157: Chapter 157 Lin Feng personally took action and swallowed an eighth-tier territory in one gulp!

The underground secret chamber of the Holy Radiance Empire.

Holding the heaven-bestowed Divine Pill in both hands, the Human Emperor swallowed it without a moment's hesitation.

The majestic medicinal power instantly surged like a bursting dam, madly washing through his entire body's Meridians.

"Ding! The Human Race has broken through the shackles of life, requiring chaos purple qi as a guide!"

The System's electronic voice sounded right on cue.

Understanding immediately, Lin Feng pulled a wisp of pure chaos purple qi directly from his backpack and flicked it across the space into the Human Emperor's forehead.

Receiving the purple qi infusion, the Human Race monarch's aura rose rapidly, breaking straight through the dead end of the Undergoing Tribulation stage and soaring toward the higher-dimensional Earth Immortal Realm.

Barring any accidents, the Chaos Territory was about to give birth to its very first Tier 7 Human Race powerhouse.

This could also be considered a real combat test.

If high-tier Humans could truly provide massive amounts of faith essence, Lin Feng would definitely cultivate the Human Race as his core totem believers in the future.

Breaking through Realms took an extremely long time for the Human Race.

Taking advantage of the Human Emperor's seclusion, Lin Feng pulled out all several thousand element crystals from his System backpack.

Most of this loot consisted of mid-tier items of Tiers 6 and 7, interspersed with a few rare Tier 8 Divine Stones.

Lin Feng planned to integrate all of these crystals into the Chaos Plane to solidify the foundation of the world's Laws.

The more complete the Laws of the exclusive territory, the more indestructible the spatial barriers would be, and the higher the physical limit it could bear.

When that time came, his Creator's Physical Body would be able to stay in the territory for longer periods, rather than cracking the space at every turn.

Thousands of element cores floated in the sky like a sky full of stars, radiating suffocatingly violent energy outward.

Lin Feng mobilized his Dominator power, acting like a ruthless furnace to forcibly refine these crystals.

Crack!

The crystals shattered in unison, and tens of thousands of primordial Laws broke out of their shells, turning into a world-destroying storm of rules that swept across the entire continent.

If left unchecked, this out-of-control power could tear the entire Chaos Plane into countless pieces of scrap in just a single second.

Of course, everything was under Lin Feng's precise control.

The violent elemental torrent was forcibly smoothed and suppressed by Divine Power, turning into soft threads of rules that silently wove into the underlying architecture of the Chaos Territory.

Completing this delicate operation required burning through his Divine Power savings like crazy.

However,

Lin Feng, who had just made thirty trillion for free, was filthy rich and didn't lack money at all.

He just needed to throw money at it!

...

This grand dimension-raising project lasted for over ten days (God Domain time).

Only when the last wisp of Law was completely integrated deep into the earth did Lin Feng withdraw his Divine Power with satisfaction.

At this very moment,

the spatial strength of the Chaos Territory was more than dozens of times stronger than before!

Now, Lin Feng had absolute confidence that descending with his true body and staying for several days and nights would pose no pressure at all.

If he could elevate the territory to the height of a Tier 9 Main World in the future, the stability of this world would be simply unimaginable.

Glancing at the secret chamber of the Holy Radiance Empire, the Human Emperor was still in deep secluded cultivation.

The Human Race's Breakthrough of Bottlenecks was even slower than that of Divine Beasts; there was no rushing it.

Lin Feng simply cut off the neural connection and withdrew his consciousness back to the real world.

Sitting on the sofa in his villa,

Lin Feng casually opened his optical computer inbox.

It was completely empty, without a single unread email.

This felt rather bizarre. Normally, Elder Long would message him every few days to check in, yet over the past two days, there had been an unprecedented silence.

Could something have gone wrong at the front lines?

At this thought, Lin Feng's figure flashed. Activating the Space Laws, he teleported directly outside the military-political headquarters in the Imperial Capital.

Pushing open the doors of the headquarters, he walked straight into Elder Long's private office area.

Elder Long was leaning back in his wide leather chair, resting with his eyes closed.

Judging by this meditative state, the old man's spiritual Origin was probably in his exclusive plane handling urgent official business.

Seeing this, Lin Feng did not disturb him, casually pulling up a chair to sit and wait quietly.

After waiting for about an hour,

Elder Long exhaled a long breath of turbid air and suddenly opened his eyes.

"Lin Feng, you're here. Do you have business with me?"

Actually, Elder Long had sensed the kid's presence as soon as Lin Feng walked through the door. He had just been busy arguing with someone and didn't have the time to pay attention.

"Principal, I need a few large resource points to mine some element cores."

Lin Feng got straight to the point without beating around the bush.

Now, everything was ready except for the final fire-attribute Origin crystal. Once he had that, he could smoothly step into the supreme Realm of a Tier 9 deity.

But this final puzzle piece was exactly what was missing, completely stalling his progress.

Therefore, Lin Feng could only turn his attention back to the Super Ruins.

"Resource points?"

Elder Long frowned slightly and shook his head with a bitter smile. "You've come at just the right time. For the past hour, I've been arguing with that old hag Amaterasu of the Red Sun Empire over the mining areas."

Arguing with the enemy Empire's empress?

Lin Feng was taken aback. Wasn't it clearly written in black and white in the previous armistice treaty that the enemy forces had to return all the occupied mining areas?

What, did they plan to play rogue right to their faces?

Lin Feng remained silent, waiting for Elder Long to continue.

"The three major mining areas that were previously stolen from our Great Xia have indeed been honestly returned by them."

"But... the three enemy mining areas you captured single-handedly a few days ago, those bastards are playing dumb and refusing to hand them over no matter what!"

Elder Long explained helplessly.

So that was it.

The Red Sun Empire had indeed fulfilled part of the treaty, returning Great Xia's former territories.

However, the three new territories that Lin Feng had conquered were forcibly withheld by the enemy.

Over the past few days, the high-level officials of the two Empires had been arguing madly over the ownership of these three prime territories.

This was also why Elder Long had delayed messaging Lin Feng.

"Those untrustworthy bastards..."

A cold light flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

Had he known this, he should have added a clause in black and white when signing the agreement: "All currently occupied areas shall belong to Great Xia."

Unfortunately, hindsight was 20/20, and it was too late now.

The White Eagle Federation and the Mad Bear Empire had just witnessed Lin Feng's abnormal combat power, so they were currently playing deaf and dumb, remaining neutral and completely unwilling to get involved in this war of words.

"How does the Principal plan to handle this?" Lin Feng asked in a deep voice.

"How else can we handle it?" Elder Long snorted coldly, slapping the table heavily. "These resource points originally belonged to Great Xia's territory hundreds of years ago! The Red Sun Empire occupied them illegally, and now they have the nerve to claim they are their inherent territory? Utterly shameless!"

...

From the looks of it, the Red Sun Empire was determined to play the deadbeat.

Although Elder Long was angry, there was nothing he could do.

They were just shamelessly refusing to give them up. You couldn't really launch a full-scale national war just for a few pieces of land, could you?

Moreover, for friction of this level, Elder Long really couldn't bring himself to trouble Lin Feng to resolve it.

This kid had already contributed more than enough to Great Xia.

"Resource points, is it..."

Lin Feng tapped his fingers gently on the table, falling into deep thought.

He happened to urgently need a few Tier 9 fire-attribute crystals.

"Principal, leave this to me. I'll personally go and take the territories back."

Lin Feng raised his head, his tone flat. "However, once they are back, I want the mining rights."

Since they were comrades on the same front line, there was no need to hide anything; speaking frankly was the most practical approach.

"You're going to get them yourself?!"

Elder Long's spirits were instantly lifted.

"As long as you can get them back, I will make the call to allocate the mining rights of two of those areas entirely to your name! We'll just keep one for the military's backup!"

Elder Long made the decision on the spot, decisively giving the split ratio.

This wasn't because Lin Feng was insatiably greedy.

The Materials required to promote to a Tier 9 deity were simply too difficult to find.

Searching just one ruin might not guarantee finding the fire-attribute crystal he desperately needed.

Directly seizing two mining areas and taking a two-pronged approach was the safest strategy.

If he weren't afraid of Elder Long jumping in anger and cursing, Lin Feng would have even wanted to keep all three mining areas for himself...

"I have the coordinates of these outposts recorded. There's no time to lose, I'll head out now."

Having received the highest authorization, Lin Feng stood up and prepared to act.

"Go all out! With the treaty in hand, as long as you don't actively slaughter their cities, the Red Sun Empire will have to swallow their pride and absolutely won't dare to start a war."

Elder Long gave him plenty of reassurance.

Ever since Empress Amaterasu was forced by Lin Feng to pay protection money last time, the enemy nation's attitude had softened significantly.

...

Returning to the villa,

Lin Feng raised his wrist and quickly entered the target coordinates.

The locator engine started, pulling the Chaos Territory to transform into an interstellar warship and advance at full speed through the Void Realm.

In just over an hour, the territory arrived smoothly at its destination.

"Ding! Radar warning: A Tier 7 exclusive plane has been detected directly ahead!"

"Ding! Radar warning: A Tier 8 exclusive plane has been detected directly ahead!"

...

As soon as he drew near,

a large crowd of Red Sun Empire officers was gathered at the entrance of the mining area, waiting in full battle array.

These people had obviously also received strict orders from their superiors to defend the territory to the death.

"The Star Domain ahead is the sacred and inviolable territory of the Red Sun Empire! People of Great Xia, get lost immediately!"

"Take another half-step forward and you will be executed without mercy!"

...

An extremely arrogant torrent of curses came from the enemy's communication channel.

These defending generals had absolutely no idea of the newcomer's true identity.

In their eyes, what was displayed on the radar was merely an ordinary Tier 8 territory.

A mere Tier 8 Great Xia officer daring to single-handedly challenge a full defensive battalion? He must have lost his mind.

Facing the enemy's barking,

Lin Feng sighed helplessly.

"A dog can't stop eating feces, they just never learn their lesson."

With that, Lin Feng didn't bother wasting any more words. He directly controlled the Chaos Territory to forcibly crash into one of the Tier 8 enemy positions.

"Baka! You actually dare to actively provoke us! You're looking for death!"

The rammed Tier 8 officer cursed angrily, and the Yamata no Orochi within his territory instantly broke through the waves of the toxic sea, preparing to tear the invader to shreds.

However,

ten-odd minutes later,

accompanied by a terrifying explosion that shattered the starry river,

this seemingly indestructible Tier 8 territory was directly... swallowed in one gulp by an ancient giant beast as massive as a mountain!

The entire Void Realm instantly fell into dead silence!

The cursing in the enemy's channel stopped abruptly.