"If your Ice Clan can achieve entry into the Heavenly Dao and reach the threshold for entering the New Mortal Continent, with nearly a billion clan members eligible, and if you, City Lord, can allow us all to develop there, I will certainly persuade our elders to make the entire Ice Clan your loyal subordinates!"
Seeing Ye Yun nod, Xue Hen said excitedly. A billion clan members, even if only a tenth of them migrated to the New Mortal Continent, at the end of each cycle, with centralized resource utilization, they could cultivate no less than twenty Great Saint-level powerhouses, or four to five Grand God realm experts, in each cycle!
This speed was akin to cheating!
A billion? Was that a lot? Ye Yun thought it was far too little. Humans on Blue Star alone numbered twenty billion, and the Ice Clan, with their star domain, had only managed this many who met the threshold for the New Mortal Continent after several years.
However, glancing at Yue Di beside him, Ye Yun felt at ease. The combined population of the seven clans was not even as large as the Ice Clan's, and fewer still had reached the threshold for the New Mortal Continent. Races like them, wandering through the cosmos, were bound to have difficulty accumulating population.
The seven clans currently numbered around twenty million in the New Mortal Continent, a stark fifty-fold difference from the Ice Clan!
"Return and discuss it with your Chieftains. For subsequent matters, you will liaise with City Lord Yue Di." With a billion members injected into the New Mortal Continent, Ye Yun's benefits would be tenfold what they were now.
Despite the vastness of the New Mortal Continent, the Flood Beasts here presented a significant challenge to the vast majority of players at this stage. Thus, even after more than half a year, the player count on the New Mortal Continent was only slightly over a hundred million.
"Understood!" Xue Hen nodded and then stood motionless, his mind seemingly having withdrawn from the game.
Ye Yun returned to the City Lord's Mansion with Yue Di. After learning about the recent actions of Yao Die from Yue Di, he couldn't help but chuckle.
"I didn't expect that after just one meeting, this woman has already marked me as her lifelong enemy. It's not like I have a higher innate talent than her by just one level, nor did I kill her just once. It's just a game, why take it so seriously?"
Months ago, Yao Die was leading a massive army from the first cosmic domain towards his tenth cosmic domain. If not for the seven clans holding her back for a period, that woman might have reached his physical realm before he broke through to the Extreme position. Now, he had broken through to the Extreme position and knew she couldn't kill him, so she resorted to this. He genuinely wondered where she found so much energy.
However, since she had made her move, Ye Yun had no intention of backing down. Thus, the Ice Clan was merely a touchstone for Ye Yun; more beings like the Ice Clan would eventually be drawn under Ye Yun's command under Yao Die's oppression.
For Ye Yun, the gain was the loyalty of their entire race, and what he had to offer was merely a reduction in their surrendered spoils. Why wouldn't he agree? The overt recruitment of the Ice Clan in public this time served as a signal to the fifth, sixth, and subsequent cosmic domains, a signal that they could avoid being colonized by Yao Die.
After all, Yao Die's colonization was comprehensive, not just in the real world but even in the game world, she would not let go of any opportunity to amass wealth. Most importantly, Yao Die's reputation for brutality preceded her. Small tribal forces were manageable, but larger clans almost invariably had a member of the Wood Clan installed as an overseer in their star domain.
Overseers, ostensibly for inspection, were in reality formidable figures. They not only assisted the Fu Tian Divine Kingdom in ruthlessly exploiting their subjects but also enriched themselves by taking their cut. They were truly a persistent blight.
Once the Ice Clan army occupied the New Mortal Continent, income would surge exponentially. It seemed necessary to have the Dragon Palace fellows accelerate their upgrades. The Divine Realm and the eight Divine Cities, the New Mortal Continent and the Dragon Palace territories in the Bitter Sea, all would require personnel to guard them. He currently had too few available people.
Yue Di not only returned with a hundred thousand portions of medicinal ingredients for refining Bigu Pills but also brought back a massive quantity of Tuoyun Tokens collected from various branch cities, filling Ye Yun's inventory.
After Yue Di departed, Ye Yun immediately checked the changes to his own attributes brought about by his recent awakening. He discovered that his overall attributes had increased by ten percent, while his defense and health points had more than doubled. Even the energy from the dozens of Spirit-grade Bigu Pills he had consumed had been largely depleted.
"A miscalculation! The real world must be in chaos right now!" With such a significant surge in attributes, especially in the physical aspect, heavenly tribulations were bound to descend in reality. If these tribulations landed on Blue Star, given its current state, it would directly result in a star explosion! Furthermore, when he had awakened, his divine consciousness had returned to reality, and he had seen the entire Dragon Palace building engulfed in flames. If not for the star formations Ye Yun had previously laid, the entire Milih Island, and even half of Blue Star's inhabitants, would have perished in the inferno.
"System Notification: City Lord 'Jieming' has consumed 810,000 Tuoyun Tokens to upgrade Cloud Sky City to a Five-Star Territory."
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Accumulated over nearly half a year, Tuoyun Tokens from all branch cities had converged, storing over a million. In addition to upgrading the city's level, Ye Yun had also expanded Cloud Sky City's area three times. As for the mansion...
--- Cloud Sky City (Five-Star Territory)
Land Area: 2720 square kilometers
Player Capacity: 1,500,000
City Lord: Jieming
Vice City Lord: Yue Di
City Affiliation: Human
Current Resident Players: 115,800
Online Players: 256,890
Level Six Mansion - Can monitor the movements of creatures within a radius of 1500 kilometers (including invisible creatures). This function is directly reflected on the player map. (Can be upgraded with Myriad Images Stone).
Level Seven City Walls - Can withstand ten full-strength attacks from a Level Seven Flood Beast. Current Durability: 64000/64000.
Level Seven Territory Warehouse - Can store 160 types of resources, with a maximum of 16,000 units per resource.
Level Five Guard Towers - Can recruit fifty guards to protect player territories!
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After upgrading the territory, Ye Yun didn't even have time to examine it closely before hastily withdrawing his consciousness from the game, as he felt an oppressive pressure from the real world. The heavenly tribulation was already gathering...