Su Shing Yu said with a smile as he patted Yi San on the shoulder, then turned and walked into the temple, watching him leave.
Yan remained silent for a long time.
Although Su Shing Yu<unk>s resignation had a considerable impact within the empire, as time passed, it gradually settled down.
After all, people must look forward.
Looking back cannot change the present.
Moreover, the chieftain is just resigning, not dying.
Under Ye's leadership, the Empire did not differ from before, as he had been managing state affairs and guiding the empire forward all along.
After the realm was promoted to a medium level domain, the most significant impact was the increasing concentration of spiritual energy.
This is a much more outrageous improvement than the world's blessings.
All the tribesmen who felt this surge recalled decades ago when the concentration of spiritual energy also began to rise dramatically.
However, unlike decades ago, this time the empire's territory has completely stabilized.
There are no safety hazards within the territories they control.
Therefore, the impact of this increase in spiritual energy concentration on the Empire is entirely positive.
As for what happens outside the Empire, that is none of their concern.
The Empire's army only protects its citizens.
According to the Empire's estimates, this increase in spiritual energy will last about a year.
After the increase ends, the average concentration of spiritual energy in this plane will reach five.
5 to six, five times its previous level.
And in the black soil plains, it will exceed 10 times.
Next to the spirit gathering tree in the city center, spiritual energy rain has already begun to fall.
And it is estimated that a spiritual energy pool will form soon.
Cultivation has become much simpler.
Internally, there is steady development, and externally, there's conquest and expansion.
The Eternal Knight Empire is like a greedy giant beast, never satisfied and needing to continuously devour more.
They do not want to stop, nor can they afford to stop.
The rapidly growing population of the empire requires constant expansion.
Now, the entire eastern continent is filled with citizens of the empire, just like planting radishes.
Sometimes a dozen people can occupy a large area of land.
After all, given the current quality of the Empire citizens, crushing these indigenous tribes is incredibly easy.
A dozen veterans can easily recruit hundreds of subordinate soldiers, purchase a batch of equipment on credit, conquer a few indigenous tribes, divide the territory, and transform from citizens into nobles.
If they encounter tribes they cannot defeat, they can directly call for imperial support and send regular troops over.
Even though the Empire's elite are undergoing transformation, relying solely on the ordinary Imperial Army is enough to sweep through the world.
There is no alternative, their strength is too overwhelming.
Ordinary Imperial soldiers have reached at least mid-tier extraordinary levels and are well equipped, each with golden level gear.
This qualifies them as super elites among other indigenous forces.
Opponents.
There are no opponents left, at least on the Eastern continent.
The Eternal Knight Empire has found no challengers.
All players in the medium level domain after experiencing the initial novelty entered a state of steady development, starting to farm within their own planes.
Some players with insufficient strength gathered in a single area, cooperating with each other to complement their strengths and improve their capabilities.
Stronger players occupied their own territories, developing independently and preparing for their path to demagood.
There is no alternative.
Six-tier legions can accumulate over time.
They all have a few six-tier legions, and as time progresses, the number of six-tier legions within their forces will continue to increase, potentially achieving the feat of having an entire army at sixth tier.
However, seventh tier legions are entirely different.
Without the conditions of the Eternal Knight Empire, relying solely on time to accumulate is not enough.
Luck is also required.
In other words, even with abundant resources, their tribes will soon hit a bottleneck.
Their foundation will grow thicker, but the level of strength will not change significantly.
Therefore, they unconsciously shifted their focus of improvement onto themselves.
They began to enhance the strength of their divine bodies, striving to enter the demagod realm as soon as possible.
As for their respective affiliated tribes, they can continue to develop and expand on their own.
It should be noted that the closure of shops has significantly affected many players.
During the early level domain phase, many players forces developed in a somewhat distorted manner, leaning heavily towards combat with a slightly insufficient capacity for self-prouction.
Not to mention anything else, just the most basic food.
Players who expanded territories frantically and experienced rapid population growth could not possibly achieve self-sufficiency.
Even Su Shing Yu's Eternal Knight Empire hasn't achieved complete self-sufficiency.
Its food self-sufficiency rate is around 50.
It should have been more, but some of his land was placed on those plain fragments and sold off when sold.
This led to a significant decrease in yield.
The fact that they can still achieve a 50 self-sufficiency rate is largely due to Sue Shing Yu's strong insistence on farming in the Empire.
Otherwise, with mining being so profitable, why farm at all? In the past, like those players lacking food, he also exchanged crystals for food and other basic supplies.
However, unlike other food deficient players, Sushing Yu could also use spiritual materials to refine special potions to fill the food gap in the Empire.
Using medicine as food is undoubtedly an extremely extravagant act, but it can also serve as a life-saving measure at critical times.
The disappearance of system shops has put many players in an awkward situation.
They had considered that after advancing to the intermediate realm, they would be cut off from information links to the primary realm, but they did not expect the shops to close.
With insufficient food, rapid population growth becomes impossible.
And without population growth, the expansion of clan forces slows down, resulting in a series of impacts.
Therefore, the first thing many players do upon entering the intermediate realm is not to explore environmental changes, but to rush to the city of gods to find food traders.
At this time, the benefits of organization become apparent.
Members of the blood dawn can easily have their subordinates from the primary realm help gather food, trading regularly at the city of gods.
Others face more trouble and when absolutely necessary, must buy secondhand food at high prices.
Although everyone has their own minor issues, overall everyone has entered a magical phase.
Weaker players enter a phase of explosive growth using the terrifying concentration of spiritual energy to enhance the strength of clan warriors, fully entering the era of mid-tier transcendence.
Slightly stronger players enter a limit phase, converting accumulation into combat power, starting with several six-tier legions to reach the limits of their clans.
As for the stronger players, they enter a transformation phase, striving to create seven tier legions while diligently cultivating and condensing divinity, hoping to step into demagod status as soon as possible.
It could be foreseen that the intermediate realm will maintain this state for a long time until players have the strength to step into the void.
The minimum requirement to step into the void is being a demagod.
In this plane far from the eternal night empire, lies an endless sea with isolated islands.
The island's terrain is complex and varied, featuring steep peaks, deep canyons, winding rivers, and vast beaches.
It is lush with vegetation with verdant forests, and towering trees that reach the clouds, completely unaffected by civilization, exuding an aura of primal wilderness.
Yet in such a remote and wild place, humans still manage to survive.
On the outskirts of the island, a small tribe of only a few hundred people struggles to exist.
The tribe is extremely rudimentary with wooden walls covered in sharp thorns and two watchtowers where clan members constantly patrol.
Gradually, the sky darkens and the hunters return.
They are tall and robust with well-defined muscles appearing extraordinarily strong.
Most are around 2 m tall, dressed in animal skins, their faces painted with various pigments, wielding a mix of iron and wooden weapons, and shouldering the game they have caught, radiating a fierce aura.
The entire hunting team consists of only 17 members, usually made up of the trib's youths and middle-aged men, who are the bravest among them.
According to the classification of extraordinary ranks in other places, most of them have reached mid-tier with a few youths slightly behind at only tier three.
The strongest middle-aged man has reached tier six.
Uncle Fonga, you're finally back.
It's almost dark.
A sharpeyed boy in the tribe spotted them and immediately ran up, visibly excited.
The middle-aged man with a necklace of unknown beast teeth quickly stepped forward, ruffling the boy's hair and laughing.
Yes, we're back.
We hunted a blood tiger today.
We'll prepare it shortly.
And tonight, we'll have tiger meat soup.
Tomorrow, I'll give you tiger blood for body training.
Yay! I want to become as strong as brother Sheru and then go hunting ferocious beasts with everyone.