Chapter 2040

Continue the challenge.

Xiao Feng did not stop.

He passed layers 2501-3000 in less than five minutes, and the time he has spent entering the Myriad Heavens Tower is still only about two hours.

Such an astonishing achievement will surely scare the people outside, but he doesn't mind.

Anyway, it's not the first time he's scared people!

【Switching challenge scene...】

The system voice sounded, and the scene before his eyes changed.

Xiao Feng thought, after passing 3000 layers, the Myriad Heavens Tower's entire challenge is already 30% over; what intensity will come next?

At this stage, reaching it requires the peak of the regular Ancestral God realm; perhaps Cai Yi and Fei Lian, holding Supreme Treasures and equipment, could also get this far, but battling 500 Ancestral Gods in a row would certainly not be easy.

Beyond layer 3001, it will only get stronger; likely it is a Venerable Realm challenge.

If this idea holds, layer 3001 is the threshold of the Venerable Realm; then what kind of trials are the following 6999 layers?

It can't be that the span of a Venerable is that huge, right?

Perhaps there are some special realms unknown to others between the Venerable and the Dao Ancestor.

Or perhaps... the Dao Ancestor also cannot reach layer 9999, merely being at some intermediate stage.

Thinking this, Xiao Feng couldn't help but develop a strong curiosity about the later Myriad Heavens Tower.

The scene before his eyes became clear.

The challenge space of layer 3001 is on a vast, boundless expanse of land.

This time the terrain is no longer a plain; there are hills, forests, lakes, great rivers, and even cities!

Before Xiao Feng could think, the system prompt announced this round's challenge.

【Myriad Heavens Tower 3001-

4000-layer challenge content: Hegemony Challenge. You will play as the leader of the human race, leading the human race to contend for supremacy under heaven. The entire map has a total of 13000 cities; occupying 10000 of them simultaneously means passing. During the process, you can only issue commands, cannot use your own power. This layer's challenge is in save mode; leaving the Myriad Heavens Tower automatically saves, and upon re-entry time flows automatically. The challenge process cannot be reset; if all human cities fall, it is deemed a failure, permanently losing eligibility for further challenges.】

After hearing the description, Xiao Feng couldn't help but stare dumbfounded.

This is a continuous 1000-layer challenge segment, the process is absurdly complex!

13000 cities, need to occupy 10000 to pass, and violence is not allowed!

What he's best at is fighting, not simulating management!

How to handle such a huge map?

Whoosh~

A book fell from the sky and landed in his hand.

【Hegemony Manual】: Part of the basic rules introduction for the Hegemony Challenge, can help you understand this trial more quickly.

Xiao Feng opened it and saw that the first page had only one sentence.

Basic rule: The Hegemony Challenge's time flow speed is controllable; the initial stage defaults to time paused, after starting it can be adjusted between 1 and 3600 times, with the fastest speed being one hour per second.

"Not bad; with acceleration, one day equals ten years, saving a lot of time, no need to linger here too long."

Xiao Feng nodded silently.

In the Myriad Heavens world, a year is 360 days; at 3600x speed, that's exactly ten years per day.

Turning to the second page, it also had only one sentence.

Basic rule: The Hegemony Challenge's population unit is 'thousand', each

Each low-level NPC represents 1000 population units; high-level NPCs have independence and can be appointed as ministers to help you contend for supremacy under heaven.

Then flipping further, every page is this same sentence.

Basic rule: The Hegemony Challenge's map is scaled down; each 1 meter distance actually equals 1000 meters, making the populace's movement speed appear slow, so please don't rush.

Basic rule: All resources in this world correspond to population units, including but not limited to food, metal, stone, timber, water, spirit stones, weapons, etc.

Basic rule: All items will expire; upon expiration they automatically disappear or deteriorate, with different materials having different shelf lives, food being the most prone to spoil.

Basic rule: All your populace absolutely obey you; each of your commands will be executed 100%, but whether they can be done well depends on the NPCs' abilities.

Basic rule: Weather changes only affect populace below level 5; level 5 and above populace can ignore harsh weather.

Basic rule: Monarchs of foreign factions cannot be killed; only after they lose their left and right territories will they automatically retreat into seclusion.

Basic rule: When a city's prosperity falls below 20%, or if a severe natural disaster occurs nearby, the populace will automatically begin to flee famine, regardless of your faction or others.

One regulation after another, flipping page after page, Xiao Feng couldn't help but wryly smile.

"Am I just running into a game to play a game?"

The Hegemony Challenge game is similar to some traditional strategy games on the Blue Star network, except the content is richer and the map vaster.

If this were an independent game, with many people playing monarchs in it

it would be quite interesting.

But here he is the only solo player, facing countless foreign factions, which makes it somewhat dull.

Xiao Feng glanced at the map.

The internal world of the Hegemony Challenge is a rectangular continent 10 by 150 thousand kilometers; after removing unimportant seas and unclimbable mountains, about three-quarters of the land is usable.

At a 1:1000 scale, this world is actually 100 million km by 150 million km; the long side is roughly the distance from Blue Star to the Sun, and even light would take over eight minutes to cross it.

For the NPC populace to occupy 10000 cities, they'd practically have to traverse the entire world; even if they did nothing but walk, no one knows how long it would take.

Thus this is destined to be a lengthy game; even with time acceleration, it cannot be finished in a short time.

Xiao Feng muttered to himself: "Winning the myriad races' hegemony here is probably harder than winning the final after thirteen years on the Myriad Heavens Battlefield. This 3001-4000 layer counts as late-game play."

In the outside world, hegemony, with his own strength as a spear, defeating enemies and breaking formations would be easy.

But here, his martial prowess is disabled; he can only act as a ruler making decisions, the difficulty is self-evident.

Xiao Feng glanced at his current lord data.

【Human Faction】

Time: Year 1 of the Contention Era, January 1, 00:00:00

Lord: Xiao Feng (Human Emperor Mode)

Number of Cities: 1 (minimum level 1, maximum level 10, level determined by Chengshi construction degree, prosperity unrelated to level)

Total Population: 20 (can be conscripted into the army, the military-to-civilian ratio cannot exceed

1:10)

Military Population: 1 (can be trained into higher-level troops)

Independent NPC: 2 (has growth potential, can cultivate, can be appointed as city lord or other positions, can also be bestowed upon other Independent NPCs)

Zuzun Qi Yun: 2 (the more Qi Luck, the higher the probability of spawning Independent NPCs; base Qi Luck = population/10, can be increased through war, construction, exploring fairyland)

The basic data is not much, because each city's data is independent and not counted on this page.

Xiao Feng took a look, there were 13000 cities on the map, but he only had one, and he instantly felt depressed.

One city, 20 population, at most 20000 people total, how can we contend for hegemony?

Then take a look at the starting data of the other races……

Good fellow! The Beastfolk tribe starts with a population of 300 and has 4 cities!

The Holy Insect tribe is even more badass: although only two cities, its population is 1400!

The Demon Rock tribe and humans are like brothers in hardship, both have one city with 20 population, the minimum configuration.

The Spirit Bird tribe, Divine Wood tribe, Strange Spirit tribe, and Calamity Demon tribe each have 1-3 cities, with populations ranging from 50 to 400.

"Population is also low, and reproductive ability can't even compare to the Insect Tribe and beasts; what the hell is this chicken feather nonsense……"

Seeing this data, Xiao Feng really wanted to quit the game on the spot.

However, this game cannot be not played; if lost, the subsequent treasures of the Heavenly Tower will not be obtainable.

Fortunately, the distances among the eight major tribes are far; of the 13000 cities, almost all are currently in the "unbuilt" stage, merely marking locations indicating suitability for city-building; to truly become a city, one still needs to input population and resources.