After finishing his cultivation, Zhou Yan returned to the [Heavenly Emperor's Palace] and saw Nangong Puye, Wang Chudong, Yu Youwei, and Xuanyuan Qingfeng strolling in the garden, discussing martial arts insights.
Zhou Yan walked over and asked, "Are you accustomed to being here?"
"The scenery is pleasant, the illusionary realm is quiet and elegant, and even the air is so beautiful. It's like a mortal paradise, so much better than the world we came from," Wang Chudong replied.
"How is the immortal realm in this world?" Nangong Puye inquired.
"I haven't been there either, but it must be beautiful, capable of granting longevity and allowing one to pursue higher martial arts realms. I am also moving in that direction."
Zhou Yan had also fantasized about the immortal realm of this world, but no one knew exactly what it was like. It was the direction all lords strived towards.
Zhou Yan spent a long time chatting with the four of them before leaving the [Heavenly Emperor's Palace]. Upon returning to the villa at the Ziwei Academy, Zhou Yan resumed his day's lessons.
However, the Head Tutor informed everyone that at the beginning of next month, he would lead everyone to participate in a Lord Trial organized by Ziwei Academy. Only adventure-type lords would participate; farming lords would not.
The Head Tutor instructed all students to summon their territories back before the end of the month.
Upon hearing this news, everyone was very curious and asked, "Tutor, where will we be tested this time?"
"What is the purpose of this trial?"
"Are there any rewards for this trial?"
Facing the students' curiosity, the Head Tutor smiled as always and replied, "You will know when the time comes."
The students were quite helpless. Ziwei Academy remained as mysterious as ever. They could only wait until the beginning of next month.
Zhou Yan checked the time. There was still a considerable amount of time until next month. He planned to visit the Lord Continent again today and return before the end of the month.
Zhou Yan had no choice but to do so. His territory had gained over 500,000 mounts, which required a massive amount of meat daily. To feed these mounts, Zhou Yan had even specially constructed many [Super Storage Rooms] for storing food.
This building was an S-quality building, evolved from the most basic [Storage Room]. After all, Zhou Yan had obtained so many buildings that listing them all would require several pages of paper.
After the morning classes ended, there were no classes in the afternoon. Zhou Yan returned to the villa, ate the food prepared by Wang Zhi and Liu Piao, and then returned to his territory. After all the soldiers had eaten their fill, he summoned Zhang Liang to arrange the soldiers' expedition.
Everything in the territory had been put on the right track. He only needed to issue commands; he didn't need to personally convey them.
After Zhang Liang finished informing everyone, Zhou Yan communicated with his Lord's Heart and began to teleport to the Lord Continent again.
As the entire territory once again traversed the dimensional tunnel, Zhou Yan's territory arrived in a new environment.
It was a place that resembled a fairyland. Lush forests surrounded them, with many high mountains and flowing water. Zhou Yan was quite surprised; the place did not seem dangerous.
The subsequent matters did not require Zhou Yan to issue orders.
Zhang Liang had already prepared a combat command center, staffed by Zhou Yan's women. Since they had nothing else to do, they were allowed to do it if they wished, or it could be delegated to others if they didn't.
Future reconnaissance work would be handled by a specially trained team.
Thousands of reconnaissance aircraft were dispatched, along with various mining machines, heading out of the territory.
A few minutes later, various images appeared on the computers in the combat command center.
However, the first good news came from one of the mining machines, which discovered a large area of high-grade timber.
They immediately reported this to Yin Lihua and others in charge.
"We've been in the Lord's World for quite some time, and this is the first time we've found such a large quantity of high-grade timber," Si Teng said happily, looking at the premium wood.
"Have you identified the species of this timber, and roughly how large is the timber area?" Yin Lihua asked.
"We are still expanding our search. It looks quite large. As for the timber information... Got it, we've confirmed it with the database. It's an eight-star timber called Ironclad Wood. It's very hard and requires advanced lumberjacks to harvest."
"Eight-star Ironclad Wood. If I remember correctly, this timber can be used to make various arrows and has a significant market value. We're quite lucky this time. Have you found any monster traces?"
Yin Lihua was also pleased. The timber they had encountered before was at most six-star and in small quantities, so they hadn't bothered to chop it. This time, encountering such a good source of high-grade timber, they definitely couldn't let it go.
"No powerful monster traces have been found yet. We are exploring further out."
"Got it, a scene of monsters has been discovered here."
"Let me see."
After a while, Zhang Liang obtained the intelligence and reported the situation to Zhou Yan.
"Oh, eight-star Ironclad Wood. We're quite lucky this time. We were already in great need of high-grade timber, so acquiring it now seems very fortunate."
Zhou Yan was also very happy. High-grade timber was extremely rare in the market. If not for the ability to acquire a lot from the myriad worlds, Zhou Yan wouldn't have been able to develop so quickly.
"High-grade timber requires advanced lumberjacks to harvest efficiently. It seems there are too few lumberjacks in the territory. Can the lord summon more lumberjacks, or should some soldiers be assigned to lumber?" Zhang Liang suggested.
"The territory currently has over 500,000 mounts to feed. Although the territory has some areas for livestock, it's still difficult to satisfy such a large herd. The soldiers' primary task is still to hunt monsters outside the territory. As for the lumberjacks, leave that to me."
Zhou Yan naturally would not let the soldiers engage in logging; it would be a complete waste.
The elders also agreed with this, but they were concerned whether the territory's Soul Coins were sufficient to summon advanced lumberjacks, hence their suggestion.
"You arrange the subsequent matters. The matter of lumberjacks is mine to handle. Assign a few people to escort these lumberjacks to you later."
Zhou Yan stood up and headed towards the [Hall of Heroes].
"Yes."
Zhang Liang quickly assigned a few people to accompany Zhou Yan to the [Hall of Heroes].
The current [Hall of Heroes] was only level 90 and had not yet produced talents capable of summoning lumberjacks. However, Zhou Yan already had enough materials to upgrade the [Hall of Heroes] to its maximum level.