Upon learning of Ye Chen's request, the fat man didn't stand on ceremony and directly began purchasing magic crystals in the Time Cave, exchanging them for energy crystals or merit points.
New lords emerging from the Trial Grounds have a considerable stockpile of magic crystals, and they are short of merit points. If someone is willing to buy them at a high price, they are naturally willing to sell some.
Although everyone wanted to keep some for themselves, most newcomers couldn't accumulate many magic crystals, and they would run out in a few days. After all, the development of their territory couldn't be separated from energy. They could either exchange merit points for energy crystals or use magic crystals to accelerate development. For them, magic crystals were currently the only option.
So the fat man didn't spend much effort to acquire tens of thousands of magic crystals with energy value from this group of newcomers, and Ye Chen's Lingxiao Heavenly Court developed rapidly.
Although those who have entered so far are just ordinary fairies and heavenly soldiers, and their bonuses are not as great as those of real celestial officials, their improvement to strength is still real. Soon Ye Chen had a large group of sixth-rank fairies and heavenly soldiers at his disposal.
Not only that, Ye Chen also brought all the real phoenixes and powerful spirit beasts from the Primordial Star into the Heavenly Court, making the entire Great Luo Heaven lively. The people of the Primordial Star finally had the concept of ascending to immortality.
During this process, Ye Chen discovered that he was indeed unable to confer godhood upon the Wu Clan. Not only that, but the people of Xiniu Hezhou were also unable to do so. It seemed that the Lingxiao Heavenly Court had its own rules, and only true primordial clans could be ranked among the immortals. Of course, the Wu Clan and Rakshasa were exceptions.
Seeing this, Ye Chen didn't insist. At worst, he could just load another human race's nest. Such ordinary intelligent races weren't hard to obtain. It was just that the humans of Blue Star didn't like loading the seeds of civilization that were also human races, as it would easily confuse them with the Blue Star people, causing bloodline confusion and making it impossible to awaken lords and awakeners.
Besides, everyone sees humans every day, so who would refuse a beautiful elf or a cute catgirl? With so many strange and wonderful races around, why bother loading human nests that you see every day?
Every year, a large number of new lords come and go in the Caverns of Time, and they all have a large number of magic crystals. The fat man only needs to limit the purchase of some special items to easily acquire magic crystals from these new lords.
After all, compared to magic crystals that can only be converted into energy, the rare Primordial Armor can directly improve one's own strength, allowing ordinary lords to have the possibility of fighting against mid-level dark creatures.
Compared to other clan nests, the advancement of the Lingxiao Heavenly Court is both difficult and easy. It is difficult because it requires a lot of energy to advance, but it is easy precisely because of this. As long as there is enough energy, the Heavenly Palace and Palace can be activated quickly, allowing the Lingxiao Heavenly Court to advance.
In the first year alone, the magic crystals that Fatty bought for him enabled Lingxiao Heavenly Court to open up to the third level. Three years later, he successfully unlocked the ninth level and completed his first advancement.
Of course, this is because Ye Chen used all his energy points for construction. Apart from the initial twenty Moon Maidens, he did not appoint any more fairies. In any case, he is currently in the development stage of the Time Cave, and military development is not in such a hurry.
The thirty-six palaces and seventy-two halls of the Lingxiao Heavenly Court are mainly distributed in the original nine heavens. Therefore, after the first advancement was completed, the second advancement required unlocking all the thirty-six palaces and seventy-two halls. Ye Chen did not hold back and spent ten years acquiring magic crystals to unlock all the remaining palaces. Thus, the Heavenly Court completed its second advancement.
Starting from the third advancement, it becomes much more difficult. The first advancement requires unlocking the Nine Heavens, the second requires unlocking the Thirty-Six Palaces and Seventy-Two Halls, and the third requires 100,000 heavenly soldiers.
"The energy value is manageable, but where am I going to get 100,000 heavenly soldiers?" Ye Chen rubbed his temples helplessly, having to put the advancement of the Lingxiao Heavenly Court on hold for the time being. However, the acquisition of magic crystals continued. It didn't matter where the magic crystals were; 100,000 heavenly soldiers required a considerable amount of energy.
After Yue'e was conferred the title of Goddess, she was basically given the position of fairy. Mountain gods and local deities were basically earth immortals and not considered proper heavenly soldiers. Only a mutated thunder god like Mount Tai could enter the Heavenly Palace. Ye Chen felt more and more that the conditions of the Investiture of the Gods were too harsh.
"It seems that adding another clan nest is imperative!" Ye Chen shook his head helplessly. Judging from the current state of the Primordial Star, it might take hundreds or thousands of years to gather enough Heavenly Soldiers. Right now, there are only a dozen or so Heavenly Soldiers, which is not even a fraction of the total.
Fortunately, the emergence of the Primordial Heavenly Court brought about earth-shaking changes to the Primordial Star. Especially after completing two advancements, the Heavenly Court's boost to the entire Primordial Star can be described as terrifying. In just over a decade, it laid a solid foundation for the Primordial Star to become a fifth-tier territory and moved towards becoming a sixth-tier territory.
Such a speed of advancement is not particularly fast among lords, but it is still among the top. Moreover, if you really want to calculate it, the foundation of the Primordial Star is so solid that no one can match it. Raphael even admitted that as long as the Primordial Star develops steadily, it has the possibility of directly entering the seventh rank, and it will not have the bottleneck that they have.
"Then let's develop into a sixth-tier territory within these hundred years, and at the same time, the population should ideally reach 10 billion!" Ye Chen thought ambitiously as he looked at the bustling crowds on the Primordial Star from his Lingxiao Palace.
In a century, it is not too difficult to develop a population of 10 billion. You should know that after decades of reform and opening up, the population of Earth had already exceeded 1 billion, even after the family planning policy restricted population growth.
Furthermore, the population of a lord's territory is not just determined by intelligent life forms. Powerful beasts are also part of the territory's fighting force. For example, the fire crows and various spirits have already exceeded a hundred million in number, but they are not very strong.
The growth limit of the Fire Crow is fixed, while various spirits grow slowly, needing to absorb the essence of the sun and moon and spending a long time to grow. In comparison, the magical beasts of Xiniu Hezhou grow much faster, but are much weaker at the same level.
The monsters and spirits of the East and the magical beasts of the West each have their own advantages and disadvantages. The simultaneous development of both sides is a scene that Ye Chen is happy to see.
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