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    Tianyuan Territory.


    Mu Yuan''s figure appeared inside the City Lord''s Mansion, unharmed and back at his peak condition.


    Dead Bone, Duo Lai, Uta, and the other generals, their bodies were still in the outside world, and as the trial concluded, their consciousness all returned simultaneously.


    "Back, are we?"


    Isloa poked her head out, "It looks like everything went smoothly."


    "Yeah, after all, it was just an ascension trial, nothing unexpected happened,"


    Mu Yuan said.


    As for the ordinary trial being upgraded to a historical trial, in his view, that didn''t count as unexpected.


    When the Lord of Xin Xing ''Wuji'', ''Youshan'', and the others took on the ascension trials, they relied on their powerful strength to break the rules and brute-forced their way through.


    Mu Yuan had heard of these precedents, which had given him the idea to rush through as quickly as possible early on.


    As a result, it wasn''t much different from his initial theory.


    He swept through, shattered the rules, andpleted the trial swiftly.


    Even though it was a historical trial hepleted, it was a simr rush-through process after all.


    Since there wasn''t much difference, it wasn''t considered unexpected.


    ''Notice: You have passed the ascension trial, territory begins upgrading.''


    Hum——


    Hum——


    Mu Yuan''s perspective was elevated, as if a deity looking down upon thend from the Azure Sky.


    From this vantage point, the scope of Tianyuan Territory was expanding and spreading at a fast pace.


    Such changes were invisible to the naked eye, only lords and heroes could see the continuously extending boundary lines.


    Through his lord''s vision, Mu Yuan also saw strands of red mist floating between heaven and earth, which scattered inch by inch as the territory''s boundary spread.


    Wherever the territory spread, thend seemed to burst with even more vitality, with new greenery breaking through the soil.


    These changes were no different from when the territory went from Level Two to Level Three, or from Level Three to Level Four.


    However, an upgrade from Level Four to Level Five was a hurdle, involving not just ''territory expansion'', ''upgrade of miracle buildings'', and ''enhancement of the Lord''s Power''.


    Dependent on the trial''s rating, the Heaven and Earth Baptism and the changes to the territory the Lord could receive would be significantly different.


    Sometimes, these differences marked the beginning of aplete transformation.


    A mere upgrade definitely wouldn''t have a transformative effect on his Tianyuan Territory, but there would still be some noticeable improvements.


    "For instance, the lord can use this opportunity to upgrade some Ordinary-level buildings to Rare Level, or promote Rare-level buildings to Superior Grade."


    As for how many buildings could be upgraded, that depended on the trial rating.


    ''Notice: You can choose to upgrade 10 Ordinary-level buildings and 3 Rare-level buildings.''


    ''Notice: Countdown 300, 299, 298, ...''


    ''Notice: If the time limit is exceeded, upgrade slots will be used randomly.''


    Mu Yuan had already considered this issue and hade to a decision in his heart.


    Out of the ten Ordinary upgrade slots, he used four for the Warehouse, and the remaining six all went to upgrading Ordinary-level Guiding Landmarks.


    ''Warehouse (Green)''


    ''Description: Compared to an Ordinary rank Warehouse, a Rare rank Warehouse has arger folding space, a more substantial main structure, and additionally, has arge cold storage room inside.''


    For the three Rare building upgrade opportunities, he thought about it and decided to use two on the ''Breakthrough Dojo'' and one on the ''City Lord''s Mansion''.


    Superior buildings obtained through upgrades would possess abilities extended from Rare buildings and couldn''t generate new capabilities. Typically, they were somewhat inferior to natural Superior buildings.


    Even so, the improvements brought about by upgrading the buildings were still substantial.


    The Breakthrough Dojo had always been an essential building in Tianyuan Territory, aiding troops in the ''Zero-order to First-order'' and ''First-order to Second-order'' breakthroughs. This breakthrough process was entirely eco-friendly, requiring no materials, only some extra time.


    The upgraded Breakthrough Dojo would be capable of assisting in ''Second-order to Third-order'' and ''Third-order to Four-order'' breakthroughs. However, while higher-order breakthroughs took longer and had fewer slots avable, their effects remained the same.


    With the building upgrades (Level Four to Level Five), the slots for high-order assistance would also increase ordingly.


    "Now, the elites of the main force regiment have already stepped into the elite mid-high level, and after another baptism, it''s estimated that quite a few will be able to enter the third-order Warlord level. At this time, the Breakthrough Dojo can y a significant role."


    As for upgrading the ''City Lord''s Mansion''...


    Mu Yuan was not a man greedy for pleasure. The living environment in the intermediate Mage Tower in the sky was even better than that of the City Lord''s Mansion.


    However, as the territory expanded and the team of officials grew, it was necessary to expand the scale of the municipal hub, the City Lord''s Mansion.


    Boom—


    The Breakthrough Dojo, City Lord''s Mansion, and other buildings began to upgrade.


    Among them, the City Lord''s Mansion underwent the greatest change, expanding its area several times over, yet miraculously, it did not encroach on the adjacent buildings, as if thend beneath the City Lord''s Mansion expanded along with it.


    The two-story building that was the main part of the mansion was upgraded into a tall building of tens of meters, and a great many furnishings and equipment were added inside.


    These awaited exploration.


    Isloa looked at the suddenly erged hall and the files and documents scattered on the ground because of the expansion. She fell silent, so silent that a vein popped out on her forehead.


    In the distance, Mu Yuan shivered for no reason, wondering why a cold wind suddenly blew in the middle of the day.


    The building upgrades werepleted, but the upgrade of the territory was still not finished.


    The next moment, the notification sound rang in his ear again.


    "Notification: You received a gift from heaven and earth, troop building is upgrading."


    ...


    "Notification: Your level one troop building ''Skeletal Cemetery'' has been enhanced, monthly recruitment quota increased to 200 units, environment improved, buffs enhanced."


    "Notification: Your third-order troop building ''Treeman Forest'' has been enhanced, monthly recruitment quota increased to 40 units, environment improved, buffs enhanced."


    "Notification: Your third-order troop building ''Ice Spirit Cold Pool'' has been enhanced, monthly recruitment quota increased to 40 units, environment improved, buffs enhanced."


    Previously, the Skeleton Cemetery had already received one environmental enhancement, but this time, the enhancement was even greater.


    Suddenly, a dark fog surged up, blotting out the sky.


    The darknd extended rapidly to the naked eye, quickly spreading for hundreds of meters, thousands of meters, and still showed no sign of stopping. It stretched out for tens of thousands of meters, seeminglyrger than the entire Tianyuan Territory.


    No, not seemingly!


    The Skeleton Cemetery was now indeed vast but not conspicuous.


    The Skeleton Cemetery was not spreading over the territory''snd; it extended its very own dimensional space!


    It was like a boundarynd.


    About one-tenth of the Skeleton Cemetery''snd melded with the Tianyuan Territory, the rest of thend folded into space, as if it was a mystic realmid bare.


    The Treeman Forest and the Ice Spirit Cold Pool also each extended their own separate spaces.


    These dimensional spaces were invisible from the outside world; only by moving in the right direction within the boundary area could one step into them.


    Yet, under the Lord''s view, Mu Yuan could see three vast half-mystic realms, folding into existence like paradises or underworlds.


    The troop buildings were entirely transformed, with recruitment quotas and critical recruitment rates improved, but those were the least remarkable changes.


    What was truly precious was the vastnd area of the troop mystic realms and the elemental energy and mysterious forces born from it.


    "Come to think of it, my Skeleton Cemetery is still a level one troop building, but regardless of how one looks at it, its area and the elemental force it contains far exceed those of mid-high level troop recruitmentnds."


    With the current size of the Skeleton Cemetery, upgrading it to a level two troop building ''Skeleton Twilight Field'' would not be difficult at all.


    But it wasn''t necessary.


    This kind of upgrade would only turn the recruited Little Skeletons into Skeleton Soldiers.


    It was meaningless to him and might even lead to a reduction in the monthly recruitment quota.


    Mu Yuan faintly sensed that the core of troop buildings seemed to be the nd'' of the territory. As long as this nd'' was vast enough, unlimited possibilities could develop from it.


    Thends of the Dragon Court were akin to an incredibly vast world, a prime recruitmentnd.


    Perhaps, the real value of troop buildings was not in the recruitment of troops but in something else. Lords who acquired troop buildings essentially gained a certain possibility.


    This was just his unfounded spection.


    Whether it was true or not, it was quite distant for him.


    After all, he was still a greenhand who had established his territory for less than a year.