178: Chapter 178 Support from High-Ranking Lords

Facing the coalition formed by Seventh-order Lords, the threat of these hundreds of Epic Grade defensive buildings was not that great.

As for building more Epic Grade defensive buildings to raise the defense upper limit, the return on doing so was actually very low.

The range of these defensive buildings was at most only tens of kilometers, but their footprint was extremely large. Within a certain range, it was simply impossible to place too many defensive buildings.

Therefore, no matter how many Epic Grade defensive buildings there were in the territory, the buildings that could attack the enemy simultaneously were limited.

Piling up too many defensive buildings had little effect.

However, the resources consumed to activate them were extremely exaggerated.

Rather than this, it was better to invest resources into other aspects.

At the end of the day, the enemies were simply too strong and too numerous. If Lin Xiao were also of the Seventh-order, then the Level 7 Epic Grade defensive buildings' threat would be incomparable.

Lin Xiao shook his head and thought no more about it.

Defense was still indispensable.

Even if the threat wasn't large, it could still play a certain role in blocking the enemy, and that was enough.

It was worth mentioning that the territory size in the territory panel was still 500,000 square kilometers. This wasn't because the territory size had reached the upper limit of a Level 5 territory and could no longer grow.

In fact, as long as Lin Xiao was willing, he could completely make the territory instantly gain hundreds of thousands or even millions of square kilometers more.

The sources of these territories were, firstly, territory fragments, and secondly, the Void Land.

Lin Xiao had killed so many Level 5 Lords and destroyed their territories, so the territory fragments he obtained were naturally not a small number.

As for the Void Land.

In fact, his territory had long been connected to the 16th layer of the Void Land.

Not only was it connected long ago, but Lin Xiao had also already completed the suppression of the 16th layer of the Void Land.

The monster strength of the 16th layer of the Void Land was naturally a level higher than the 15th layer of the Void Land, and the monster quantity in every Void Land exceeded 50 million.

Among them, there were even as many as several million Sixth-order monsters and elite monsters.

As strong as Lin Xiao's territory was, in order to suppress the 16th layer of the Void Land, the fighting was so fierce that the heavens and earth darkened and rivers of blood flowed.

The number of Void Monsters was truly too much, coupled with the fact that their strength was not weak... let alone Level 5 Lords, even if it were Sixth-order Lords, they would be forced into successive retreats and have their territories destroyed in the blink of an eye.

Even Lin Xiao couldn't kill them all in time, and the Void Monsters invaded deep into the territory.

Fortunately, his territory had sufficient depth, so they didn't threaten the central area.

Having finally finished killing the Void Monsters inside, Lin Xiao stopped instead of completely destroying the monster lairs inside along with them, choosing to leave a portion behind.

The reason was also very simple.

He probably really couldn't beat the 17th layer of the Void Land.

It was better to keep the 16th layer of the Void Land and stall the subsequent progress so that he could farm more slaughter points.

This process actually carried no small amount of risk.

Lin Xiao had observed that the endless Void Realm energy from the outside world poured into the four Void Lands every moment, spawning a large number of monster lairs.

It was necessary to constantly maintain the destruction of the monster lairs; otherwise, after some time, the monster lairs inside would reach an astonishing quantity, and the subsequent monster horde that broke out would probably far exceed the 50-million level.

If the territory was invaded during this period and the main army suffered heavy losses, it would be equivalent to entering a countdown to death.

Therefore, few Lords dared to stall progress like this. After all, killing Void Monsters didn't hold much benefit for them.

Lin Xiao was not afraid. His territory hadn't been invaded for a long time, and his main army could also resurrect, so there was no situation of impaired strength.

He dispatched troops in rotations to farm slaughter points every day, racking them up at an astonishing speed.

Of course, the reason Lin Xiao didn't expand his territory was not because he couldn't beat the 17th layer of the Void Land. After all, territory fragments didn't require him to kill any monsters.

The real reason lay in the Arrow of No Distance.

The passive skill Arrow of No Distance allowed Lin Xiao and Guan Ri to ignore distance and launch attacks on any target within the territory at any time, with a range much larger than the Eye of Truth.

But this skill naturally wouldn't be without any range limitations.

It was affected by tier and attributes.

Fifty thousand square kilometers was roughly Lin Xiao's range limit. Guan Ri's upper limit was higher, but relying solely on him alone for this kind of ultra-long-range strike wouldn't work.

Thus, Lin Xiao didn't continue expanding his territory.

...

After reviewing the territory panel, Lin Xiao looked at the conditions for upgrading to a Level 6 territory.

10 billion Source Crystals, 1 billion units of food, 1 billion units of wood, 1 billion units of stone, 100 million units of iron ore...

Territory size: 10,000 square kilometers

Population: 10 million

Heroes: 6

Buildings: 15 Level 5 buildings, 30 total buildings.

Lords Heart: 4

For ordinary Level 5 Lords, such upgrade conditions could be said to be very high, but to Lin Xiao's territory, it was a piece of cake. As long as he was willing, he could upgrade his territory at any time.

"Wait a little longer."

After closing the territory panel, Lin Xiao pondered in his heart whether there was any place he had missed.

"That's right."

"The safety of Mom and Dad over there cannot be taken lightly either."

Lin Xiao's heart tightened. President Gu Yizhou had said that the Four Great Races would try every possible means to lure or force him to upgrade his territory.

Enraging him was actually also a method.

He would not overestimate the lower limit of the Four Great Races. In a racial war, there were no unspoken rules about not involving family members.

Although the Lord Association would definitely strengthen protection, and it wouldn't be easy for the Four Great Races to find information on his family members,

still, one had to guard against it.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao quickly contacted his parents, asking them to send a request for help to him as soon as possible.

Lin Zhenyue and Human Lord were obviously somewhat dazed.

However, they didn't ask much. The two of them were very clear that Lin Xiao's level had long surpassed theirs by countless times.

As the parents of a peerless Prodigy, they just needed to follow their son's arrangements.

After receiving the request for help sent by his parents, Lin Xiao immediately dispatched an army over, stationed permanently in the territories of Lin Zhenyue and Human Lord in the form of reinforcements.

As for the growth issue of this army, it was nothing much.

Three months in the outside world was fifteen months for Lin Xiao's territory.

After such a long time, the growth speed of heroes and Troop Types had already become very slow.

An upper limit naturally did not exist.

But wanting to go a step further required increasingly more time.

Therefore, as long as this dispatched army didn't go away for a year and a half, it wouldn't pull apart much of a gap with the army in Lin Xiao's territory.

Several days later.

Receiving news from Hu Wei, Lin Xiao came to the Lord Association headquarters once again.

This time, Grand President Lu Xiuyuan, the grand president, did not appear. Present was still President Gu Yizhou, the vice president.

Seeing Lin Xiao arrive, President Gu Yizhou's face was full of joy.

"Lin Xiao, it's earth-shattering good news."

"The bigwigs at the very top have already decided to fully support you guys in having a proper fight with the Seventh-order Lords of the Four Great Races."