[{"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-78":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},1942060,2690,"Chapter 78","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-78",78,"\u003Cp>Such flawless, world-toppling beauty — the faintest trace of worry on that face would wring anyone's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Yu did not notice the shift in mindset among his territory’s two Mythic heroes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately used the blueprints he had just obtained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your Lord Crystal has unlocked a new construction ability: Advanced · Spirit Field.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your Lord Crystal has unlocked a new construction ability: Advanced · Cloud Ladder.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu summoned Zhang San.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today, one group will clear Spirit Fields; another group will build Cloud Ladders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The rest—devote everything to constructing Laser Towers!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he handed a large sack of KBBF crystals to Zhang San.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, my lord!” Zhang San extended both hands and accepted it with reverence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right, take this Golden Nugget fertilizer and pour it onto the Experience Tree.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu produced a small mountain of Golden Nuggets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang San immediately called the farmers over to begin moving them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Off you go. Have Xiao Xiao Mei come see me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood, my lord.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang San bowed and withdrew respectfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A short while later, a woman with a graceful figure, dressed in an apron, walked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was Xiao Xiao Mei, head chef of Never Fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was specifically responsible for the lord and heroes’ meals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Xiao Mei, learn this recipe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu handed over the Advanced · Recipe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Many thanks, my lord.” Xiao Xiao Mei’s eyes smiled. She accepted the recipe, curtsied, and took her leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Xiao Xiao Mei’s retreating figure,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu stroked his chin lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the resources Ye Ye Liyana had sent back was one Advanced · Refinement Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, his Cloud Heaven Demonic Flame Bow was Epic grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To enhance its power, he would need an Epic-grade Refinement Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forget it, let’s use it on this thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu drew a dragon-horn dagger from his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a dagger he had previously ground from the horn of the Demonic Flame Dark Dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had no grade, possessing only sharpness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very handy for suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Advanced Refinement Stone could refine any weapon or equipment of Advanced grade or below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Refinement successful. Refinement level +1.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Dragon-Horn Dagger +1】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Unranked】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Description: A sharp dragon horn. After refinement, it seems even sharper.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without blacksmithing skills, it was impossible to forge grade-bearing equipment recognized by the Myriad Realms Battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu did not expect the dragon-horn dagger to do much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it was sharp enough to slit a throat for suicide, that would suffice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Congratulations, your level has risen to 20. All attributes have increased.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eating the Experience Fruit, his level rose to 20.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Myriad Realms Battlefield, every 10 levels marked a watershed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advancing further beyond level 20 required an enormous amount of experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, the resources near a new lord’s territory were insufficient to push one’s level much past 20.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sylph and Iloti had only reached level 22 by slaying Mythic-grade Void Beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu was in no hurry regarding his level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of his buildings kept growing, and his territory’s strength kept increasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt very secure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sorting through the resources Ye Ye Liyana had sent back,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu gazed at the territory energy stored in the Lord Crystal,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his eyes alight with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was desperately short on territory energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten million territory energy—what should he spend it on first?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Upgrade~!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu made an immediate decision and spent 2.8 million territory energy,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>taking the territory’s farmhouses—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>6,000 C-grade wooden huts,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and 4,000 B-grade stone houses—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and upgrading them all into A-grade duplex homes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including the previous 1,000 duplex homes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The territory's duplex houses reached 11,000 units!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One duplex house provides a population cap increase of 5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The territory's population cap surged to 55,010!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Recruit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As new-generation lords develop their territories, the Peasant Recruitment Orders sold in the Trade House\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>have become more and more expensive, costing roughly several hundred territory energy per token.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Yu could not afford to worry about that now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Territory population means productivity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sooner you recruit, the better your development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must understand, if it were anyone else,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>territory buildings have a cap — a level 3 crystal allows only 500 buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is simply no way to expand population to Su Yu's level in the early stages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, they would still need to balance the numbers of troops and peasants,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>unable to use the entire population just to recruit peasants for production and development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, once peasants are recruited, you cannot simply discard them on a whim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they have committed no offense and you order their execution, the entire territory's loyalty will likely plummet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recruiting peasants in large numbers is only feasible if your territory is exceptionally safe, with no nearby threats, or under the protection of a major power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take Bai Bai Xiaowei, for instance — she focuses solely on development and construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, an enormous peasant workforce and the massive productivity it brings, the way Su Yu has it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>is, for a new-generation lord,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>utterly insane!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the Peasant Recruitment Orders that the little fatty Jian Ruiming had previously sent,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and spending another 2.4 million territory energy to sweep a wave of Peasant Recruitment Orders from the Trade House,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu successfully recruited 26,000 peasants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the positions planned out for the territory, they chose what they were skilled at and each performed their own duties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Feels good. Leveled up to a tier-3 lord crystal today, can expand the farmhouses now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, I reached that a week ago. Already have 200 farmhouses now, population cap of 410.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Hmph, soon enough I'll catch up to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ting: “What are you two so smug about? If not for the great Su Yu, who would have invested in your territory energy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehe, class president, it's just that the territory's developing so fast it feels good inside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Speaking of which, we really have to thank Su Yu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Otherwise, with ordinary troops and ordinary heroes like ours, wanting to reach a level-3 lord crystal would take until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A level-3 lord crystal gives 2,000 territory energy a day — what a rush!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now we're eating well and drinking fine, and whenever I see those new lords on the forum I just want to laugh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, they're still living in primitive society.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, summer's almost here. Do you have enough grain stored up?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Plenty, plenty. If not, just buy it with trade goods.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You want to buy food with trade goods in summer? Isn't that pure fantasy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It'll probably be so expensive you'd have to sell your underpants.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With nothing to do, Su Yu opened the class group chat and took a look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the topic of summer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he thought of Jian Ruiming, who was going all out on agriculture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wondered how much grain that little fatty had stockpiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu had also stockpiled a great deal of grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His territory had tens of thousands of mu of farmland; the grain from planting and harvesting was simply a colossal amount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield's “Spring’s Vitality” blessing, in spring you could typically harvest a wave of grain every month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Su Yu only planned to sell a portion in summer, saving the rest to sell in autumn and winter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In winter, grain prices would surely hit their peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Four Vitalities of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield, apart from Spring's Vitality, were utterly merciless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single spring had to store enough grain for an entire year — for a new territory, that was extraordinarily difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu recalled Bai Bai Xiaowei's talent, “Eternal Spring,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the corner of his mouth couldn't help curling up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he was about to make a huge fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If things went well, his territory might no longer be short on territory energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several days later,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yu spent 1.76 million territory energy to upgrade the 100 newly built Rare Laser Towers in his territory to level 10,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then entered the TW simulation match queue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Holy shit, ‘Never Fall’ is back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moonfall is online!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is he about to fight another veteran lord?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Su Yu's classmates in the class group were watching this with great excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moonfall's influence over all the new lords had reached an utterly exaggerated level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Online! Ah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Ma Kusi practically launched himself out of his chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly sent a message to his good friend:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Bao, Moonfall is online!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bao Bao Yuan, a well-known TW commentator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years earlier he had owed Ma Ma Kusi a favor and agreed to commentate one match for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was just a new lord — was it really worth calling on him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bao Bao Yuan curled his lip, feeling it was beneath him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but for the sake of their past friendship,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he still replied with a single word: “Fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1476,"2026-06-15T03:53:46.766Z","2026-06-15T04:25:06.961Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b1211546467d31ea09bde51a5c13863826d6720ea2330d8b33eb6138c932ffb4","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-79","universal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-chapter-77",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Funiversal-lord-the-zero-troop-building-maniac-cover.jpg"]