All nobles believed that a war with a wide range of impacts would begin in the near future. Many speculative nobles were extremely excited and active, constantly wandering and lobbying between the church and the royal family.
However, beyond everyone's expectations, the Holy Church and the kingdom had been wrangling back and forth for nearly half a year, and the Kingdom was not ready to go to war for half a year. Instead, Alfonso, who occupied the province of Dale, suddenly issued a surrender letter after half a year, listing the many actions of the Holy Church that hindered his legal rule of the province of Dale, and announced revenge against the Holy Church.
The target was the church in the province of Korot next to the province of Dale.
Korot Province was one of the four provinces surrounding the province of Dale. The reason for choosing this province was that it was located at the edge of the kingdom's territory and there were no other kingdoms and provinces around that the church could not support. The main reason was that the great lord occupying this province was one of the staunch supporters of the Holy Church and had been stationed on the border before.
Alfonso's sudden dispatch of troops was completely beyond everyone's expectations. Even Her Majesty the Queen was very surprised and sent a special envoy to inquire immediately.
The reasons Alfonso gave to the envoy were very far-fetched, or perfunctory. The envoy did not get a satisfactory answer and left very angrily.
Lin Xiao had no choice, because when they attacked the second province, any reason was actually pale.
Just like Sima Zhao's intention was known to everyone, he could use the excuse of being suppressed to replace Earl Dyson, even if the unification of the entire province was allowed later, but once he led his army out of Dale Province to attack the lords in other provinces of the kingdom, it would be a clear crossing of the border and the bottom line of the royal family.
Because in this world, even the largest lord, the duke, has a territory limited to one province.
Earls, marquises, and dukes are all great lords. Earl Dyson's actual territory accounts for less than one-third of Dale Province. The territory of a duke is at most an entire province, and it is impossible to exceed it. Once it exceeds it, it means that he has a rebellious heart, which cannot be refuted in any way.
So when the envoy returned to the capital, the queen quickly reached an agreement with the church, announcing that she did not recognize Alfonso's occupation of the Earldom of Dyson, and quickly found a descendant of Earl Dyson and declared him the new Earl of Dyson, and then declared Alfonso a traitor.
However, less than three days after this declaration, the messenger who delivered the message had just left the capital, and the second army from the Dale Province appeared at the border of the Muya Province, directly captured the border outpost, and directly raided the capital of the Muya Province.
The speed was so fast that the kingdom and the church had no time to react.
Compared with the kingdom and the corrupt and bloated Holy Church, the newborn Church of Life and Wisdom crushed them in terms of execution, and fought without hesitation.
Neither the Korot Province nor the Muya Province was their opponent. Even if they were well prepared, the Holy Church Knights of the two dioceses and the lords' coalition forces were defeated in the frontal field battle.
By the time the king's capital had finished wrangling and began to send troops, they had already defeated the main forces of the two provinces. Many lords, big and small, almost fled at the sight of the enemy. Some even surrendered before the messenger who persuaded them to surrender arrived.
This saved them a lot of effort. In addition, in this plane with nobles and lords as the main body, Lin Xiao and Alfonso accepted surrender, but they would count the territories and troops of the lords and big and small, and draw some soldiers from them.
This can not only weaken the strength of the lords, but also strengthen their own strength.
As the territory continues to expand, more and more troops will be needed.
After conquering the two provinces, Lin Xiao also gained a huge amount of faith from the two provinces. Among them, the population of Muya Province has always been much larger than the other two provinces, and the faith power collected is almost as much as that of two Dale provinces.
In the past few months, Lin Xiao has successively condensed ninety-nine seeds of essence containing different extreme energies and substances, and then integrated the faith power that replaces the divine power, successfully lighting up the third talent.
The fourth talent is immortality. The material required is an essence containing immortality. It does not matter what species it is, as long as it has immortality. However, the higher the quality of the material, the stronger the talent that is lit. It
is also a very troublesome material, but it is a piece of cake for Lin Xiao, who has the military as his backer.
Xie Yufei prepared a piece of flesh and blood from a terrifying ancient evil creature in a crystal wall universe for him. It has been purified, but Lin Xiao was worried and used the magic cube of creation to purify it himself. He did not find anything abnormal, which shows that the purifier is extremely powerful. The
ancient evil creatures are all terrifying existences with strength comparable to that of true gods. Each of them has a powerful and unparalleled vitality. The unknown ancient evil creature that Xie Yufei prepared for him is even more famous for its immortality.
So after integrating this ancient evil creature's flesh and blood, Lin Xiao successfully lit up the fourth talent of his golden ancient tree totem - immortality.
As a talent feedback, after lighting up the talent, he also has a super strong recovery ability. Although it is far inferior to the ancient evil, it is also very powerful. Even if it has just been lit up, it has the ability to regenerate a small range of broken limbs. It can only regenerate some fingers and noses that are not very large. The regeneration speed is not fast, but it is rebirth after all. And when he is strong in the future, he will have the legendary terrifying regeneration talent, such as only a small piece of meat can be resurrected, or even reborn with a drop of blood.
The fifth talent, and the last talent, is called the field of life.
This is a field talent. The material required to light up this talent is the heart of an ancient tree with a stronger vitality than the tree of life.
The heart of the ancient tree is equivalent to the brain and heart of the ancient tree.
This request was quite outrageous. Xie Yufei was stunned for a long time before she said:
"Are you sure you want this? Can't you use other alternatives? The Tree of Life itself is already extremely rare. You want the heart of an ancient tree that is higher than the Tree of Life. This request is quite difficult. Let me know in advance that it may not be obtained."
"Let's see if I can get it first. If I can't get it, give me a core of the Tree of Life."
After hearing what Xie Yufei said, Lin Xiao actually didn't have much hope.
After all, this thing is too rare. It's not that you can get it just by having a lot of power and connections.
As he expected, a few days later Xie Yufei told him that there was the whereabouts of this thing, but there was no way to get it.
If he just wanted a part of the branches, it would be fine. The problem was that he needed the heart of the ancient tree, which was equivalent to digging out the heart directly. There was no other way.
This thing was in a powerful true god's domain, and it was the core of the domain. Nothing could be exchanged for the core of the domain.
He had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and asked for a core of the tree of life, preparing to use the magic cube of good fortune to consume good fortune energy to strengthen it.
In fact, getting the core of the tree of life had already consumed a large part of the favor, and this was paid in advance by Xie Tianyan, because the value of the core of the tree of life was too high.
The things given before were not considered favors. For a big man like Xie Yufei, ordinary materials were not worth much no matter how many there were. Only rare and precious things like the tree of life could catch the eyes of the big man.
Lin Xiao didn't care about this. Favors were used by themselves. What's the point of keeping them? Now is the time when resources are needed. If you don't use them early to improve your strength, you won't have children if you keep them.
The core of the tree of life is a wooden heart that exudes a strong life force. Throw it into the magic cube of good fortune, and a steady stream of good fortune energy is injected into it to start strengthening.
The direction of strengthening is very simple, just strengthen its vitality directly.
Anyway, he has accumulated more than 600 units of good fortune energy, which is completely enough.
This strengthening took him nearly ten hours, consuming a total of 102 units of good fortune energy, and finally strengthened this core of the tree of life into a crystalline tree heart.
He didn't know what kind of ancient tree heart this was, because he had never seen this kind of tree heart, but he was sure that the grade was definitely higher than the original core of the tree of life, and the rich life force was almost condensed into crystals.
If it wasn't necessary to light up the talent, he wanted to plant it himself.
"Huh!"
Lin Xiao suddenly pinched his chin and thought about it, then sent a message to Xie Yufei:
"How much if I buy another Tree of Life Core?"
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Xie Yufei quickly replied with a question mark, curiously:
"Not enough?"
He nodded seriously:
"Yes, because there are no higher-level Ancient Tree Hearts, two Tree of Life Hearts are needed to replace them."
The other side hesitated for a moment before replying:
"Although a Tree of Life Core is nothing to us, and you are allowed to obtain some benefits within a reasonable range, you have to tell me the truth and don't lie to me."
"Ahem!"
Lin Xiao said somewhat guiltily:
"How could I lie to my sister? It's true. You can't get a higher-level Ancient Tree Heart, so you can only make up for it with quantity. I didn't say more and was very honest."
This statement was flawless and reasonable. Xie Yufei couldn't find any problem. What she said before was just a woman's sixth sense of suspicion.
Soon the second core of the Tree of Life was delivered, and he once again consumed 100 units of Creation Energy to strengthen it into a second crystal core that exuded terrifying life force.
Back in the God's Domain, Lin Xiao looked down at the entire God's Domain with his will, and his eyes fell on the ancient tree of creation in the center of the main God's Domain.
This ancient tree of creation has a huge amount of species genes stored inside, which can devour flesh and blood and use these genes to produce fruits with various modulated organisms.
The function is quite powerful and the name is also very nice, but the tree is too ugly. It is not a good tree at first glance. It affects the senses when placed in the main God's Domain.
He wants to change it.
After thinking about it, he used the authority of the Son of the God's Domain to take out the core of the ancient tree of creation, and combined it with the tree heart strengthened by the Tree of Life, and began to merge into one.
Combining the cores of the two special ancient trees, using the indescribable creation power of the Creation Cube to forcibly merge the two unknown species, retaining and strengthening the advantages and eliminating the disadvantages.
Finally, a crystal core with a slightly dim color but still emitting a strong life force was fused and placed back in the original location of the heart of the ancient tree, which was equivalent to grafting.
(End of this chapter)