The Era of Gods

Chapter 541: Chapter 541: The Growth of the Clan Within the Divine Realm

Originally, Yarji thought he could withstand the skill with his super vitality and regenerative abilities, but the power of the skill was too great. The rule-based cutting ignored physical defense and high resistance, and to make things worse, it even had a function to prevent his regeneration. In just a short while, Yarji was cut to shreds, his massive body quickly shrank a great deal, and a large amount of severed flesh and yellow pus piled up around him.

Seeing that he couldn’t hold on any longer and was about to be dissected, Yarji finally couldn’t bear it, and his remaining body exploded suddenly. A shadow burst forth and, in a flash, flew rapidly into the distance.

Lin Xiao reacted even faster and stretched out his hand again:

“Abomination!”

In an instant, the space within tens of kilometers around him was pulled towards the center like a piece of cloth, and infinite energy converged to a point, affecting the shadow.

“Bang!”

The shadow exploded immediately, a speck of bright light flashed into the void and disappeared, leaving behind Yarji’s angry roar:

“I shall avenge this death, and the day I condense my true body will be the day of your demise!”

Lin Xiao, expressionless, vanished in a flash, and a few seconds later, he passed through the thick Earth and appeared high above the Setek Basin, tens of thousands of meters in the air, staring fixedly in a certain direction in silence.

“Lucky for you to escape so quickly!”

If his true body had been there, he could have caught the shadow with a reach of his hand, but it was just a projection, and his power was limited. He failed to catch it momentarily.

Yarji’s threat didn’t bother him at all. When the sky falls, there are tall ones to stand high, and he had made up his mind to fully cooperate with the Human Overlord. What had just happened, he would communicate with the Human Overlord through his father-in-law.

While the two Dominators strictly forbade the involvement of the great divine power of humans and the Nightmare World with the Star Soul Crystal Wall System, if it was a positive cooperation, they would not refuse. With his father-in-law’s position, he would certainly be able to negotiate an equal standing in cooperation and better benefits for him.

Fortunately, with the relationship of his girlfriend, he was willing to exchange an Innate Origin to her benefit, which is why her father would be willing to communicate personally. Otherwise, such a great figure wouldn’t bother to communicate for him; normally, he wouldn’t even be qualified to meet him.

Killing Yarji’s incarnation was tantamount to destroying the children of nightmare’s main city. There might still be residual nightmare players in this underground space, but more human players would soon enter the Under World, and their living space would gradually disappear until they were expelled.

With this worry out of the way, Lin Xiao returned to the main city, found his girlfriend, and began preparing for the assault on the Nightmare Main World.

At this moment, his true body hadn’t yet arrived, still on the way, so taking this opportunity, Lin Xiao began to expand his power greatly.

Firstly, through the Creation Magic Cube, he transferred a large quantity of Great Naga Blood Crystals, mass-producing leader-level NPC soldiers.

At this time, his incarnation had already become an Innate Titan Ancient God, with a level surpassing 100. Using the Creation Magic Cube now had almost no restrictions; he could transfer over a thousand bloodline crystals without hindrance.

All these bloodline crystals were used to enhance his previously accumulated subordinates. During the decades of his absence, the Demon Suppression Fortress had already accumulated an entire hundred thousand NPC subordinates, the maximum troops a Rank 6 fortress could recruit.

But beyond that, they also owned half of Duron Main City’s weight. While Lin Xiao went to kill Yarji, his girlfriend, along with Wu Zhonglin and several other friendly Great Lords, had taken back the previously distributed weight one by one, restoring the authority back to fifty percent.

Although the players deprived of their weight vehemently opposed, with the support of all of Duron’s remnants, they successfully stripped them of their authority.

After all, the founders and main body of the main city were the remnants of Duron, and the distribution of weight among players was not the kind recognized by the system. Players possessed various benefits represented by their weight, but the actual controllers of the main city remained the major forces of Duron’s remnants.

Previously, there wasn’t an absolute leader among the remnants, so the major forces were relatively dispersed, and many player forces flattered and befriended each other, gaining the inclinations of these forces.

Now, with Grand Priest Afilia and the Dragon Clan Leader Arlos making a powerful return, all of Duron’s remnant forces were reunited, and therefore the player weight within the fortress could be readjusted.

The maximum force a Rank 6 fortress can recruit is one hundred thousand, and the main city’s troop recruitment cap is one million, so fifty percent equates to five hundred thousand, meaning Shen Yuexin could now have up to six hundred thousand NPC subordinates at most.

Of course, she didn’t really maintain so many subordinates; there were just over three hundred thousand in total, most of them of elite template or higher. After years of rotation, being sent to the Demon Suppression Fortress and the Purgatory Fortress to hone against demons, their average level was now above Level 70, with the most elite batch above Level 75, as well as a group of about two to three thousand above Level 80 enhanced elites.

After returning, Lin Xiao gathered these elites and bulk-enhanced them using the Bloodline Essence Crystals of the Asura Naga, creating a vast number of leader-template subordinates.

By then, Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm had been proliferating for fifty or sixty years, and both the quantity and quality of the Clan had seen significant development.

As the strength and number of the Clan within the Divine Realm increased, their rate of proliferation also accelerated, especially since he frequently cast the newly born Clan members into the frontline of the Moon Cloud Realm, letting them tear at the Underground Insects to stimulate their bloodline powers and hone their combat experience and skills, thus speeding up their growth.

Now, the number of Lesser Nagas in Lin Xiao’s God’s realm had broken the one million mark, with approximately 1.1 million total, nearly half a million of which were Rank 3 Lesser Naga warriors. With the strong bloodline and the influence of the Ancient Treasure within the Divine Realm, they were extraordinarily powerful.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Due to their smaller original population and slower reproduction rate, the Red Furnace Clan now had just over two hundred thousand individuals. Apart from the Clan Leader, the Divine Furnace, there were two Rank 8 Red Furnace Kings, over thirty Rank 7 Red Furnace Leaders, and more than two thousand Rank 6 Red Furnace Clan warriors.

Originally, the population base of the Star Spirit Clan was similar to that of the Red Furnace Clan, but they could not even reproduce as quickly as the Red Furnace Clan; astoundingly, their total population after fifty or sixty years was only around 130,000.

With many years of growth, the Star Spirit Clan had now given rise to three Rank 9 Legendary Star Spirits, eighty-five Rank 8 Legendary Star Spirits, and just over twenty thousand Rank 7 Grand Magicians, with the rest being almost entirely Rank 6 Grand Magicians.

Though their numbers weren’t very high, their average strength was exceptionally strong, with the lowest being of Rank 6.

The core Asura Naga Clan had a population number greater than both the Star Spirits and the Crimson Furnace Clan. Whether it was the bloodline promotion of Lesser Nagas or the transformation of bloodline Magicians, both contributed to increasing the population base of the Supreme Nagas.

Especially since the Lesser Naga population exceeded one million, and the native bloodline Magician profession became increasingly numerous and mature. Coupled with Lin Xiao’s research that lowered the transformation conditions and increased the likelihood of transforming, as well as the reproductive capabilities of the Supreme Nagas themselves, the total number of Supreme Nagas in the Divine Realm had now exceeded 370,000. This number was even more than the combined population of the Red Furnace Clan and the Star Spirits, which was quite beyond his expectations.

As a true Legendary Race, the comprehensive strength of the Supreme Naga was exceptional.

Apart from Slarda, eight Rank 10 Great Asura Kings had been born within the Asura Naga Clan, all forcibly ascended through the Shield of Truth by consuming a large amount of Divine Power and Divinity.

In addition, there were twenty-four Rank 9 Naga Great Lords, who had just ascended and had not yet reached the pinnacle of Rank 9, unable to forcibly ascend through the Shield of Truth. They were just waiting for their strength to further advance to transition into an even higher level in one step.

When it came to Rank 8 Supreme Naga Lords, their number had easily surpassed one thousand, truly a formidable force.

Rank 7 Naga warriors totaled over 110,000, with the majority of the rest being Rank 6 Supreme Naga warriors.

Besides this, whether it was the Water Elemental Divine Realm led by the Queen of Water Elements or the Fire Elemental Domain ruled by the Flame Lord Kurbert, both had given birth to a multitude of powerful beings. Especially with Kurbert’s ascension, a large number of Fire Elements also ascended, and at this point, there were over one hundred legendary Fire Elemental creatures in the Fire Elemental Domain alone.

Fortunately, as Lin Xiao continued to ascend, his Divine Realm’s territory grew rapidly. At this moment, aside from the Main Divine Realm, each of the six subsidiary Divine Realms owned an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, soon to be even vaster than the previous Main Divine Realm. Such an enormous Divine Realm was perfectly capable of accommodating an equally enormous Clan.

In fact, with the majority of the Children of the God’s realm advancing to the Demigod Stage during the total 1,460 years of university, what now constrained their growth was not the population of the Clan but the area of the Divine Realm.

Although one could have followers in other planes providing Power of Faith, the Power of Faith from other planes would be heavily depleted during its transference across millions of kilometers of Void to the Main World, resulting in only a fraction remaining upon receipt. If the distance was extremely far and the Crystal Wall System’s world rules were well-developed, even less Faith Power may be received.

For the Children of the God’s realm, territories in the Outland are primarily used for providing various resources. Faith provided by followers is generally used to condense Godforce Crystals for consumption, with the core belief still coming from the Clan carefully nurtured from the beginning.

It’s also not viable to remain in the Outland where Faith Power from followers won’t diminish, it’s simply not possible.

First of all, if you stay in the Outland, your main body is still within the Divine Realm, creating a separation.

Furthermore, the Children of the God’s realm cannot remain in the Outland indefinitely. After all, they are outsiders to the Crystal Wall Systems of the Outland, which inherently tries to assimilate outsiders, even those recognized and not repelled by the will of the Crystal Wall system. If one stays in the Outland for too long, they’ll slowly become assimilated.

Just as Lin Xiao’s father-in-law, albeit being the Lord of the Radiant Crystal Wall System, can’t always stay there; he must frequently return.

Moreover, being the Lord of a Crystal Wall System places even greater restrictions compared to ordinary Children of the Divine Realm. He holds the power to control all the laws of an entire Crystal Wall System, including the basic underlying laws, so the system’s instinct to assimilate Him is even stronger.

Just like the two dominators of the Star Soul Crystal Wall System, who have been trapped in this system for so long, it wouldn’t be far-fetched to consider them natives of the Star Soul Crystal Wall System by now, save for the fact they are powerful enough to communicate with their own Main World. If an ordinary Child of the Divine Realm were to be stranded in the Outland for so long, they would have been completely assimilated into natives by now.

This was something his teacher explained a long time ago, and Lin Xiao was well aware of it.