subsidiary buildings, defenses, resources, and troops couldn't keep up, it would instead become a burden.

His gaze swept across the three unlocked core subsidiary building options: Hongmeng Dao Soldier Camp, myriad dao enlightenment platform, and Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation.

"The priority now is to establish a defense system and quickly form combat power." Lin Yuan's mind raced.

"Infinite Enhancement! Target: Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation Construction Blueprint! Consume merit points—1 billion!"

He wanted to directly strengthen this core Formation that drew upon the nine Chaos Dao Veins to the limit that the current territory could withstand!

At the same time, he looked at the brand-new [slaughter value] entry on his personal panel that had been activated with the establishment of the territory.

[slaughter value: 0 / ∞ (Infinite)]

"The century-long race begins from this Chaos Star Core! Slaughter is construction!" A cold light flickered in Lin Yuan's eyes. The devouring power triggered by the primal dao bone accelerated its circulation once again. He turned his gaze toward the vast and cruel New Divine Domain outside the Star City, which was still filled with exotic beasts and the unknown.