27: Chapter 27 Eternal Divine Realm

The corners of Jin Ruxuan's mouth twitched slightly.

"A hundred or eighty territory expansion cards?"

One had to know that territory expansion cards, as well as the source crystal cards Lin Xiao had used before, were all man-made items and could not be opened from regional treasure chests.

All territory expansion cards were brought in from the Main World; their quantity was limited, and those remaining unused were even scarcer.

"A hundred or eighty territory expansion cards is simply impossible. I don't have a single one on me, but I can ask other lords and try my best to get a few for you."

"The same goes for special buildings."

During the Seven-Day Assessment, these were all extremely rare items; even with Jin Ruxuan backed by the Jinshi Chamber of Commerce, it was very difficult to obtain them.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao didn't mind; he had just mentioned it casually.

With Jin Ruxuan's full support, there was no need to continue collecting protection fees.

No matter how limited the resources were, supplying Lin Xiao alone was more than enough, especially since the Seven-Day Assessment would soon end, and there wasn't much time left.

To some extent, Lin Xiao could now be understood as collecting protection fees, only the target had changed from individual lords to the Jinshi Chamber of Commerce of the First Source Sea.

A moment later, he returned to his territory with a bountiful harvest.

Low-level Spirit Gathering Arrays were set up by Lin Xiao near the Lords Mansion, fifteen in total.

Each Spirit Gathering Array could accommodate ten people.

In this way, everyone in the territory except for the Frost Giants could stay in the Spirit Gathering Arrays at all times; it didn't matter if the Cultivate efficiency was low, every little bit of progress counted.

All kinds of Cultivate resources were provided to them to the maximum.

Even the Frost Giants were not left idle; they could not absorb Spiritual Qi, and the Spirit Gathering Arrays were useless to them, so Lin Xiao brought a large number of magic-side items suitable for them.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao didn't have to pay for it; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to afford this investment.

The only thing that made Lin Xiao feel a bit regretful was that there were no exotic flowers, rare fruits, or Heaven And Earth Treasure that could directly increase attributes, like the blood red fruit.

Such Heaven And Earth Treasure were too rare.

Lin Xiao had opened dozens of treasure chests and only managed to open one blood red fruit, and it was only Rank 1.

Nowadays, the attributes of the heroes and troops in the territory were in the Rank 2 or Rank 3 category; for them to be effective, they would need Rank 2 or Rank 3 exotic flowers, rare fruits, or Heaven And Earth Treasure.

Not to mention their rarity, their prices were also astonishingly high; they couldn't be seen on the trading market at all, and even Jin Ruxuan couldn't get his hands on them.

While everyone else started to Cultivate, Lin Xiao walked around the territory and began to set up defenses.

City walls, arrow towers, blacksmiths, lumber mills...

Regardless of whether they were useful or not, he maxed them all out and upgraded them to Rank 2.

If it weren't for the fact that only the highest Rank of the same type of building mattered and building more was useless, Lin Xiao would definitely have built them all over the territory.

Of course, he certainly wouldn't build only one defensive building.

Lin Xiao didn't think about enclosing the entire territory with city walls.

It was unrealistic and meaningless.

With such a large territory and only over a hundred people, it was impossible to defend it.

Given the current situation of Lin Xiao's territory, most areas had no need for defense.

In Lin Xiao's plan, he would build a total of two city walls.

The innermost city wall enclosed the inner city, which was also the core area of the territory, including the Lords Mansion, tavern, civilian houses, and many other buildings; even the two barracks in the north and south were included inside.

The larger city wall outside enclosed the outer city, including buildings like the lumber mill and quarry.

These two city walls combined only enclosed an area of one square kilometer.

At key positions of the inner and outer cities, Rank 2 arrow towers and artillery towers stood tall, providing comprehensive defense without blind spots, while in the wider area outside, more numerous Rank 0 watchtowers monitored every corner of the territory.

No matter where intruders appeared, their movements would be detected by Lin Xiao at the fastest speed.

Besides this, a large number of traps were also set up outside.

If they wanted to advance quickly, they would inevitably step on traps; if they wanted to clear the traps, their marching speed would be slowed down.

Time passed bit by bit.

Jin Ruxuan contacted Lin Xiao once and traded over three territory expansion cards and two special building blueprints.

Lin Xiao used the three territory expansion cards directly, expanding the territory size to 100 square kilometers.

The two special buildings were the Spirit Rhyme Platform and the Flame Artillery Tower.

Both were rare-grade special buildings.

The Flame Artillery Tower was a magic-side defensive building with long range and great power; one shot had astonishing destructive power.

Unfortunately, it was a magic-side building, and recharging in a Spiritual Qi environment was a big problem; it could only be recharged using expensive magic crystals.

However, Lin Xiao didn't care about this; what he cared about was that this was a rare-grade special building that would definitely increase the overall strength of the territory significantly. As long as it had this effect, it wouldn't be a problem even if it were just set up as a decoration in the territory.

He quickly upgraded the Flame Artillery Tower to Rank 2 and placed it in an important position in the outer city.

The Spirit Rhyme Platform was a building to assist in Cultivate; its effect was completely different from the Spirit Gathering Array. When sitting on the Spirit Rhyme Platform to Cultivate, inspiration would frequently occur, and it had miraculous effects on comprehending Cultivation Technique, mastering skills, and breaking through barriers and Bottleneck in Cultivate.

This building was obviously very important to Lin Xiao's territory.

Blindly Cultivate would only lead to lower and lower efficiency. With this Spirit Rhyme Platform, under the same resource conditions, the growth speed of heroes and troops would be faster.

Without a shred of hesitation, Lin Xiao immediately built the Spirit Rhyme Platform in the inner city and raised its Rank to 2.

The Rank 2 Spirit Rhyme Platform became larger, allowing up to ten people to enter.

Lin Xiao quickly set the usage rules for the Spirit Rhyme Platform: the three heroes had the highest priority, and others would rotate, with military merit taking precedence.

"That's it."

Looking at the gradually taking shape territory, a look of satisfaction appeared on Lin Xiao's face.

He opened the territory panel and saw that the territory name was still "Unnamed," which couldn't help but make him dumbfounded.

After passing the Seven-Day Assessment, he would be a true lord, and it was time to give his territory a resounding name.

"Name it, Eternal Divine Domain."

Lin Xiao said softly.

Ambition flashed in his eyes.

With a starting point that other lords could not imagine, he believed that his future achievements would not be lower than anyone else's.

Eternal Divine Domain represented his ambition and also his expectations for the future.

On the territory panel, the territory name quietly changed, replaced by the four characters "Eternal Divine Domain."

Lin Xiao was certainly not the first to choose such a name.

However, the territory name was only a self-designation; even if it was repeated, it didn't matter. There were plenty of territory names more overbearing and arrogant than Eternal Divine Domain.

[Territory: Eternal Divine Domain]

[Territory Rank: Rank 2]

[Territory Size: 100 square kilometers]

[Population: 10000 / 10000]

[Heroes: 3 / 3]

[Buildings: Lords Mansion (Rank 2), Spirit Rhyme Platform (Rank 2), Flame Artillery Tower (Rank 2), Frost Fortress (Rank 2), Storm Camp (Rank 2), tavern (Rank 2), civilian houses (Rank 2), city walls (Rank 2)...]

Looking at his territory panel, Lin Xiao only wanted to say one thing: "Who else?"

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