[{"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-65":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},1942047,2690,"Chapter 65","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-65",65,"\u003Cp>I'm afraid only a fool would refuse, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Yu, no matter how you look at it, is no fool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the monarch was deeply puzzled, thoroughly bewildered, completely unable to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That bow is very important to me,\" Su Yu explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Important?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A relatively low-grade epic-tier bow —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no matter how important, could it compare to a legendary cultivation art with limitless potential?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You, seriously...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gu Linger didn't even know what to say anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She often gave Su Yu gifts, and had grown used to being refused by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with Su Yu refusing a legendary cultivation art,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>though the behavior was baffling, deep down it didn't feel all that strange to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he really does refuse me often... it's not that he dislikes me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gu Linger thought, her cheeks faintly flushing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tch, tch, tch — it's just the opposite of dislike, not that kind of like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it was Su Yu's current elegant attire paired with his handsome appearance\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that stirred a different kind of thought in Gu Gu Linger's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She swiftly shook the thought from her mind and calmed herself down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Su Yu... ah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blue Star monarch wanted to say something,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but the matter was already done and could not be undone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A proud and lofty young man probably detests nothing more than being lectured by others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he accepted it to your face, who knows how much he'd resent it behind your back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu is Blue Star's hope,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the monarch did not want Su Yu to grow to dislike Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Su Yu had hardly any family,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he himself, the exalted monarch of Blue Star,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>wanting to express goodwill toward Su Yu, couldn't even find a good way to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, he could only look toward Gu Gu Linger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were both young, and his own precious daughter was quite pleasing to the eye — she was the best person to communicate with Su Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one blamed Su Yu; no matter how baffled they were,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>anyone who wanted to lecture Su Yu would think twice about his territory's legendary-tier hero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The simulation battle begins tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Su Yu, let me explain how the 'Simulation Battle Network' works.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gu Linger sat down beside Su Yu, changing the subject as she spoke softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beautiful girl's deliberate closeness, her pleasant voice —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it always lifts the spirit and gladdens the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People all appreciate beauty and possess a love for beautiful things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu was no exception; he did not resist Gu Gu Linger drawing closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having spent more time around Gu Gu Linger, he found the princess was not as hard to get along with as he had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from getting inexplicably angry at times, everything else about her was quite fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that status and position truly mattered a great deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Su Yu's view, it was precisely because his own status had risen\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that this princess displayed none of her princess-syndrome in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long, drawn-out opening ceremony performances had gone on too long and become tedious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People gradually began browsing the forums.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way, 'Never Fallen' has appeared!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A simulation battle against a territory that's developed for thirty years — and he won?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is he really that freakish? Let me take a look...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd stirred with a hubbub of noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all new-generation lords, and naturally cared about the status of other 11520th-generation lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lord who had ranked first in the monster wave settlement\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had always been mysterious, which made many people curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The buzz of heated discussion around her made Bai Bai Xiaowei pause for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened her lord terminal and looked at the trending posts in the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gave Su Yu an odd look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the great Su Yu had been late because he'd jumped into a TW simulation battle and played a round?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xiaowei really wanted to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone's chatter only made her want to laugh even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn't dare laugh — she was afraid of leaking even a shred of information about Su Yu's territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she could only forcibly suppress her amusement, imitating Iloti's icy demeanor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>5.0\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had always maintained a lofty and aloof image in the eyes of the Blue Star Alliance crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Competing against someone like that on the same stage? What a joke — may as well not even play!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're flattering yourself. You think you're even qualified to face him in battle?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get through the all-human selection tournament first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, just making it into the top 10,000 of the rankings would bring glory to your ancestors, and you're already thinking about fighting 'The Never-Fallen Fortress'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I'm just saying, he's from the same cohort as us... What if, y'know, we do run into him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If anyone's going to get that matchup, it's Su Yu, who actually has a legendary hero.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In our Blue Star Alliance, the one with the best shot at competing in the Ten Thousand Clans ranking battles has to be Su Yu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The murmur of hushed conversations continued unabated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blue Star Sovereign and the Moon Star Queen, however, paid little mind to this news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew just how impossibly distant figures of that caliber were from humanity, from Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The youngsters still fantasized about clashing with them, but that was nothing more than wishful thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The opening ceremony ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only then that Su Yu learned\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>across the entire Myriad Realms, among the thirteen human universes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there were only twenty-three new-era lords who possessed legendary heroes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately understood just how much weight the word \"legendary\" truly carried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among all legendary-grade units, heroes were the most important of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combining the two, they were rarer than phoenix feathers and unicorn horns across the whole of humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the even higher epic grade,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one dared to imagine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through so many generations of lords in the Myriad Realms battlefield, there had never been a single epic-grade hero to this day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some heroes' halls had already reached their grade cap,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and all six hero slots had been fully recruited.\u003C\u002Fp>",1031,"2026-06-15T03:53:46.766Z","2026-06-15T04:25:06.961Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","eb585020ad63503101abf4f8f4e9bd8e8167fb1be77872eae0588ee57403ea10","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-66","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-64",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]