[{"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-42":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Universal Lord: The Zero-Troop Building Maniac",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1942024,2690,"Chapter 42","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>Iloti froze for a moment, sensing the light within the ring, her face filled with disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a Mythic Angel could be stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Iloti’s expression, Su Yu couldn’t help but ask curiously, “What’s wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… is the legacy left behind by Light.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti’s eyes brimmed with complexity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she began to explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legend has it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the Primordial Chaos Era of the Ten Thousand Realms, the Twelve Realm Thrones existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They governed all order across the Ten Thousand Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Primordial Chaos Era?” Su Yu asked, surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The history of the Ten Thousand Realms is divided into three great eras: the Ancient Era, the Remote Ancient Era, and the Primordial Chaos Era,” Iloti nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She continued, “Now is the Era of Ten Thousand Clans.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though the Era of Ten Thousand Clans has lasted only 11,520 years so far, the Ancient Era spanned nearly ten million years.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Before that, history becomes impossible to trace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see…” Su Yu mused thoughtfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What happened to the Twelve Realm Thrones later?” Su Yu asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Later, they vanished.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Some say they left behind legacy cultivation techniques across the Ten Thousand Realms.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is one of them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti gazed complexly at the white ring hovering in midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield have such an ancient history?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why would the legacy of the Twelve Realm Thrones from the Primordial Chaos Era appear here on the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to Iloti’s explanation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu rubbed his small hands together excitedly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been fretting over finding a cultivation technique—and had even planned to make a grand showing in the [All-Humanity Civilization Lord Selection Contest],\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoping to obtain an epic-tier technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t expected… to stumble upon a legacy technique?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Twelve Realm Thrones of the Ten Thousand Realms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Existed during the Primordial Chaos Era?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It already sounded incredibly powerful,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What rank must this technique be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he restrained his inner desire and asked, “Is there danger in accepting this legacy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With me here, rest assured.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even if the acceptance fails, there’s no danger.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti spoke calmly—but her heart was anything but still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Mythic Angel of Light, she truly could guarantee Su Yu’s safety during the acceptance of the Light legacy,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet… could such an ordinary human truly earn Light’s recognition?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possessed neither an angelic heart nor the virtue of a sage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was simply… an utterly ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without further hesitation, Su Yu reached out and touched the ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light blazed brilliantly across his world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw a black-haired, black-eyed youth holding a wooden sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In darkness, he fought ten thousand troops alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the brink of despair,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A two-winged angel appeared beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One wing behind the angel was white; the other, black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The youth and the angel fought side by side,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shattering the darkness of the Dark Age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light returned to the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He plunged his wooden sword into the angel’s chest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For he knew—the angel was artificial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Angels had long since gone extinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hair turned snow-white; his pupils, too, became white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the newly reborn Ten Thousand Realms, he pursued Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—he imprisoned Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He claimed Light as his own; he sought to become Light itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ascended the Throne of Light and rose to the pinnacle of the Ten Thousand Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He created the [Angel Rebirth Pool] and brought forth a new race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He named them angels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet within the Angel Rebirth Pool,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as much light was nurtured as darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters born of darkness brought cataclysmic ruin upon the myriad realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he was defeated by a lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A jade-colored ring bearing a crack lost its master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have acquired the ‘Mythic-tier’ cultivation technique: Inheritance of the God of Light.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have acquired the Ring of the Seat of Light.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ring of the Seat of Light]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Description:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between the realms of Sumeru exist twelve Seats of the Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These twelve Seats of the Realms, existing since time immemorial,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>do not seek eternity,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>do not crave power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>do not covet profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet they are like sovereigns over the myriad realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine beings perish upon contact, kneel upon sight, tremble upon hearing, and flee upon scent.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Effect: Symbol of membership in the Seat of Light; wearing it grants eligibility to attend the Assembly of the Seats.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Ring of the Seat of Light has successfully bonded with its master.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The world of light gradually faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu’s unfocused pupils slowly regained their luster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to look at Iloti beside him, deeply puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the Seat of Light…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he saw was more like a human who had once possessed the Ring of the Seat of Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though hailed across all realms as the God of Light,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Though he had transformed his body into light,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he remained human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, he had even imprisoned light and defiled it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only be considered the previous Light Seat,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not the Primordial Light Seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, according to the description in the [Ring of the Light Seat],\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Twelve Realm Seats disdain eternity, power, and profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, would such a title truly appear in the Ancient Epoch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even Iloti had ever mentioned this epoch’s name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knew which segment of the River of Time it belonged to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous Light Seat must have existed during the Desolate Ancient Epoch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu observed the jade-colored ring, and unlike the vision he’d seen within the light earlier,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it bore no cracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must have been repaired by light within the River of Time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slipped it onto his thumb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he too had become the Light Seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the [Light God’s Legacy] he’d witnessed, deeper doubts stirred within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Iloti also an angel born from the [Angel Rebirth Pool]?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>angels born from the [Angel Rebirth Pool] do not have white hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light they wield is light imprisoned and enslaved by the Light God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the [Angel Rebirth Pool]’s true nature is a demonic artifact that creates darkness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and it had already been destroyed following the Light God’s demise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then… how did the angel race across the Ten Thousand Realms arise now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did they come to be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flood of questions filled his mind; Su Yu shook his head and ceased pondering further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to what he’d seen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Light God was a definitive archvillain: one who saved all living beings, then lost himself in power, ultimately destroying the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was merely a thief who stole light,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not light’s embodiment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, by accepting his legacy, would Su Yu himself fall into corruption?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu chuckled silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corruption always resides in the heart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>never in power itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power lies solely in how it is used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Light God clearly possessed the means to coexist with light, yet deliberately chose to imprison and enslave it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sought to monopolize all light in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu would never do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without further hesitation, Su Yu closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have accepted the Light God’s legacy.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have comprehended the Light God Art.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The residual light nearby flowed into Su Yu’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his eyes; light flashed once in his pupils and vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes briefly turned silver, just like Iloti’s,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but within an instant, they reverted to black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Because you have gained light’s recognition, Noah Iloti’s loyalty +10; current loyalty: 91.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Noah Iloti’s loyalty has risen from “Warmly Affectionate” to “Utterly Trusting.”]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu smiled happily,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>having acquired a myth-tier cultivation art, enabling him to slay monsters in the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield and gain experience points,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>thereby leveling up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though a lord requires three times the experience points to level up compared to heroes of the same rank,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this celestial path had now unfolded before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, a lord’s combat strength is constrained by both cultivation art quality and leveling speed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>often falling below that of heroes and troop types.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any territory, the primary sources of power are heroes, troops, and buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying solely on the lord themselves is viable only early on—specifically, for novice lords newly arrived from various cultivation worlds—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>who may initially match monsters of over ten levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later stages still depend on the territory’s overall strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu, however, was slightly different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He—the one cultivating the Mythic Art—could match mythic heroes of the same level!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu opened his personal information panel and glanced at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lord: Su Yu]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Identity: Lord]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Territory Affiliated: Never-Fallen]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Cultivation System: Mythic · Light]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Level: 1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Combat Power: 100]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill: “Sacred Radiance of Light”]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Level 1, he possessed 100 combat power—on par with mythic heroes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comparable to a Rare Hero at Level 10.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a casual strike of Light, Su Yu felled several large trees nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wind and shockwaves scattered outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he only possessed one skill at Level 1—“Sacred Radiance of Light”—its power was tremendous!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Iloti, teach me how to turn this thing into clothing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu looked at Iloti expectantly; he knew she also possessed the skill “Sacred Radiance of Light,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and could freely materialize it into armor, sleepwear, and other forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“L-let’s go back first, then I’ll teach you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti’s words were hesitant, her gaze evasive—but she did not refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright.” Su Yu scratched his head. Newly empowered, he felt exhilarated,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and didn’t overthink it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stretched out both hands, ready for Iloti to grasp them and fly him back to his territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Iloti instead swept him up into her arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her six wings flared, and she shot skyward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu blinked in momentary confusion—then recalled Iloti’s loyalty had risen to 91!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Higher than Silph’s—and Silph’s loyalty boost was temporary!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“U-um… Iloti, could you change into different clothing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My Lord, what is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Light Armor… it’s digging into me…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti flew through the sky carrying Su Yu, who clung to her like an octopus.\u003C\u002Fp>",1636,"2026-06-15T03:53:46.766Z","2026-06-15T04:25:06.961Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","2bffc872d1451f90bf695cf7178e5d4bca3884d4d638fbc3a3af168d7529d155","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-43","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-41",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]