With the death of Aus, the entire territory was quickly annihilated.
Bai Qi ordered the soldiers to take away all the items from the entire territory. If nothing else, after destroying the Aus Alliance, Zhou Yan obtained a large amount of lumber, as they had no idea how long they had been harvesting lumber there. Now, it all fell into his lap.
In the Aus territory, apart from the civilians, all other soldiers were killed by Bai Qi. As for the civilians, they were kept by Zhang Liang; otherwise, Bai Qi would have dealt with them as well.
These civilians were naturally useful, and the territory was in great need of them. Zhang Liang would never let Bai Qi kill them.
The next day, Zhang Liang reported everything about the territory to Zhou Yan, who was very satisfied. This battle was another complete victory.
With so much high-grade lumber, Zhou Yan began to upgrade the territory's buildings and construct new ones.
"The harvest this time is indeed huge. I obtained over a thousand buildings alone," Zhou Yan was very pleased.
The buildings from over a dozen territories were dismantled, allowing Zhou Yan's territory to acquire a considerable number of buildings, especially bridges, of which there were several more.
Zhou Yan finally installed a bridge leading out of the city at each of the four city gates, and with two extra, he built bridges in the southeast and northeast directions respectively.
Among the thousand-plus buildings, not many were of S-grade or above, only ten in total. Three of them were barracks, but these were for foreign troops, which Zhou Yan did not favor, so he used them to upgrade his existing barracks.
Including the barracks below S-grade, there were over thirty more. After constructing them, Zhou Yan also used them to upgrade his existing barracks.
The previous RR-grade of [White Robe Ghost Soldiers] and [Camp of the Vanguard] could finally be upgraded to top-tier barracks.
As for other buildings, Zhou Yan also upgraded the quality of buildings that could be upgraded.
After upgrading the quality of the buildings, Zhou Yan began to upgrade the levels of each building. This time, he had obtained a lot of materials, allowing Zhou Yan to carry out a major upgrade of the buildings within the territory again.
The previous [Great Han Cavalry] was only level 60. Zhou Yan upgraded its level to 80. This barracks gained two more attributes, and the summoning capacity increased to one hundred thousand.
[Building: Great Han Cavalry]
[Level: 80 (Upgrade Required)]
[Quality: RRR]
[Attributes: For every 3000 Soul Coins consumed, one Great Han Cavalry can be summoned. Current summoning limit (20000/100000)]
[Special Attribute 1: Mount Speed +160%]
[Special Attribute 2: Cavalry Combat Power +160%]
[Special Attribute 3: Cavalry Mobility +160%]
[Special Attribute 4: Cavalry Charge +160%]
[Special Attribute 5: Cavalry All Attributes +80%]
[Special Attribute 6: Cavalry Recovery +160%]
[Special Attribute 7: Cavalry Stamina +160%]
[Special Attribute 8: Cavalry Defense +160%]
[Introduction: The Great Han Cavalry, renowned far and wide, swept across the barbarians and reclaimed the land!]
Zhou Yan then summoned the remaining eighty thousand [Great Han Cavalry] soldiers and handed them over to Guo Jia for management.
It took Zhou Yan a full day to handle the construction of these buildings.
Furthermore, after Zhou Yan completed the upgrade of various buildings, he discovered that his territory could be upgraded again.
Therefore, Zhou Yan began to upgrade the territory's level.
Territory Notification: "Your territory has been upgraded to Level 65."
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Territory Notification: "Your territory has been upgraded to Level 75."
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Territory Notification: "Your territory has been upgraded to Level 80."
After the territory was upgraded to level 80, Zhou Yan was only twenty levels away from the maximum territory level.
The entire territory changed drastically, with its area increasing by more than double.
[Territory Name: Heavenly Court (Diao Chan · Hidden)]
[Lord: Zhou Yan (Detailed Information)]
[Quality: White (Colored · Hidden)]
[Territory Talent: Special Item Probability +80%]
[Territory Level: 80]
[Upgrade Required: 81 buildings of Level 81, including 8 buildings of R quality or above, and 16 buildings of S quality or above. Territory Population 50,000, including 8 heroes of R quality or above, 16 heroes of S quality or above, 8 billion Spirit Coins, 800 million Soul Coins.]
[Area: 300 million square meters]
[Special Attribute 1: Territory Humanoid All Attributes +80%]
[Special Attribute 2: Territory All Race Attributes +80%]
[Special Attribute 3: Territory All Building Attributes +80%]
[Special Attribute 4: Territory All Race Defense +80%]
[Special Attribute 5: Territory All Race Attack +80%]
[Special Attribute 6: Territory All Race Speed +80%]
[Special Attribute 7: Territory All Race Cultivation Speed +80%]
[Special Attribute 8: Territory All Race Recovery Speed +80]
[Buildings: (Detailed Information)]
[Territory Population: 942368]
[Resources: (Detailed Information)]
Unconsciously, the territory's population was nearing one million.
And the territory's area had reached 300 million square meters, equivalent to 300 square kilometers.
This was already very large, but Zhou Yan did not need such a large territory, so he collected the unnecessary land again.
War was indeed a path to great wealth. Zhou Yan harvested immensely from over a dozen territories this time, but what benefited him the most was the territory's crystal, as he had obtained the Lord's Crystal, which could now be upgraded in quality.
[Building: King's Crystal]
[Level: 80 (Upgrade Required)]
[Quality: SSS (Upgrade Required)]
[Special Attribute 1: Lightning Attack]
[Special Attribute 2: Within the territory, significantly enhances the elemental attack and defense of all buildings.]
[Special Attribute 3: Chain Lightning]
[Special Attribute 4: Flame Attack]
[Special Attribute 5: Ice Attack]
[Special Attribute 6: Storm Attack]
[Special Attribute 7: Significantly enhances the crystal's defense.]
[Special Attribute 8: Damage Immunity (After being attacked, the user will be invincible for eight minutes.)]
[Introduction: The core hub of the Lord's space, an evolved crystal, integrates offense and defense. It will actively attack all malevolent beings within an 800-meter range. When upgraded with the same type of crystal, there is a chance to gain attack bonuses for that attribute.]
To upgrade the [King's Crystal] to R quality, thirty Lord's Crystal Fragments are needed.
Zhou Yan would not casually attack others unless they attacked him first, as he did not like to initiate wars, but he would never fear war.