Global Lords: My Territory Heart Is a World Tree

Chapter 294: Chapter 169: Leaving Again

Lin Yu understood the implication. Li Hua did have other Cultivation Techniques; he just no longer needed a low-level Universal Technique like the Sun and Moon Breathing Technique.

Lin Yu (Private Message): "I also have a Body Refinement Technique. Want to trade?"

Li Hua (Private Message): "No thanks. My Sword Immortal doesn’t need Body Refinement."

Lin Yu (Private Message): "Alright, then. I just hope you make it through. Good luck!"

Li Hua (Private Message): "Thanks!"

After ending the conversation with Li Hua, Lin Yu stopped paying attention to other matters and started to deal with his own affairs.

First, he went to the Lingxin Department to check his system rewards.

[Congratulations! Your total score for the second phase is 354,712,365 points, ranking you first!]

[Because your score accounts for 1/33 of the total score of all promoted lords, you will receive 1/33 of the Unclaimed Land, an area of 480,000 square kilometers.]

[Please place the territory you have obtained at the Lingxin Department.]

[Congratulations! You have been awarded 1/33 of the total points pool, for a total of 3,030,303 points. You have unlocked Level 2 access in the Point Shop. Please check it for more details.]

[Congratulations! Your Lord Level has increased by 1. Your current Lord Level is 3.]

[Congratulations! You have obtained a Legendary Lord’s Treasure Chest (Gold).]

[Congratulations! You have gained one Enlightenment attempt.]

[Congratulations! Your Territory Core level has increased by 1. Your current Territory Core level is 3.]

[Congratulations! You have obtained a Legendary Territory Treasure Chest (Gold).]

[Your connection with the Territory Core has been strengthened. The attribute bonuses from your Lord class will no longer be limited to your territory.]

[You can now communicate with the Territory Core even when outside your territory, allowing you to observe and exert minor control over it.]

The 480,000 square kilometers of territory from the competition reward, combined with the 11,823 square kilometers of his original territory, brought the total area to 491,823 square kilometers. (For comparison, the land area of Sichuan Province is 486,050 square kilometers.)

His territory had gone from the size of a provincial capital to that of a large province.

Staring at the massive territory, Lin Yu felt a little overwhelmed. The sheer size was staggering.

’No wonder I haven’t seen much of the other lords who advanced to the third phase during this break. A territory this massive needs a lot of management.’

He wasn’t sure if it was intentional on the part of the organizers, but the Goblin Forest to the west, the White Bone Wilderness to the south, the Great Prairie to the north, and a portion of the eastern mountain range were all incorporated into his newly added territory.

To preserve the existing layout as much as possible, Lin Yu left the lands in the four cardinal directions untouched, letting them serve as buffer zones.

As for the other hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of newly allocated land, he followed the system’s guidance, slotting them evenly into the open spaces between his defensive lines, all arranged around the central World Tree. A small portion was also allocated to the World Tree itself, reserved for its future growth.

[Confirm the current territory layout? This action cannot be undone.]

"Confirm!"

After he confirmed the territorial plan, the entire domain began to expand rapidly. The inner circle remained largely unchanged, but everything else swelled in size. Mountains grew taller and broader, grasslands stretched farther, and small streams turned into mighty rivers.

The expanding territory stretched the outer defensive lines, breaking them apart. Countless gaps appeared in his plant-based defenses...

At the same time, the very structure of the continent was in flux. Parcels of land would suddenly vanish, only to reappear elsewhere.

The territories of all the lords were expanding rapidly. The transformation only ceased when they all connected, leaving no Unclaimed Land on the entire continent.

When the changes stopped, Lin Yu suddenly felt a calling. He looked toward the Lingxin Department and immersed his consciousness into it.

He was thrilled to discover that as his connection with the World Tree deepened, the sensation of merging with it had changed significantly. The process was much smoother now, almost seamless.

The feeling of being one with the World Tree was completely different from before.

The most immediate difference was this: before, merging with the World Tree felt like controlling a game character with a VR headset. No matter how skilled he became, he was still manipulating it through a device. There was lag, a noticeable disconnect, and he couldn’t truly experience what the World Tree felt.

But now, after merging with it, he felt as if the World Tree were an external body of his own. He could command its abilities as easily as moving his own arm.

Although a slight disconnect remained, his control over the World Tree was far more profound, and the latency had been drastically reduced.

He could feel the World Tree’s roots developing rapidly. In mere moments, they had once again spread throughout the entire territory.

Then, a massive amount of Spiritual Energy radiated outward from the roots. The concentration of Spiritual Energy in the inner circle plummeted. The Spring of Life ran dry, the energy within the Elemental Core was drained, and even the Death Energy stored in the Vein of Life was rapidly absorbed by the World Tree, converted into Spiritual Energy, and channeled into the newly added lands.

The Spiritual Energy concentration across the entire territory dropped to the bare minimum required for basic activities, reaching an all-time low.

Lin Yu didn’t stop the World Tree, because he could clearly sense its roots using this Spiritual Energy to integrate the new lands that the system had just dropped into his domain.

There was a distinct difference between territory the World Tree had expanded and annexed on its own versus the territory that had been directly inserted by the system.

The former was like a part of the World Tree’s own body. It shared the exact same properties as the original territory, blending with it seamlessly, as if it had always been there.

The latter, however, was like a foreign limb surgically attached. Though it might look the same as the original territory on the surface, its inner workings were completely different, and it was being rejected by the energy system that permeated his domain. (It needed to first neutralize the foreign energies within before being filled with his own.)

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