74: Chapter 74: The Provincial Capital's Young Master's Heartbreak? Stunned by the Platinum Army

Tianhai Province capital, the Xiao Family's underground training room.

Xiao Ting sat on the sofa, staring at the holographic light screen in front of him.

Playing on the screen was a high-risk target battle recording captured by the starry sky war chess backend.

He dragged the progress bar to the final match.

In one frame, the Dark Gold Poisonous Miasma Insect Race, covering the entire horizon, charged through a barrage of firepower.

In another frame, thousands of Calamity Fire Spirit took to the sky, burning the opponent's mental-type defensive arrays to ashes.

Xiao Ting's face was so dark it looked like it could drip water.

"These insects... actually have such ridiculous resistance and coordination?" He grit his teeth, his fingers digging into the sofa cushion.

On the eve of the Streaming Exam, temporarily breeding cannon fodder to scout the way was the norm.

But this kind of insect sea, numbering in the hundreds of thousands at every turn and possessing extremely high combat intelligence, was definitely not ordinary cannon fodder.

What made his pupils dilate even more in shock were those Calamity Fire Spirit floating in the air.

"Elemental lifeforms!" Xiao Ting's voice cracked.

These things were an absolute rarity among deities.

Ordinary deities couldn't even buy a few pure elemental creatures even if they went bankrupt.

Lin Yuan's universally acknowledged F-Rank Wasteland Divine Domain had an extremely harsh environment; how on earth could he raise structured units of elemental lifeforms?

The recording continued to play.

At the very center of the screen.

Space distorted, and a gravity field descended. Over a thousand Tyrant Demons, covered in dark gold liquid, stepped onto the battlefield.

Xiao Ting's breathing stopped.

"They are all Platinum-Rank..."

The Tyrant Demons he had seen before either leaned toward heavy armor defense or shadow stealth.

They had singular abilities, with obvious strengths and weaknesses.

But now, the monsters on the screen had not only all Advanced to Platinum-Rank.

The dark gold liquid on their bodies perfectly fused the Titan's absolute defense with the Shadow Lurker's phase-shifting.

With a single punch, gravity collapsed.

With a flash of their figures, they melted into the shadows.

Xiao Ting felt suffocated, a crack appearing in his Dao Heart.

"What level of resources did that old bastard Commander Xiao Lie give him?" Xiao Ting kicked over the coffee table in front of him.

Where did he get those abnormal insects? Where did he get those elemental lifeforms?

How did he perfectly fuse two extreme Laws?

How could he pile up over a thousand double-sequence Platinum-Rank monsters in such a short time?

What made Xiao Ting feel the most uncomfortable was...

In the recording, Lin Yuan did not issue a single micro-management command the entire time.

This meant that he hadn't used his full strength at all.

Xiao Ting turned around and strode toward the door of the training ground he had just walked out of.

"Butler!"

"Young Master, what are your orders?"

"Keep pushing resources to me! Go to the Family's strategic treasury and max out all my permissions! Buy high-Rank resources, buy Law fragments!"

"But Young Master, your Divine Domain has already..."

"Shut up! Do as I say! In the shortest time possible, I must make the Lion Dragon Legion Breakthrough once more!"

The communication was cut.

Xiao Ting walked into the training ground, and the heavy doors slammed shut.

It wasn't just Xiao Ting.

With the Streaming Exam approaching, the descendants of the province's influential families and top financial magnates...

...were all secretly running their intelligence networks to analyze all potential strong competitors.

Lin Yuan's performance in the starry sky war chess had already been placed on the desks of various major factions.

Jiang City, the Chu Family Manor.

Inside the training ground, thick smoke filled the air.

Several thousand mechanical beasts, covered entirely in deep blue lightning, had just torn a Peak Platinum sparring monster to pieces.

Chu Yunxuan stood on the high platform, looking down at the newly iterated mechanical legion.

The Thundercloud Elemental Lifeforms had successfully fused with the mechanical bodies, causing their combat power to skyrocket.

He should have been happy.

But now, holding a summary of intelligence in his hand, his smile completely vanished.

On the intelligence report were the combat data of Lin Yuan's thousand-plus double-sequence Platinum Tyrant Demons.

"Brother Lin Yuan, you are truly not simple." Chu Yunxuan crumpled the intelligence into a ball and threw it casually into the nearby wastebasket.

He raised his head and looked at the commander of the mechanical legion below: "Notify logistics to install all of those Anti-Gravity Levitation Devices in the warehouse onto the Gen-3 Mecha Beasts."

"Also, initiate tactical plan B."

The danger level of Lin Yuan in his heart was directly raised to the same Rank as the top figures in the provincial capital.

On the other side, the Su Family Manor.

In the spacious conference room, over a dozen members of the Advanced think tank were performing data deductions in front of a sandbox.

Su Yueying sat in the main seat.

She watched as the red light dots representing Lin Yuan's Divine Domain units on the sandbox gradually increased and brightened.

"Young Miss, according to the analysis of the starry sky war chess combat loss model..."

"Lin Yuan's current conventional forces already possess the capability to destroy a small Demon God stronghold head-on," the chief strategist reported.

Su Yueying rested her chin on one hand, looking at Lin Yuan's profile on the light screen.

"Just the tip of the iceberg. This isn't your full strength yet, is it?" she murmured softly.

A person who could reject the solicitation of top financial magnates and refuse to form alliances...

...surely didn't rely solely on these insects and Tyrant Demons shown on the surface to support his confidence.

Just what other trump cards do you have?

Tianhai Province capital, Thunder Military Industry headquarters.

Zhan Kuang was bare-chested, his body covered in bulging muscles.

He sat on the shoulder of a thirty-meter-tall heavy mecha, looking at the list on his terminal.

"A Jiang City commoner? Interesting. I hope your flesh-and-blood monsters can withstand my High-Frequency Plasma Cutting Blades." Zhan Kuang cracked his neck, his bones popping.

The ancestral land of the Murong Clan.

Murong Bai stood beside a blood pool.

The pool water bubbled as several hundred Heavy-Armored Behemoths, each over twenty meters tall, devoured high-Rank Ores.

"The Streaming Exam, the Demon God Plane. All the monsters in the province are showing their faces." Murong Bai threw down an earth-element crystal core and turned to leave.

Three days countdown to the Streaming Exam.

All high schools across the province suspended classes.

All participating students immersed themselves in their Divine Domains, making their final preparations.

Lin Yuan did not have the all-powerful intelligence network of the influential families and financial magnates.

He could only check the daily updated starry sky war chess provincial rising star rankings.

The points on the ranking list soared at a terrifying speed every day.

The threshold for the top one hundred was raised all the way from early Gold-Rank to Peak Gold-Rank.

The heritage of the influential families fully erupted at this life-and-death juncture.

"The danger level of this exam is even higher than expected." Lin Yuan closed the light screen.

His consciousness sank, descending into the Wasteland Divine Domain.

Lin Yuan had not continued to deduce his Divine Domain over the past few days.

Five hundred years of accumulation had reached a bottleneck; pouring in more resources in a short time would not produce any qualitative change.

His primary task now was to establish rules.

Within the three hundred thousand square kilometers of the Divine Domain space, dark red Demonic Tree Sub-Trees and Black Thorn Grass intertwined.

Lin Yuan hovered in the sky, his Divine Power spreading outward.

The insect race had evolved rapidly over the five hundred years, the Calamity Fire Spirit were an unexpected pleasant surprise, and the aerial creatures had likewise completed their iterations.

This Demon God Plane exam had an extremely high risk factor and an infinitely vast map.

Deploying only the Tyrant Demon race would be too wasteful.

He needed a massive force to spread out the battle lines, act as cannon fodder, and plunder resources.

But a cross-plane expedition of a million-strong force brought a realistic problem.

The upper limit of Mental Energy control.

Even though Lin Yuan had now stepped into the Third Turn of Demigod and his Mental Energy had skyrocketed...

...he was still far from being able to micro-manage millions of Wasteland monsters filled with killing instincts simultaneously on a rapidly changing battlefield.

Once they fell into a chaotic melee...

...these bloodthirsty fellows would very likely lose their minds in the heat of battle and bite their own kind.

An ironclad rule must be established.

"Tyrant." Lin Yuan handed down his divine oracle.

The Blood Abyss Sea churned.

The Tyrant stepped out from the waves, kneeling on one knee and looking up at the sky.

"Assemble the entire army."

The Tyrant stood up and let out a roar that pierced straight into the clouds.

An Extreme Gravity Field spread in all directions with him as the center.

Deep underground, an army of tens of millions of insects broke through the soil.

The Insect King led a hundred thousand elite Imperial Guard Insects, prostrating on the Black Thorn Grass.

In the sky, poisonous clouds churned.

A million Demon Vultures and Bone Blade Bats blotted out the sun, circling downward.

In the Far North Volcano Group, eight thousand Calamity Fire Spirit turned into a shower of meteors, crashing onto the edge of the basin.

The top combat forces of the entire Wasteland Divine Domain gathered around the Central Basin.

Clearly demarcated, they were dead silent.

Lin Yuan's will echoed in the mind of every believer.

"In three days, we embark on a plane expedition."

"During the expedition, internal strife is strictly forbidden. Disobedient ones will have their Origins extracted and be cast into the Dead Water forever!"

The supreme pressure of the Creator descended.

All the monsters trembled, burying their heads deep into the soil.

Lin Yuan looked at the Tyrant: "Manage your subordinates well. Appoint commanders, and let each perform their duties."

"On the battlefield, I do not look at the process, only the results."

"Whichever faction causes trouble, I will hold you accountable."

The Tyrant kowtowed heavily.

He stood up and walked toward the thousand-plus elite Platinum-Rank Tyrant Demons.

After a brief exchange of low growls...

...several Tyrant Demons, naturally extremely violent, seemed dissatisfied with the commander allocation and let out provocative roars.

The Tyrant wasted no words, his figure vanishing.

The next second, he appeared in front of the rebellious Tyrant Demons.

A giant fist wrapped in dark gold liquid smashed out.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Platinum Tyrant Demons didn't even have time to react before they were sent flying hundreds of meters.

The armor on their chests caved in over large areas, their bones shattered, and they collapsed to the ground, vomiting uncontrollably.

The Tyrant scanned the area, his gravity pressure firmly suppressing all instincts to resist.

The rebels were suppressed.

The army's chain of command quickly took shape.

The thousand Platinum Tyrant Demons were divided into Commanders of a Hundred, each governing the Gold-Rank Tyrant Demons below.

The Insect King, the Calamity Fire Spirit leader, and the Overlord of the Sky all accepted the Tyrant's supreme command.

The internal hidden dangers were resolved.

Lin Yuan's consciousness returned to reality. Sitting at his desk, he clicked open the military's internal trading network.

With the internal issues resolved, the external problems were equally tricky.

An army of millions, combined with the massive Tyrant Demons and Calamity Fire Spirit...

...could not possibly fit into an ordinary plane teleportation array.

He needed a strategic-level space vehicle capable of carrying a massive army.

He entered the criteria into the search bar.

Several items meeting his requirements popped up on the light screen.

Lin Yuan's gaze locked onto one of them.

[Gold-Rank Space Folding Card]

[Category: Strategic-level Logistics Vehicle]

[Capacity: Can accommodate up to two million units of standard-volume believers.]

[Environmental Effect: Constant basic survival environment inside (no energy amplification, no reproduction acceleration, only basic life support provided).]

[Price: 40 million faith points.]

Lin Yuan looked at this item, his fingers tapping the desk.

The reviews for this thing within the military were highly polarized.

Although it was labeled Gold-Rank, its internal environment was extremely crude and could not be used to raise believers at all.

Its sole purpose was to serve as a large-scale troop carrier when an Abyss War broke out.

For ordinary high school students, this thing was utterly useless.

Who would casually bring two million cannon fodder out? It was a classic white elephant luxury.

But there was no choice; for the current Lin Yuan, this was a rigid demand.

“purchase.”

Lin Yuan clicked buy directly.

[Transaction confirmed.]

[Deducted 40 million faith points.]

[Your account balance: 60 million faith points.]

Lin Yuan closed the light screen.

Everything was ready.

Three days later, the Demon God Plane.

He would let the Prodigies of the influential families in the entire province see what a true Wasteland natural disaster looked like.