An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

The announcement sent shockwaves through the entire planet Earth!

In Kyoto, the capital of China, at the headquarters of Bureau 749, Director Shen Xingzhou suddenly stood up, trembling all over.

"A critical hit of ten thousand times! An entire vein of Netherworld Stone!"

Shen Xingzhou spoke into the communicator: "Chen Yan! Immediately mobilize the 749th Bureau's most elite engineering troops and all A-level Ghost Hunters to seal off Mount Tai! Send people to begin mining and exploration immediately!"

"This metal, which can be used to build walls in the supernatural world to resist supernatural invasions, will, once used by us to forge melee weapons or even special armor, mean that our Dragon Kingdom's current supernatural warriors will no longer fear the erosion of any low-level supernatural beings!"

"Lu Xueyao...she truly is a goddess of our Dragon Kingdom!"

With a thought, Lu Xueyao collected hundreds of Gold-Eating Monsters, which were like efficient miners, into the White Bone Banner.

This white bone banner, personally crafted by Lu Li, not only forms its own extremely yin space specifically for containing white bone puppets, but can also contain other strange creatures with substantial flesh and blood.

After the White Bone Demon General and the many strange creatures within the Myriad Soul Banner returned to their places, Lu Xueyao showed no lingering attachment and quickly returned to her territory as a blur.

Back at the lord's manor gate, Lu Xueyao took a deep breath, opened her system inventory, and took out all 100,000 Yinming Stones that exuded a chilling aura.

She opened the lord panel and directly selected the core building: the city wall.

"Construction confirmed!"

As the 100,000 pieces of Yinming Stone transformed into countless dark points of light and dissipated, the ground within a ten-mile radius of the Lord's Mansion began to tremble violently.

One after another, the dark stone city walls, pitch black and exuding a heavy and chilling aura, sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!

The construction of city walls, in the rules of national survival, signifies the formal establishment of the absolute boundaries of territory.

As an initial village-level territory, its area was limited to a radius of ten li (approximately 5 kilometers).

This ten-mile radius completely envelops this eerie and unpredictable black pine forest!

In fact, Lu Xueyao had already noticed something was wrong with this black pine forest.

Especially since the arrival of this black rain, the yin energy and restless eeriness that had gathered deep in this forest have become increasingly active and violent.

However, Lu Xueyao had almost blind trust in her brother's choice of location.

Since her brother told her to establish her territory here, then this black pine forest is her best resource for cultivation!

In the blink of an eye, a six-meter-high wall of Yinming Stone, along with two heavy city gates, was completely completed.

Although it is only six meters tall due to its height restriction, the Yinming Stone's natural ability to isolate the supernatural is enough to deter most low-level ghosts.

In the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, comments drifted by like snowflakes.

"Holy crap! The speed and scale of this infrastructure construction! They've fenced off an entire area within a ten-mile radius?"

"This area spans ten miles! This isn't building a village, it's practically building a war fortress!"

"The Yinming Stone City Wall gives me a sense of security! Lu Xueyao is awesome!"

While the Chinese audience was celebrating, the viewers from Japan and South Korea who flooded into the live stream were practically seething with envy.

"Baka! Why does she get to find so many top-quality materials?! This isn't fair!"

"Damn it! What's the point of enclosing such a large black pine forest? It's full of eerie things. At night, that wall will be her own grave!"

Just as the outside world was buzzing with discussion, Lu Xueyao looked at the territory that was beginning to take shape and frowned slightly.

On the territory floor, besides the city walls, the village-level territory is missing one last core building, the fountain, to be completely complete!

The spring water has incredibly powerful effects. As the name suggests, it not only provides healing when the lord is seriously injured, but even more incredibly, it has a "resurrection" mechanism!

Even if a chosen one dies while exploring the wilderness, as long as the territory and the spring still exist, they can regenerate their physical body in the spring and be resurrected!

However, the core material needed to build the spring was something Lu Xueyao had never heard of before: Nine Netherworld Water.

"Brother, what is the Nine Netherworld Water? Where do I go to find it?" Lu Xueyao asked in her mind.

Lu Li's Emperor Dao Divine Sense, which resided deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, swept over the area slightly, his tone carrying a hint of amusement: "Deepest within this Black Pine Forest lies a natural black pool."

That pool of water was the Netherworld Water, but this substance was extremely yin and cold, and it only truly manifested itself under these special black rain conditions.

Upon hearing that it was in her own backyard, Lu Xueyao immediately set off.

Lu Li was deep in thought at this moment. As a Demon Emperor who stood at the pinnacle of all paths, Lu Li had deep doubts about the so-called resurrection mechanism.

In the world of cultivation, even a powerful emperor would have to pay an unimaginable price to reverse life and death and reshape his physical body.

How could a mere survival game about national destiny offer such cheap and unconditional resurrection?

There is definitely some kind of rule trap hidden here, or an irreversible pollution of the soul's origin.

"This Netherworld Water can only be used to heal physical injuries at most."

Lu Li made a decision in his heart: "I absolutely cannot let Xue Yao use its resurrection function. Only through trials between life and death can one truly hone the demonic mindset."

"We'll go over there later!"

Lu Li reminded him, "Right now, I am merely a wisp of divine consciousness. Although I can help you explore the terrain and see through illusions, I cannot be summoned. Once the cooldown is over, we will explore the depths of that black pine forest again."

Lu Xueyao nodded obediently, sat cross-legged in the lord's mansion, and waited quietly.

Meanwhile, another chosen one of the Dragon Kingdom, Liu Mengxi, was also exploring the wasteland under the black rain.

Although she was in a sorry state, she did gain something: she dug up a material called Xuan Yin Stone at the bottom of a dried-up riverbed.

Although this stone is not as indestructible as the Netherworld Stone, it can be used to upgrade the building level of the initial lord's manor.

Upon returning to her territory, Liu Mengxi immediately used Xuan Yin Stones to successfully upgrade the flimsy stone walls and wooden doors of the Lord's Mansion to level 2!

Looking at the newly renovated Level 2 stone house, Liu Mengxi breathed a sigh of relief.

Level 2 defense is enough to withstand most C-level strange attacks.

"Finally, I have a little bit of power to protect myself..." Liu Mengxi wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

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The chosen one named Yagyu Soichiro has a completely different art style.

Due to the black rain, strange things became unusually active on the wasteland during the day.

Relying on his golden-quality Yamata no Orochi, Yagyu Soichiro not only did not hide in his territory, but took the initiative to hunt down the low-level monsters roaming the wasteland.

As it devoured its way through, the phantom of the Yamata no Orochi became increasingly solid, and the terrifying pressure it exuded was almost touching the threshold of the B-rank bizarre level.