Chapter 1262: Upgrading the Summoning Gate! Upgrading the Primordial Dragon Abyss! Advancing to High-Level Empire!

Chapter 1262: Upgrade the Summoning Gate! Upgrade the Original Long Yuan! Ascend to a High Empire!

Before ascending to a High Empire, Zhou Zhou first arrived at the Summoning Gate, spending 200,000 megatonnes—equivalent to 20 jin units of base materials and 10,000 lower-tier divine crystal shards—to upgrade the Summoning Gate to the lower-tier divine level.

[Congratulations! Your Summoning Gate has successfully been upgraded to a lower-tier divine structure!]

[Your daily population summoning capacity has increased by +500,000!]

[Among the daily summoning population, exactly 30,000 professionals will inevitably appear!]

[Note: Due to the unique title 'The Glory of the Pioneer XI,' your daily summoning population has increased to 32,620,500 individuals!]

[Among the daily summoning population, exactly 30,001 professionals will inevitably appear!]

After reading it through, Zhou Zhou nodded.

The base summoning capacity of a lower-tier divine Summoning Gate is 296,5500 individuals!

With the influence of 'The Glory of the Pioneer XI,' this figure multiplies by eleven—reaching a staggering 32,620,500!

"Closer than ever to summoning true god-tier vassals every day."

Zhou Zhou's face softened into a faint smile.

Then He turned his gaze to the upgrade requirements of the Summoning Gate.

[Building Upgrade: 20 billion units of wood, 20 billion units of fine sand, 20 billion units of metal, 20 billion units of stone, 10,000 upper-god mid-tier divine crystals; Territory level upgraded to upper-god mid-tier!]

[Note: 1 "jing" = 10,000 gigas]

Zhou Zhou withdrew his gaze, and then spent 2 billion units of base materials, 5 billion mid-tier upper-god divine crystals, and 5 billion base elemental gems to elevate the original Long-Yuan within the Summoning Gate to the lower-tier of upper-god status.

Then He looked ahead.

[Building Name: Original Long-Yuan]

[Building Level: Lower-tier of Upper-God]

[Function: Each day, the Original Long-Yuan may summon 6 billion silver upper-tier pure-blood dragon clans, 600 million golden upper-tier pure-blood dragon clans, 60 million platinum mid-tier pure-blood dragon clans... and 6 true-god lower-tier dragon deities as vassals under the Lord's command, with a 12% chance of summoning legendary dragon clans.]

[Building Upgrade: 1 jin units of wood, 1 jin units of fine sand, 1 jin units of metal, 1 jin units of stone, 50,000 upper-tier divine crystals of mid-tier deities, 1 billion base elemental gems!]

After reading it, Zhou Zhou nodded with satisfaction.

Tomorrow He would be able to summon 6.6 billion 66 million 66 thousand pure-blooded dragon kin!

That number would be utterly staggering even among the dragon clans.

"Not long from now, I fear I'll have to summon all the dragon clans across the myriad realms,"

Zhou Zhou smiled faintly.

Then, he glanced back at the original requirements for upgrading the Dragon Deep, and couldn't help but take a sharp breath.

Good heavens?!

5 billion lower-tier divine crystals of upper-tier deities!

1 billion base elemental gems!

If it weren't for the combined effects of the War Prize King and all my various titles granting me a 3.5x yield, I might never have managed to upgrade this initial Dragon Deep on my own.

"Among the million-tribe chieftains, I'm probably the only one who could possibly upgrade the initial Dragon Deep."

Zhou Zhou mused to himself.

Then, without further thought, he walked to the Imperial Golden Stele within the Divine Palace, took a deep breath, and silently chanted his ascension.

The next instant.

A text prompt appeared.

[Notification: You have met all requirements for promotion to a Senior Empire. Shall the Yang Empire be elevated to a Senior Empire?]

"Ascend!"

Zhou Zhou immediately replied.

[Notification: You have one opportunity to change the capital's location. Shall you change it or retain the current one?]

"Retained!"

Zhou Zhou answered without hesitation.

No one could deny the unique status of the Sunlord in the hearts of every citizen of the Sun Empire.

Even now, with the Sun Capital having absorbed several true god-tier territories from god-king domains, its status had been elevated to a true god-tier regional domain.

How could such a precious asset be abandoned for nothing, and instead chosen to establish a new capital elsewhere?

[Tip: Your selection has been confirmed!]

[Tip: Your lordship's domain—Mid-Level Empire – Sun Empire—is undergoing promotion...]

[Tip: Promotion successful!]

[Congratulations! Your Mid-Level Empire Lordship – Sun Empire – has officially been elevated to a High-Level Empire Lordship – Sun Empire!]

[Tip: You may display your empire's domain rank at any channel!]

Zhou Zhou exhaled a deep breath of relief.

At last, officially elevated to a High Imperial domain.

Only one step away from becoming a Sovereign-Class Domain Lord!

And just then—

A new broadcast from the Universal Clan Lords' main channel appeared.

[Universal Clan Lords Main Channel Broadcast: Congratulations to the Human Clan—Lord Jiaoyang, for successfully elevating your imperial territory to the first High Imperial Domain among the Universal Clan Lords! Reward: One Mythic Treasure Box, one High Imperial Treasure Box! Legendary Rank +100! Mythic Rank +10!]

[Universal Clan Lords Main Channel Broadcast: Congratulations to the Human Clan—Lord Jiaoyang…]

[Universal Clan Lords Main Channel Broadcast: Congratulations to the Human Clan—Lord Jiaoyang…]

Seeing this, the smile on Zhou Zhou's face grew even more radiant.

With a gentle smile, He opened the various channels he was currently in.

Unsurprisingly, both the world channel of the Blue Planet's human race and the channel of the myriad racial lords were in a frenzy of discussion regarding His ascension to a high-tier imperial lord faction.

The reaction within the myriad racial lords' channel was particularly vehement.

[He has already ascended to a high-tier imperial lord faction?! I am still stuck at a low-tier kingdom, for heaven's sake!]

[As far as I know, among the myriad racial lords right now, even the likes of the Real Lord, Taiyi Lord, and Chutian Lord have not yet attained the status of a low-tier imperial lord faction, let alone a high-tier one. This chasm... is simply too vast.]

[I feel for them, having to compete in the same era as that freak, the Sun Lord.]

[In all fairness, the Real Lord, Chutian Lord, and Taiyi Lord are all incredibly powerful. Any one of them, taken individually, is fully capable of vying for the throne of the Supreme Lord. Yet, the Sun Lord is just too monstrous. A human lord, forcing the three of them so low they dare not even show their faces.]

[I strongly propose that the Sun Lord be expelled from our ranks as myriad racial lords. You call this a lord of the myriad races?!]

[Strongly agree! In my own race, the highest-ranking lord faction is merely a high-tier imperial lord faction. How can this Sun Lord still be considered a faction of the myriad racial lords? It would not be an exaggeration to call Him an entire racial faction on His own!]

[Judging by the sheer speed at which His lord faction is ascending, it probably won't be long before we have to address Him as Your Crown, Lord of the Divine Kingdom.]

[That won't happen. A divine kingdom-tier lord faction is fundamentally different from imperial and kingdom-tier ones; the ascension requirements are too numerous. It will be impossible for the Sun Lord to ascend to a divine kingdom-tier lord faction anytime soon.]

[Are you sure?]

[I also think that the Prairial Lord would find it extremely difficult to ascend to the rank of Divine Nation-level Lord Faction. Any race faction with a Divine Nation-level Lord Faction can at least claim to be a mid-tier bloodline race faction. The Prairial Lord relies on the Human race, whose foundation is too weak to ever rise to the level of a Divine Nation-level Lord Faction.]

[I also think it's quite a challenge.]

[Once the other side ascends to the rank of Divine Nation-level Lord Faction, I believe the Great Race Lord's Contest will come to a close. One Divine Nation-level Lord Faction among a crowd of myriad race lords—how could anyone possibly stand against that?]

…

Zhou Zhou nodded slightly as he listened to their conversation.