Ye Yun surveyed the entirety of Fengle City through the Sky Ascension Tower and was naturally immensely satisfied with its current state.
In three months, the construction level had been upgraded nine more times. Ye Yun unhesitatingly used them all to enhance the Renwang City Crossbows. The arrow towers were now generally in their forties. Ye Yun worried that Fengle City's rise, coupled with the events at Shenshan, might attract more deities.
If deities were truly drawn, not even level fifty or sixty arrow towers would be of any use. Therefore, the critical responsibility of dealing with such high-level beings could only fall upon the Renwang City Crossbows and the Sky Eagle Arrow Towers.
The fifty-ninth-level Renwang City Crossbows' attack power surged instantly. Although there was still a gap compared to Ye Yun's current destructive power, it was sufficient to instantly kill level one deities. Even level two deities, as long as they didn't arrive in numbers of millions, would meet their end here.
"Boss." As soon as Ye Yun exited the Sky Ascension Tower, he saw Zhou Ningdong, Wang Chen, and a few others.
"Heh, you're here just in time. Saves me the trouble of notifying you one by one." Ye Yun was delighted to see them.
"Boss, just give the order."
"Have you all been to the New Mortal Continent?" Ye Yun glanced at them.
"We have, but it seems like it's already been monopolized by others. Boss, we heard before that you ordered all players whose empire level met the requirements to develop there, but the tycoons monopolizing it are too fierce." Xie Yifeng couldn't help but complain.
"Handing over ninety percent of all earnings is ten times higher than our taxes."
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All thirteen of them had reached level seventy-five or higher. Previously, Ye Yun had issued an order within the empire: all players in the Tenth Dimension who reached level seventy-five or above were required to enter the New Mortal Continent. As loyal followers of Ye Yun, they had entered the New Mortal Continent as soon as they reached the required level.
However, after entering the New Mortal Continent, they discovered that the spirit stones earned there were less than a fraction of what they made from their usual real-world battles.
"Didn't you talk to Yue Di and the others before entering the New Mortal Continent?" Ye Yun looked at their dejected faces.
"Talk to him? As if that guy knows the big shot in there?"
Ye Yun's words sent a tremor through them. Although the spirit stones earned inside weren't much, what if their entire legion reached level seventy-five? Even if each person only earned a hundred spirit stones, their legion would earn three billion spirit stones every half month!
That was spirit stones, not gold coins, and it was passive income. If Yue Di truly knew the monopolizing tycoon, even giving up one less spirit stone would be a terrifying amount of income.
"I'm impressed by you guys. I am the monopolizing tycoon you're talking about. Otherwise, why would I order the empire's citizens to go in there?"
Ye Yun looked at them speechlessly, then waved his hand and led them toward the teleportation array.
"Let's go, I'll show you the base I've established for you in the New Mortal Continent."
In a short while, they reached the New Mortal Continent through the teleportation array. However, the thirteen of them were not yet citizens of Yuntian City, so they couldn't teleport directly. Instead, they went to their previous resting place and then teleported through that branch city to a city connected to Yuntian City's teleportation array, finally arriving at Yuntian City.
"I'm dumbfounded, Boss. No wonder you're so monstrous; you've been defying fate all along." A few minutes later, everyone appeared in Yuntian City. Each of them looked at Yuntian City, towering into the clouds, with unconcealed awe.
"Alright, Old Xie, the four of you will each establish a branch city to house your subordinates. As for the materials related to upgrading city levels, you can find Yue Di and have him assist you. The rest of you can temporarily reside in Yuntian City. Yuntian City can currently accommodate six million players."
Yuntian City had changed significantly compared to a year ago. First, its city level had been raised to seven stars, covering an area of nearly eleven thousand square kilometers, making it an undisputed sky metropolis. In the New Mortal Continent, it was a legendary existence.
Although it could accommodate six million players, the current population of Yuntian City was only a little over seven hundred thousand. After all, as time passed, the difficulty of joining Yuntian City with contribution points had crushed the hopes of almost all players.
"Understood." The four legion commanders nodded. They also knew that given Yuntian City's scale, it could accommodate not just four legions, but even one legion would be spread thin.
"Also, take this. Try to use it only when your talent reaches max10." Ye Yun said as he handed over more than a dozen Heavenly Dao Golden Bodies to them. The remaining ones, Ye Yun planned to give to Yue Xia and the others. As for the Five Elders, they would have to wait until the next mission was completed.
"Whoa, Brother, where did you get such a monstrous item?" The few of them looked at the Heavenly Dao Golden Bodies in their hands, so shocked their bodies went numb.
"Boss, I'm realizing you've got some deep waters."
It was an item that forcefully increased talent by one level, but it could only be used below max10 and once in a lifetime.
Even so, it was incredibly powerful, as the gold coins required to increase talent further were already astronomically high. For example, Zhou Ningdong and Yue Xia, to raise their talent to max10, had virtually exhausted their respective army groups' accumulated wealth for a year. They had also consumed an unknown amount of the empire's reserves.
It was only because Ye Yun had such monstrous gold-farming dungeons as the New Mortal Continent and the Nine Divine Cities, combined with the massive income from the real world, that Ye Yun wouldn't fall into a situation like Yao Die's, where cultivating a max-talent person almost drained the empire's strength.
Especially the divine cities, they were an incredibly terrifying bug. Consider that one divine stone could be exchanged for one hundred thousand spirit stones, and the divine stones Ye Yun had plundered from the divine realm were no less than tens of billions, even hundreds of billions!
And now, it was even more monstrous. Hei Yi had accidentally entered the Outer Heavens, and a Three-Day Stone was equivalent to twenty thousand divine stones. It was hard for Ye Yun not to soar. He currently had over a hundred million Three-Day Stones in his inventory, which was worth two trillion divine stones! This was more terrifying than Ye Yun's income from the past two to three years!
And this was just the beginning. Hei Yi now brought Ye Yun tens of thousands of Three-Day Stones daily, and Divine Blood Pills were the same. Ye Yun had accumulated ninety thousand Divine Blood Pills! This meant Hei Yi had killed over ninety thousand deities!
Back in his previous life, in his lowly state, he probably wouldn't have earned a single Three-Day Stone in his lifetime.