[{"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-44":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},1942026,2690,"Chapter 44","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>“Fine.” Silf smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two walked side by side along the forest path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This main road had already been paved with pebbles, leading straight to the territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, that river should also be given a name,” Su Yu suddenly asked Silf, “What do you think it should be called?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm…” Silf pondered for a moment and replied, “Liuchuan—how does that sound?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Agreed. A fine name.” Su Yu officially named the river Liuchuanhe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Su Yu walked, he considered his next development strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should he continue aggressively expanding the population?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or begin constructing territory buildings?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the 【Global Human Civilization Lord Selection Tournament】 in three months, he had long dismissed it from his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, he had joined that tournament to obtain cultivation techniques from the Five Great Civilizations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he already possessed a mythic-level technique, he naturally no longer gave it any thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Population expansion must continue—I cannot stop…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“However, because the territory is too small, the war fog hampers their movement, lowering efficiency.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu reflected deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to his mythic talent, he could construct buildings beyond his territory’s borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, in unclaimed wilderness areas, war fog would spread thickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if temporarily cleared, it would gradually roll back in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when wilderness land contained a territory building would it remain free from war fog incursion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he could not possibly cover every single tile of land with territory buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Build city walls.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enclose a hundred-mile radius—including Bai Bai Xiaowei’s territory!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That way, the war fog will naturally be kept outside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having conceived the idea, he acted immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu contacted Iloti via the terminal and instructed her to order Zhang San to relocate part of the population toward distant lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a location one hundred miles from the territory, they would build farmhouses and then recruit settlers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Build city walls!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possessed the 【Rare·Obsidian City Wall Design Blueprint】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the required material—obsidian ore—he had discovered a deposit north of Bai Bai Xiaowei’s territory the day before.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Building city walls, expanding the population, and cultivating farmland for sowing—all simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu’s territory entered a phase of steady, rapid development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next step was to construct water conservancy projects and lay pipelines across the territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for blueprints,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>since everyone was currently occupied with farmland reclamation, development had not yet reached that stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, such blueprints were extremely cheap,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Jian Ruiming had already purchased them in advance for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a few months, once territories developed further, the price of these blueprints would surely rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be said that that little chubby fellow Jian Ruiming had resolved many trivial matters for Su Yu’s territorial development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though all were trivial matters, they saved considerable time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing through Bai Bai Xiaowei’s territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu waved at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei, resigned to her fate, lay reclining on her chair and waved back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past few days, Bai Bai Xiaowei had been anything but happy—she’d even wanted to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That watchtower outside her territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>harvested wild beast resources within a 1,700-meter radius every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She needed experience points; her hero troops needed meat,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so she had to travel over 1,700 meters beyond her territory daily to obtain them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted Su Yu to shut down that watchtower,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet feared her territory would face danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, she’d assumed she held little weight in Su Yu’s eyes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which was why he’d built her only a single watchtower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even one watchtower could defend against monster waves,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet he possessed two hundred—yet built only one…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant she carried very little weight in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, she realized she’d been utterly mistaken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one watchtower had stripped resources near her territory bare like this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what would happen if several more were built?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei had no choice but to expand her territory in the opposite direction from the watchtower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This expansion was fine—until she actually began it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she did,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she unexpectedly discovered a rare obsidian mine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The catch was… Su Yu had already claimed that mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Su Yu’s peasant laborers toil diligently at the site,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei nearly broke down inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those things were called peasants?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One peasant’s efficiency equaled ten of hers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And… did Su Yu have no population cap?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could dozens of peasants be working at the obsidian mine?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu grew ever more mysterious in Bai Bai Xiaowei’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She simply gave up and lay flat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Su Yu’s terminal had told her his city walls would enclose her territory as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they were, figuratively speaking, frogs in the same boat?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—rather, she was now Su Yu’s subordinate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once his territory developed further, even a tiny share of resources from him\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would surely surpass what she could achieve through her own efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Bai Bai Xiaowei lay flatter still,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even losing interest in practicing the advanced cultivation art she’d received from the Blue Star Sovereign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if Su Yu later casually tossed her a rare cultivation art?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Su Yu clearly held rare cultivation arts in no regard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Bai Bai Xiaowei spent her days idling in her territory, lost in daydreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Sylph’s “Gale Blessing,” Su Yu quickly returned to his territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He resumed studying the ring on his thumb: the Ring of the Light Throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After several days of study,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he discovered the ring allowed him to transform his body into light, concealing his aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He became a humanoid entity composed entirely of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that state offered concealment only.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Once attacked, it would force him out of that state—merely a “disguise.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What could this disguise be used for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu recalled the description in the [Ring of the Luminary Seat].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had now become the Luminary Seat and was eligible to attend the Seat Assembly convened by the Twelve Realm Seats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what exactly was the Seat Assembly, and how was it convened?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu had no clue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, it is time to study.” Iloti appeared at his side, head bowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu lowered his left hand and smiled warmly at Iloti.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, his favorite activity within the territory\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was studying with Iloti—learning how to shape the “Luminous Holy Radiance”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>into clothing, tools, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In theory, the Luminous Holy Radiance could assume the form of anything in the world,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet the amount of “Holy Radiance” a person could control was strictly limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, one could not manufacture items from Luminous Holy Radiance without restraint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, Iloti normally used it only to fashion her own garments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon entering the [Hall of Heroes], Iloti’s cheeks flushed faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since learning to shape the “Luminous Holy Radiance” into clothing\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>required Su Yu to remove his current garments,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even though he began only with his upper garment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti still felt flustered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a pure, sacred angel, she had never been this close to a man before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“M-My lord, do it like this first, then like this, and finally like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti demonstrated the manipulation of the “Luminous Holy Radiance” in her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu imitated her movements carefully,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and finally,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the light in his hands spread over his body and began shifting in texture and form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It worked!” Su Yu rejoiced inwardly—after days of practice, he had succeeded today at last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Iloti sighed inwardly in relief—she would finally no longer have to teach the lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pristine white upper garment draped Su Yu’s well-proportioned frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can its color be changed?” Su Yu asked excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where there is light, there is color.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Iloti spoke, she casually gestured, embellishing Su Yu’s spotless white garment with intricate ornaments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It now looked far more like ordinary clothing—and quite splendid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delighted, Su Yu opened his mouth to speak,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when suddenly his gaze turned icy cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your farmer Zhang Tie has sustained critical injuries and entered a near-death state. 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