171: Chapter 171 Exaggerated Construction Conditions

"Holy shit."

Lin Xiao was stunned. Invading other lords' territories was supposed to be a rule of the System, but he hadn't expected that the chaos mist could actually influence even the rules of the System.

He could only say that it truly lived up to being a mythical-grade special building.

Moreover, this was a deflection, not an interruption, and it would not cause the invasion to fail.

The effect of the chaos mist was to deflect the invader's target, ultimately causing them to invade someone else's territory.

As for whose territory they would be deflected to—whether it was other Human Race lords, lords of the Four Great Races, or lords of other alien races—there was no way of knowing.

This was much more useful than a simple interruption or an invasion failure.

With an interruption or an invasion failure, they could immediately launch the next attack.

But with a wrong invasion, if the opponent still wanted to attack Lin Xiao's territory, they would first have to end this current invasion. If the lord didn't lead the expedition in person, they probably wouldn't even discover that the army they sent out had invaded someone else's territory within a short time...

He had to admit that the ability of the chaos mist was far too important to Lin Xiao.

Others might not know, but Lin Xiao himself was very clear that within a year, he would definitely upgrade to a Level 6 territory.

After all, he could not possibly give up the year-end ranking rewards.

By then, the Seventh-order Lords of the Four Great Races would definitely launch a crazy attack on his territory. Although the Human Race certainly wouldn't sit idly by and would help him hold back most of the Seventh-order Lords,

the threat of a Seventh-order Lord was simply not on the same level as a Sixth-order Lord.

Seventh-order Lords of the caliber of Griffin and Doyle were in abundance.

Lin Xiao had also just Advanced. Even though he no longer had a period of weakness after loading the Hunyuan Saint Body, his strength wouldn't be terribly strong either.

Even if he upgraded with Heaven-Defying hundred-fold attributes, once he reached the sixth Rank, it would drop to 19 times the attributes.

Facing the siege of Seventh-order Lords, it could be said to be incomparably perilous.

Now that he had the chaos mist, the situation would be vastly different.

Although mythic-grade buildings would be subject to a Seal in the Second Source Sea, and Lin Xiao didn't know how large its deflection probability was,

even if it only deflected a small portion of the Seventh-order Lords, it could still significantly reduce his defensive pressure.

If the invasions of the strongest expert of the Bull Demon Race and the strongest expert of the Shadow Race were both deflected away, then his pressure would be even smaller.

"I'm sorry."

"I take back what I said before. Drawing the chaos mist is by no means a terrible draw."

Facing the powerful effect of the chaos mist, Lin Xiao couldn't help but utter the phrase, how wonderful it truly is.

He immediately made up his mind that before upgrading to a Level 6 territory, he must build the chaos mist.

Lin Xiao's lofty ambitions didn't last long. When he clearly saw the construction requirements for the chaos mist, his vision instantly went dark.

It was fine that the quantity of Advanced Materials required was extremely large; the crucial thing was that there were several Materials on it that he hadn't even heard of...

Chaos-type Divine Creature Core.

Source of Mist.

Spacetime Chaotic Sand.

...

The others could be ignored, as there were somewhat replaceable options, but these three core construction Materials were indispensable and could not be replaced.

Lin Xiao shook his head slightly.

As the saying went, the mythical grade exceeded his Rank by far too much.

Relying solely on his own strength was clearly insufficient to build the chaos mist.

"Forget it, I'll ask President Gu about it when the time comes."

Lin Xiao didn't dwell on it too much. He was not alone; standing behind him was a powerful race.

Materials of the caliber of the Chaos-type Divine Creature Core, Source of Mist, and Spacetime Chaotic Sand were indeed difficult for him to obtain, but for the Human Race, that might not necessarily be the case.

"Let's finish clearing out the fifteenth layer of the Void Land first."

Lin Xiao put his attention back onto the great battle before him.

Clearing the fifteenth layer of the Void Land had no twists and turns; the biggest problem was that the combat time was very long.

As nearly one hundred million Void Monsters were reduced to ashes, the Void Lands in all four directions were also thoroughly cleared out by Lin Xiao.

[You have opened a regional treasure chest and obtained the following items: 5.2 billion Source Crystals...]

[You have opened a regional treasure chest and obtained the following items: 5.5 billion Source Crystals...]

...

The luck with the four regional treasure chests this time was quite ordinary, as the highest items opened were only perfect-grade items.

But it wasn't strange either. The highest Rank of the Void Monsters inside was only sixth Rank, so pulling perfect-grade items was considered normal performance.

Lin Xiao wasn't disappointed. His luck with regional treasure chests was quite average; sometimes his luck was pretty good, and sometimes it was very poor. But even when his luck was good, he was still a hundred thousand miles away from those Heaven-Defying favored children of luck.

He had never opened anything too outrageous.

After all, the number of regional treasure chests was still too few, and he didn't harbor too many expectations.

Fortunately, the number of War Chests was sufficient. Although they couldn't yield Epic Grade or higher items, for the Second Source Sea, Epic Grade was already enough.

As for the most important qualities of heroes and Troop Types, Lin Xiao naturally had his own ways of solving them.

As the regional treasure chests were opened, the four pieces of Void Land began to be transformed into new territories.

The gray fog receded like a tidal wave, revealing the land below—forests, rivers, mountain ranges...

On the newly generated territory, there were also a large number of resource points.

This was yet another decent gain.

"330,000 square kilometers of territory have been added."

Opening the territory panel, Lin Xiao saw the change in the territory's size, going from the original 170,000 square kilometers to the current 500,000 square kilometers.

The territory's size instantly surged several times over.

Lin Xiao wore a look of satisfaction. To him, the regional treasure chests were secondary; the greatest gain was the territory transformed after clearing out the Void Land.

330,000 square kilometers of territory—if it were converted into territory fragments and territory expansion cards, just how many would need to be invested to reach such a scale?

Lin Xiao indeed needed an even more vast territory.

This was not only because the size of the territory was one of the evaluation criteria for the year-end ranking settlement, but more importantly, this was strategic depth.

As long as the power of life and death Reincarnation was sufficient, his army could be resurrected infinitely.

Unless there was an insurmountable gap in strength, no one could grind down his resources within his territory.

Griffin, Doyle, and the others were the ones worn to death through attrition.

However, the premise for all this was that Lin Xiao had sufficient strategic depth; otherwise, during the period when his army was resurrecting, the opponent would cross the territory and strike straight to his central region.

"And slaughter points."

The slaughter points given by the fifteenth layer of the Void Land did not disappoint him either.

It gave him a total of 600 billion slaughter points.

Nowadays, the slaughter points in Lin Xiao's hands had long since overflowed. Whether it was heroes, Troop Types, or barracks, upgrading them to legendary grade was a piece of cake.

However, he didn't mind having too many. After all, above the legendary grade, there was still the mythical grade.

After dealing with the Void Monsters, Lin Xiao opened the regional channel and began contacting familiar business lords.

Jin Huan and other business lords quickly gave their replies.

Most of the various Advanced Materials Lin Xiao needed, they could manage to get. For the small portion that the Human Race didn't have, they could also trade with lords of other alien races.

But as for some of the core Materials, they had never even heard of them.

After all, they were merely business lords of the Second Source Sea. Even with major factions backing them, their horizons were still limited.