All the nobles believed that a large-scale war would unfold in the near future. Many nobles were extremely excited and active, constantly lobbying between the Church and the Royal Family.
However, out of everyone's expectations, the Church and the Kingdom had been arguing back and forth for almost half a year. Even after half a year, they still hadn't prepared for war. On the contrary, Alphonso, who had occupied the Dale Province, suddenly issued a declaration of surrender half a year later. He listed the Church's many actions that had hindered his lawful rule of the Dale Province and announced his revenge against the Church.
His target was the Church in the Korot Province, which was next to the Dale Province.
The Korot Province was one of the four provinces surrounding the Dale Province. The reason why he chose this province was that it was located at the very edge of the Kingdom's territory. There were no other provinces nearby, so the Church couldn't provide support. The main reason was that the Lord who occupied this province was one of the staunchest supporters of the Church.
Alphonso's sudden attack was completely out of everyone's expectations. Even the Queen was very surprised and immediately sent a messenger to ask about it.
The reason Alphonso gave the messenger was very far-fetched, or rather, perfunctory. The messenger didn't get a satisfactory answer and left angrily.
Lin Xiao couldn't do anything about it because when they attacked the second province, any reason would be useless.
Just like how everyone knew what Sima Zhao was thinking, he could use the excuse of being oppressed to replace Count Dyson. Even if he was allowed to unify the entire province, the moment he led his army out of the Dyer Province to attack the lords of other provinces of the kingdom, he would be crossing the line and the bottom line of the royal family.
Because in this world, even the biggest Duke's territory was limited to a province.
Counts, Marquises, and Dukes were all Lords. Count Dyson's actual territory was less than one-third of the Dale Province. A Duke's territory was at most an entire province, so it couldn't exceed that. Once it did, it would be considered treason. This was something that couldn't be refuted.
Therefore, when the messenger returned to the Royal City, the Queen quickly reached an agreement with the Church and announced that she didn't approve of Alphonso's occupation of Count Dyson's territory. She quickly found a descendant of Count Dyson and announced that he was the new Count Dyson. Then, she announced that Alphonso was a traitor.
However, less than three days after the announcement, the messenger who delivered the news had just left the capital when the second army from the Dyer Province appeared at the border of the Miya Province. They immediately took down the border outpost and raided the capital of the Miya Province.
It was so fast that the kingdom and the church did not even have time to react.
Compared to the kingdom and the decadent and lazy Holy Church, the new Church of Life and Wisdom crushed them in terms of execution, not deviating from the rules at all.
No matter if it was the Korot Province or the Miya Province, they were no match for them. Even if they were prepared, the combined forces of the Knights of the Holy Church and the Lord's Coalition Army were still defeated in a frontal battle.
By the time the King's City had finished wrangling and sent out their troops, they had already defeated the main forces of two provinces. Many lords and lords had fled at the mere sight of them, and some had even surrendered before the messengers had even arrived.
This saved them a lot of effort. In addition, this was a plane where nobles and feudal lords were the main force. Regardless of whether it was Lin Xiao or Alphonso, they would accept the surrender. However, they would take inventory of the feudal lords' territories and their armies, and they would transfer a portion of their soldiers.
This would not only weaken the strength of the lords, but also strengthen his own strength.
As his territory continued to expand, he would need more and more military strength.
After conquering two provinces, Lin Xiao obtained a huge amount of faith from two more provinces. Among them, the Miya Province had always had a much larger population than the other two provinces, and the power of faith he collected was almost as much as the combined power of two Dyer Province.
In these few months, Lin Xiao had successively condensed 99 essence seeds that contained different extreme energies and substances. After fusing them with the power of faith that replaced Mental Energy, he successfully activated his third talent.
The fourth talent was the Undying Body. The material required was a portion of essence that contained the power of Undying. It was not limited to the species, as long as it had the power of Undying. However, the higher the quality of the material, the more powerful the talent would be.
It was also a rather troublesome material, but for Lin Xiao who had the military as his backing, it was a piece of cake.
Xie Yufei had prepared a portion of the flesh of a terrifying ancient evil creature from a certain universe within the Crystal Wall. It had already been purified, but Lin Xiao was still worried, so he personally purified it with the Rubik's Cube of Creation. He did not find any abnormalities, which meant that the person who purified it was extremely powerful.
The ancient evil creatures were all terrifying existences whose strength was comparable to that of a true god. Each of them had unparalleled vitality. The unknown ancient evil creature that Xie Yufei had prepared for him was even more famous for its Undying Body.
Hence, after fusing with the flesh of this ancient evil creature, Lin Xiao successfully activated the fourth talent of his Golden Ancient Tree Totem — Undying Body.
As a result of the talent's feedback, after activating the talent, he would also possess an extremely powerful recovery ability. Although it was still far from the ancient evil creature, it was still very powerful. Even after it was activated, it had the ability to regenerate broken limbs in a small area. It could only regenerate small limbs such as fingers and noses, and the regeneration speed was not fast either. However, it was still rebirth, after all. Moreover, when he became stronger in the future, he would naturally possess the legendary terrifying regeneration talent. For example, he could regenerate with just a small piece of flesh, or even with just a drop of blood.
The fifth talent, which was also the last one, was called the Domain of Life.
This was a domain talent. The material required to activate this talent was … the Heart of the Ancient Tree, which had a stronger vitality than the Tree of Life.
The Heart of the Ancient Tree … This was equivalent to the brain and heart of the Ancient Tree.
This requirement was quite ridiculous. Xie Yufei was stunned for a long time after hearing it.
"Are you sure this is what you want? Can't you use other alternatives? The Tree of Life itself is already extremely rare. If you want the Heart of the Ancient Tree which is of a higher grade than the Tree of Life, this request is quite difficult. Even if you tell me in advance, I might not be able to get it. "
"Let's see if I can get it first. If I can't, then give me another Tree of Life's Core."
After hearing Xie Yufei's words, Lin Xiao actually did not have much hope anymore.
After all, this thing was too rare. It was not something that could be obtained even if one was powerful and had a wide range of connections.
The result was as he expected. A few days later, Xie Yufei told him that she knew the whereabouts of this thing, but she could not get it.
If it was just a part of the branches, it would be fine. The problem was that he needed the Heart of the Ancient Tree. It was equivalent to digging out the heart directly.
This thing was the core of a powerful True God's Divine Territory. It was impossible to exchange it for the core of a Divine Territory.
Left with no choice, he could only settle for the second best. He asked for a Tree of Life's Core and prepared to use the Tesseract to consume the creation energy to strengthen it.
In fact, he had already used up a lot of favors to get the Tree of Life's Core. Moreover, this was paid by Xie Tianyan in advance. This Tree of Life's Core was simply too valuable.
The things that he gave before were not considered favors. To a big shot like Xie Yufei, ordinary resources were worthless. Only rare things like the Tree of Life could catch her attention.
Lin Xiao did not mind this. Favors were meant to be used. What was the point of keeping them? Now was the time when he needed resources. If he did not use them to increase his strength, they would not give birth to children if he kept them.
The Tree of Life's Core was a Heart of the Tree of Life that exuded rich vitality. After throwing it into the Tesseract, a steady stream of creation energy was injected into it to strengthen it.
The strengthening direction was simple. He just had to strengthen its vitality.
Anyway, he still had more than 600 units of creation energy. It was more than enough.
This strengthening process took him almost ten hours and consumed a total of 102 units of creation energy. Finally, the Tree of Life's Core was strengthened into a crystal-like Tree of Life's Core.
He didn't know what kind of ancient tree core this was because he had never seen it before. However, he was sure that it was of a higher grade than the core of the original tree of life. The rich life force was almost crystallizing.
If it was not necessary to light up his talent, he would have planted it himself …
"Eh!"
Lin Xiao suddenly pinched his chin and thought for a while. He then sent a message to Xie Yufei.
"How much is it if I buy another Tree of Life's Core?"
“？”
Xie Yufei quickly replied with a question mark and asked curiously.
"Is it not enough?"
He nodded seriously.
"Yes, because there is no Ancient Tree of Life's Core of a higher level, I need two Tree of Life's Cores to replace it."
The other party hesitated for a while before replying.
"Although one Tree of Life's Core is nothing to us and will allow you to obtain some benefits within a reasonable range, you have to tell me the truth. Don't lie to me."
"Ahem!"
Lin Xiao said guiltily, "Why would I lie to you?
It's true. You can't get a higher-level Ancient Tree of Life's Core, so you can only use quantity to make up for it. I didn't say more, I'm being honest. "
His explanation was flawless and reasonable. Xie Yufei could not find any problems with it. What she said before was just a suspicion of a woman's sixth sense.
Soon, the second Tree of Life's Core was sent over. He used another 100 units of Creation Energy to strengthen it into a second crystal-like Core that emitted terrifying vitality.
Back in the Divine Dominion, Lin Xiao's will looked down on the entire Divine Dominion. His gaze fell on the Ancient Tree of Creation in the center of the Main God Dominion.
This Ancient Tree of Creation stored a large number of genes of different species. It could devour flesh and blood and use these genes to grow fruits with all kinds of modified creatures.
Its function was quite powerful, and its name was nice. However, this tree was too ugly. It was not a good tree at first glance. It would affect one's senses in the Main God Dominion.
He wanted to change it.
After thinking about it, he used his authority as the Son of the Divine Dominion to take out the Ancient Tree of Creation's Core and fused it with the Tree of Life's strengthened core.
Combining the cores of two special ancient trees, he used the indescribable power of creation of the Tesseract of Creation to forcefully fuse the two unknown species, retaining and strengthening their strengths and eliminating their weaknesses.
In the end, the fusion produced a slightly dimmer crystal core that still emitted rich vitality. He placed it back where the Ancient Tree of Creation's Tree of Creation's Core was dug out. It was like grafting.
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