Chapter 1521: Upgrade Territory! Upgrade Intermediate Main God Kingdom! Four Symbols Divine Wheel!

Chapter 1521: Upgrade the Territory! Upgrade to a Mid-Level Supreme God Realm! The Four Divine Wheels!

Zhou Wu instantly sent a mental message to Zhou Zhou, who was currently refining within the Palace of Cycles, instructing him to personally oversee the territory's ascension. As for himself, he led his host of Supreme Gods and the Supreme Deity straight toward Zhou Sheng, uniting with Zhou Sheng and his forces from the Yangray Divine Realm to continue conquering the other lordly factions across the Supreme Continent.

Now, nearly one-fifth of the entire Supreme Continent has fallen under the expanding dominion of the Yangray Divine Realm.

By territorial reach alone, the Yangray Divine Realm has become the first among all divine realms on the Supreme Continent—without a single rival.

Every lordly nation across the Supreme Continent has come to realize that the ambition of the Celestial Sovereign is far greater than mere territorial expansion. His true desire is to conquer the entire continent, unify it all, and become the absolute Emperor of the Supreme Continent.

At first, some deities criticized Zhou Zhou’s actions.

Their reasoning: the Supreme Continent is the absolute core of the entire Supreme Cosmos, the shared homeland of all the races. For the Yangray Divine Realm to seek exclusive dominion over it would be a violation of the collective will of the myriad races and the original intent behind the creation of the Supreme Continent.

Yet Zhou Zhou paid no heed to these objections. He continued relentlessly down his path of conquest and expansion.

Divine beings witnessed this and intervened, even forming an organization known as the [Supreme Continent Multinational Alliance] to halt the expansion of the Praeyang Divine Realm.

Yet after a few clashes with the Praeyang Divine Realm’s forces, this alliance was swiftly crushed by the overwhelming numbers and might of the Praeyang military.

The collapse was nothing short of a one-sided defeat—utterly and instantly shattered!

Only then did the continental duchies truly grasp the terrifying power of the Praeyang Divine Realm.

Faced with its advance, they found themselves with no capacity to resist.

Even the duchies of divine realm status were powerless.

The Celestial Emperor, having ascended to the Fourth Reserve Rank of Supreme Duke, now commanded forces so formidable that no duke or faction could stand against them.

These duchies had once sought aid from the highest divine powers across the Supreme Continent, pleading with them to halt the unchecked expansion of the Praeyang Divine Realm.

But in response to their appeals, the highest divine beings showed no inclination to intervene—each and every one turned down the request.

Only then did they finally realize something.

The supreme divine forces on the Highest Continent refused their plea. Even the forces of boundless will, and the very essence of supreme will itself, remained silent, offering no intervention.

What does this mean?

It means that every top-tier power has implicitly accepted the expansion of the Emperor of the People.

In other words:

They have already tacitly acknowledged that the Emperor of the People may claim the Highest Continent!

Since learning this truth, the divine sovereign lords of the Highest Continent have ceased seeking aid from beyond, instead turning solely to find allies within the continent itself—partners to jointly resist the conquest and expansion of the Sun's Divine Realm.

Yet the Sun's Divine Realm is too powerful. No hastily formed alliance among them could stand against such might. As a result, the Sun's Divine Realm's expansion across the Highest Continent has encountered no significant resistance.

As for Zhou Zhou, he had long known that the Highest Continent was designated as exclusive territory—reserved for himself, the fourth reserve sovereign lord of supreme will.

After all:

The Supreme Demon Lord possesses the ultimate void battlefield;

The Spring and Autumn Law Master governs the long river of time;

Heavenly Punishment and Divine King possess the land of twilight;

These three supreme territories, reserved exclusively for aspiring rulers of the highest rank, one surpasses the other in excellence—so when it came to his own domain, he could not fall short. Thus, after careful deliberation, the Supreme Will decided to bestow the Supreme Continent upon him.

This was something Zhou Zhou learned during one of his conversations with the Supreme Will.

Had the Supreme Will not wished to refine himself through experience, nor to ensure that the fate of the Supreme Continent would be universally accepted, He would have simply decreed the continent to be his own.

Instead, He entrusted Zhou Zhou to conquer one by one the lordly factions across the Supreme Continent, until the entire continent was fully subdued and he stood as the undisputed king.

Otherwise, He could have simply issued a command and assigned the continent directly to Zhou Zhou.

These lords of the Supreme Continent were entirely unaware of this.

They believed themselves engaged in resisting the unbounded invasion of the "evil" Sun God Realm, completely ignorant that their fates had already been predetermined by the Supreme Will.

...

On the other side.

The Celestial Capital of Radiant Sunlight.

The Palace of Cyclic Sanctity.

At this moment, Zhou Zhou was refining his powers within the Realm of Time.

He had just ascended to the first rank of Supreme Deity, and now, precisely at the crucial juncture of stabilizing his cultivation.

Deities of his caliber did not require the traditional practices of meditation or refining divine energy to solidify their power. Instead, what they truly needed was to strengthen their own will—the very essence of their being.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhou possessed two incomparable treasures: the Supreme Mind and the Sacred Scripture of the Mind. These had elevated his willpower to the mid-stage of Willful Deification, and even brought him close to the late stage.

Thus, within the Realm of Time, he stabilized his first-rank Supreme Deity cultivation in just over a year.

He slowly opened his eyes.

And then, a message from Zhou Wu arrived.

"Have you collected the Chaotic Divine Artifact?"

"It's much faster than I expected."

Zhou Zhou's lips curled into a smile.

Then his divine body vanished from the spot.

...

Above the Pride Sun Capital.

The outline of Zhou Zhou suddenly appeared in midair.

He gazed down at the increasingly majestic and vast Pride Sun Capital, a touch of sentiment stirring within him—but instantly, his focus returned to what he had to accomplish.

That was upgrading his territory.

With a mere thought—

the next second,

With the instant disappearance of 2,000 yao units of fundamental materials, 5,000 mid-tier master god crystalline cores, 50 jing units of source crystals, 1,000 units of chaotic divine treasures, and 10 units of ultimate void crystalline formations, a textual prompt appears.

[Congratulations! Your subordinate master god realm (Lord's Law) has successfully advanced to a mid-tier master god realm (Lord's Law)!]

[Your territory has successfully elevated to a mid-tier master god territory!]

[Your subordinate primordial unity array has upgraded to a mid-tier master god primordial unity array.]

[Territory stone pillar durability has increased to: 50 jing / 50 jing!]

[Your territorial expanse has expanded to 5 zhang km × 5 zhang km × 30 million meters!]

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

[The crimson fog will no longer appear within any of your territorial domains!]

[You have received an upgrade reward: Mythic Architecture Blueprint Box (Mid-Tier Master God)!]

[Lord Talent Notification: Your Scarlet Broodmother can now be upgraded!]

[Lord Talent Notification: The influence of your Mysterious Caravan has been elevated!]

[Lord Talent Notification: The clerics of your Ark of Life have grown in strength!]

Zhou Zhou nodded with satisfaction at the sight.

Finally, the territory had ascended to the rank of an Intermediate Master God Domain.

To be entirely truthful, it had proven considerably simpler than he had initially envisioned.

In the beginning, he had imagined that gathering one thousand units of Chaos Divine Treasures would be an arduous, monumental task.

Yet, he had never anticipated the subsequent emergence of the Time Secret Realm known as the Death of Chaos, nor the sudden viability of purchasing these treasures directly from other high-tier divine-kingdom-level lords.

With these two new avenues laid before him and a series of swift maneuvers executed, the once-daunting collection of Chaos Divine Treasures had suddenly become far less formidable.

"It's just unknown whether things will get any simpler from here on."

Zhou Zhou took a deep breath and looked at the resource demands of the upgraded Supreme God's upper territory.

...

[Building Upgrade: 1000 yao units of wood, 1000 yao units of fine sand, 1000 yao units of metal, 1000 yao units of stone, 10,000 Supreme God upper-tier crystal shards, 100 jin units of source crystal, 5,000 units of chaotic divine treasure, 50 units of ultimate void crystalline, 50 advanced divine nations, 100 Supreme God upper-tier deities, 100 million heroes!]

...

After reading it through, Zhou Zhou's gaze lingered on the number: 5,000 units of chaotic divine treasure. After a long silence, he gave a slight nod.

"5,000 units of chaotic divine treasure."

"Not a lot, certainly—but not a little either."

"Today I've already acquired over 500 units of chaotic divine treasure."

"Plus, I can still purchase chaotic divine treasure from other advanced divine nation lords' factions."

"That is to say, if everything goes smoothly, within ten or fifteen days I should be able to gather all the chaotic divine treasures required to upgrade my territory."

Zhou Zhou thought it over.

If that were the case, collecting the chaotic divine treasures wouldn't be difficult at all—just requiring a bit more time and effort.

As for the other upgrade requirements, he merely glanced at them and immediately realized that he already met all of them.

Still, he looked again at the requirement for fifty units of Ultimate Void Crystals and one hundred million heroes.

The Ultimate Void Crystal was a naturally formed artifact originating from the ultimate void environment. It could be obtained in the ultimate void battlefield, or by venturing out from the Supreme Cosmic Realm and entering the ultimate void itself.

Though the process was extremely difficult and largely dependent on luck, if one invested vast amounts of manpower, financial resources, and time into the endeavor, there would surely be those willing to take on the challenge—after all, with sufficient rewards, even the most reluctant would step forward. Acquiring Ultimate Void Crystals, therefore, was not beyond reach.

What concerned Zhou Zhou most was the demand for one hundred million race heroes.

Heroes arise purely by chance. Even among advanced race powers, the probability of producing a hero isn't necessarily much higher than that of lesser races.

And here, it demanded one hundred million heroes.

Even without the restriction of having heroes from one's own race, the sheer scale seemed utterly terrifying.

"One hundred million heroes... Well, I could easily meet this upgrade requirement by creating countless heroes using vast quantities of the 'Heroic Heritage Codex.'"

"Other high-level God Kingdom-level master factions don't possess as many 'Heroic Heritage Codexes' as I do. They'd probably have to wage wars against other factions, forcibly seizing heroes from other races, to amass such a colossal number."

Zhou Zhou sighed, reflecting on it.

Rising through the ranks of the Supreme God Realm truly proved difficult.

Then he let it go.

Difficult? So be it.

After all, it wasn't difficult for himself.

Then, within His mind, He silently whispered: "Upgrade to Intermediate Supreme God Realm."

The very next second.

A text prompt appeared.

[Prompt: You have met all the conditions required to advance to the Intermediate Supreme God Realm. Would you like to elevate the Yangyang Divine Realm to Intermediate Supreme God Realm?]

"Advance!"

Zhou Zhou said.

[Prompt: You have one opportunity to change the location of your Divine Capital. Would you like to change or retain the current location?]

"Retain!"

[Prompt: Your choice has been confirmed!]

[Notification: Your lord's domain—the Primary Main Divine Kingdom, the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun—is currently undergoing ascension...]

[Notification: Ascension successful!]

[Congratulations! Your Primary Main Divine Kingdom lord's domain, the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun, has officially ascended to a Intermediate Main Divine Kingdom lord's domain—the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun!]

[Notification: You may display your Divine Kingdom domain level across any channel!]

The very next second.

The voice of the Myriad Races Announcement reverberated through the ears of Zhou Zhou and all the races across the heavens.

[Myriad Races Announcement: Congratulations to the Divine Lord of the Scorching Sun of the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun for successfully ascending his Divine Kingdom domain into the first Intermediate Main Divine Kingdom lord's domain among the myriad races of the heavens. Rewarded with Myriad Races Mythological Treasure Chest +1, Intermediate Main Divine Kingdom Treasure Chest +1! Legend Reputation +5,000,000! Mythos Reputation +20,000!]

[Myriad Races Announcement: Congratulations to the Divine Lord of the Scorching Sun of the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun...]

[Myriad Races Announcement: Congratulations to the Divine Lord of the Scorching Sun of the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun...]

A faint smile graced the corners of Zhou Zhou's lips.

An intermediate Divine Kingdom!

It was done!

Meanwhile, the myriad races of the heavens were plunged into utter shock.

How much time had truly passed? How could the Emperor of Common Peoples have already elevated his lordly domain from a rudimentary Divine Kingdom to an intermediate one?

Had they not heard that those factions among the high-tier Divine Kingdoms had only just begun gathering their primordial treasures? To say nothing of an intermediate domain, they had not even achieved a rudimentary Divine Kingdom yet.

Good heavens.

Was this truly the Emperor of Common Peoples, the one who forged countless miracles?

He was well worthy of being the fourth successor chosen by the Supreme Will itself; every move he made left them so astounded they scarcely knew what to say.

Soon, the Myriad Races Lord Channel and the Myriad Races Battlefield Channel erupted into furious, heated discussion over the matter.

Zhou Zhou watched for a brief moment, then, with a light chuckle, turned his full attention back to his own rewards.

Firstly, the Mythic Box of a Hundred Races.

He opened it, and within the box lay a windmill radiating four hues of light.

"Windmill?"

Zhou Zhou stared at it in astonishment.

[Race Artifact Name: The Four-Phased Divine Wheel]

[Artifact Rank: Top-tier Race Artifact (Not Bound)]

[Race Artifact Ability 1 – The Four Phases Force: A universal race artifact, the first of its kind born from the dawn of the Four-Phased Immense World. It holds the primordial power of the Four-Phased Immense World. Any being wielding the Four-Phased Divine Wheel gains enhanced innate affinity to the Four Phases—Wind, Thunder, Light, and Darkness—among their followers and kin. Such beings also gain 20% immunity to damage from the Four Phases, and their attacks of these attributes grow in strength by 50%.]

[Race Artifact Ability 2 – The Four-Phased Annihilation Technique: The Four-Phased Divine Wheel absorbs the primordial essences of Wind, Thunder, Light, and Darkness, unleashing a single blow capable of felling a near-omnipotent will. After use, all effects of the Four-Phased Divine Wheel are temporarily nullified for one year.]

[Race Artifact Description: A universal race artifact conceived and nurtured by the Four-Phased Immense World through the fusion of its fundamental laws—Wind, Thunder, Light, and Darkness. It was later claimed by the Four-Phased Supreme Deity. After the Supreme Deity's fall in the Twilight Lands, this artifact was gathered by the Supreme Will and preserved, destined for its future master.]

...

"The Four-Element Divine Wheel?"

"Another race-specific immortality artifact with immunity properties!"

"And its effects are entirely on par with the Five-Element Starlight I previously obtained!"

"Moreover, this Four-Element Divine Wheel even possesses active offensive capabilities."

"However, after using it, the wheel's effects vanish for a full year—somewhat of a loss, really... Well, I'll pass. I'm not lacking in combat power from the Precise Supreme Will Realm. I don't need this wheel to compensate."

After reviewing the effects of this race-specific artifact, Zhou Zhou remained deeply satisfied.