After a short wait, the city lord of Jinling returned with tens of thousands of sows.
The team then set off immediately.
Under the guidance of the city lord of Jinling City, Jiang Hao opened the dungeon center in the city-building order. He expected it to contain individual dungeons, but instead, it displayed rows of exotic realm numbers. The first line was exotic realm number 386, with a development progress of 20.35%, followed by a red "Developing" label. The second line was exotic realm number 685, with a development progress of 35.86%, also followed by a red "Developing" label.
Jiang Hao found the line with the alien code 7865, which showed a development progress of 35.68%, but the word "development" after it was in green.
The city lord of Jinling explained, "The green 'development' markings indicate the regions we can develop. Without reaching the region star level, we can only develop these regions abandoned by the five major clans. These regions are either too difficult to develop or not worth the effort."
Jiang Hao asked, "If we reach the Realm Star level, does that mean all the alien realms on it can be developed?"
The City Lord of Jinling City said, "No, that's not the case. Each of the five major races has its own territory. Take the Jackal Empire for example. When a new territory is created, it will definitely be developed first in the 5th territory. Only if they feel that the development is not worthwhile will they delegate authority to the star-level territories under their jurisdiction. If they still cannot complete the development within a certain time, the Jackal Empire will delegate authority to the star-level territories of the entire Spirit Ruins. Only if they still cannot complete the development will they further extend the authority to the entire Spirit Domain."
The reason why the city lord of Jinling City used the Gnoll Empire as an example is because Jiang Hao's territory has already been assigned to the Gnoll Empire.
In this way, Jiang Hao finally understood. It turned out that the five major clans were the ones eating the meat, while the lower-level star-level realms were just drinking the soup, and Jiang Hao's realm was merely scraps to gnaw on. Their authority wasn't even as high as that of the other major clans' star-level realms.
Jiang Hao asked, "What will happen if we successfully develop Realm 7865 this time?"
The city lord of Jinling waved his hand impatiently and said, "Stop talking about these trivial things and get on with the development."
Seeing Jiang Hao's determined gaze, the city lord of Jinling sighed and said, "After you click 'develop,' we'll have to wait a while. There's plenty of time to answer your questions."
Tens of thousands of sows said, "Kid, why didn't you ask me? I actually know all this."
Does Jiang Hao dare to ask him?
They probably haven't been criticized enough!
Jiang Hao shook his head and then clicked on the green "Development" option.
"No star-level teleportation array detected in your current realm. Your squad consists of 10 human members. We recommend using the star-level shuttle airship. Would you be willing to spend 50 million gold coins to ride it?"
Holy crap!
What kind of airship costs 50 million gold coins!
There was another row of aircraft on the new light screen, but they were the cheapest ones recommended by the system.
Jiang Hao immediately selected "No," and the screen in front of him returned to the list of alien realms.
Jiang Hao then turned to look at the city lord of Jinling City, his eyes seeming to scrutinize him as if he were trying to swindle money from him.
"What's wrong? You're worried about 50 million gold coins?"
The city lord of Jinling City said sternly, "Keep scrolling down to the last line of the list of foreign lands!"
Jiang Hao, bewildered, did as instructed. Then he stared in disbelief. The last line of information pierced Jiang Hao's heart like a needle.
Foreign domain ID, development progress 0%, red development text!
That's the domain number Jiang Hao is in. This isn't some kind of instance center at all.
This is war! This is invasion!
Jiang Hao thought that everything would be fine after blowing up the jackal people's star teleportation array, but he didn't expect that their realm had already been put on the list of areas for development by all races!
However, this list is only open to the Gnoll Empire in Realm 5 for the time being.
Seeing Jiang Hao's pale face, the city lord of Jinling softened his tone and said, "You should be glad that the Star-level Shuttle is expensive, otherwise we would be facing a massacre by the Jackal Empire by now!"
Jiang Hao suddenly thought of a possibility, so he hurriedly asked the tens of thousands of sows, "Is it possible that the Archmage Oron might come in a star-level speedboat and wipe out our realm with a single finger?"
Jiang Hao was well aware of the power of the Grand Mage Oron's finger. After he finished the special mission of seizing the Heart of Immortality, the Grand Mage Oron once crossed tens of thousands of realms with a single finger, creating a deep pit with a radius of 50 miles on the ground of the No. 1 realm.
Tens of thousands of sows sneered and said, "Can you stop trying to understand the upper class with your lackey mentality? They value their lives very much! Coming alone? Isn't he afraid that the other four major clans will launch an attack on him? Given his personality, at most he will send a large army to wipe out this region. After the Immortal Heart enters the body of a gnoll, he will lead that army to a tributary region of a gnoll empire and, while ensuring his own absolute safety, kill that entire army."
After the owner of the Immortal Heart dies, it will secretly inhabit the body of any other being in the same realm as its original owner. If the original owner was human, then it is highly likely that the new owner it chooses will also be human. Only if all humans in that realm are wiped out will it choose a creature of another race in that realm.
Because of this characteristic of the Immortal Heart, the humans, and even all other creatures in this realm, had no chance to surrender.
The tens of thousands of sows continued, "Besides, his God-Devouring Curse can only be used on a single target. Why is its power so great? It can destroy everything within a fifty-mile radius?"
Jiang Hao really didn't know this.
The tens of thousands of sows said, "You wouldn't understand even if I told you now. All you need to know is that that kind of powerful attack requires consuming something of its own, and that something can only be obtained through years of accumulation."
Jiang Hao breathed a sigh of relief. But the next sentence from the tens of thousands of sows plunged his spirits back into despair.
Tens of thousands of sows said, "Do you think it will take him a long time to recover before he can launch an attack on you like that again?"
"Isn't that right? You said he needs a long recovery period."
Tens of thousands of sows said, "Then how do you know he used his full strength against you last time? I estimate that he still has enough strength to launch at least three more attacks like that. One was to slaughter the gnoll army that is on a expedition to this realm, one was to deal with any emergencies that the gnoll empire might face, and the other was to use it as a trump card, something he would rather die than use."
Jiang Hao couldn't understand and said, "Why would you rather die than use it? Isn't that a contradiction?"
The tens of thousands of sows felt exhausted talking to Jiang Hao and said, "Because of that attack, if he hadn't used it, he might have had a chance to survive. But if he had, he would have certainly died."
Jiang Hao was still somewhat confused. Ling Feng, standing to the side, coldly said, "A gun has eight bullets. If you fire seven shots and kill seven desperados, the remaining ones might let you go. But if you fire the last shot, you're dead!"
Jiang Hao suddenly realized!
I felt completely cold.
Just how cruel are the rules of the game in Lingxu that would make a gnoll archmage so cautious?
Tens of thousands of sows nodded approvingly at Ling Feng and said, "Even I know to hold back three attacks. Do you think Archmage Oron, with his cautious nature, would hold back even a few?"
Jiang Hao had no time to think about how many attacks Aorong might have left behind; he was thinking about his own bullet, the one he would never fire until he died.
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