Divine Realm: Starting with the Broken Bone Dragon

"The spirit of this Tai Chi formation is actually a little girl; that's truly unexpected."

Watching Dao Qingwan's departing figure, Lin Fan was still somewhat incredulous.

"Yes, who would have thought?"

Jiang Mengyao responded by taking his arm.

"Perfect timing! The special skeleton in the Undying Mound of Jing has also taken shape. Let's go see if it'll be useful to you. After we see it, you should go into slumber and break through!"

"Sure, that would be great if it could be of use to me."

Lin Fan nodded, and the two walked together toward the Undying Jingguan.

A peculiar structure made of skulls gradually came into view.

"I never imagined this spectacle would be so enormous!"

Jiang Mengyao examined the skull at the top.

"It feels taller than your dragon body standing upright!"

"It definitely needs to be a bit higher."

Lin Fan nodded.

"My dragon body is only about 240 meters long, but this spectacle is at least 500 meters high, more than twice the length of my dragon body."

Thinking of this, Lin Fan regretted not stacking the Feast properly. If he had used the Feast in time every time, he could have stacked at least 400 layers, if not 500. But now he hadn't even stacked 300 layers, which was a real pity.

"This skeleton doesn't seem to have anything special about it."

Jiang Mengyao pointed to a skull at the bottom of the Jingguan (a mound of skulls), and a divine decree was issued. The skull flicked its tattered white bone flag, which turned from white to red, with a black skull printed on it. An invisible amplification spread out.

Lin Fan controlled his body to shrink and squeeze into this area.

"It doesn't seem like anything has changed?"

Lin Fan frowned, grabbed a boss-level gargoyle, and tested it, but it had no effect whatsoever.

"What about the elite level?"

Lin Fan captured an elite Bone Demon, but it didn't provide any bonuses.

"There's no bonus either. Does this mean the buff only applies to members of the same level?"

To avoid catching another gargoyle, Lin Fan simply caught an ordinary mechanical gargoyle this time.

After several rounds of testing, Lin Fan finally knew the result.

"Unfortunately, the effect of this flag only applies to those below the extraordinary level. Even the skeletal gargoyle, which has just broken through to the elite level, cannot enjoy the benefits of these buffs."

"However, the cultivation levels of these flag bearers are still increasing, and they should be able to break through further. Once they break through, their role will be much greater."

Jiang Mengyao, who had been watching the whole thing, felt a jolt in her heart.

Is it possible to break through?

Wouldn't that mean we could give Lin Fan a buff sooner or later? Even if the amount isn't large, it's free!

Use it however you want; as long as the flag bearer doesn't die, this buff can even last indefinitely.

"Great! Finally, the skeleton army has someone to apply a group buff! The skeleton mage's buff is pretty good, but it consumes too much death energy. It's better to save the death energy used to cast buffs for two more uses of Resurrection!"

"That's right."

Lin Fan nodded.

"Not only that, if the different buffs of these flag bearers can be stacked, the combat power of the skeleton army will increase significantly, especially the gargoyles, which are already very strong in melee combat. With the amplification of these buffs and the amplification of the skeleton mages, increasing their strength by half is not a problem at all."

"Oh, right!"

Jiang Mengyao imagined the scene and began to silently mourn for the alien demigod in the resource well.

There's one more thing Lin Fan didn't mention.

That means now that we have skeleton blacksmiths, once they develop for a period of time and can start crafting elite-level equipment, the strength of the skeleton army will undergo a qualitative change.

In the past, the skeleton army was not equipped with corresponding equipment because its strength was already sufficient.

On the other hand—

I just don't have any money.

Don't be fooled by the fact that a single boss-level piece of equipment only costs ten divine power. Even if you equip all the boss-level skeletons with a set of equipment, it would only cost a few hundred thousand or a million divine power.

(PS: The equipment in this article is categorized as follows: weapons, helmets (magic hats), armor (magic robes), and breastplates (magic staff crystals). The above values ​​represent the equipment for a normal human build. Prices may increase or decrease depending on body size.)

However, if all elite skeletons were equipped with complete gear, even just standard elite gear, it would cost one divine power per piece. If it were a large skeleton like a gargoyle, ten divine power per piece of elite gear wouldn't be unreasonable. But considering the current number of elite gargoyles in the Divine Realm (ten million).

Even if a single skeletal gargoyle's equipment only costs ten units of divine power, equipping them with all their gear would require a billion units of divine power...

Not to mention the ranged units that are desperately waiting to be fed.

After a moment of silence, Lin Fan spoke softly, "Then I'll go break through? Once I've broken through, we can fight side by side."

"I'll wait for you, but if you make me wait too long, hmph."

Jiang Mengyao gently opened her mouth, revealing her little tiger teeth.

"You know what I mean, right?"

"I understand, I understand!"

Lin Fan leaned forward and gently pressed his lips to hers.

After a long while, the two separated, both with a blush on their faces.

"What are you doing? You want to eat my tongue too...?"

Jiang Mengyao lowered her head and gently pushed Lin Fan.

"I hate you! Hurry up and go break through to a higher level!"

"Okay, I'll go right now. But the taste is really good..."

"You still dare to talk! I won't listen! I won't listen! I won't listen! I won't listen!"

Jiang Mengyao covered her ears and disappeared in a flash, leaving Lin Fan standing alone in the air.

Lin Fan smacked his lips, his eyes narrowing slightly, clearly savoring the moment.

This feeling is just so gentle!

French kissing is great! You should learn how to French kiss!

I'll have to try again next time!

But right now, breaking through is more important!

Lin Fan glanced one last time at a certain point in the sky, a big smile spreading across his face. His figure slowly disappeared, and at the same time, his true form flew to the familiar dog's den—or rather, dragon's den.

"As expected, there's no place like my own dragon's lair! Time to break through!"

Lin Fan shouted in his heart, his consciousness sinking into his mind, where a pale white power of rules quietly floated.

It is the rule - white bones.

Rune - Hypermorphic Development Activated.