The third large-scale upgrade! (5200)

[Congratulations on a successful exchange! Obtained Master-level Heart of Power * 256, Battle Merits – 51.2 million…]

At this point, the number of various Heart of Strength items in Cao Xing's backpack had reached a terrifying figure.

He first took out all the Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced Heart of Strength items and stacked them according to their grades.

Thousands of red crystals piled together, emitting waves of vast power.

Amidst the confused gazes of some new territory members, Cao Xing clapped his hands and continued to issue orders.

"All staff, according to your current rank, come over to collect the corresponding Heart of Strength, and then proceed with your breakthrough."

Hearing this, a look of bewilderment remained in the eyes of some people.

The group of Arctic People and some old employees had already walked over excitedly.

They held hammers in their hands and said happily: "Haha! Lord is going to help us improve our strength again!"

"That's right, we can soon break through to Tier 3 and become Tier 3 Arctic People!"

"Great Mother Earth above, in all my life, I have never heard of any Arctic Person possessing such powerful strength, yet we have all reached this level!"

"All of this is a gift from Lord. Praise Lord!"

"Praise Lord!"

After a burst of excited slogans, these Arctic People and other old employees skillfully smashed the Heart of Strength items one by one and began to absorb the power contained within.

In no time, hundreds of staff members had all entered a breakthrough state!

However, those newly joined blacksmiths and the female elves of the Elf Clan were still in a state of bewilderment, standing blankly on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Cao Xing said loudly: "Why are you all stunned? Come over and collect the Heart of Strength."

Only then did everyone wake up as if from a dream and respond one after another.

"Ah — — — · Oh!"

"Okay, Lord — —"

This group of blacksmiths and elves walked over in a daze, collected the crystals, and learned to crush them like the others.

Powerful strength surged within their bodies.

Even until now, they still had an unreal feeling.

As the sound of crystals shattering continued to ring out.

All staff in the entire territory had entered a breakthrough state.

Then, Cao Xing looked at the combatants in front of him.

"Other Dragon Blood Warriors who have not yet broken through to Tier 6, as well as the Nightmare Archers, come to me to collect your Heart of Strength."

As soon as he finished speaking, those Nightmare Archers quickly stepped forward, their eyes also flashing with anticipation and excitement.

To this day, they had long since thrown the Nightmare God Démǔ to the back of their minds.

In their hearts, only loyalty to Cao Xing remained!

Including the other Dragon Blood Warriors, they also walked forward excitedly.

Everyone knew that the breakthrough from Tier 5 to Tier 6 was not only a leap in strength but also a transformation of life!

Other combatants stood on the side with envy written all over their faces.

However, they also knew that these two troop types were the first batch of members in the territory, and it was indeed their turn to break through first.

Cao Xing looked around at everyone and continued: "Other troop types that haven't broken through yet, don't be anxious."

"We will obtain more Heart of Strength in the future, and by then, everyone will be able to break through to the Master realm!"

Once these words were spoken, it instantly ignited everyone's fighting spirit, and they responded loudly!

"Yes! Lord!"

256 Master-level Heart of Power items were just enough to be distributed among the Tier 5 Dragon Blood Warriors and Nightmare Archers.

For a time, the entire territory's thousands of people all entered a breakthrough state.

"Hum! Humming!"

As waves of powerful aura rose up!

Consecutive system prompts also began to flood the screen frantically.

[Your territory member: Meng Ju successfully broke through to a Tier 6 creature, base attributes increased by 100%, HP additionally + 100%, Prosperity + 25]

[Your territory member: Lian Taylor successfully broke through to a Tier 6 creature, base attributes increased by 100%, HP additionally + 100%, Prosperity + 25]

[Your —]

It took ten minutes for everyone to finish breaking through, and their strength surged by a large margin.

Including the prosperity of Cao Xing's territory, it also increased by several thousand points.

These territory members who successfully broke through stood excitedly on the spot, feeling the surging power in their bodies.

The villagers of Puteng Village were no exception; they were originally just honest and dutiful villagers.

Now, they possessed Tier 2 combat power.

Although it still seemed insignificant compared to those powerful warriors, for them, it was already an unimaginable leap in improvement!

The children were even more excited, "chattering" around the adults.

"Wow! Mom, you've become so strong, even stronger than Dad!"

"Grandpa, you look like you've become much younger."

"Grandma, climb on my back, I can carry you now!"

Seeing these innocent children, a gratified smile appeared on the faces of the warriors around them.

At the same time, their gaze towards their Lord became even more worshipful.

They knew that this territory could possess its current prosperity and strength entirely by relying on the power of Lord.

In no time, a large wave of loyalty increase prompts appeared.

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, this wave of large-scale upgrades is finished."

"Next, it's time to start refreshing the status for everyone."

He took out a ring emitting holy light from his backpack, which was exactly the [Goddess Nessa's Ring of Blessing].

Then he directly consumed 10 points of Divine Power to create a light circle with a diameter of 100 meters.

Looking at this light circle, King Velen and Qinong could feel a special power contained within it.

However, they had not experienced this scene before, so they didn't know what the use of this light circle was.

Cao Xing continued: "Now, it's the old rules."

"The Ancient Tree Clan enters the light circle first, and other combatants and staff members follow in an orderly manner."

"If there is not enough ground space, fly into the sky."

Now, everyone in Cao Xing's entire territory, including these staff members, possessed permanent 'Wind Wings', and flying was a very common thing for them.

"Clatter — —."

As the sound of flapping wings rang out.

Before long, thousands of people had all entered the light circle.

Including Bing Lan, who had previously resisted being with so many people, now stood faintly in a corner. As for Seraphis, it flew overhead, and a group of Crystal Clan members were still lying on its back.

Then, Cao Xing looked at Qinong beside him, "Mr. Qinong, you go in too."

This old man felt a bit confused about the situation in front of him, seemingly not quite understanding what so many people gathered together were prepared to do.

But he didn't ask any further questions and walked directly into the light circle.

With this, everyone was present.

Cao Xing continued: "Then, everyone, follow the old rules and start applying blessings to our territory members."

Hearing the order, these territory members with status skills raised their weapons one after another.

The priestess Farnaz released the Sacrifice of Calamity, increasing the critical hit rate of all friendly forces.

The White Snake Ilena cooperated with the Blood Spider Queen to release the Snake Clan Berserk and Queens Will, significantly increasing the attack speed and movement speed of others.

The Tribal Witch Doctor cooperated with Andrew's Treant form to release their healing skills.

Including the Wind Mage Allen and the Black Smoke Shaman Blot, they all re-applied their respective status skills.

After this period of upgrading, everyone's attributes had improved significantly, so the values of various status skills were also greatly enhanced.

The most obvious one was the healing value.

Now, Cao Xing's 'Ice Healing Art' could restore 58,472 HP per second.

Andrew's 'Life Bloom' could restore 64,778 HP per second.

Tribal Witch Doctor Molog's 'Rejuvenation' could restore 11,412 HP per second.

The three skills added up to 134,000 healing per second.

Plus the series of potions they took earlier.

Now, everyone's recovery per second had exceeded 140,000!

This number, even for a Legendary powerhouse, was not low.

And for Hero-grade powerhouses, it could fully restore their HP within two or three minutes.

It could be said to be terrifyingly powerful!

Cao Xing sighed: "Very good, when I and Andrew break through to the Legendary realm in the future, this recovery data will increase by at least 10 times!"

"By then, restoring one or two million HP per second, I don't even know how I could die, haha!"

He was looking forward to breaking through to Legendary sooner!

When this series of status buffs was completed.

Qinong on the side felt the various terrifying powers in his body, and a look of bewilderment even appeared in his eyes, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

Cao Xing continued to look at the Dragon Shaman who had just broken through to Commander potential.

"Weinmne, you can start."

"At your command, Lord!"

The Shaman responded respectfully, then gripped his staff and came before the crowd.

He first applied [Lightning Dragon Possession] to everyone, which could increase Spirit attributes by 20% and Magic Damage by 20%.

He then raised his staff, preparing to cast his newly awakened Commander-level skill—Lightning Dragon Descent!

"Zzz… zzz…"

Intense power of lightning erupted around him, and the air was filled with a heart-trembling sound of electricity.

The next moment, the phantom of a giant lightning dragon covered in dark purple scales appeared behind him!

This giant dragon had a massive body, exuding an aura of extreme majesty and ferocity!

Even the power of lightning within Volibear and Zevelin on the field was drawn, faintly resonating with it.

King Velen, as a Lightning-attribute Legendary Mage, gazed solemnly at the giant dragon's phantom, a flash of shock and contemplation in his eyes.

"Is this—the phantom of the Thunder Dragon?"

"This Shaman's power is somewhat extraordinary—"

At the same time, as the Dragon Shaman finished chanting his spell.

The lightning dragon instantly opened its eyes!

"Roar!" Accompanied by a resounding dragon's roar, a vast power was directly bestowed upon everyone.

[Your territory member: Weinmne successfully cast [Lightning Dragon Descent], Magic Damage +20%, Skill Cooldown -20%. Affected by the talent [Eternal Power], this status has become permanent.]

On the field, the damage of this group of magic-class professionals increased by a significant margin once again!

Even those melee-class professionals saw a considerable improvement.

After all, the effect of just 20% Skill Cooldown reduction was already quite powerful!

The magic-class professionals on the field felt the boiling mana within them, as if it contained some kind of ferocious power, and they were thrilled!

King Velen exclaimed, "A Tier 7 Shaman actually has such a powerful amplification effect; it's incredible."

"My spell intensity has increased by at least 40%, even surpassing those high-tier Legendary Mages!"

Upon hearing this, a smile appeared on Cao Xing's face.

Saint Light Sage Isabelle and King Velen were both magic-class professionals.

Furthermore, they were Legendary powerhouses!

The addition of 20% Magic Damage and 20% Lightning-attribute damage instantly made them the most terrifying damage dealers among the several Legendary powerhouses on the field.

However, even though these amplifications were already very powerful, it was only the beginning!

Next, the true protagonist of the day was about to make an appearance!

Cao Xing looked at the Aurora Saint Envoy beside him—Liu Muxue.

"Muxue, let's begin."

"Okay."

This tall Aurora Saint Envoy slowly walked in front of everyone and gently raised her ancient sword.

Then, intense power of Aurora gathered at the tip of the sword.

"Hum—!"

Accompanied by a strange vibrating sound, the vast power of Aurora enveloped everyone; it was one of her status skills: Aurora Blessing.

Then, she began chanting an incantation to release [Blessing of Courage].

When this vast power of blessing descended upon everyone.

They all felt a terrifying and vast power surging within their bodies!

Everyone's momentum skyrocketed by four or five times, or even ten times, in a short period!

The formidable aura shot straight into the sky, elevating the thousands of people in the entire territory to an extremely terrifying level.

A system notification appeared.

[You have received the 'Blessing of Courage' buff from Subordinate Lord: Liu Muxue, Attack Power increased by 314,659 points.]

At this moment, Cao Xing's Attack Power skyrocketed instantly, breaking through from 90,000 to 400,000!

A full 310,000 Attack Power bonus, what kind of concept was this?

Even those villagers of Puteng Village, like the old, weak, sick, and disabled such as Village Chief Zelko, could instantly possess Attack Power surpassing a Tier 10 Sovereign!

And it wasn't just surpassing by a little, but by several times!

In other words, as long as their survivability could keep up, everyone could be called invincible below the Legendary rank, capable of pinning those Tier 10 heroes to the ground and beating them.

This even made Cao Xing imagine the corresponding scene in his mind,

A Master-level powerhouse originally didn't take these villagers seriously, but then an old villager casually walked out and killed this Master with one punch.

That scene, just thinking about it was exciting.

At this moment, Qinong had recovered from his daze and was extremely shocked, saying, "This—how is this possible?"

"My combat power has actually increased by so many times!"

"Could it be that I have already broken through to Legendary?"

This fisherman's Attack Power was originally just over 80,000, but now it had directly increased to 450,000 (including the 20% Blessing of Strength).

A full four or five-fold increase, which could be said to be quite exaggerated.

Assam, standing nearby, chuckled, "Don't be surprised, Mr. Qinong, this is a capability unique to the Lord."

"We all possess this magical power."

Qinong nodded in realization, "So that's how it is… No wonder when I saw you all before, you gave me such a mysterious and powerful feeling; despite only having Tier 3 or 4 strength, the threat you posed was even greater than those Tier 5 or 6 creatures."

Upon hearing this, a smile also appeared on the faces of the combat personnel on the field.

Cao Xing was silently calculating in his heart.

"After a series of buffs, the Hero-level powerhouses of these territories each have an Attack Power equivalent to approximately 0.5 of a Legendary rank."

"In other words, two Heroes can deal with one Legendary."

"The only drawback is that their survivability is too weak compared to true Legendaries."

"However, this is easy to solve; Braum's Shield of Origin can protect a full 100 units!"

"Calculating this way, without Isabelle and other Legendary powerhouses intervening, as long as Braum can hold the line, relying solely on these Masters and Heroes to fight ten Legendaries at once shouldn't be a problem."

"If I add the other six Legendary powerhouses to the fray, even if twenty Legendaries came to attack my territory at once, they would be completely wiped out by me!"

Thinking of this, a smile appeared at the corner of Cao Xing's mouth.

He was even looking forward to the Watchers leader bringing a large group of Legendaries to raid his territory!

Of course, this was not the greatest improvement.

After all, Liu Muxue still had one Legendary-level status skill that hadn't been used yet.

Cao Xing put away his thoughts, then directly took out a Divine Power Shard, handed it over, and said, "Muxue, start casting Aurora Illuminates the World."

"Okay."

She responded softly and then absorbed the Divine Power Shard.

After her Divine Power value was replenished, Liu Muxue raised the ancient sword in her hand high!

In an instant, the night sky for over ten kilometers around was suddenly lit up.

Gorgeous Auroras, like ribbons of color, intertwined and swirled overhead, finally all converging at the tip of her sword.

Liu Muxue's figure appeared incredibly sacred under the illumination of the Aurora.

She spoke softly: "Source of Aurora, converge here—"

"In the name of light, cleanse everything—"

"Aurora Illuminates the World, Heavenly Descent!"

"Hum!"

As her voice fell, the vast power of Aurora poured into everyone's bodies like a torrent!

At this moment, whether it was the Legendary powerhouses on the field or the staff members, everyone felt their physical fitness skyrocket significantly in an instant!

[Your Subordinate Lord: Liu Muxue has cast the Legendary skill [Aurora Illuminates the World · Heavenly Descent], all friendly units' Base Attributes increased by 50%. Affected by the talent [Eternal Power], this status has become permanent.]

The entire territory instantly boiled over! The momentum of the seven Legendary powerhouses skyrocketed at a terrifying speed!

Everyone had reached approximately the level of the Lizardman Chieftain, which was—High-tier Legendary!

It went without saying what a terrifying power this was.

Braum laughed, "Aha! This is the Lord's Lady's new blessing ability; it has made Braum even stronger!"

King Velen also exclaimed, "So strong! I can now even fight two or three Legendary powerhouses alone!"

Everyone was amazed.

Of course, the one with the greatest improvement was Qinong.

Before joining the territory, he had no status buffs on him at all.

Now, having received a series of blessings, his strength could be said to have skyrocketed several times over.

Fighting ten of his former selves would be no problem at all.

Including the other territory members, everyone was feeling that terrifying power within their bodies, and they were very excited.

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, now the strongest status buffs have all been applied."

"Next, there is one last status remaining."

He looked at the old man in the crowd and said, "Mr. Qinong, I see that your Hero Combat Skill: Rainbow Piercing the Sun also seems to be able to provide us with a buff."

"If you can, take this opportunity to cast it on us."