After refining all the medicinal herbs in the game into over twenty million pills, the Guiyuan Pill Furnace's level increased by three, reaching the sub-divine tier. The success rate for refining ordinary pills directly reached 100%, with an 80% rate for excellent quality.
After refining some newly acquired medicinal herbs of other types, Ye Yun directly used a Realize Object Card to replace the Guiyuan Pill Furnace in the real world. After all, the real-world level was merely a low-level immortal artifact, and the pill formation rate would still incur losses.
"Your Majesty, the player count in the New Mortal Continent has already exceeded twenty billion. Do you want to return to Yun Tian City to take a look?" Wang Chen asked Ye Yun in the city lord's mansion of Feng Le City.
"No, Old Wang. The New Mortal Continent is the true key to our human race's rise. You must guard it well for me. Although those alien races have gathered under our empire, there will surely be friction among them, and each will have their own selfish motives."
"If it's not excessive, then let them be. If they cross our bottom line, you can use unconventional means when necessary," Ye Yun instructed his top general.
The reason for having Wang Chen manage the medicinal garden and logistics of the fifth heaven was primarily because these two places were the throat of the entire empire, the switch controlling all resources for the empire's soldiers. Without these pills, even if the soldiers had more money, they would not dare to recklessly materialize their strength or significantly increase their attribute points.
Of course, caution is always necessary. Ye Yun also kept a backup plan with Wang Chen. Ye Yun withheld all 5.7 million top-quality pills, the Bi Gu Dan, and over a million other types of pills from this refinement.
Ye Yun would eventually transfer all these pills to Ding Yi, as they were prepared for her and their daughter. As for the pills refined in the real world, Ye Yun did not intend to save them for Ding Yi. After all, if too many things were left in the real world, they might attract the attention of those with ulterior motives. Things were safest only within the game world.
"Boss, why do I feel like you're arranging your affairs as if you're preparing for the end? Did something happen?" Wang Chen asked Ye Yun with concern.
"The empire is about to achieve great unification. At this pace, I will face the Great Emperor's ascension tribulation within half a year at most. Even after passing the ascension tribulation, I can only remain in this Ten Directions Cosmos for a year at most!"
It could be said that after Fu Tian surrendered, Ye Yun maintained a sense of caution towards everyone. However, the Great Emperor's tribulation would cause a massive commotion. By then, not only his quasi-emperors, but all beings within the Ten Directions Cosmos could know about it through the Heavenly Dao.
That's right. Ever since Ye Ting was born, Ye Yun had become wary of everyone, even those who had been loyal to him, even if he had planted a divine sense imprint on them.
"So soon?!"
Wang Chen was taken aback.
If Ye Yun passed the Great Emperor's tribulation, without the support of the Emperor's Path, he and other quasi-emperors and those at the peak of Extreme Rank would only have two paths. One was to follow and undergo the tribulation, and the other was to retreat behind the scenes, hiding in a place that could somewhat shield them from heaven and earth to continue comprehending the laws, and only emerge to face the tribulation when they felt confident enough.
"Yes, you all should also prepare yourselves as much as possible. I hope that you can follow my steps and conquer a piece of land for ourselves in the Upper Realm! Starting from now, apart from the one thousand pieces of law fragments supplied to Yao Die and the others, I will additionally supply ten thousand pieces daily. Of course, the prerequisite is that you must obtain more Realize Object Cards as quickly as possible!"
"Understood, I'll discuss it with them immediately." Wang Chen's expression was solemn, and he turned to leave. Ye Yun then used the teleportation array to reach Teng City in the Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain Range again.
Teng City -
City Lord's Mansion: Level 3
City Walls (40km): Level 3
City Guard Barracks: Level 3, can accommodate 15,000/60,000 City Guards.
Residential Apartments: 5 (Level 3)
Restaurant: 1 (Level 3)
City Defense Building: Arrow Tower (Level 3) * 1
Spring: 1 (Level 3)
City Guards: 15,000 (Level 1)
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Looking at the results of Little Golden Dragon's efforts over the past few months, Ye Yun felt a mix of emotions. The city's level progression was truly too difficult. If it only required money, with Ye Yun's financial resources, he could reach max level in minutes. However, this damn point system was too time-consuming. If it continued at this rate, there wouldn't be enough extra points to build a larger city within half a year.
"Yue Xia, arrange for people to guard Teng City recently, mainly to clear out the Age Beasts around Teng City. I have other arrangements for the next half a year."
Sticking to the rules would not yield a large number of points. Only by venturing deep into the fourth or fifth zones of the Age Beasts to hunt level four and even level five Age Beasts could it be achieved.
Most importantly, there was an indigenous city within this map! This city's existence, although far from Teng City and posing no direct threat, obstructed Ye Yun's 'sole' possibility here. Therefore, Ye Yun absolutely would not allow this hostile existence to continue.
After three months, with the accumulation of all usable resources by Ye Yun, Jin Wu's speed surged again. Now its speed had surpassed fifteen kilometers per second, three times faster than when it first arrived!
Ye Yun put away Little Golden Dragon, and under Jin Wu's terrifyingly fast speed, he headed towards the fourth zone. Of course, to avoid wasting time, Ye Yun would have Jin Wu land and cast a skill approximately every two hours. Under these circumstances, Ye Yun's depleted points began to skyrocket at an alarming rate.
When he had nothing to do, Ye Yun would sit on Jin Wu's back, studying his attribute points and other items in his inventory.
Attribute points, Ye Yun did not know their maximum value, and no one on the forums had mentioned this issue. Ye Yun had even specifically asked veteran players like Yue Xia and Yao Die, but none of them had provided a definitive answer.
However, before the Heavenly Dao game began, Ye Yun had read a similar scenario in a web novel, which stated that the limit of the universe was 10 to the power of 68, signifying infinity.
But some people said it should be 10 to the power of 72, also called a googolplex, meaning endless.
If Ye Yun's current attribute points were considered, even drinking three cups of Heavenly and Earthly Fine Wine daily would not guarantee reaching the seventy-second power. Therefore, what Ye Yun needed to do now was to utilize all available resources. After all, he didn't know if he could still log into the game after achieving Great Emperor status.