[{"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-51":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},1942033,2690,"Chapter 51","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-51",51,"\u003Cp>“After all, if she truly lost her temper and rallied the lords to attack you, relocating your territory would only create more trouble.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.” Su Yu nodded, though a trace of regret flickered in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was practically hoping someone would attack his territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive influx of experience points and rapid level-ups had already given him a taste of the rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Myriad Realms Battlefield,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>monster levels emerging from the War Fog are determined by region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, new lords like Su Yu’s cohort\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>face only low-level monsters near their territories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only as time passes do these monsters’ levels rise gradually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the development speed of Su Yu’s territory\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>far exceeded that of ordinary territories—by an enormous margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sylph and Irodi remained at Level 22.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Su Yu required three times the experience needed by a hero to level up,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leaving his own level stuck at Level 15.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless a large-scale war broke out—or he discovered a Spatial Legend Point\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and traveled to regions inhabited by veteran lords,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leveling up would remain extremely difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance between successive generations of lords spanned ten thousand li,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>making encounters between veteran and new-generation lords in the Myriad Realms Battlefield exceedingly rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To meet privately, one simply went to Myriad Realms City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Want to seize resources?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any lord powerful enough to launch a ten-thousand-li campaign would hardly covet the meager resources of new lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slipped by—two months gone in a blink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu stood atop a mountain, wind rustling through his hair as he gazed upon his territory, now approaching the scale of a town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Farmhouses numbered eight thousand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>including one thousand Grade-C wooden houses, raising population capacity by two thousand;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>four thousand Grade-B stone houses, raising population capacity by twelve thousand;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and one thousand Grade-A duplexes, raising population capacity by five thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even mess halls exceeded one thousand units.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from heroes, his territory housed only farmers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the farmer population had already surpassed nineteen thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With so many people, cultivated farmland was extensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paved roads formed a grid pattern across the territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteen thousand mu of farmland covered ten million square meters—ten square kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That equaled one thousand territory grids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the installation of water-station pipelines,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>farmland no longer clustered solely along the Liuchuanhe River but also spread into densely packed farming-house zones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Farmland and farmhouses were neatly arranged and orderly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu’s Level-3 Lord Crystal had a maximum capacity of only five hundred grids,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>forcing much farmland to be built outside the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, his city wall was nearing completion,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and even structures built outside—so long as they lay within the wall’s perimeter—remained safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monsters posed no threat to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a hundred-li radius, land totaled over thirty thousand grids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, despite constructing numerous buildings, the area inside the walls\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>still appeared vast and empty when viewed from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, thick War Fog poured inward through gaps in the unfinished wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of territory buildings was nearing ten thousand, soon to activate the final effect of the Mythic Talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buildings could be freely relocated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu squinted slightly, gazing out over his territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was time to construct defensive towers!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“My lord, the iron ore is nearly exhausted!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Myriad Realms Battlefield, the ores in mining zones were renewable resources,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>replenishing daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even that could not withstand Su Yu’s vast number of farmers extracting them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood. I know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang San withdrew, and Su Yu gazed at the regional planning map on his desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out a black heart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>pulsing with vigorous energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the sole remaining reward obtained from the epic-tier leader [Dark Flame Shadow Dragon],\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the epic-tier [Shadow Dragon Heart · Power Source], still unused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the [Dark Flame · Spell Comprehension Scroll], it had been used two months ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the farmers’ activity zones expanded,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was high time to develop the territory’s transportation infrastructure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each farmer operated in a different zone daily, relying temporarily on walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But long-distance travel remained an arduous task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Farmers were not troops or heroes—their strength could not increase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Expecting them to outrun vehicles on foot was no better than wishful dreaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, up to this point,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu had found no talent suitable for technological research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the farmers he had recruited seemed to possess any aptitude for science and technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Farmers could indeed undergo job advancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could advance into life professions—such as teachers, chefs, construction workers, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon advancement, they gained a Life Level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they worked, they accumulated profession-specific experience,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and raising their Life Level enhanced their corresponding abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, cooking tastier meals or constructing buildings faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Su Yu’s territory prioritized construction development, over half his farmers had advanced into construction workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This also laid groundwork for building numerous defensive towers in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had unlocked three rare-tier defensive tower blueprints; without construction workers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ordinary farmers would construct rare-tier buildings at a painfully slow pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why, even after two months, his rare-tier Obsidian Wall remained unfinished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was already with the physical fitness of Su Yu’s farmers exceeding that of ordinary farmers by many multiples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If placed on another territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>constructing a rare-tier wall?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And one spanning a hundred li in radius?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would likely take several years to complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“An epic-tier power source… If only we could build an aerial rail transit system.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu held the Dark Dragon’s heart in contemplation; for ordinary transportation, he would deem using such an epic-tier power source a waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet blueprints for an aerial rail system were rare—something one might encounter by chance but could never reliably obtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That chubby little fellow Jian Ruiming had scoured the Trading House for two months and still never seen any.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Mysterious Shop rarely stocked items exceeding the developmental pace of the current Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he’d need to find a spatial teleportation array when he had time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make contact with the territories of past Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The development of Su Yu’s territory had already far surpassed what any newly appointed Lord ought to possess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even counting back several generations of Lords, few could rival him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My Lord.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti folded her wings and landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you located the Metal-Element ore?” Su Yu asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iloti shook her head; after two months, the essential material for constructing the Rare Structure—Sniper Tower, namely Metal-Element ore, remained unfound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu lightly furrowed his brow, paused in thought, then said, “Why don’t you take Bai Bai Xiaowei with you and search again?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright.” Iloti nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had the territory developed to this scale in just two months?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truth be told, Bai Bai Xiaowei had watched this territory grow, inch by inch, with her own eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she still found it hard to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get to work, now!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She strolled along the smooth stone-paved road, casually greeting the farmers on either side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Young Lady Bai Bai Xiaowei!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These farmers stood tall and imposing—clearly all Su Yu’s farmers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet they all knew that this 1.5-meter-tall girl before them was the Lord’s friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they treated her with utmost respect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei nodded, satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had handed over all gold, copper, silver, and iron mines near her territory to Su Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In exchange, she received an Alliance Pact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking across Su Yu’s territory felt no different from walking across her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This delighted her greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a figure descended from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eh? Sister Angel, is something the matter?” Bai Bai Xiaowei’s eyes sparkled as she looked up at Iloti.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm… Would you like to fly up and take a look?” Iloti asked, expressionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei was thrilled—she’d long wanted to experience flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Iloti had never agreed to let her try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never did she expect Iloti to invite her voluntarily this time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A radiant holy light formed a strap, and Iloti lifted Bai Bai Xiaowei from behind like a chick,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then flapped her six wings and soared into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Any findings?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Iloti enter, Su Yu looked curious—he hadn’t expected her to return so soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.” Iloti nodded and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At a bearing of 37 degrees southwest, 159 kilometers away, there is a Metal-Element ore deposit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Su Yu rejoiced inwardly—but before he could even react, Iloti continued her report:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At a bearing of 39.3 degrees southwest, 177 kilometers away, there is a Life Spring.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Life Spring could heal injuries and was extremely rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At a bearing of 77 degrees southeast, 105 kilometers away, there is a Metal-Element ore deposit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At a bearing of 21 degrees southeast, 163 kilometers away, there is a rare-earth mineral deposit…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu: “….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Bai Bai Xiaowei—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>truly was someone extraordinary!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu was deeply astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Metal-Element ore deposits Iloti had failed to locate in two months—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei found two in a single outing??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Su Yu wonder whether Bai Bai Xiaowei might be the illegitimate daughter of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Iloti could fly through the skies,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>locating resources was no easy task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First and foremost was the issue of terrain:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely seeing a stretch of land gave no clue as to what ores lay beneath it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, if Iloti flew too high, the clouds would obstruct her line of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So her field of vision wasn’t especially wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever she encountered a suspicious area, she’d still have to descend and inspect it to confirm whether it was a mining site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, going out once with that girl Bai Bai Xiaowei… yielded so many gains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he ought to take her out for more rounds whenever possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“U-um… Iloti, could I ask you a favor?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu stood up and smiled ingratiatingly, gently kneading Iloti’s fragrant shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Speak.” Iloti’s expression remained impassive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could you—um—could you please go mine that Geng Metal?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu forced himself to voice his request, despite the discomfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Myriad Realms Battlefield, asking a hero to perform a farmer’s labor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even a hero—let alone any troop type—would ever do such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To them, it was a degradation of their status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like ordering an official to haul manure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu only dared broach the question because Iloti’s loyalty stood at a remarkably high 91 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was merely testing the waters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no help for it—the difficulty of mining ore located over one hundred kilometers from Su Yu’s territory\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was simply too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that distance was just the straight-line measurement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If farmers actually had to walk there, no one knew how long it would take,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and transportation posed another major challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The transport technology in Su Yu’s territory remained at the level of pulley-drawn carts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>0 ····· Please give flowers ····\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if Iloti agreed to mine it, everything changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, as a hero, she could access the storage space within the Lord’s Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could simply place the mined ore directly into that storage space,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>thereby eliminating the entire transportation step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, her strength was formidable—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a Level-22 Mythic Hero with a staggering 7,200 combat power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she unleashed her energy fully, without exaggeration, she could obliterate an entire city spanning hundreds of li.\u003C\u002Fp>",1862,"2026-06-15T03:53:46.766Z","2026-06-15T04:25:06.961Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4f79990fcdaf592ddd248018b36fe3914234fcfc817a6704080c32a4e3adfcd5","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-52","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-50",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]