Chapter 132 Peak Beginning
Yu Jing 552 years.
Zuo Yi became the high priest of Yu Jing with the blessing of the people of the five major cities.
The reform of Yu Jingguo was also quietly launched this year.
This timeline has incomparable advantages over the previous timeline in all areas.
The development model of the previous timeline was completely like crossing the river by touching stones, with many unknown risks, and there were also many misjudgments that led to development setbacks.
But in this timeline, known errors can be avoided as much as possible.
At the level of combat power building, it has huge advantages.
In the initial stage of the human empire in the previous timeline, only the seven members of the Divine Legacy Team were truly capable of fighting. The other warriors were ordinary people who used basic technological weapons to fight against foreign races outside the sea.
This made early development difficult.
There is no comparison with the grand occasion of the human empire.
In the later period of the human empire, in addition to a variety of civilizational technologies, the combat power also included blessings from gods brought by belief systems, special abilities brought by extraordinary paths, weapons and equipment made of rare materials, and so on.
In this timeline, the greatest advantage of the Human Empire is that it had 148 original gods from the beginning.
Although time has restarted, the legion commander who died in the battle has not disappeared.
As subordinate gods, their divine seals are retained in the mist space after time is restarted, which obviously also includes their memories.
This time he released all 141 souls and let them enter the world's reincarnation system.
Just like when he was guarding the high wall in the previous timeline, every time his consciousness was cut off, he would be sucked into the reincarnation system and be born into a human family one day soon.
The difference is that this time, 141 souls entered the reincarnation system at the same time.
In the foreseeable future, the human empire will soon have 148 powerful army commanders.
Even in this timeline, Lord of War An An may not necessarily be the strongest legion commander.
The reason is simple.
In the previous timeline, An An had a first-mover advantage in his growth. The war legion he established was also the most popular legion in the human empire. It absorbed a large number of warrior beliefs and provided assistance for An An's growth.
In this timeline, the first-mover advantage of the seven members of the Divine Legacy Team still exists, but there is a lot of room for the non-original legion commanders to catch up.
Many of these legion commanders have huge growth potential, but due to their late appearance, the legions they established lacked religious warriors, and their growth rate was relatively affected.
There is no doubt that even if An An does not have any first-mover advantage, just because of the characteristics of being able to grow through war, his future combat power will be enough to firmly rank among the top three legion commanders.
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Yu Jing 553 years.
Ji Xiu sat in front of the TV, looking at Zuo Yi who was delivering a national speech on the screen, thinking about something on his mind.
In this timeline, he has not changed his arrangement.
He still has to guard the high wall as a fearful god body to delay the development of the human empire.
Although Zuo Yi also said that he wanted to replace him, Ji Xiu still chose to refuse.
Because Zuo Yi can't do better than him.
In addition to the power of fear produced by horror games, he is also the unifying god of 148 legion commanders. He can use part of the power obtained by the legion commanders to become his own growth fuel.
If you want to have a longer future, only he can do it.
As for Zuo Yi, he couldn't hold on for long.
His willpower is indeed very strong, and he has a timeline of guarding high walls to prove it.
But the strength of willpower can only affect oneself, and strength is the key factor in how long one can guard the wall.
Zuo Yi's growth rate is destined to be unable to compare with him.
One year later, he will embark on a journey to the north, returning to darkness again until the end of the war.
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Imperial cultivation for 1 year.
After decades of reform, the human empire put aside its outdated ideas and entered the imperial cultivation era under the leadership of Zuo Yi.
At this time, Ji Xiu had been at Gaoqiang for fifty years.
During this period, earth-shaking changes took place within the human empire.
First of all, the Yujing Church was banned and changed to the Imperial Church, and the country's national title of Yujing was also changed to the Imperial Church.
Second is the reform of the internal power system.
The Imperial Church no longer manages the military department, and the military department has also been split into a legion model, under the management of the legion commanders' council formed by 148 legion commanders.
With the exception of High Priest Zuo Yi, all clergy of the Imperial Church have no authority over legion affairs.
It was also this year that the Human Empire officially showed its fangs to the outer sea and decided to give Emperor Xiu a generous gift for one year.
Sea Soul Realm.
The center of the whirlpool island chain.
The jet-black vortex slowly rotates, constantly absorbing the surrounding seawater.
Under the sea is a huge crystal palace, which is the home of the "Sea Soul Clan", the dominant force that rules this sea area.
The current human empire is located on the northern land closest to the Kuroshio Wall. It is considered a barren land, so few foreigners go there.
But the sea area is different. Islands rich in resources and rich in marine food production are fertile places that land groups yearn for.
The territory of the Sea Soul Clan is the "Whirlpool Island", a rare resource area. This island is submerged underwater and is regarded by the Sea Soul Clan as a core resource for the development of the clan.
Except for the Sea Soul tribe, no foreign races from the sea are allowed to approach.
At this time, the human empire is still in the early stages of development. It is not a super empire with countless sea areas in the later part of the previous timeline. Even in the sea soul domain, it is just an ordinary force that is not at the forefront. It only occupies three low-level resource islands. Taken seriously by any overseas power.
As far as the Sea Soul Clan is concerned, they only remember the name of each resource island within the jurisdiction of the sea and the share of the island's output.
But except for some powerful alien forces, they don't care at all and don't remember which race governs which resource island.
It can be said that the current human empire is just the slave labor of the Sea Soul Clan in harvesting resources from the sea. Most of the resources produced through hard work must be handed over to the Sea Soul Clan in the form of tribute, in exchange for the resource islands given by the Sea Soul Clan to continue. Rights of use.
The Sea Soul Tribe, which is close to the Imperial Continent, is the primary target of the Human Empire after it launches its Great Expedition Plan.
Facing the Sea Soul Clan, the human empire in the previous timeline chose the development strategy of hiding its capabilities and biding its time, gradually encroaching on islands one after another, and secretly hoarding weapons and equipment through the resources produced by the resource islands until it had the strength to confront the Sea Soul Clan. Only then did he dare to show his fangs.
The Battle of Sea Soul is also in the history books of the previous timeline and is regarded as a key step in the rise of the human empire.
The human empire that controls the Sea Soul Realm has finally established a firm foothold in the sea, and has the ability to radiate power to more distant outer seas.
However, after discussion of this timeline by the 148 Legion Commanders in the Legion Council, they all agreed that the development model of gradual encroachment was too conservative, and even felt that doing so was a complete waste of time.
A small overlord in a barren sea area spends decades, even more than a hundred years, planning and fighting, which slows down the acquisition of resources.
Especially in the eyes of those legion commanders at the bottom of the ranking, their heads almost shut down when they saw this battle plan. They were all born in the era when the human empire was powerful, and the human empire had countless resource areas in its territory.
The area of the Sea Soul Domain can only be regarded as a "small sea area" among the sea areas once controlled by the Human Empire. There are no core-level resource islands, and there is only one very ordinary rare resource island.
In such a sea area, the human empire will not even report to the high priest if it loses one piece in the later period or if it loses one more piece, it is up to the Legion to decide on its own.
In the eyes of these legion commanders, a single sneeze from the Human Empire can scare away the weak alien races in the sea, causing them to flee in a hurry without daring to stop at all.
But now I saw a combat plan that was hundreds of pages long.
Their heads are shutting down.
They feel like they are standing in front of an ant and carefully planning out how to lift their feet to crush the ant with hundreds of pages of instructions.
Finally, An An's explanation made them understand that this combat book was a combat strategy used by the Human Empire to bring down the Sea Soul Clan in the previous timeline, but it was obviously no longer applicable to this timeline.
This time, 148 legion commanders descended on the Whirlpool Island at the same time.
The Sea Soul Clan at the bottom of the sea soon experienced abnormal energy fluctuations. A large number of warriors emerged from the bottom of the water and looked up at the 148 figures hanging above their heads.
When they clearly felt the aura that only belonged to gods, their eyes were filled with despair.
The strongest member of the Sea Soul Clan, "Sea Soul God", is just an ordinary original species god, but in their eyes there are 148 original species gods floating in the sky.
Even if each of them is just a low-level original god, not the Sea Soul Clan can compete with them.
Not long after, the water elemental body condensed by the Sea Soul God surfaced on the surface.
Looking at the 148 divine figures in the distance, a haze appeared in his eyes, knowing that he was doomed.
On the battlefield outside the sea, Sea Soul God thought that he would die in a tragic war, but he did not expect that it would be in this way.
But what the leader An An said next made the Sea Soul God stunned.
"I'll give you three days to withdraw from the sea."
After the words fell, the leader's figure disappeared, and the other 147 figures also disappeared.
Sea Soul God, who was already prepared to die, suddenly realized that he had been underestimated.
From the eyes of the leading figure, it saw indifference without any emotion. It seemed that in his eyes, it was just a pitiful insect, and it didn't even bother to take action against it.
At this moment, Sea Soul God had a complicated mood.
There is the joy of surviving the disaster, the anger of being ignored, and the frustration of being powerless... Various emotions are intertwined in its heart. It knows that it is time to lead the Sea Soul Clan away, and this sea area will soon have a new owner.
He turned to look at his family warriors, sighed in his heart and said:
"The whole family evacuates the sea area."
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Three days later.
The Human Empire officially took over the Sea Soul Domain and became the overlord of this sea area, and required all alien forces in the sea area to evacuate within a specified period.
Soon, a migration wave started in the sea, and a large number of alien forces abandoned the islands and left the Sea Soul Territory.
This time, the human empire took over the entire sea area without even using force.
As for why they did not choose to win the Sea Soul Domain through war, in addition to efficiency, they also considered the current strength of human warriors.
At this stage, the human empire has only 148 legion commanders who are truly capable of entering the outer seas.
The rest are ordinary people, their physical fitness has not been developed and improved, and their combat power is limited.
The 148 legion commanders can indeed sweep across the entire Sea Soul Realm, but the process will take time because ordinary human warriors cannot help.
Choosing the method of deterrence can quickly capture the island and use the resources on the island to develop combat power.
This is the simplest and most effective way.
At this point, the Great Expedition of this timeline has officially begun, and mankind has entered a period of rapid development.
Although the memories of ordinary people cannot be preserved to this timeline, every legion commander is a memory point. They are very aware of the development process of the human empire in the era in which they were born, as well as the crises they encountered.
The subsequent development of the Human Empire was extremely smooth.
During the course of the Great Expedition, new resource islands continued to enter the territory of the human empire. The speed of development continued to increase like a rocket, and the development of technology was also changing with each passing day.
The resource islands that required compromise to hold on during the Yu Jingguo period became a thing of the past during this period.
The glorious era of imperial cultivation has arrived.
In the new era, the people of the human empire still praise the Imperial Cultivator as they did in the previous timeline, and it is the highest honor for warriors to return their souls to the Imperial Cultivator.
This includes the legion commander as well.
They are all gods, but they all understand that this honor comes from the Imperial Cultivator.
Especially when they witnessed the appearance of the imperial cultivator who only existed in legends during the Kuroshio War, all the legion commanders felt the call from the Unified God at that moment, an unparalleled sense of intimacy.
And this sense of intimacy comes from the division of souls.
They are originally the same soul, and they were created by Emperor Xiu Shen after dividing his self-consciousness and soul.
The Imperial Cultivators of this era are advancing at an unimaginable speed in the previous timeline, both in terms of cohesion and combat strength building.
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The emperor built it in 1880.
Legendary sea area.
A huge water bag suddenly bulged out from the windless and waveless sea, and the pitch-black warship broke out of the water, jumped over an arc on the sea surface, and then hit the water heavily, causing splashes of water.
The beacon gun was erected at this time, and after dense scanning bombs took off, they rained down on the sea area.
On the hull of the warship, there is an insignia imprint symbolizing the 208th legion of the Human Empire, the "Black Soul Legion".
The arrival of this battleship means that the Human Empire's Great Expedition Plan has officially advanced to the vicinity of the Legendary Sea, and is about to launch a challenge to the Legendary Sea.
Compared with the previous timeline, the human empire in this timeline has advanced to the vicinity of the Legendary Sea by 1,500 years.
But in terms of combat power building, the human race in this timeline is several times stronger than the human empire in the previous timeline of 3300 years.
Especially the number of gods. After the Great Crusade began, the human empire had far more gods than all the forces along the way.
What affects the advancement speed of the human empire has never been the strength of its combat power, but the speed of logistical supplies and infrastructure construction along the way.
The Great Expedition launched by 148 legion commanders for the initial combat power, the territory was expanded in a fan-shaped manner along the way, and it was difficult for any force to pose a threat to the human empire.
Choosing to enter the legendary sea this year is a relatively conservative decision after having accumulated enough strength.
And the legendary outer sea is just a new starting point in the eyes of the human empire.
The target this time is the legendary inland sea known as the world's top powerful clan that only the powerful clans are qualified to set foot on.
(End of chapter)