109: Chapter 109 Phoenix Devours Lightning and Advances, Humanity Rises by Millions!

Lin Feng issued the command.

Five precious Tier 7 basic cores flew directly out of the system inventory and were all thrown into the Chaos Territory together.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth!

The Five Great Origin Cores suspended in the sky, like five dazzling suns of different colors, frantically releasing unparalleled pure energy.

Soon, the five crystals began to intertwine and merge in mid-air.

The Heaven and Earth rules within the Chaos Plane were drawn in and began to surge violently.

The surrounding space shook violently like ripples on water, and the entire sky looked as if it could shatter at any moment.

However, Lin Feng did not panic at all.

What seemed like heaven and earth collapsing was actually the Five Great Origins exerting their miraculous effects, filling in the missing basic laws within the plane bit by bit.

As expected, once the five cores had completely merged into one, waves of gentle rule power sprinkled down like rain and dew, instantly smoothing out all the violent space cracks.

Lin Feng could clearly feel that the spatial barriers of the Chaos Territory were countless times thicker than before!

The sense of oppression from the rules between heaven and earth also became exceptionally powerful.

To put it simply, the current Chaos world was now infinitely close to the real Main World outside.

The ecosystem was more complete, and the capacity limit for the creatures under his command was completely lifted.

“Ding! Congratulations to the host for officially advancing to a Tier 7 Deity!”

“Ding! The Tier 7 Advancement Gift Pack has been issued, please check it!”

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Listening to the series of electronic sounds, Lin Feng exhaled a long breath comfortably.

He had finally stepped into the Tier 7 threshold!

After the advancement, the gravitational restraint of the real world on him weakened significantly once again.

He clenched his fists, and with a slight exertion of force, his joints cracked.

Now, relying solely on physical strength, throwing a punch with over ten thousand pounds of destructive power would be as easy as child's play.

As for flying through the air, it was as simple as drinking cold water.

He left the gift pack in his inventory for now, as he didn't have time to open it yet.

“System, extract the remaining Tier 7 thunder core,” Lin Feng ordered.

During the previous chaotic battle in the void, he had conveniently snatched a thunder crystal.

The thunder element was a derived attribute and wasn't needed to complete the Heaven and Earth laws, so it could just be used as fodder for the Divine Beasts under him to sprint through levels.

He calculated his lineup.

Currently, among his main forces, only the Phoenix and Xiangliu were still stuck at Tier 6.

Unfortunately, neither of these two ferocious beasts possessed the thunder attribute.

The Phoenix used fire, while Xiangliu used water and earth.

Whomever he fed this thunder stone to, it would at most serve to simply raise their tier, without the triple critical strike bonus from matching attributes.

Who should get it?

Lin Feng's mind raced, and he quickly decided on a candidate.

Give it to the Phoenix!

The Phoenix specialized in large-scale area-of-effect damage and came with an infinite resurrection cheat; it was definitely the core Main Carry for team fights.

In contrast, although Xiangliu's foul water and poisonous blood were incredibly sinister, it had a fatal flaw—its range was too short.

It had to get close to spray its water.

If he encountered high-tier old monsters of Tier 8 or 9 in the future who kited from a distance and threw Forbidden Spells, Xiangliu would likely get beaten before even touching the corner of the enemy's clothes.

Putting the resources where they mattered most, upgrading the Phoenix was definitely the optimal solution.

“Phoenix, receive your reward.”

With his mind made up, Lin Feng manifested a majestic giant face in the sky and dropped the thunder core.

“Thank you, Sovereign, for your generous gift!”

Feeling the summon, the Phoenix soared directly from the Flame Volcano into the clouds, trailing its gorgeous tail feathers as it glided across the sky.

It opened its sharp beak and swallowed the thunder-wrapped crystal in one gulp.

In the next second, the Phoenix's aura became exceptionally violent, rising steadily.

Even its feathers burned with a translucent, ruby-like texture that was extremely dazzling.

“Ding! Phoenix's foundation is full, preparing to sprint to Tier 7! Requires chaos purple qi!”

A scarce resource like purple qi was something Lin Feng used to have to save.

However, after clearing ten waves of the city siege in the big exam a few days ago, he had obtained quite a bit from the system chests.

Combined with the stock he usually accumulated, upgrading Divine Beasts another dozen times would not be a problem.

Lin Feng casually exhaled a thick cloud of purple qi, covering the Phoenix to help cleanse its essence and marrow.

The Phoenix's advancement would take some time.

Lin Feng shifted his attention to the “Civilization” tab on the system panel.

The last time he checked, it was still the backward “Tribal Civilization.”

But now, it had actually automatically jumped to “City-State Civilization (Tier 3)”!

What happened?

Lin Feng spread out his divine sense like a satellite radar, scanning the entire map of over thirty million square kilometers.

This look truly gave him a great surprise.

On the Chaos land, at some unknown point, large-scale cities had actually risen from the ground!

There were giant stone fortresses built by the Dwarves.

There were massive wooden stockades built by Minotaur tribes.

There were even prairie settlements established by Centaur...

Inside these towns, large and small, tall temples and statues were almost always built in the most prominent positions in the city centers.

They were all worshipping the Totem Divine Beasts they were bound to!

Jade carvings of Baize, totem poles of Zhulong, black stone statues of Taotie...

Through these majestic Faith Wonders, the speed at which the Divine Beasts harvested faith was doubling frantically, as if they had a cheat active.

As the Divine Beasts grew stronger, Lin Feng's overall combat power naturally rose along with them.

What Lin Feng found even more incredible was this.

On the far eastern side of the map, a large area of human-established city-states had actually appeared!

That's right, living humans! Their physical traits were no different from the common people of the Main World.

However, these were all unarmed mortals who couldn't awaken a system to open a plane like people in reality.

“System, check the background of these humans,” Lin Feng said with interest.

“Ding! Analysis complete.”

“Humans (Tier 0): Ordinary carbon-based organisms. No special talents. However, they can cultivate by absorbing Heaven and Earth spiritual energy to break through life tiers.”

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Absorbing spiritual energy to cultivate?

Aren't these the Immortality Cultivators from fantasy novels!

Lin Feng laughed in spite of himself.

He hadn't expected an army of Cultivators to evolve on his own territory.

Tier 0 mortals were indeed pitiably weak; any random Tier 1 wolf could eat them like a snack.

But with their extremely high reproduction rate and the wisdom of huddling together for warmth, the humans had managed to take root in this Gu-raising style wilderness and even built several heavily fortified main cities.

“System, how many humans are on my territory in total?”

“Ding! Statistics complete.”

“Current total human population: 16,730,000! Among them, there are 7,300 Tier 1 Cultivators.”

Over sixteen million people!

And over seven thousand had actually reached Tier 1!

Lin Feng shifted his divine sense over for a closer look and found that these Qi Refinement Stage Cultivators had all attained their cultivation by building their cities near a Spirit Stone Vein and soaking in the overflowing spiritual energy every day.

These are a group of super potential stocks!

Humans have extremely high intelligence, so making them wholeheartedly believe in a beast totem is extremely difficult.

But once successfully brainwashed, the purity of faith they provide can definitely leave other demi-humans several streets behind.

Lin Feng decisively mobilized the great power of the Creator to dig up over a dozen high-purity top-grade spirit veins from remote mountains and moved them through space, dropping them neatly around the human main cities.

He hoped this pile of top-tier spirit stones would help these leeks quickly raise their cultivation.

The humans in the city were doing farm work when they suddenly saw over a dozen glowing spirit stone mountains fall from the sky, and they were all scared witless.

Millions of people knelt down in a vast crowd, kowtowing frantically toward the sky, their mouths full of praise for the God's gift.

Having applied the fertilizer to the leeks, Lin Feng stopped interfering.

He would let these humans toss and turn on their own; when they grew fat, he would arrange for the Divine Beasts to harvest their faith.