11: Chapter 11 Placement

The lights in the meditation room were dim.

He sat on the cushion, hands resting on his knees.

Two years.

Two years had passed in both the Cultivation Divine Kingdom and the Land of Gods and Demons. He had not issued many orders.

Spirit Spring, Spirit Field, sword stele, Scripture Pavilion—he placed the buildings, and then the kin grew things from the buildings themselves.

The Water Spirit Root Kin's stone platforms, the Metal Spirit Root Kin's interception training, the Wood Spirit Root Kin's cultivation, the Fire Spirit Root Kin's furnaces, and the Earth Spirit Root Clan's mine maps.

The angels' Morning Light Camp, the succubi's Abyss Web, the co-authored books, the interlaced longswords, the stable Twilight Sword Qi, and the fusion energy stored deep within the heavenly tribulation platform.

He gave them resources. They used the resources to create civilization.

Shen Ye stood up and walked to the window.

Outside the window was the playground of Nanjiang No. 7 High School; moonlight shone on the track, turning it a grayish-white.

A few lights were still on in the distant dormitory building.

He took out the six Excellent-grade blueprints he had received today from his resource bag and spread them out on the windowsill.

Six blueprints: three for buildings, three for wonders.

The blueprints distributed by the school were random; the grade was fixed at Low-tier Excellent, and the type was entirely up to luck.

Shen Ye flipped through them one by one.

The first: Spirit Spring. Low-tier Excellent.

He paused for a moment.

He already had a Spirit Spring—the Low-tier Mortal one that came with the Divine Kingdom.

The effect on the blueprint was much stronger than his current one: 50 drops of spirit liquid daily, 30% increase in spirit energy concentration, and a coverage radius of two hundred kilometers.

The second: Scripture Pavilion. Low-tier Excellent.

Core building of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom, storing cultivation techniques, secret manuals, tactical treatises, and civilization knowledge. It held a thousand volumes and could accommodate one thousand people reading simultaneously.

The third: sword stele. Low-tier Excellent.

Building exclusive to sword cultivators; flying swords nurtured here could receive a sword intent bonus.

The Low-tier Excellent version could nurture ten flying swords simultaneously, increasing attack power by 10%.

The three wonder blueprints were: Spirit Gathering Array Disc, Sword Intent Stone, and Spirit Earth Essence.

All were Low-tier Excellent.

Shen Ye unfolded the Spirit Spring blueprint.

The blueprint turned into points of light, coalescing into a second Spirit Spring on the central plain of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom.

Low-tier Excellent, 50 drops of spirit liquid daily, 200km coverage radius. The moment the Spirit Spring was completed, the surrounding kin all looked up—they sensed a new source of spirit energy.

The Water Spirit Root Kin were the first to move; they picked up crude measuring tools from beside the old Spirit Spring and began planning the route for the new Spirit Spring's irrigation channels.

Gain Without Labor triggered.

Deep within the Land of Gods and Demons, a High-tier Excellent Spirit Spring stood silently.

Daily output of 200 drops of spirit liquid, with a coverage radius of 500 kilometers.

The angels and succubi sensed it simultaneously; they emerged from the Morning Light Camp and the Abyss Web, surrounded the new Spirit Spring, and began to remodel it in their own way.

The Scripture Pavilion blueprint unfolded.

A three-story stone tower rose from the ground on the central plain of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom.

Built of bluestone, with Spirit Gathering patterns carved into every brick.

The tower gate stood open, revealing a spiral staircase inside, with walls embedded with empty bookshelves.

Low-tier Excellent, holding one thousand volumes. With a thought, Shen Ye injected all the knowledge he had acquired since awakening—Divine Kingdom theoretical foundations, Five Elements cultivation technique basics, and introductory Void Race intelligence studies—into it.

Volumes of spirit-energy-condensed books appeared on the empty shelves.

Gain Without Labor triggered.

Deep within the Land of Gods and Demons, a five-story dark gold tower stood silently.

High-tier Excellent, holding five thousand volumes, nearing Low-tier Rare.

The angels and succubi entered the tower and took the knowledge Shen Ye had injected from the shelves.

The angels read on Holy Light application, the succubi read on Abyss manipulation.

After reading, they swapped shelves.

The sword stele blueprint unfolded. On the mountain peak of the Five Elements Array Eye: Metal, a three-meter-tall sword-shaped stone stele rose from the ground.

The stele body was pitch black, with a natural sword mark on its surface.

Low-tier Excellent, nurturing ten flying swords simultaneously, increasing attack power by 10%.

The few among the Metal Spirit Root Kin who had started practicing swordsmanship the earliest inserted their flying swords into the stone grooves.

The moment the flying swords entered the grooves, the sword mark on the surface of the sword stele glowed slightly.

Gain Without Labor triggered.

Deep within the Land of Gods and Demons, a five-meter-tall dark gold sword stele rose from the mist.

High-tier Excellent, nurturing fifty flying swords simultaneously, increasing attack power by 30%.

The stele body had three sword marks, intersecting into an ancient sword pattern.

The angels used Holy Light to condense swords, the succubi used Abyss energy to condense swords, and they inserted them into the stone grooves simultaneously.

Under the coverage of the sword stele's sword intent, twilight patterns simultaneously appeared on the Holy Light swords and the Abyss swords.

Three wonder blueprints.

The Spirit Gathering Array Disc merged into the Spirit Field, and the growth rate of the spirit plants increased once more.

The Sword Intent Stone was embedded into the sword stele, doubling the concentration of sword intent.

The Spirit Earth Essence was sprinkled into the Spirit Field, and the sprouts of the spirit plants grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

By the time everything was finished, it was nearly midnight.

Shen Ye returned from the window to the cushion and sat cross-legged again.

His consciousness sank into the deepest part of the Land of Gods and Demons, the core of the mist that even the angels and succubi had never stepped into.

The stone stele was still there.

Pitch black throughout, carved with patterns of interlaced light and darkness.

"Twilight Shelter, four keys gathered, light and darkness return to origin."

Twelve characters. Shen Ye stared at them for a long time.

Four keys gathered. Four keys.

He hadn't even seen one yet.

But the meaning of this sentence was clear—the Twilight Shelter could not be opened by one person; it required gathering all four keys.

And "light and darkness return to origin"—that was correct.

His two Divine Kingdoms were, in themselves, a coexistence of light and darkness.

The Land of Cultivation was order, it was light.

The Land of Gods and Demons was transformation, it was darkness.

It wasn't a split; it was a coexistence.

What the stone stele had omitted wasn't two talents, but half of him.

Shen Ye opened his eyes.

The call of a night bird came from outside the window.

He lay down, staring at the ceiling of the meditation room.

Two years. From awakening until now, only two days had passed in the outside world, while four years had passed in the Divine Kingdoms—Double Time, plus the full day today, meant the Land of Gods and Demons and the Cultivation Divine Kingdom had been operating synchronously for four years.

In those four years, his kin had grown from one thousand to even more. They had transformed from a vague collective into individuals with names.

They had evolved from tools waiting for instructions into people who built their own stone platforms, cleared their own sword training grounds, cultivated their own Spirit Fields, remodeled their own furnaces, and drew their own mine maps.

Tomorrow was Qin Shu's combat practice class.

The Void Tribe Scout was still waiting for him in the Simulated Rift.

Shen Ye closed his eyes.

In the Divine Kingdom, the newly completed Excellent-grade Spirit Spring gushed out its first stream of spirit liquid under the moonlight.

The Water Spirit Root Kin dug irrigation channels throughout the night.

The angels and succubi surrounded the High-tier Excellent Spirit Spring and began carving stone railings.

Another Twilight Spirit Spring had been added.

Three hundred and sixty-four days until the college entrance examination.