"Killing him is one thing, but we also need to prepare for these guys suddenly appearing in our territory and wreaking havoc on our people!"
"Liu Hai, come to the imperial court."
Within the Nine Dragon Yang Void Palace, Ye Yun was the absolute ruler. His divine sense could traverse the Nine Heavens at will, as this imperial palace was essentially one of his magical treasures.
Liu Hai soon appeared before Ye Yun.
"I pay my respects to Your Majesty!"
"I heard you killed a Dao Sect disciple? What was he doing here?" Ye Yun looked at Liu Hai, whom he hadn't seen in a while, and couldn't help but sigh. This fellow was the most unremarkable existence in the Dragon Palace back then, yet he had now reached the Quasi-Emperor cultivation.
To ensure rapid growth for the empire's Extreme Realm powerhouses, Ye Yun would distribute hundreds of Law Fragments weekly for them to cultivate, thus ensuring that his absolute strongest individuals could stand on their own!
"Yes, Your Majesty. You have no idea how arrogant that guy was. He appeared in our dojo and directly demanded that Your Majesty come to pay respects. The domain lord of the dojo tried to apprehend him, but little did they expect him to be an intermediate-level Extreme Realm expert, and he was immediately suppressed."
"That guy didn't even bother to ask what was going on; he directly killed tens of thousands of residents in that area!"
Liu Hai, hearing Ye Yun's question, quickly explained. After all, his actions could be interpreted in various ways, and it could be considered that he had made an enemy for the empire. However, the dojo was under his jurisdiction, so both the killing of the Dao Sect disciple and the casualties among his people fell under his responsibility.
"I am not blaming you. There are still many hidden powers in the Ten Directions Universe. Since I have embarked on the Emperor's Path, I will inevitably confront them sooner or later. Did you happen to bring any of his personal belongings?" Ye Yun chuckled as he looked at Liu Hai.
An intermediate-level Extreme Realm expert was no ordinary disciple, and this one was likely a direct disciple! Above him would be the elders.
"I did," Liu Hai said, directly tossing out a Sumeru ring and a jade waist token.
"Heh, you've got quite a few tricks up your sleeve. Don't worry, the contents inside are all yours. I just need his personal belongings to confirm the location of the Dao Sect."
The locations of the Three Sects and Three Palaces were incredibly secretive. Ye Yun had been using his divine sense to search the Ten Directions Universe intermittently but had found no clues whatsoever.
"Your Majesty, you mean..." Liu Hai's eyes lit up upon hearing Ye Yun's words.
He was well aware of the astonishing wealth that disciple from the Dao Sect possessed. Not to mention anything else, the number of spirit stones in his Sumeru ring alone reached hundreds of thousands, which indicated the terrifying depth of his sect's heritage.
Spirit stones, for the most part, were still prevalent in the game, "Ten Thousand Races Battlefield," within the Ten Directions Empire and had not yet circulated widely in the real world. After all, to materialize a spirit stone from the game required a physical manifestation card.
"As you said, he demanded that I come to pay respects, indicating that he came with hostile intent. Since he is an enemy, there is no reason to let him go. Alright, I will handle this matter. You just need to manage things below properly."
Ye Yun took the Dao Sect's waist token and poured his divine sense into it. The boundless national destiny also surged, and as long as this Dao Sect was within his empire, it could not escape Ye Yun's divine sense.
National destiny was an ethereal existence, yet it was also omnipresent.
Currently, the national destiny of the Ten Directions Empire had reached a terrifying level, several hundred times that of its founding.
As for spiritual energy, it was even more remarkable. Every time the Emperor's Path completed a small mission, it recovered one thousand units. Furthermore, his 'Human Race Civilization' mission was still active, and the Human Race Starfield gained one unit of spiritual energy every ten days.
To date, the spiritual energy in the Human Race Starfield had increased from zero to nearly four thousand units. While it couldn't be compared to terrifying places like the First Starfield, it had at least reached the scale of the Fourth Universe.
After Ye Yun comprehended the Law of Imperial Authority, his utilization of national destiny reached its apex. He could even destroy any planet within the empire from his imperial palace using national destiny.
Guided by the aura of the Dao Sect's waist token, national destiny flowed like a dragon, leaving the Tenth Universe and then the Ninth Universe within moments...
This was...
Five minutes later, Ye Yun stared at the domain gate before him, utterly bewildered.
Beyond this point was no longer the territory of the Ten Directions Empire. His national destiny could not extend further.
However, it made sense. As one of the Three Sects and Three Palaces, their sect locations were undoubtedly in areas with the most concentrated spiritual energy. Moreover, their Grand Elders were individuals targeted by the Heavenly Tribulation from the upper realms, so their sects would likely require a location where the Heavenly Tribulation was less perceptible.
Considering these factors, it was unlikely that the latter few Universes would be of interest to them. As powers that had existed for countless years, they would naturally occupy the most advantageous geographical locations within the entire Ten Directions Heaven and Earth.
"Your Majesty, did you find it?" Liu Hai stood below, waiting expectantly.
"No, but it's fine. We killed their people, and given the arrogance of these powers, they will definitely send more people. Arrange for two perfect-level Extreme Realm experts to guard the domain gate then. If you spot anyone, remember, bring them back alive!"
With Ye Yun's current divine sense, controlling not only perfect-level Extreme Realm experts but even Quasi-Emperors could be achieved instantly.
Back then, Ye Yun had even set his sights on Mu Tian. However, Mu Tian was the father of the Demonic Butterfly, and he would ascend soon. Ye Yun was unsure if the divine sense imprint he left on Mu Tian would be eliminated by the Heavenly Tribulation during his ascension.
As for the remaining seventy million monarchs in the First Starfield, Ye Yun had no intention of letting them go. They were the foundation for the eternal prosperity of his Ten Directions Empire! He did not wish for his children to be born into an unsafe environment.
While cultivating them himself was good, the resources required were simply too terrifying. Moreover, even with abundant resources, cultivating a hundred million monarch-level experts was not easy.
It was only because Ye Yun had utilized the New Mortal Continent and the Nine Divine Cities, plundering boundless wealth and resources from the game, that he could even consider an empire, let alone have an army of daily realm soldiers.
"Uh... Your Majesty, if you do find it, could I also come along to broaden my horizons?" Liu Hai looked at Ye Yun with anticipation. As a former soldier, though he had always been in logistics, which soldier didn't yearn to be on the battlefield?
"Mm, we'll see then." Ye Yun's perfunctory response was evident on his face.
However, it was true. Currently, Ye Yun was either in secluded cultivation or rarely involved in game matters. The only thing that interested him was going to Ding Yi's place for a delicious meal cooked by his mother-in-law.
After Liu Hai left, Ye Yun's divine sense spread across the Ten Directions Universe. Currently, Ye Yun controlled nine thousand star domains in the Tenth, Ninth, and Eighth Universes. In the Seventh Universe, a little over a thousand star domains had fallen under Ye Yun's banner. Even in the Fifth Universe, under the pioneering efforts of Liu Lang and Xue Hen, one hundred and twenty-four star domains had been captured.
It could be said that soon, Ye Yun would completely control half of the territory within the Ten Directions Universe!
Currently, Ye Yun's star domains numbered over ten thousand, with only a little over a hundred more needed to complete the mission. The mission "Emperor's Path (4)" had officially begun a month ago, meaning this phase of the mission would be fully completed in about half a month.
This was also calculated by Ye Yun. Since the threshold for early mission completion was divided into half-year segments, and rewards for a stage would be deducted if the mission was completed between the first day and six months, Ye Yun was not in a hurry to complete the mission and instead instructed them to slow down.
In the First Starfield, the spatial power sealing the domain gate had become extremely thin, suggesting that the seal would automatically disappear soon. Of course, this was also intentional by Ye Yun. Initially, it was just to annoy the Demonic Butterfly, but now Ye Yun's target was no longer the Demonic Butterfly but the hidden powers controlling the trend of the Ten Directions Universe.
After traversing the Spirit Sea for nearly three months of absorption, the spiritual liquid within the Spirit Sea showed no signs of depletion. At this moment, the lake spanning ten thousand meters in Ye Yun's dantian was already filled with spiritual liquid, forcing Ye Yun to expand the lake further.
The Fifth and Sixth Legions of the Futian Empire had been destroyed by Liu Lang, but their First and Second Legions, and even their Third and Fourth Legions, were still engaged in conquest in the Sixth Universe. At this rate, his Seven Great Army Groups would soon clash head-on with them.
"One hundred million Great Sages? Three hundred million Sages? Heh, I'm truly eager to see what expression the Demonic Butterfly will have when all of Futian's main forces are annihilated!"
"System prompt: Congratulations to the player for leveling up, gaining 1000 free attribute points. Player's current level is 76."
In the game, for the past three months, Ye Yun had been killing all the primordial beasts on the New Mortal Continent one by one with his ultimate moves immediately upon the arrival of each new cycle. He also promptly cleared out all territories and players who had not signed subsidiary agreements with Cloud Heaven City, leaving no room for the Demonic Butterfly to gain any advantage.
The wealth accumulated by Ye Yun during this period had set a new record. In terms of spirit stones alone, imperial taxes combined with those from the New Mortal Continent amounted to over one thousand seven hundred trillion. The Three-Day Stones brought by Black Ant had surpassed the ten-million mark. It could be said that Ye Yun's current wealth was almost equivalent to the sum of all his previous wealth!
In addition to spirit stones and Three-Day Stones, he also possessed over sixteen million various Sage Stones and 1.7 million Divine Stones. The Sage Stones were the result of the Dark Speech's Dark Divine City beginning its conquest of other divine city powers, while the Divine Stones were acquired by the First Army Group and the Stingers whenever they had free time in the divine cities.
"Yue Di, inform the three dukes to convene a meeting!"
Ye Yun stood on the city walls of Cloud Heaven City, looking at the vast expanse below. He couldn't help but sigh. To level up faster, he had to hand over the New Mortal Continent in advance.
Otherwise, his losses would be even greater.
Half an hour later, at the imperial court...
"How many of our Human Race have entered the New Mortal Continent now?" Ye Yun asked Song Ji and Xia Xingchao.
"Currently, the number of players who have entered the New Mortal Continent is around five hundred thousand, with a growth rate of six to seven thousand per day." All humans on Blue Star were registered, let alone the fact that over ninety percent of those who could enter the New Mortal Continent were previously 'official personnel.'
"Wang Chen, you've been in the New Mortal Continent for quite some time now. Have you ever tested the coverage area of your maximum-range skills?" Ye Yun's sporadic attacks recently had left Wang Chen and the others feeling like they had little opportunity to showcase their abilities.
"Heh heh, boss, you wouldn't know about this. When I reached level seventy, I activated a passive skill called 'Sword Intent,' which increased the range of all my attack skills by ten times!"
"Just tell me, what is the coverage area of your skills on the New Mortal Continent!" Ye Yun looked at him. This guy was already in his early forties, yet his personality seemed to be getting more flamboyant.
"The coverage area is approximately two thousand kilometers in radius." Wang Chen looked at Ye Yun with a hint of melancholy.
Two thousand kilometers was neither large nor small. With Wang Chen's current attributes, he could still instantly kill the primordial beasts on the New Mortal Continent. The only drawback was the slightly smaller area.
"Alright, I plan to hand over Cloud Heaven City to you all to manage. I will take twenty percent of all revenue. Of the remaining eighty percent, twenty percent will go into the national treasury, and the remaining sixty percent will be split equally between the military and civil administration."
"You should all know the importance of the New Mortal Continent. I have only one requirement: any individual or group not included in our agreement is to be killed!" Ye Yun said sternly to them.
Ye Yun was not worried about the safety of Cloud Heaven City, as it was located fifty thousand meters in the air and was defended by ten guardian generals capable of instantly killing over ninety percent of players.
His only concern was that the Demonic Butterfly might dispatch a large number of personnel in the future! This could easily lead to a division.
"Understood!"
Now, more and more soldiers in the empire were breaking through to the Monarch Realm. Even 'Stinger's' one hundred and twenty thousand men, after three months of various campaigns, had all broken through to the intermediate Monarch Realm. Furthermore, with Zhou Ningdong's intentional resource allocation, there were four new Extreme Realm members and twelve perfect-level Monarchs!
It could be said that Ye Yun no longer needed to worry about the real world.
Although the current spirit stones were no longer sufficient for Ye Yun, this did not hinder Ye Yun's savings plan. Seeing Ding Yi's belly growing larger, Ye Yun felt an increasing sense of pressure.
Subsequently, the group engaged in a heated discussion about the development of the entire New Mortal Continent. Ye Yun maintained a neutral stance, as he was not skilled in these matters, and many of his plans were conceived spontaneously.
Even this empire was like that. If it weren't for the Emperor's Path, he probably wouldn't have wanted to establish an empire.