Chapter 1261: Blue Star Human Ancestor Statue - Bai Qi! Upgrading the Territory!

Chapter 1261: Blue Star Race Ancestral Statue - Bai Qi! Upgrade Territory!

Zhou Zheng controlled the Yellow Springs Mandate, spending over an hour continuously fishing from the Yellow Springs, catching more than a dozen Yellow Springs fish, which he then fully transmuted into his own body.

Yet.

He felt only a slight advancement.

A long way remained until he could awaken his own willpower.

Unless he stayed here fishing endlessly, he would never be able to rapidly ascend to the Will-Transcendent Divine Realm.

But he could not remain here forever.

"Yan Luo."

He ceased fishing, calling Yan Luo over.

"Your Majesty."

Yan Luo bowed respectfully.

"Everything here shall be under your charge."

"Remember, your foremost duty is to capture the Yellow Spring Fish in full force—everything else may be ignored."

"This is the Yellow Spring Seal. The Emperor temporarily lends it to you."

"With this Yellow Spring Seal, your efficiency in fishing should greatly improve."

Zhou Zheng simply tossed the Yellow Spring Seal to Yan Luo, who immediately caught it.

"I understand!"

"I will mobilize every ounce of power from our Yin Ghost Clan, and with all my might, capture the Yellow Spring Fish for the Emperor!"

Yan Luo spoke with respectful determination.

"Excellent."

"There will be no shortage of rewards from your clan."

Zhou Zheng nodded.

"Thank you, Majesty!"

Yan Luo brightened.

The Emperor's generosity was known throughout the entire Supreme Continent.

Wondering what kind of reward the Emperor would bestow upon their clan?

Yan Luo's heart brimmed with anticipation.

Zhou Zheng nodded, then gave Yan Luo a few more instructions before vanishing from sight in a single instant.

...

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, it had become evening.

The capital of blazing sun.

Within the Palace of Cycles.

Zhou Zhou slowly opened his eyes.

"Another step closer to the upper-tier deity realm."

Zhou Zhou nodded with satisfaction.

The true deity was within reach.

When He ascended to true deity status, He would be able to command the power of the supreme deity even without relying on the Moon Demon.

Then, with more potent master artifacts, He would gain even greater strength.

And with the ultimate sacred body, He would have the confidence to stand equal—even face off—against beings of the ten master deity ranks, without falling behind.

Then He ceased further thought, opened his personal terminal, and found three reports had already been received.

Zhou Zhou opened them one by one.

The first was a war report from Bluestar; the second was a war summary from the territorial expansion campaign on the Supreme Continent, originating from Zhou Sheng's domain; and the final one was a comprehensive war consolidation.

This final report was a synthesis of the first two.

Thus, Zhou Zhou turned directly to the last one.

Throughout the day, both the Supreme Continent and Bluestar had eliminated a total of 52 trillion enemies, 63,000 divine beings, and over 200 true gods.

Of these, Bluestar alone accounted for the destruction of 32 trillion enemies, 43,200 divine beings, and over 120 true gods.

Meanwhile, the territorial expansion campaign of the Prairielight Empire had eliminated 20 trillion enemies, over 19,000 divine beings, and more than 80 true gods!

Following this massive slaughter, countless fragments of fog hearts, source crystals, skill books, equipment, base materials, base gem resources, lightning, life, and death elemental gems were acquired.

3.8 billion, 180.1 million, and 2.15 billion fragments of Bronze-level Lord talent crystal shards!

215 legendary and legendary and below-level lord talent spheres!

And vast quantities of other tiered lord talent crystal fragments!

1.32 billion 1.2 million units of temporal element gem resources! 1.86 billion 1.5 million units of spatial element gem resources!

5.52 billion 4.5 million units of divine crystal ranging from lower god to upper god level!

81,800 legendary god-level divine crystals!

1.5 billion 77 million plus items of divine artifacts from lower god to upper god level! 11,500 pieces of true divine artifacts! 12 pieces of primary divine artifacts!

A total of approximately 100 million 8 million pieces of divine essence fragments, divine-grade herbs, divine-grade ingredients, divine-grade minerals, divine-grade blueprints, and other treasures!

150,326 pieces of primary god-level divine-grade herbs, ingredients, minerals, blueprints, and other treasures!

Zhou Zhou's gaze immediately settled upon the staggering total of 31.8 billion 27 million units of temporal and spatial element gem resources.

"Can we upgrade our territory?!"

His eyes lit up.

No waste in his dual-front campaign.

The harvest was abundant indeed!

Then, without hesitation, he instantly flew out of the divine palace, soaring above the capital of the Sunlord Empire, gazing down upon his own realm, and silently murmured the word: upgrade.

The very next second,

as 40 million meg-units of base materials, 1,000 lower-tier god crystals of upper-tier gods, 10 million source crystals, 2 billion units of temporal-space elemental gems, and 10 upper-tier god lower-tier territorial decrees vanished from existence,

a textual notification appeared.

[Congratulations! Your mid-tier god upper-tier divine palace (Master's Law) has successfully ascended to an upper-tier god lower-tier divine palace (Master's Law)!]

[Your territory has successfully upgraded to an upper-tier god lower-tier territory!]

[Your mid-tier god upper-tier god essence derivation array has been elevated to an upper-tier god lower-tier god essence derivation array.]

[Territory stone monument durability increased to: 100 million / 100 million!]

[Your territory has expanded to 1 billion km × 1 billion km × 100,000 m!]

[All fog monsters within the newly added territory have been expelled!]

[The crimson fog will no longer appear within any of your territory ranges!]

[You have received an upgrade reward: Mythic Building Blueprint Box (Lower-tier of Upper Deity)!]

[Lord's talent hint: Your Crimson Nidus can now be upgraded!]

[Lord's talent hint: Your mysterious caravan faction has been strengthened!]

[Lord's talent hint: The divine personnel of your Life Ark have gained enhanced power!]

The very next second.

A voice of even greater dignity and resonance echoed forth.

[Blue Star Global Channel Master Announcement: Congratulations to the Master of the Yangyang Empire (Intermediate) — Yangyang Master, who has become the first Master to elevate their territory from Intermediate God to Lower Supreme God! Reward: Ultimate Chest +1, Mythic Level +3, Legendary Level +1000, Race-exclusive Title: The Glory of the Pioneer X upgraded to The Glory of the Pioneer XI!]

[Blue Star Global Channel Master Announcement: Congratulations to the Master of the Yangyang Empire (Intermediate) — Yangyang Master…]

[Blue Star Global Channel Master Announcement: Congratulations to the Master of the Yangyang Empire (Intermediate) — Yangyang Master…]

After seeing the final global channel announcement, Zhou Zhou's face broke into a smile.

Another one of the Pioneer series titles obtained.

Good. Good.

As long as it hasn't been broken.

Immediately, He checked the details of this title.

[Title Name: The Glory of the Pioneer XI]

[Title Quality: Race-exclusive]

[Title Effect 1: Your reputation across the Blue Star Lordship has spread far and wide, drawing more talents who admire your name and long to join your domain. The number of vassals you can summon each day through the Daily Summoning Gate increases by 1100%. Among the summoned vassals, 12 will be elite professionals matching your domain's tier!]

[Title Effect 2: As before.]

[Title Effect 3: When you become the first Blue Star Lord to possess a True God's subordinate domain, this title will upgrade to the Glory of the Pioneer XII and unlock additional title effects!]

Zhou Zhou nodded after reading it through.

The number of vassals he could summon instantly surged by 11 times!

Moreover, among the summoned vassals, 12 would now be elite professionals matching his domain's tier.

That is to say—

Tomorrow morning, he could summon 12 upper-tier divine beings beneath the rank of God.

Though this might not seem significant to Zhou Zhou at present, who could resist the gift of 12 divine beings, freely bestowed?

Then he opened the Supreme Reward Chest.

Before him, within the opulent and regal highest chest, lay a statue in quiet stillness.

The statue wore a white robe, a white long sword resting at its waist, its face gentle, yet in its eyes burned a cold, severe ferocity.

It was the ancestral statue of the Blue Star race!

"Is it no longer a race's divine artifact?"

Zhou Zhou raised an eyebrow.

Previously, the highest chest had always rewarded the race's divine artifacts.

But then he dismissed the matter.

For he knew that some of the most elite ancestral statues of the Blue Star race possessed effects that were entirely on par with, if not surpassing, those of the race's divine artifacts.

And the statue before him—undeniably—was one of the very top tier.

He gazed upon it.

The textual prompt appears.

[Treasure Name: Ancestral Statue of the Blue Star Race – Bai Qi]

[Treasure Rank: Legendary]

[Treasure Effect: Place it within the ancestral shrine of the Temple of the Great Ancestral Hall to activate the ancestral statue's beneficial effects upon the territory, its people, or its master!]

[Treasure Description: Bai Qi, a renowned general of the Warring States period in China, an outstanding military strategist, a representative figure of the "military school."]

"Phew."

"Another Bai Qi, the god of death."

"Can't help but wonder what kind of ancestral blessing he might bestow?"

Zhou Zhou murmured to himself.

Then, without further thought, he instantly teleported into the Temple of the Great Ancestral Hall.

……

The Temple of the Ancestors.

Zhou Zhou gazed upon the scene before him.

Before him stood twelve red shrines, each over twenty meters tall, neatly arranged upon the altar.

Among them, five shrines housed ancestral statues of Huangdi, Sun Simiao, Gongshu Ban, Liu Bei, and Zhang Heng.

The remaining seven shrines bore newly erected ancestral statues.

Some were of the Chinese lineage, others of ancestors from other nations on the Blue Star.

After all, these were ancestral statues of the Blue Star's human race, not merely those of the Chinese lineage—thus, the presence of ancestors from other nations was entirely natural.

These seven statues had been unearthed by Zhou Zhou through the chaos of war.

He selected those of the highest rank and placed them within the shrines, to collectively provide protective blessings to his domain.

At that moment, He gazed upon the statue of the foreign ancestor among the seven, pondered for a brief while, and ultimately bowed politely, showing respect to these human forebears. Then, he chose to remove the statue of Gnaeus Pompeius, the renowned Roman general.

To be honest,

Gnaeus Pompeius was indeed a celebrated military leader in ancient history.

Yet I still chose Bai Qi!

There was no choice.

It was pure bloodline guiding me.

And as the moment the statue of Bai Qi was placed upon the shrine,

the entire hall seemed to tremble.

Then, a cold, sharp male voice echoed—

…

[Amid the weight of severe punishment, I would rather die than become a general disgraced by failure.]

...

After hearing this, Zhou Zhou was momentarily stunned, then gently shook his head.

This phrase originates from "Zhuangzhao Ce: Zhongshan Ce: Zhao Wang Ji Xi Min Shan Bing" (The Strategies of the Warring States: The Zhongshan Strategy: King Zhao's Restoring of the People and Strengthening the Army).

It means: I would rather endure a harsh punishment and die than become a general without merit.

White Gen was precisely using this statement to refuse the king's order to lead troops into battle.

Alas, he too met his end because of this very statement.

He didn't dwell on it further, and turned his gaze to the next line of text.

[You have placed a legendary statue of an ancient human ancestor from the Blue Star race—the White Gen—in the ancestral shrine of the Temple of Heaven, thereby activating a unique ancestral bonus effect: The God of Death!]

[The currently enshrined ancestral statue has been updated!]

[The Ancestral Blessing Effect has been updated!]

Zhou Zhou curiously clicked on the current Ancestral Blessing Effect.

[Ancestral Blessing: The God of Death]

[Rank: Legendary]

[Blessing Effect 1: When soldiers under your territory go out to fight, for every enemy of equal rank they kill, a thread of the God of Death's essence gathers upon their bodies. This essence can intimidate and even harm enemies. The more threads accumulated, the stronger the intimidation and the greater the damage inflicted.

When nine million threads of the God of Death's essence have been gathered, a manifestation of the God of Death can be formed, allowing the divine form to join the soldiers in battle.

The more threads collected, the more powerful the God of Death manifestation becomes.]

[Blessing Effect 2: When soldiers under your territory face a death sentence in battle, they enter a state of immortality, maintaining normal actions for ten minutes (the effect fails if the body is destroyed beyond half). Only after ten minutes elapse do they truly die.]

[Blessing Effect 3: Your subordinates are known as "The God of Death," a title that brings renown and intimidates weaker enemies. In combat, there is a small chance that such enemies will surrender without a fight.]

...

Zhou Zhou glanced at it, his brow arched slightly.

The ancestral blessing of Bai Qi—indeed, quite impressive.

As for the difficulty of slaughtering nine million enemies?

How absurd!

On Blue Star and Earth, it would be nearly impossible.

But on the Supreme Continent, where a thousand races vie for dominance, the enemies Zhou Zhou and his peers eliminate in a single day are measured in trillions.

To slaughter nine million alien foes, gather nine million threads of the Spirit of Death, and forge the Form of the God of Death—this is nothing short of trivial for his troops.

"Thank you, ancestral Bai Qi."

Then, without lingering further, he respectfully offered three incense sticks before departing to the Imperial Palace.

As for the three points of Mythic Level reward and the thousand points of Legendary Level reward, Zhou Zhou simply ignored them.

Then Zhou Zhou opened the requirements for upgrading from a lower-tier upper god territory to a mid-tier upper god territory.

[Building Upgrade: 20 million meg-units of wood, 20 million meg-units of fine sand, 20 million meg-units of metal, 20 million meg-units of stone, 1,000 upper god mid-tier god crystals, 20 meg-crystals of source crystal, 2 billion units of time element gemstones, 2 billion units of space element gemstones, 10 mid-tier upper god regional territories, 10 mid-tier upper god deities, 200,000 race heroes, and 10 mid-tier upper god territory decrees!]

"All other conditions I've fulfilled."

"The missing part is still the time-space element gemstones."

Zhou Zhou's gaze settled upon the demand for element gemstones.

A staggering 40 billion units of time-space element gemstones required!

Twice as much as the previous upgrade requirements!

Fortunately, he had already begun launching attacks against the god-king-level domain forces, and the efficiency of gathering time-space element gemstones had significantly increased—otherwise, he would have no idea how to amass such a colossal amount of these precious gemstones.

Then he glanced at the remaining quantity of time-space element gemstones he currently possessed.

After the recent upgrade expenditures, he still held 18.5 billion and over 70 million units of time-space element gemstones.

"There are still over two billion spatial element gemstones needed to upgrade the territory again."

Zhou Zhou thought it.

A smile then appeared on his face.

That number isn't actually that large.

Based on his current harvest, as long as nothing unexpected happens tomorrow, he would have gathered enough spatial element gemstones by tonight to upgrade the territory once more.

He took a deep breath and murmured to himself:

"It's time to upgrade the advanced empire."