[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac":3,"chapter-universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-228":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Nationwide Lords: The Zero-Troop Building Maniac",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1943914,2690,"Chapter 228","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-228",228,"\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan saw through the plans of this Human Race First Star at a single glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He mocked him a few times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he saw quite a few\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>bullet comments cheering for Su Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go Su Yu, you're the best!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Charge!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Defeat them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great Su Yu will eventually enter the Ten Thousand Races sequence!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, Su Shen is the best in the world!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Race was cheering for Su Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was going on? This Su Yu seemed to be quite popular?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll say it here, if he wins...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoxiao, on the side, mimicked Leopard Bao Yuan's tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan glanced at her speechlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you think he's Yueluo, that I need to make a harsh threat?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then say it, don't tell me you're afraid?\" Xiaoxiao blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, a clown like this, deliberately trying to grab attention, isn't even worth me making a threat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan was amused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the giant Kakuta's exploration force discovered Su Yu's territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this sight,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was like a bolt from the blue, striking the top of his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No city walls, not even a fence;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the state of Su Yu's territory was clear at a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You, you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Su Yu, who was fishing not far away, filled with unbearable grief and indignation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So fast?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu was surprised: \"I haven't even caught a single fish yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Darling, a long time has already passed.\" Sylph, on the side, reminded him, giving Su Yu absolutely no face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kill!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Flatten his territory for me!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kakuta's eyes turned red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He directly ordered his 037 scout units\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to act as the vanguard, launching a charge toward Su Yu's territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of arrow defense towers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one lord, one hero,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not even deploying any troops;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this was not treating him as a person!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan: \"At a time like this, he still won't deploy troops.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan: \"This farce should come to an end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoxiao: \"But Su Yu is really handsome, and his elf hero is so beautiful... Living together like this, a talented man and a beautiful woman, it's truly enviable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already a ridiculous match,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Xiaoxiao didn't care about the commentary content anymore,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>chatting casually as if it were a normal conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of arrow defense towers\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>launched their attacks in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Leopard Bao Yuan shook the warm water cup in his hand and sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had already reached his doorstep,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet he didn't deploy troops, and the hero didn't make a move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he really think he was Yueluo?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, even Yueluo wouldn't use such low-level arrow defense towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoxiao: \"If he could win...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the disdain on Leopard Bao Yuan's face, Xiaoxiao immediately started teasing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan could no longer tolerate Xiaoxiao's provocation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed the table on the spot: \"If he can win, I'll take this water cup...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could finish his sentence,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a rain of arrows tore through the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The defensive shield condensed from Earth-type spells\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was pierced through by the arrows like a sheet of paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kakuta, who practiced the Epic-grade body-refining technique [Earth Divine Art],\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had his sturdy, broad, and tall body\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>pierced through by the rain of arrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rain of arrows, as if carrying the momentum of heaven and earth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>struck every target in sight,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>slaughtering them all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the clouds, those cheers for Kakuta\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>went silent in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warm water cup in Leopard Bao Yuan's hand slipped,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the spilled water soaked his pants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, Xiaoxiao's jade lips parted slightly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>looking at Leopard Bao Yuan as if she had seen a ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Leopard... your mouth is really...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan was dumbfounded and didn't respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu's eyes lit up;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his fishing float moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Wh, what's going on??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was finished off just like that??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the clouds, the live audience was confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the commentary desk, Leopard Bao Yuan hurriedly wrung out the water from his pants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, Xiaoxiao's eyes shone as she looked at Su Yu on the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ten Thousand Races watching the live stream were bewildered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Calm down, calm down, this is Su Shen's normal operation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at how stunned you are.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is the 'Arrow Feather Star'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ten Thousand Races were silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Human Race's bullet comments surged up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the challenge match before the expedition,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu had displayed an exaggeratedly powerful strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from the Seventh Universe,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there were also many others who began to support him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The behavior that used to be the most annoying\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>during the Human Race selection match,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>placed in the Ten Thousand Races Ranking Battle,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was seen by the Human Race as pleasing no matter how they looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This, this is unscientific!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Scientific? Sorry, our Human Race's modified body EX-01 has already been eliminated.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Common-grade arrow defense tower\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>being able to erupt with such powerful strength\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was truly hard to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people could not accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I spent a huge price\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to build a Rare-grade defense tower,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or even a Legendary-grade defense tower,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and it's not as good as your arrow defense tower?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you kidding me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arrow defense towers\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only require wood, stone, and refined iron to upgrade,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which, compared to those defense towers requiring rare materials,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>made upgrading far too easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the Ten Thousand Races Ranking Battle,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu had already upgraded 36 arrow defense towers\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to level 40, the current building limit for his territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upgrading buildings is very difficult,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>comparable to the difficulty of obtaining experience points for troops and heroes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for the previous invasion of the neutral unit Night Butterfly's original territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the large amount of basic resources obtained from the Demon Blood Alliance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu would never have been able to upgrade these arrow defense towers to level 40.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upgrading these 36 arrow defense towers to level 40\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>consumed more than half of even the basic wood, stone, and refined iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest had to be saved for other buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, the attributes of the level 40 arrow defense towers were also worth affirming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Health, attack power, and defense\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had already reached 1000 points without any bonuses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already approaching a level 30 Rare building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>arrow defense towers are only Common grade after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for levels 1-10, where attack power grows from 1 to 10, a 10-fold growth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the subsequent 10-level gaps are all 5-fold growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A level 100 arrow defense tower\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would barely have the power of a level 70+ Rare building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And who knows how many resources it would swallow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, those who upgrade Common-grade defense towers are ultimately in the minority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how basic basic resources are,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when the demand reaches a massive scale, they are often rarer than rare resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A level 100 building tier, even if it is Common grade, is unimaginable,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and certainly more difficult and less cost-effective than upgrading an level 80 Rare building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one was willing to accept\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that an arrow defense tower\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could possess such power in the early stages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it's like this now, what will happen in the later stages?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A level 25 lord who practiced an Epic-grade defensive technique\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>being insta-killed by arrow defense towers\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was, no matter how you looked at it, a complete joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kakuta had at least 2400 combat power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he was a defensive type.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if your arrow defense towers were upgraded to level 40,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that's only 1000 attack power, which wouldn't even break his defense,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>let alone insta-kill him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This little friend Su Yu has put a lot of effort into his arrow skills.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When all the audience began to be confused and incredulous,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was time for the commentators to step in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan ignored his soaked lower body, suppressed the shock in his heart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and explained seriously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"36 arrow defense towers, to insta-kill this giant, in my estimation, the final attack power... reached at least 4000 points.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"4000 points, that's already approaching the category of level 50 arrow defense towers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's not even discuss how many resources he could obtain to upgrade the arrow defense towers to such a high level in such a short time...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Assuming the Human Race gave him a lot of resources, enough for him to upgrade.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His arrow defense towers still couldn't exceed level 40.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone look at the color of his exposed lord crystal, 4 layers of azure patterns, which means it's only level 4.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A level 4 territory is the lowest among the Ten Thousand Races Ranking Battle contestants, the building limit is level 40, and level 40 arrow defense towers have 1000 attack power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What does this mean? It means this little friend Su Yu... has reached a 4-fold final attack bonus for arrows.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the words \"4-fold,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everyone gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had only been half a year,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he had already reached a 4-fold bonus for one ability??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4-fold, in the early stages, is already close to a 10-level gap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just a pity... it ends here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know if he has no bonuses for higher-level arrow defense towers, he only deployed arrow defense towers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But clearly, arrow defense towers cannot stop Kakuta's army.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leopard Bao Yuan's eyes showed regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the amplification was strong, reaching 4-fold,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was considered top-tier\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>throughout the entire Ten Thousand Races Ranking Battle.\u003C\u002Fp>",1573,"2026-06-15T04:25:08.363Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","07e5123bc8e7c7b70f6b6e5cc38b63cd995ced7c146fbd44e204823fdf699b5b","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-229","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-227",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]