[{"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-57":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Nationwide Lords: 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},1942039,2690,"Chapter 57","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-57",57,"\u003Cp>\"You can't just round off someone's age like that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them started bickering about age again for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time Su Yu chats with Lin Luoyue,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this topic always comes up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the two fell silent for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You really don't want it?\" Su Yu's sword-like brows furrowed tightly. \"I just don't want you... to run into any mishap on the Myriad Realms battlefield.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Luoyue smiled, the corner of her lips curving into a beautiful arc. \"Can I take that as concern for me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course you can.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Concern for your older sister?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Concern for my junior sister.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, I'll stop teasing you.\" Lin Luoyue looked at Su Yu with a smile and said with rather serious sincerity:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry, Su Yu. I'm not as weak as you imagine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've only been on the Myriad Realms battlefield for just over a year. How strong could you be?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you've only been in for just over two months.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm different from you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I'm different from you too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu's eyes narrowed slightly. \"Is it help from the Lin family clan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lin family clan is one of the four great clans of Jingcheng on Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is also Lin Luoyue's main family line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when Lin Luoyue was a child, she had already severed ties with the Lin family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you before, don't bring up the Lin family with me,\" Lin Luoyue said unhappily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her foot beneath the table pressed forward harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu pulled his foot back slightly, afraid his Mythic-level power would harm Lin Luoyue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm still worried about you.\" Su Yu's face was full of concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pfft.\" Lin Luoyue laughed. \"Since when did the dashing, talented Su Yu become so sentimental?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop joking, I'm serious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, then I'll secretly tell you just a little bit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A little bit of what?\" Su Yu was puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Luoyue raised her elegant brows lightly and said calmly: \"One day, my troops will be invincible in battle, unstoppable in assault.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Invincible in battle, unstoppable in assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such calm words, yet they revealed enormous confidence — unparalleled confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this something a human, ranked near the bottom of the Myriad Realms' Myriad Clans Roll,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a human from a fringe planet of the human race,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>should say?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a holy scion of the Myriad Realms' seven great races said this, there would be nothing out of place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet coming from a human, it could not help but seem ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Yu did not find it ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed deeply at Lin Luoyue for a moment, then smiled in relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He withdrew the Legendary-grade troop recruitment card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden light faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Luoyue clicked her tongue. She really was seeing a Legendary-grade item for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Su Yu, little brother, if you truly want to help me, why not give your sister some territory items that expand the population cap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Expand the population cap?\" Su Yu froze for a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After using the Mythic item [Heart of Architecture], the reward from killing the Calamity Void Beast, his territory could build structures without limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Building farmhouses would increase the population cap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, he did not train troops, so he had never cared about the population cap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Lin Luoyue mentioned it, he would keep an eye out from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I won't have any reward to give in return, you know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, even using a [Realm-Crossing Stone] to exploit the rule loophole that lords from different cycles of the Myriad Realms battlefield cannot trade,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"it's still impossible for a lord from a previous cycle to give items to a lord of the new cycle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If that were possible, the fairness of the Myriad Realms battlefield would be thrown into complete chaos.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fairness?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The existence of myth itself is the greatest unfairness of the Myriad Realms battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't want any reward. Every time I give you something, you just call me 'brother' once, and that'll do,\" Su Yu said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you'd be getting a huge bargain.\" Lin Luoyue blinked her large eyes. \"I just called you brother. So where's my gift?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Su Yu's breath caught. Lin Luoyue hadn't accepted the Legendary-grade hero recruitment card,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he really had nothing else to give...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A beauty at his side, her large, glistening eyes gazing at you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose-red lips, delicate and faintly smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Su Yu had long grown accustomed to the world-surpassing beauty of the two mythic figures in his territory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he still found it hard to resist the woman before him, her dreamlike, rosy loveliness as if from another lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not for any other reason,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but simply because she was Lin Luoyue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu's wits scrambled for a solution, rapidly searching for something — anything — aside from a Legendary Hero Recruitment Card,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>something else he could bring out that would be worthy of giving as a gift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a certain item came to mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black bracelet appeared in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was what he had made from the scales of the Demonic Flame Dark Dragon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a bracelet painstakingly carved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every day, he had used Radiant Sacred Brilliance, shaped into a keen blade, to carve it with meticulous care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only in recent days had it finally been completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, it was meant as a gift to thank Sylph,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>since Sylph had gifted him the Cloud Heaven Demonic Flame Bow — he felt he ought to give something in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that, for a time, he hadn't found the right mood or opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, by a twist of fate,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had taken it out\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to give to Lin Luoyue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For me?\" Lin Luoyue looked at Su Yu with a trace of doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu's face betrayed no blush, his heart no flutter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he saw it now, the bracelet's color didn't quite suit Sylph,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so he would make something different for Sylph another day as a return gift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it doesn't have any special attributes, then forget it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ordinary things would only be a waste of a Realm-Crossing Stone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Lin Luoyue's eyes were brimming with fondness for it, she did not want Su Yu to go to such expense — Realm-Crossing Stones were not cheap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had merely spoken offhandedly.\u003C\u002Fp>",1048,"2026-06-15T03:53:46.766Z","2026-06-15T04:25:06.961Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9596682060cfa2661b9c9dd65f3d04cbab266792aae1257084ddda8692916652","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-58","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-56",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]