So it’s the Royal Lantern Grass?

Looking at the species before him, Lin You was extremely surprised.

He had not anticipated that the tenth royal family would be of this species, but after looking at the skills introduction, he couldn’t help but feel delighted.

Group Full Health, Group Purification, Space Lock, three wide-range skills, two of which also carry attack effects.

You should know.

These are only Tier Seven Skills.

Once upgraded to Tier Ten, the range will certainly be greatly enhanced, far stronger than ordinary Lantern Grass.

The most important is the last skill, Void Space.

Seals displacement for 10 seconds, meaning even space travel cannot be used, which equates to giving him another means of fighting Tier Ten Lords.

This is the true power of the Royal Family.

Because the Royal Family can possess skills ordinary species do not, and skills beyond the knowledge of other lords.

Those lords would never think that plant type species could possess such means, let alone prepare defenses in advance.

"Great! Since your skills are related to space, then from now on, you’ll be called ’Void Nether’."

Lin You admired, naturally giving the new royal family a name.

Then he took it to the Hero Transformation Pool to transform it into a Heroic Species, unlocking a new exclusive talent.

[Ten Thousand Lights: When a skill is activated, other Lantern Grass within the skill range will also activate the same skill, with a 50% reduced effect.]

Just like its name, Ten Thousand Lights.

Lin You can already imagine, the Lantern Grass Legion in action, Kongming Lanterns lighting up the sky in Radiance, how could it be something that can be merely described as grand?

Even with a 50% reduced effect, this exclusive talent is still very terrifying.

Especially now that there are more species positions, he can recruit more Lantern Grass, filling the entire team will not be a problem.

The only pity is that he doesn’t have enough Rule Fragments to upgrade the species, he can only wait until everything is on track.

Thinking so.

Lin You went straight to the Tower of Species, opened the operation interface, and used the resources he had prepared to upgrade the Tower of Species to Tier Ten.

[Building Name: Tower of Species]

[Building Level: Tier Ten]

[Building Introduction: Can research the advanced forms of existing species and make them recruitable, requires consumption of Magic Energy, species level cannot exceed building level.]

[Research Speed: 40 days]

[Research Quantity: 0/5]

[Upgrade Requirements: 200,000 Wood, 200,000 Stone, 100,000 Iron Ore, 100,000 Copper Ore, 1 Billion Magic Energy, Rule Fragment x1]

The Tier Ten Tower of Species, its functionality has greatly improved.

But the time needed for research is also outrageously long.

More than a month’s time, it’s better to find a Tier Ten Species Token to unlock directly, that way is somewhat faster.

But thinking is thinking, Lin You still honestly opened the research interface and selected the Multiplication Grass to research.

[Researching Tier Ten Species requires 25 million Magic Energy, Rule Fragment x1, insufficient resources, unable to research.]

???

Even researching species requires Rule Fragments?

Lin You was instantly awkward, feeling an urge to curse.

Everyone knows he lacks Rule Fragments, thinking of all sorts of ways to deceive his resources, right?

Now he finally understands why Ji Xinghe said Rule Fragments are the main resource after Tier Ten, truly needed everywhere.

It seems bringing in new lords into the duchy quickly is necessary, otherwise with the current faith growth, who knows when the gap in Rule Fragments can be filled.

As for killing Lord Demons, he temporarily doesn’t dare to hope for it.

At least until either himself or the royal attribute exceeds 100,000 first.

And currently, the attribute closest to 100,000 is the Constitution of Cyan Gang, which has reached 93,000, also his current highest defense species.

But compared to F-level Lord Demons, it’s still a bit behind.

Even with his four Divine Fragments plus ten royal families, it’s still impossible, the situation of other equal Tier Ten Lords can be imagined, probably not much better.

Thus, the development of the duchy becomes particularly important.

This is also the reason why all duchies have been emphasizing national power.

Helpless, Lin You had to temporarily give up on Multiplication Species, opting instead to mutate the Deceitful Willow that levels up with the territory.

Soon, he arrived under the World Tree, spent 2.5 million Magic Energy to recruit a Tier Ten Deceitful Willow.

[Name: Deceitful Demon Willow (Rare)]

[Race: Plant]

[Level: Tier Ten (Upgrades with Territory)]

[Power: ???]

[Constitution: ???]

[Agility: ???]

[Spirit: ???]

[Skills: Deceitful Transformation (Copy attributes), Soul Incarnation (Territory Aura), Deceit (Stealth Aura), Spiritual Absorption (Enemies in the willow’s attack range will have their spirit disturbed, sporadically entering a stupefied state, losing the ability to resist, effect determined by the difference in spiritual attributes between them.)]

[Introduction: A plant good at controlling spiritual power, closely tied to the World Tree.]

Compared to the Royal Family, the Tier Ten skills of Rare Species are relatively weaker.

Lin You thought little of it, attempting to let the demon willow copy Lingxi’s attributes, as expected, like with the Symbiotic Moss, was prompted the power level didn’t match, couldn’t be copied.

It seems the cohesion of the Divine Format has allowed the Royal Family to transcend the scope of ordinary species, much like the difference between Lord Demons and ordinary demons.

No way.

Lin You had to mutate the demon willow, sacrificing all attributes and skills.

Then as a burst of light flashed, he finally successfully mutated into a Tier Ten Ordinary Species.

[Name: Gathering Sunflower (Ordinary)]

[Race: Plant]

[Level: Tier Ten (Upgrades with Territory)]

[Power: 38500 (+19250)]

[Constitution: 41000 (+27060)]

[Agility: 38300 (+19150)]

[Spirit: 42500 (+21250)]

[Skills: Deceitful Transformation, Photosynthesis (Energy Recovery), Focal Length of the Sun (Long-Range Attack), Scorching Sun (Little Sun, Skill effects double during its duration.), Sun’s Fire (The duration of Little Sun extends to 1 minute, and the sunlight will scorch enemies, causing their energy to deplete continuously.)]

[Introduction: A plant highly compatible with sunlight, capable of unleashing extremely strong combat and support abilities under the sun’s rays.]

The average attributes of ordinary Tier Ten species are 40,000, slightly lower than Royal Family and Rare species, though they make up for it in numbers.

Once they increase in quantity, they become quite terrifying, potentially overwhelming demons with higher attributes using sheer numbers.

Thus, Lin You wasted no time and started recruiting Deceitful Demon Willows for mutation following this strategy.

As beams of light flickered on, the number of Tier Ten species before him gradually increased.

He then noticed that the Tier Ten skills of these species were essentially weakened versions of Royal species skills, all changed from group effects to individual or small range skills.

Such as Cyan Gang’s War Barrier.

In ordinary species, it became a shield cast on oneself, unlike Cyan Gang’s overwhelming ability to apply it to all melee combatants.

In comparison, the skills of the Royal Family are absurdly powerful.

No wonder even the Great Emperors couldn’t defeat the Seventy-Two Celestial Demons, perhaps partly due to this reason.

It went on like this until late at night.

Lin You finally finished reviewing the new skills of all species and mutated 3000 Tier Ten species.

Looking at the Magic Energy, he had spent a total of 20 billion, leaving only 3 billion.

These Tier Ten species really are money burners.

Thankfully, he had saved a lot of funds in Yellow Sand City before, or else he might become the poorest Duke King on the continent.

"Hope the taxes and Duchy channel can help recover some funds,"

Lin You thought helplessly, casually opening his personal space to check for any omissions.

Soon, he found the complete Divine Fragment he had obtained in the Elf Forest earlier in a corner and immediately took it out.

[Name: Divine Fragment (Plant Type)]

[Level: Tier Eleven]

[Introduction: Level insufficient, cannot be used.]

"..."

Sure enough, it’s still unusable.

A long time ago, Lin You had already heard that a Tier Eleven demigod needs to gather complete Divine Fragments of the Ten Elements to ascend to Tier Twelve of the Divine Level.

Therefore, even if he could use this Divine Fragment, he wouldn’t use it immediately.

Because, when he ascends to Tier Eleven in the future, he will condense a complete Plant Type Divine Fragment, which will then clash with this one.

So, it is best to keep it to exchange for a Divine Fragment of another element with other Tier Eleven Lords in the future, which is the correct choice.

"Your Majesty, someone seeks an audience."

Suddenly, a voice outside the territory interrupted his thoughts.

Listening to the voice, it seemed to be Xu Zhong, who was specifically in charge of personnel transfers.

"What’s the matter?"

Lin You casually stored the Divine Fragment back into the Origin Space, then looked outside.

At this time, the surroundings of the territory were already covered by Cyan Rattan’s vines and Blood Poisonous Mist, but the voice could still be clearly heard outside.

"Your Majesty, there are three Lords outside claiming to be your friends and wish to see you."

"My friends?"

Lin You instinctively glanced at the private chat interface, noticing several messages, sent by Yan Wu and the other two.

Unexpectedly, they all came together.

"Alright, I got it. You all may withdraw for now."

"Yes!"

Xu Zhong respectfully responded, immediately leading his nearby subordinates to leave.

Lin You then flashed and hurried into Yellow Sand City.

He didn’t notice that the complete Divine Fragment he had just put in the Origin Space was being drawn and slowly merging with the Chaos Treasure above the Tree of Origin.

Soon after.

An incredibly rich Life Aura surged forth, spreading outward from the Tree of Origin.

The rules within the entire Origin Space also began to change silently.

Meanwhile,

traveling across the space, Lin You quickly arrived at the guest hall in Yellow Sand City, immediately seeing Yan Wu, Yin Tiange, and Bai Haitang waiting there.

"Why are you all here?" he exclaimed in surprise.

The three were startled, quickly turning around, and looking at him with faces full of joy.

"Lin You, it is indeed you!"

"We’ve finally seen you."

"No, we should address you as Your Majesty now."

Seeing Lin You appear, Yan Wu and the other two were both delighted and excited, yet appeared somewhat uneasy.

After all, their status was now worlds apart from Lin You.

"Alright, alright, no need for these formalities with me," Lin You smiled slightly, waving at them, "Let’s talk about you all. Why did you suddenly come to find me?"

He remembered clearly, Yan Wu and their territories were at least an entire Duchy away, making the journey time-consuming.

"What else? Surely it’s to join you," Yan Wu immediately said.

"So? Interested in taking us three in?" Yin Tiange followed.

Bai Haitang said nothing, but her expression clearly indicated she shared the same thought as the two.

"Join me? Of course, you’re welcome!" Lin You said, his eyes lighting up.

He was just worried about not having Lords above Tier Eight in the Duchy, and little did he expect people he trusted the most would come over so soon.

This was naturally the best outcome.