Chapter 1156: Nasario Ascends! Supreme Conquest Effect! Upgrading the Territory!

Chapter 1156: Nasario's Promotion! The Supreme Conquest Effect! Territory Expansion!

After last night's battle.

Having slain countless enemy soldiers, Crimson Deities, and Crimson True Deities,

the number of newly promoted deities under His command surged dramatically.

A total of 23,725 Legendary Upper-Rank Soldiers had ascended to the rank of Lower Deity!

Additionally, 55 Upper-Rank Deities had been elevated to the rank of True Deity.

After reviewing this, Zhou Zhou felt deeply satisfied.

This battle had truly brought his soldiers and deities to life—thrilling, exhilarating!

So many soldiers and deities had been promoted to deity and true deity ranks.

He carefully examined the list of those who had ascended to True Deity status.

Then, as if something had been discovered, His brow slightly furrowed.

For He had realized that Nasario was now among the ranks of those ascending to True Godhood.

Now a lower-tier True God, Nasario—descendant of the legendary dragon race, the Deep-Sacred Dragon—should be capable of self-preservation even if not directly engaged, even against attacks from a Main God-tier deity.

Yet He remembered clearly that Nasario’s lineage as a Deep-Sacred Dragon bore a deep connection to the Deep Will.

Nasario’s ascension to a lower-tier True God was, naturally, a positive development for Him—but it also offered the Deep Will an opportunity to exert influence over Nasario.

When Nasario first accepted the Deep-Sacred Dragon lineage, he had told Him that he could suppress his power and refrain from any breakthrough. Now, why had he suddenly broken through?

After a moment of contemplation, He decided to reach out to Nasario first.

Soon.

Nazo’s mind appeared Nasario’s reply.

“Master, I have a deep, almost premonitory sense that the crisis within my lineage will not manifest at the True God level—but rather, it will emerge when I ascend to Main Godhood.”

"Exactly because of that intuition, I secretly advanced to the True God realm."

"I was so thrilled afterward that I forgot to tell the Master about it."

Nasario replied with a touch of regret.

Zhou Zhou nodded, suddenly understanding.

So it was.

As a legendary dragon race, Nasario's innate intuition, though perhaps not surpassing that of the Chaos human race, was vastly superior to the majority of species across the infinite realms.

If he possessed such intuition, then there was no real issue.

And it made perfect sense.

The Abyssal Will was an entity of pure will.

And among all will-based entities, the Abyssal Will stood at the very pinnacle.

Even the Supreme God must bow and serve before such a will.

Nasarios, though bearing the legacy of the Deep Dragon, could offer no meaningful aid to the Deep Will as a newly ascended True God of the Deep.

It was entirely natural that the Deep Will showed no regard.

Only when reaching the level of the Primordial God might one begin to exert any influence upon the Deep Will.

With his mind at ease, Zhou Zhou exchanged a few more words with Nasarios before severing the connection.

At that very moment,

he saw Zheng Yuanqi approaching with a face lit by excitement.

"Your Majesty, I have a great joy to report!"

"Just now,"

"Over 500 million common citizens, nearly 800,000 heroes of epic rank, close to 400,000 heroes of legendary rank, over 100,000 lower-tier deities, some 60,000 mid-tier deities, and more than 30,000 upper-tier deities have gathered at the border city of our empire, seeking to join our empire as citizens and to be enshrined as our divine protectors."

"Additionally."

"Lord Zero has detected 62 divine god-level presences among the beings seeking to join our empire. They too wish to join us and become divine gods enshrined within our empire!"

Zhou Zhou paused slightly, then instantly realized.

His Supreme Conquest effect had been triggered.

Yesterday, he had consecutively subjugated the Blood Moon Clan, the Shadow Ghost Clan, and the Sky-Dwelling Clan—three race-level powers whose combined strength included 30 imperial-level lord factions. Then, Bai Yun led an army that annihilated another seven high-level imperial lord factions.

Plus, the two universal clan lord proclamations issued yesterday had brought him 13 new myth-level talents.

Thanks to the influx of these talents and the influence of his own title, Celestial Sovereign of All Life, so many commoners, deities, and even true gods have now chosen to join his Sun Empire!

What a blessing—two joys at once!

Zhou Zhou's expression brightened with delight.

"Arrange for their full integration and settlement."

"Report the results afterward, and then inform the Emperor."

After his excitement faded, Zhou Zhou immediately turned to Zheng Yuanqi and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Zheng Yuanqi bowed respectfully and then hurried off to attend to other matters.

Then Zhou Zhou continued reviewing the promotion list, only to find a surprising revelation: Huang Di and the Buddha Master had both been promoted to the level above True Deity.

Luzi and Bai He had also advanced to the mid-level of True Deity.

Zhou Zhou nodded silently in approval.

At last, these four venerable leaders of the Human Race had all been elevated.

He then entrusted the rest of the affairs to Zhou Zheng to manage, and flew alone to the sky above the Imperial Capital, gazing down upon his own city from above.

He silently murmured the upgrade of his domain.

The next instant.

As 400,000 megawatts of base materials, 10,000 lower-tier god to upper-tier god crystals, 10 billion source crystals, 200 million units of temporal-space elemental gems, 20 lower-tier god sub-domain seals, 10 lower-tier god mid-domain seals, and 3 lower-tier god upper-domain seals vanished without a trace,

a textual prompt appeared.

[Congratulations! Your lower-tier god mid-domain (Lord's Law) has successfully ascended to a lower-tier god upper-domain (Lord's Law)!]

[Your domain has successfully upgraded to a lower-tier god upper-domain!]

[Your lower-tier god mid-domain essence derivation array has been upgraded to a lower-tier god upper-domain essence derivation array.]

[Domain stone pillar durability has increased to: 2 million / 2 million!]

[Your domain's territory has expanded to 300 million km × 300 million km × 500,000 meters!]

[All fog creatures within the newly expanded domain territory have been expelled!]

[The Crimson Mists will not appear within any of your territories!]

[You have received an upgrade reward: Box of Mythic Building Blueprints (Upper God Tier)!]

[Lord's Talent Prompt: Your Crimson Nidus can now be upgraded!]

[Lord's Talent Prompt: Your Enigmatic Trading Fleet has been strengthened!]

[Lord's Talent Prompt: The divine personnel of your Life Ark have been enhanced!]

Zhou Zhou glanced at the upgrade notifications, nodding with satisfaction.

Once the Crimson Nidus is upgraded, the Crimson Nidus should produce over 200 million recruitment documents and career advancement certificates by tomorrow.

Then He turned his gaze to the material requirements for upgrading his territory to the rank of Lower God Tier.

[Building Upgrade: 200,000 million units of wood, 200,000 million units of fine sand, 200,000 million units of metal, 200,000 million units of stone, 1,000 Lower God Tier God Crystals, 5,000 billion source crystals, 500 million units of time elemental gems, 500 million units of space elemental gems, 10 regional territories of Lower God Tier, 10 divine beings of Lower God Tier, 10,000 heroic race members, and 10 territorial decrees of Lower God Tier!]

After reading it through, Zhou Zhou gave a slight nod.

All other conditions He had fulfilled.

Only the time-element gem and the space-element gem remained unmet.

He glanced at his Crown Treasure Chest.

Inside, he saw 283 million plus units of time-element gem resources and 347 million plus units of space-element gem resources still remaining.

"Almost there."

"Waiting just today, everything should be complete."

"Tomorrow, I can upgrade my territory once more."

Zhou Zhou thought.