"Three hundred and fifty-five days...."
Zhang Dongyun nodded slightly.
Although he could not be sure, Jing Hua's fragment was most likely the same as Shen Herong's. It could extend Invincible City's lifespan by five years.
Previously, Jing Hua, Mahabharoni, and the others had obtained a smaller fragment and refined it into a string of prayer beads.
After Zhang Dongyun obtained the prayer beads, he extended Invincible City's lifespan by ten days. Adding the current four years and three hundred and fifty-five days, it was exactly five years.
From this perspective, if the fragment's maximum lifespan was indeed five years, it meant that all of them had been gathered.
Jing Hua, Mahabharoni, and the others did not obtain more fragments.
As such, Invincible City's lifespan was still more than six years. Master Zhang could rest easy for a while.
"System, there are new functions every time I fuse a fragment. What about this time?" Zhang Dongyun suddenly thought of something else.
[Fusing a new fragment. There are new functions in reserve, but the conditions have not been met yet. When the Castellan officially expands Invincible City to include a complete realm, the new functions can be activated.]
Officially expand, a complete realm.... Zhang Dongyun frowned slightly.
That meant that temporary expansion was not enough. It had to be officially expanded.
If it was officially expanded, it would be the eleventh time. In fact, it could not cover the entire Flameyellow World.
The east could extend into the void beyond, but the west only reached half of the Aparagodānīya Continent. In other words, it was where Zhang Dongyun had cut the Aparagodānīya Continent into two.
To officially expand to include the entire Flameyellow World, it had to be expanded for the twelfth time.
That was a little long.
"What's the new function this time?" Zhang Dongyun asked.
The system replied:
[It's a satellite city function. The Castellan can check the details.]
Zhang Dongyun flipped through the system description and pursed his lips slightly.
This was a function that could not be said to be magical or useless.
In short, through this function, it was still centered around Invincible City. Then, it would create eight satellite cities at a distance to act as the expansion points of the universe.
Each satellite city would only be the initial size of Invincible City.
However, once the eight satellite cities were established, they would become the eight vertices of the cube, with Invincible City or the Flameyellow World at the center.
The interior of this cube, which covered a large area of space in the universe, would become the area of effect of Invincible City.
However, the problem was that it was not a random plot of land. The positions of the eight satellite cities were limited.
The first time a Satellite City was built, the ultimate expansion of the universe could not exceed the scope of four official expansions.
In other words, the Satellite City function would only be activated after the 12th expansion.
Furthermore, the expansion of the eight satellite cities was not greater than the sixteenth expansion of Invincible City.
This raises a question:
Would it be faster to build eight satellite cities, or to complete four official expansions of Invincible City?
If it was faster and easier to build a satellite city, then it was needless to say that Chang 'an City would usher in its own era of cosmic democracy.
If Invincible City expanded on its own, then the function of the satellite city would be much smaller.
It was naturally good to be able to build a new Invincible Domain outside the city, but the size of the satellite city was too small.
At first, Invincible City was only 1.5 kilometers from north to south, one kilometer from east to west, and one kilometer from top to bottom.
It was scattered far away from Yan Huang, and could not be said to be completely useless. However, Zhang Dongyun's greater expectations were still on the function of the expansion of the universe.
The first expansion would be equivalent to four official expansions of Invincible City. It was hard to say whether it would be of little use.
However, if it succeeded in the first expansion, the second expansion would be equivalent to seven official expansions of Invincible City.
That would be very expansive.
Seven expansions, and each expansion would quadruple in size.
As a result, it was equivalent to the size of all aspects being enlarged by 16,384 times at once.
Combined with the size of Invincible City at that time, the expansion would be truly astronomical.
If one expansion was equivalent to seven expansions, Zhang Dongyun felt that the difficulty of building eight satellite cities should be easier than painstakingly expanding seven times, right?
Of course, he could not be blindly optimistic.
The system often set traps, and the standards for completing missions were often very high.
However, no matter what, this expansion still made Zhang Dongyun very happy.
He had been thinking for a long time that the size of the Yan Huang World could be considered very large.
However, compared to the entire universe, it was really too small. To say that it was a drop in the ocean was probably an overstatement.
The size of the universe was often calculated in light years, not kilometers.
In Zhang Dongyun's impression, the size of the star system that the Blue Planet was in before he transmigrated was close to two light years in radius.
Converted to kilometers, it was on the thirteen-digit scale, which was trillions.
With such a radius, the area would be on the twenty-six-digit scale …
Although he did not know the situation of the universe here, the above number was only the size of the star system. It was far from the size of the entire universe.
Expansion like this, in the Yan Huang World, was quite fast.
However, in the context of the entire universe, who knew how long it would take?
Zhang Dongyun did not dare to think too deeply about this problem before.
Now that he had the Satellite City, he could expand beyond the limits, and City Lord Zhang had more things to do.
"In short, the entire Yan Huang World will be included in the Invincible City first." Zhang Dongyun let out a long breath.
He returned to the Daming Palace.
After a while, Huo Yiming's figure appeared outside the palace and asked for an audience.
Zhang Dongyun allowed him to enter.
Huo Yiming's expression was blank as he carried the corpse of "Lei Han" into the main hall.
"Greetings, Your Majesty." Huo Yiming bowed to Zhang Dongyun, still looking a little dazed.
"No need for formalities."
Zhang Dongyun said indifferently, "Do you regret it?"
Huo Yiming pursed his lips. "If my father ruled Chang 'an, many people would die. I must stop him."
For the first time in his life, Huo Yiming called Lei Han father. He was a little out of it. "But, I … I don't know if I …"
Zhang Dongyun's tone was indifferent and monotonous. "You want to return your life and cultivation base to Lei Han and follow him to the underworld, but this is obviously not something he wants to see. Are you going against his last wishes?"
Huo Yiming lowered his head deeply.
"Live well."
Zhang Dongyun calmly said, "This is his wish, and also my order. As the saying goes, once the rabbit has outlived its usefulness, the dog will be cooked, and the weeds will be eliminated by the roots. In Lei Han's own words, everything will be left to time."
After a long silence, Huo Yiming bowed to Zhang Dongyun. "Yes, Your Majesty."
He suddenly gathered his courage and looked up at Zhang Dongyun. "Your Majesty, a dying man speaks the truth. I admit that my understanding of my father is limited, but I don't think he's the kind of person who would sow discord before his death. He … I believe that he's telling the truth. He didn't betray you and Mr. Ao back then!"
"I agree with your evaluation of him."
Zhang Dongyun said indifferently, "However, he thinks that I betrayed him."
Huo Yiming said softly, "I don't know the details of what happened back then. I just guess that there may be a misunderstanding."
Zhang Dongyun's expression remained calm. "Leave everything to time."
"I want to find out the truth of what happened back then. I want to give my father and you an explanation. I hope Your Majesty will allow it." Huo Yiming said slowly and firmly.
Zhang Dongyun smiled indifferently. "Go."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Huo Yiming said, "I want to help my father rest in peace. He's already dead. I hope Your Majesty can forgive his past offenses."
Zhang Dongyun waved his hand casually.
Huo Yiming bowed and left. "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
He left with the "corpse" in his arms.
After a while, two women appeared in the hall.
Shen Herong, who looked like a young girl, raised her head and looked at Zhang Dongyun. "Big brother …"
"Don't worry. He's not dead." Zhang Dongyun said indifferently.
Shen Herong asked softly, "Big brother, did you see something?"
"What he said is true."
Zhang Dongyun was unperturbed. "He's not a traitor. He did see something in The Immortals that caused him to misunderstand. Since it's a misunderstanding, I can naturally tolerate him. After all, Old Seven is fine."
Shen Herong didn't relax after hearing this. Instead, she was surprised. "… What he said, is it all true?"
Zhang Dongyun nodded slightly and looked at Shen Herong. "If I say I didn't do it, would you believe me, Twelfth Sister?"
Shen Herong didn't avoid looking at Zhang Dongyun. After looking at him for a long time, she nodded gently. "I'm willing to believe you, big brother. However, if what you said is true, and what Fifth Brother said is also true, doesn't that mean …"
Her expression became more serious. "Someone can deceive Fifth Brother's True Soul of Tian Jing? Otherwise, there's no way to explain such a misunderstanding. "
Zhang Dongyun leaned back in his chair. "It's not impossible. However, the truth has yet to be found out. I can't make a conclusion at the moment."
Zong Tianxuan, who was in a slightly awkward situation, stood silently at the side and didn't interrupt. At this time, she finally said, "How high is the cultivation of someone who can deceive the True Soul of Tian Jing?"
In other words, if there really was such an expert, then his cultivation and strength would probably be enough to defeat the Twelve Kings of Hell in the past.
Zhang Dongyun and Shen Herong understood what she meant.
If this person was so strong, why would he deceive Lei Han?
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