177: Chapter 177 The Wandering Planet Project... Bankruptcy!

The second collision occurred the next afternoon.

An 80-square-kilometer landmass drifted over from the void.

Reconnaissance reported that the opponent was a plant-based race, consisting of vine guards and large treants.

The battle took five minutes, resulting in total annihilation.

Ding!

[Territory Contention Victory!]

[Combat Evaluation: Grade A]

Xu Qin opened the loot to look inside.

Vine roots, treant heart crystals, high-quality timber...

"Not bad, another pile of building materials."

After the doubling effect of War Gift, the timber directly broke through 1.5 million.

Ding!

[Current Total Area of Boundless Domain: 781.6 square kilometers.]

"Good grief, it's already at eight hundred?"

Xu Qin stroked his chin and looked toward the edge of Boundless Domain.

"We still have to keep digging; we can't stop."

...

On the third night, the third collision struck.

This time's opponent was a Zerg Star Lord with a land area of 95 square kilometers.

After reading the reconnaissance report, Xu Qin handed everything over to Tian Ming, then rolled over and went back to sleep.

Six minutes later.

Ding!

[Territory Contention Victory!]

[Combat Evaluation: Grade A]

["Undead Immortality" triggered! Resurrection successful: 18,924 units.]

Ding!

[Current Total Area of Boundless Domain: 876.6 square kilometers.]

Yawning, Xu Qin browsed the loot data on the panel.

870,000 Zerg shell armor fragments.

460,000 acid sacs.

23 Zerg lord skeletons.

"..."

Xu Qin closed the panel, closed his eyes, and continued sleeping.

...

In the following days, Boundless Domain once again became quiet and peaceful.

For four consecutive days,

no continents approached at all.

Anyway, having nothing better to do, Xu Qin simply poured all his energy into the construction of the tunnels.

There was no help for it; the landmass was constantly expanding, so the tunnels had to be updated accordingly.

On the other side, Tian Ming led a group of heroes to continue farming Mineral Vein Guardian in the standard underground pits,

operating the automated assembly line religiously every day.

However, Xu Qin could clearly feel that the efficiency of the assembly line was declining.

He opened the talent panel.

[War Gift: Level 22]

[Upgrade Progress: 99.4%]

"The experience from Mineral Vein Guardian can no longer be farmed effectively."

Four days ago, the progress had already reached 99%,

and by now, it had only increased by 0.4%.

"Sigh~"

Xu Qin rubbed his temples.

At the current speed, wanting to reach Level 23 would require farming for another two to three days.

Moreover, it looked like this efficiency was already approaching its limit.

"Doesn't matter; no matter how small a mosquito's leg is, it's still meat. Let's just treat it as farming soul energy."

Sitting on the bone throne, he listlessly browsed the resource panel.

[soul energy: 10,420,000]

[source crystal essence: 186,000]

[eternal source crystal: 520,000]

All three basic resources were overflowing.

"The Ore Spirit is 14,000 short of reaching 200,000."

Xu Qin checked the combat logs,

"Based on Tian Ming's production speed over there, it should be about ready in two days."

He closed the panel and stretched lazily.

"So bored."

The fifth day.

Ding!

[Talent "War Gift" level increased! 22 → 23!]

[Current Loot Multiplier: 24!]

"Finally!"

Looking at the prompt message, Xu Qin nodded in satisfaction.

Although it was only a difference of one fold,

when applied to massive basic drops, the gap was still huge.

He opened the treasury interface and looked at the source crystal essence inventory.

[source crystal essence: 201,400]

Very good, another 200,000 saved up.

It could be used to strengthen new troops.

Looking at this number, Xu Qin couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Back when we first discovered this thing in the underground mineral veins, even a single piece felt precious."

"Now, 200,000 are piled up in the warehouse, but I'm worried about how to use them all up."

He shook his head.

However, having said that,

the experience gains from Mineral Vein Guardian had indeed reached their limit.

Tian Ming had farmed over 300 matches in a row over there, yet the talent upgrade progress didn't even reach 1%.

Xu Qin ignored it, opened the command panel, and clicked on the Lords Hall section.

Ding!

[Current Level of Lords Hall: Level 11]

[Requirements for upgrading to Level 12:]

[Timber × 500,000 (Can be replaced with special timber)]

[Stone × 500,000 (Can be replaced with...)]

[Fine Iron Ore × 200,000]

[soul energy × 5,000,000]

[Upgrade Time: 480 hours (20 days)]

Looking at the exaggerated material requirements, Xu Qin raised an eyebrow and immediately clicked [Upgrade].

Then he opened the soul energy infusion function.

[soul energy Infusion · Acceleration]

[Currently Available to Invest: 90% of remaining upgrade time = 432 hours]

[Required soul energy: 4,320,000]

[Confirm].

After the infusion was complete, Xu Qin opened the Star Lord Channel.

The Star Lord Channel was desolate, with fewer than ten online Star Lords.

Xu Qin typed directly.

Xu Qin · Level 1 Star Lord: Seeking advice from seniors.

Solma · Level 2 Star Lord: Yo, a new guy is here again? If you have anything you want to ask, just say it directly. No need to be so polite.

Xu Qin · Level 1 Star Lord: Um... can the continental drift direction be controlled?

Valke · Level 3 Star Lord: No.

Gerwin · Level 2 Star Lord: No.

Solma · Level 2 Star Lord: What do you think? If the direction could be controlled, high-level Star Lords would have long since actively crashed over and swallowed all of us.

Valke · Level 3 Star Lord: Exactly because the drift direction is completely random do small Star Lords have a way to survive.

Valke · Level 3 Star Lord: Everyone undergoes passive collisions; no one can find anyone else.

Xu Qin · Level 1 Star Lord: What about direction anchors? Didn't they say before that they can fine-tune the trajectory?

Valke · Level 3 Star Lord: That thing is used to avoid void storms; it's a completely different matter from controlling direction.

Solma · Level 2 Star Lord: What do you want to do? Take the initiative to attack?

Xu Qin · Level 1 Star Lord: How would I dare? I was just asking casually.

Solma · Level 2 Star Lord: Don't even think about it. Here, the only strategy is to wait. Wait for collisions, wait for opportunities.

Gerwin · Level 2 Star Lord: If you live long enough, you might think you have enough development time and fight every day, but if your troop reinforcement and endurance can't keep up, it's still a dead end.

Xu Qin · Level 1 Star Lord: Makes sense! Many thanks for the clarification.

Xu Qin closed the channel and fell into deep thought.

He couldn't take the initiative to attack.

He could only passively wait for collisions.

This meant he couldn't drive a Floating City everywhere looking for people to fight like he did in the lower-tier planes.

"Sigh~ Floating City..."

Xu Qin shook his head irritably.

To be honest,

what he initially thought of

was waiting until the Energy Zone rose to a high enough level

to use the thrust of the Floating City to push the entire continent.

But looking at it now...

this idea was somewhat whimsical.

Because the continent was also continuously growing larger.

Every time a new continent was swallowed,

the mass increased by billions or even tens of billions of tons.

The speed at which the continent expanded far exceeded the speed at which the Floating City upgraded.

"Sigh~"

Xu Qin shook his head once more.

"My Wandering Planet Project... has gone bankrupt!"

He lay back down on the bone throne.

It didn't matter.

Anyway, his core advantage was mass troop production, drowning the opponent with an endless sea of skeletons.

Therefore, as long as there were enough troops,

no matter who crashed over, the result would be the same.