Chapter 1601: Total Troops!

Chapter 1601 Total Military Strength!

"From this day forth, there is no longer any need to fret over the lower limits of potential."

Zhou Zhou mused silently.

With the Supreme Divine Body now manifest, the absolute baseline of his subjects' potential had surged to the height of a Tier Four Supreme God.

Moreover, this was the universal floor for every single citizen under his rule—not merely the Blazing Sun Divine Race, formerly the Human Race, but encompassing every other species gathered beneath the banner of the Blazing Sun Divine Kingdom.

Why bother dwelling on that old baseline, which had lingered merely at the High Deity Advanced Tier?

Without the Supreme Divine Body, relying solely on newly ascended Master Gods and Supreme Gods to elevate that baseline would have taken an eternity to raise the potential of the Blazing Sun Divine Kingdom's populace to the level of a Tier Four Supreme God.

Yet now, a single Lord Talent had swept that obstacle away entirely.

"In the future, this Lord Talent can be utilized to continually elevate my people's potential even further."

"When this Lord Talent eventually ascends to the Supreme Will Realm, or perhaps even the Will Transcendence Realm, it is entirely possible that every last subject under my command will possess the bearing of a Supreme Will, or even the grandeur of Will Transcendence!"

Zhou Zhou's eyes shone with sudden brilliance.

If such a feat truly lay within the realm of possibility, then the sheer potential of this Lord Talent could only be described as utterly boundless!

It was in no way inferior to the pinnacle-tier Lord Talent known as the Empyrean Emperor of Destiny.

As for the second effect of this Lord Talent, it raised the baseline strength of the citizens within the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun to the level of lower legendary.

Previously, by virtue of the Mandate of Heaven's Call, the lowest caliber of citizens within the Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun stood at upper epic, while the absolute highest that could be summoned through conventional means reached upper legendary.

Yet with the advent of this new talent, any citizen who came to serve beneath his banner henceforth would possess, at the very absolute minimum, the might of a lower legendary being.

Coupled with the fact that their baseline potential had been elevated to that of a fourth-tier Supreme God!

The sheer velocity at which they would ascend to godhood would be blindingly fast, and the tribulations of doing so, virtually nonexistent!

Which meant that from this day forward,

The Divine Kingdom of the Scorching Sun would bring forth an incredibly terrifying multitude of deities every single day!

Zhou Zhou was even certain that, in no time at all, the number of deities under His command would reach the level of the first dominant force within the First Realm!

Even more so!

One day, the number of deities under His command would surpass the total number of deities across the entire Supreme Cosmos, as well as the combined total of deities from the Supreme Cosmos and the Crimson Cosmos!

As for the third and fourth master talents—these were designed to enhance the enlightenment of the subjects, sharpening their ability to grasp skills and divine techniques, making them among the most practical master talents.

The final master talent, number five, increased the probability of achieving divine ascension.

Its upper limit of probability enhancement could even assist in ascending to the rank of Supreme Deity, and when paired with the minimum potential of a Fourth-Level Supreme Deity, the combined effect would surpass the sum of its parts—achieving a result greater than 1+1.

After reviewing this, Zhou Zhou felt deeply satisfied.

Then He closed the master talent information interface, stood up, and left the Cycle Holy Palace, making his way to the residence of Mu Gu.

After chatting with Mu Gu for a while, he saw a streak of golden light emerge from the Crimson Nidus, descend to the ground, and reveal the form of Wu Xin.

"Your Majesty, I am at your service."

Wu Xin bowed respectfully and, then, produced three rings from his sleeve, offering them to Zhou Zhou. "These are my recent harvests from the Crimson Mother Nest, Majesty. Please take a look."

Zhou Zhou accepted them, inspected them thoroughly, and upon confirming their integrity, split his mission with Wu Xin.

Wu Xin went to recruit new soldiers, while he himself directly arrived at the Summoning Gate.

As usual, he summoned a fleet of eternal battlecruisers of divine-tier rank, then cast all ten yuans of recruitment documents into the Summoning Gate. After spending 100 divine-tier master crystals, he instantly recruited all of them and stationed them aboard the eternal battlecruiser.

Next, he spent another 100 divine-tier master crystals to summon 66.666 billion 666 million 6,000 pure-blooded dragon clans, placing each of them aboard a second eternal mother vessel.

He then carefully observed these dragons and discovered that this time, two legendary dragon clans had been summoned.

One was the Legendary Dragon God—Kozho!

The other was the Evil-Light Dragon Demon—Ira!

One of these legendary dragon clans excelled in the path of death, while the other walked the dual paths of evil and light.

And so, he assigned these pure-blooded dragon clans to serve in the Dragon God Legion.

Then Zhou Zhou spent another 100 main god-tier divine crystals to summon today's subjects.

This time, a total of over 27.2 billion subjects were summoned—6.0 billion more than the usual quota.

Among them, the strongest were fourteen main god-tier divine spirits.

After instructing his subordinates to assign these new soldiers and subjects to their proper roles, He departed alone toward Yujing Mountain, spending 1,000 Jing-level lower god-tier divine crystals to summon 100 Jing-level heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals of the highest rank.

At that very moment—

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Twelve thousand two hundred and ninety-three beams of various law-based light columns erupted skyward from the direction of the Cycle Holy Palace!

Immediately thereafter—

Across the endless expanse of stars in the heavens, twenty entirely distinct celestial anomalies suddenly appeared, each one strikingly different from the others.

Celestial phenomena surged throughout the heavens!

The pantheon of gods across all realms stood stunned.

Twenty new Supreme Deities—twenty!—had just emerged?

In the annals of their history, such a sudden surge of Supreme Deities had occurred only once before.

During the great incursion of the Delusional Race, when the Chaos Will, in desperate resistance against the invaders, had willed forth thousands of Primordial Gods, forcibly elevating them to the rank of Supreme Deity.

This time, though the number of newly emerged Supreme Deities—only twenty—was vastly inferior to that great feat of the Chaos Will, there was a fundamental difference.

The Chaos Will had created those thousands through force, through sheer will.

But this time, these twenty were born naturally—spontaneously, organically—through the very fabric of existence.

In the history of their vast cosmos, no such event had ever occurred: the simultaneous emergence of so many Supreme Deities in one breath.

The difference in meaning was absolute.

Regarding the sense of awe.

These twenty newly emerged Supreme Deities are no less impressive than the thousands of Supreme Deities from the highest gods!

Upon observing the origin of these twenty Supreme Deities, there was no surprise—once again, it was the Yang God Realm of the Celestial Sovereign, the Master of the People!

To them, this was entirely unsurprising.

Only the Yang God Realm of the Celestial Sovereign could achieve such a feat.

In this regard, even the Universal Demon Master, the Spring and Autumn Law Master, and the Heaven-Punishing God King could not match it!

"Supreme Lord, Fourth Reserve Rank, has once again set a new record! Hah, birthing twenty Supreme Deities at once—unprecedented, groundbreaking, and... well, I suppose the Supreme Lord, Fourth Reserve Rank, will likely continue shattering this record in the future."

"Still calling him 'Supreme Lord, Fourth Reserve Rank'? The Celestial Sovereign Master is now officially the 'Supreme Lord, Third Reserve Rank'—he has surpassed the Universal Demon Master!"

"Remarkable indeed! The Celestial Sovereign Master is undoubtedly the first ever Reserve Rank to breach the order barrier and successfully ascend!"

"The Supreme Demon Lord has not achieved any new feats in a very long time—those deities who once served in the Ultimate Void Battlefield know this well. And yet, the Great Sovereign of the People merely spent a short time there and reclaimed the Ultimate Void Battlefield. From that moment, I knew the Great Sovereign of the People would eventually surpass the Supreme Demon Lord. But I truly never expected it to happen so quickly."

"The Supreme Demon Lord may have no official accolades, yet he has certainly borne great burdens. All know the state of affairs in the Ultimate Void Battlefield—was it not the Demon Lord’s lack of effort? No, the enemy was simply too powerful, beyond what the Supreme Demon Lord could possibly overcome. As for how the Great Sovereign of the People managed to shift the entire situation upon his very first arrival—only one explanation remains: he is truly the final chosen successor of the Supreme Sovereign’s Will."

"You two factions, stop arguing. As far as I know, though the Great Sovereign of the People and the Supreme Demon Lord have only known each other for a short time, they are close friends indeed. If either of them saw you quarreling over such trivial matters, they’d likely just shake their heads and burst into laughter."

"I've also heard this—unbelievable, the relationship between these two final candidates for Supreme Sovereigns is truly astonishingly good."

...

Meanwhile.

By now, Zhou Zhou found himself surrounded by a host of newly ascended chief deities and Supreme Gods. After a brief exchange of words, he gifted each of them a set of divine artifacts. The gods were electrified with excitement, and then they respectfully departed.

Once they had all left, Zhou Zhan quietly calculated the strength of his core combat forces under his command.

His original forces numbered 45 yao 459 jing 2711 zhao 9182 billion 2387 million 8167 soldiers, 1 zho 956 billion 3575 million 9999 deities, 257 billion 3411 million 7552 true gods, 690,000 7352 chief deities, 352 supreme gods, and 16 near-omnipotent wills!

Adding today's newly recruited and promoted forces—20 yao of fresh recruits, 666 billion 6666 million 6000 pure-blooded dragon kin, 100 jing of heavenly soldiers, 120,2933 newly ascended chief deities, and 20 newly elevated supreme gods—the strength under His command now stands at an astonishing 65 yao 559 jing 2711 zhao 984 billion 2987 million 8167 soldiers, 1 zho 963 billion 275 million 9999 deities, 257 billion 3418 million 3552 true gods, 820,285 chief deities, 372 supreme gods, and still 16 near-omnipotent wills!

After reading this, Zhou Zhou nodded in satisfied approval.