Chapter 1055

After becoming a Sixth-Rank, her appearance changed very little, though she grew a bit taller, now a standard young maiden.

But her future changes would be minimal.

No matter how many years she lived, she would always remain youthful and beautiful!

Meng Ying nodded; now that Tina had become Lin Yan's Sacred Maiden, there was no need to hide this fact.

"Yes, Your Grace Tina."

Meng Ying said.

"Truly incredible!"

Tina drew a deep breath.

In fact, she had already learned the outcome of the war in the Heavenly Realm—Eternal Night Empress had told her the entire process.

The Eternal Night Empress had not expected Meng Ying to be only nineteen!

A Sacred Domain at nineteen, and even Second Rank in Sacred Domain!

It looked nothing like the truth!

Perhaps precisely because of this, it could explain the power and mystery of the Flame Lord!

The Eternal Night Empress couldn't help thinking.

She couldn't help wanting to become a god quickly, then go to the Heavenly Realm to see what kind of god this Flame Lord was—the one who had so captivated her sister.

Yes, though the Eternal Night Goddess had not said it outright, from the tone in which the Eternal Night Empress spoke of the Flame Lord, the Eternal Night Empress had clearly heard it: her sister, the Eternal Night Empress, had fallen utterly for the Flame Lord!

The three women chatted for a long time more.

They mainly discussed matters of the Eternal Night Empire.

The Eternal Night Empress was fully focused on breaking through to the Fourth Level, and a nation could not have two emperors.

Therefore, the Eternal Night Empress would announce her abdication, and the Flame Empire would fully absorb the Eternal Night Empire, turning it into the Flame Empire's Western Twenty-Four Provinces.

The Eternal Night Empress also produced a vast amount of data—all of the Eternal Night Empire's core records.

"The Eternal Night Empire conducts population surveys once every hundred years; the last survey was fifty years ago, when the population was 3.5 billion. Now it should be around 3.6 to 3.7 billion."

The Eternal Night Empress said.

On the Continent of Gods, grain remained a major factor limiting population growth.

The reason the Eternal Night Empire had developed so rapidly was because, after the Eternal Night Goddess acquired all the accumulated resources of the Morning Star Pantheon, she had spared no cost in repeatedly bestowing blessings.

Other gods would never do such a thing.

The Morning Star Pantheon had existed for tens of thousands of years, but it had always been reclusive, hiding to study fragments of cosmic laws, remaining obscure in the Heavenly Realm, even easily overlooked—but its accumulated resources were far from ordinary.

Still, despite this, after a thousand years of rapid development, the Eternal Night Empire had now nearly reached its limit.

But after merging with the Flame Empire, the Eternal Night Empire could certainly gain a new wave of development!

The Eternal Night Empress, Meng Ying, and the fox maiden Sister Qing Ling chatted for a full day before finally ending their conversation, still reluctant to part.

A few days later, a grand assembly of all the nobles and officials of the Eternal Night Empire was held in its capital!

The Eternal Night Empress officially announced the merger of the Eternal Night Empire into the Flame Empire, and declared her abdication—though she would still remain stationed in the Eternal Night Empire's capital.

Immediately after, the integration of the two empires began.

The integration proceeded remarkably smoothly.

After all, neither the Eternal Night Goddess nor the Eternal Night Empress offered any resistance; instead, they provided convenience at every turn.

It was hard not to go smoothly!

Even the Eternal Night Empire's original church fully cooperated.

Everyone in the church knew that their former god, the Eternal Night Goddess, had joined the Flame Lord's pantheon, and the Flame Lord had become the most majestic divine sovereign!

Immediately after, the fox maiden Sister Qing Ling issued a land reclamation decree within the Eternal Night Empire.

Though the Eternal Night Empire was prosperous, its territory was equally terrifyingly vast.

A population of several billion could not possibly fill it.

Within the Eternal Night Empire, less than half of the arable land had been cultivated.

It wasn't that the former Eternal Night Empire had neglected reclamation.

It was that crops like rice and wheat were extremely picky about soil and climate.

Many wastelands were simply unsuitable for growing these relatively delicate crops.

But with the arrival of potatoes and sweet potatoes, this problem could now be solved effectively!