[Ding: Would you like to open the sss-rank abyss difficulty score treasure chest?]
The system prompt sounded.
"Open it. Let me see what good things are inside." Su Ye looked at the treasure chest before him with anticipation.
[Ding: You have obtained a Purple Blueprint: Blackrock Battle Armor!]
[Ding: You have obtained a Purple Blueprint: Blazing Spear!]
[Ding: You have obtained a God-level Spiritual Root: origin divine tree!]
[Ding: You have obtained a unique-grade Lord-exclusive secret treasure: immortal soul jade!]
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Su Ye looked at the items he had obtained. The two Purple Blueprints, Blackrock Battle Armor and Blazing Spear, were just like the wind-chasing bow blueprint he had obtained earlier—they required a professional craftsman to learn.
After a glance, Su Ye directly put them into his portable storage space to gather dust.
There was no helping it; none of the troops under Su Ye could learn this. Purple blueprints could produce weapons that were at least Gold-grade, and top-tier ones could even forge diamond-grade weapons.
This depended entirely on the craftsman's own skill, but having a guaranteed Gold-grade weapon as a baseline was already very impressive.
For example, between two wind-chasing bows—one Gold-grade and one diamond-grade—the attribute term entries attached to them would have a significant difference. Although both were wind-chasing bows, their power was not the same.
A single blueprint like this represented a steady stream of resources. Whether it was Gold-grade or diamond-grade weapons, the number of Lords who needed them was as numerous as the hairs on an ox.
Not every Lord's troops came with their own divine weapons; only a cheater like Su Ye had troops like that.
While other Lords' troops came with weapons, they were generally mediocre and could be replaced. This was also a way to arm troops and enhance their strength.
"It looks like I need to find a professional blacksmith as a Subordinate Lord." Su Ye looked at the blueprints in his hand. To be honest, it would pain him to sell them to others.
But if it were his own Subordinate Lord, it would be a different story.
Subordinate Lords were, to put it nicely, vassals; to put it bluntly, they were slaves. A Lord could kill or spare them at will. This was what a Subordinate Lord was.
Some might ask, would anyone really be willing to become a Subordinate Lord? Wouldn't that just make them a damn slave, a toilet, or an RBQ?
In fact, there were quite a few people who wanted to become Subordinate Lords to a powerful Lord. Many people didn't even have the qualifications to become someone's Subordinate Lord even if they wanted to.
Even then, you still needed them to take an interest in you before you were qualified to become a Subordinate Lord.
What did you think a Lord was? A child playing house? As for things like kindness, they didn't apply to Lords at all—or rather, they didn't apply to low-level Lords.
Even if Su Ye wanted to rise, he would have to "eat people" to do so.
As the saying goes, "you are what you eat." Eating bitterness won't make you a man among men; eating people will.
"I'll find one slowly when the time comes. Manufacturing these things isn't simple, and the materials aren't cheap either." Su Ye thought for a moment and set aside the idea of finding a vassal Lord for now.
Of course, if he encountered one, he could take them in early.
Su Ye looked at the small sapling in his hand. It was a golden sapling, and every leaf was golden, radiating a golden light.
Name: origin divine tree
Grade: God-level
Trait 1: origin qi (Can gather origin qi from the void and concentrate it within the territory, allowing troops to increase their strength.)
Trait 2: Dimensional Ascension (Increases the territory's dimensional space!)
Trait 3: Foundation Consolidation (Stabilizes time and space!)
Trait 4: Attribute-less Divinity (Can condense Attribute-less Divinity Fruits to increase divinity!)
Trait 5: Immortal and Indestructible! (Fuses with the territory; as long as the territory is not destroyed, the Divine Tree will not die!)
PS: unique-grade Spiritual Root with various incredible powers, capable of condensing divinity, ascending dimensions, and stabilizing time and space.
Su Ye looked at the sapling in his hand, his eyes filled with joy: "What a good item."
The fact that origin qi could increase the strength of the troops went without saying, and it meant Su Ye had another way to boost his troops' strength.
He no longer had to rely solely on the Wine Pool and Meat Forest and the Spirit Source Lake to increase his troops' strength.
Ultimately, relying only on the Spirit Source Lake and the Wine Pool and Meat Forest was a bit insufficient. Now that he had the origin divine tree, his troops could level up just by idling in the territory.
As mentioned before, no matter what level the Lord is, troops are black iron Rank 1 when recruited.
This led to a problem often encountered by high-level Lords: Training Troops!!
Newly recruited troops can't increase their level immediately; they need to be trained to level up before they can be useful. For high-level Lords, this is the most painful time.
However, with the origin divine tree, Su Ye didn't have to worry about the problem of Training Troops anymore.
With the Wine Pool and Meat Forest, the Spirit Source Lake, and the origin divine tree stacked together, he wouldn't have to worry about troop strength progression until at least the diamond-grade.
Of course, there would still be differences in the speed at which troops leveled up, but he just wouldn't have to worry about the leveling process itself.
The second trait, Dimensional Ascension, was even more outrageous.
Increasing the territory's dimension. Worlds have grades: black iron, bronze, Silver, Gold, and so on. Every increase represents an ascension of the world's dimension.
This was no joke. A world's dimension affected everything, most notably the power ceiling for living beings.
The ceiling of a Black Iron Dimensional World is bronze. This is a matter of the world's dimension. Two identical beings, one in the Black Iron Dimension and one in the Silver Dimension, would have completely different ceilings.
This was just one of the differences caused by varying world dimensions.
Su Ye would also encounter world Dimensional Ascension in the future, but that was too far off for him to think about now.
The third trait, Foundation Consolidation, was also a good thing for Su Ye. Although he had the Wall of Sighs term entry, who wouldn't want their territory to be even more stable?
The fourth trait, Attribute-less Divinity, was even more heaven-defying.
Divinity usually has attributes. To put it simply, divinity is the combination of a being's own attributes and the laws they have comprehended. It can be understood as a higher form of power.
Attribute-less Divinity can increase divinity. This was something gods could only dream of. If those god-level Lords knew Su Ye had such a thing, they would snatch it away without hesitation.
A god's divinity can only be increased through the accumulation of time or by devouring divine laws of the same attribute. There was no such thing as "cultivation" in the Lord World.
To increase divinity, one could only take it slowly like that.
As for the last trait, it was a property of the origin divine tree itself. Once planted, it would merge as one with Su Ye's territory—they would share in glory and suffer in ruin together.
Su Ye planted the golden sapling not far from the Spirit Source Lake.
A small sapling, two or three meters tall, appeared in Su Ye's territory. Its golden branches and leaves rustled, swaying continuously in the wind.
Something indescribable appeared in Su Ye's territory: origin qi!!
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