Ye Yun had no real concept of a divine city. However, the three building blueprints in his hand gave him some understanding of divine cities and sparked a longing for the past glory of humanity!
Unfortunately, apart from the Heavenly Physician Pavilion, Ye Yun couldn't construct the other two, the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion. It wasn't that Ye Yun lacked money, but rather that constructing these two buildings required too many auxiliary materials, and a significant portion of them were things Ye Yun had never even heard of.
The Heavenly Palace blueprint could transform a city into a heavenly palace, with the Lord's Mansion as the core of the city! After the transformation, the entire city could detach from the ground and move at low speeds in the sky.
The Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion could provide all players within the city with information on the movements of hostile forces within a thousand-mile radius of the city. It also allowed for the designation of a weekly prayer day, during which all city residents' harvests would double for that day.
Alas, besides gold coins, the materials required to build these two structures were completely absent! No matter how much Ye Yun coveted them, he had to give up with disappointment.
"Construct the Heavenly Physician Pavilion!"
"System Prompt: Constructing special building 'Heavenly Physician Pavilion', consuming 200 billion gold coins, Dao Ruler*10, Yu Wu Heavenly Stone*10, Divine Spark Shard*10..."
Heavenly Physician Pavilion (Special Building)
Level: Low-grade
Functions:
1- Unparalleled Medical Ethics: Recovery speed of all allied players within the city +200%.
2- Heavenly Physician: During siege battles, all city resident players within the city's range have their health and true qi regenerated at a rate of 0.5% per second.
Radiant Range: 20km outside the city.
With only two simple functions, no offense, no defense. Yet, these two functions could drive every powerful figure in a divine city to madness.
If Ye Yun remembered correctly, even Immortal Cities and Divine Realms didn't possess such heaven-defying buildings, but even if they did, they would still be instantly crushed by him.
"Boss, something big has happened!" Just as Ye Yun emerged from the Qi Tian Tower, preparing to go to his thousand-meter-high platform to admire his two buildings, Zhou Ningdong sent him a message.
"What's going on? Did the aliens arrive?" Ye Yun was taken aback. It didn't make sense; according to the tasks in the Heavenly Dao game, it clearly stated 48 hours later. Even with the fastest aliens, they couldn't have arrived that quickly.
"It's not aliens, it's lightning. We don't know what's happening, but there's lightning everywhere in the universe. They're like living creatures, swimming through space like fish. All the countries on Blue Star are going insane. All military and commercial satellites have been destroyed by this lightning, and we've lost contact with Blue Star."
"Lightning? Do you know where it's coming from?" Ye Yun was surprised.
"It's coming from the direction of the domain gate, boss. Do you think this is a precursor activity before the alien invasion? They're targeting satellites first to blind us humans on Blue Star?"
Zhou Ningdong's tone was extremely tense. Battling aliens was vastly different in reality and in the game!
"Oh, if the satellites are destroyed, they're destroyed. This lightning should be caused by my breakthrough. Send someone to inform Blue Star." If it weren't for Zhou Ningdong's reminder, Ye Yun would have almost forgotten that he was still undergoing tribulation in the real world.
"Breakthrough? Heavenly Tribulation? This..."
Zhou Ningdong fell silent. Dammit, the aftershocks of his tribulation had turned satellites millions of kilometers away into dust. What else could he say?
Zhou Ningdong's strength had transcended the Saint realm, but his divine sense had not reached the second realm like Wang Chen's. It remained at the first realm. He wondered if the influence of his in-game profession had affected his divine sense power in the real world.
The mass destruction of satellites meant that live broadcasting was impossible. However, due to Wu Xue's strong curiosity, they directly adopted a recorded broadcast.
He didn't know how that girl managed it, but she miraculously produced a large number of unused tapes. Every time Zhou Ningdong arranged for someone to return to Blue Star, she would have them bring back the recorded tapes.
Ye Yun withdrew from the Heavenly Dao and immediately saw himself enveloped by countless bolts of lightning. Even with Ye Yun's current divine sense, it would take considerable effort to penetrate this layer of lightning.
"Damn! I'm injured?" After a thorough inspection, Ye Yun belatedly discovered a thirty-centimeter-long scar on his back. On the surface of the scar, countless tiny lightning bolts, like persistent parasites, were constantly drilling into his body.
Fortunately, Zhou Ningdong had reminded him. Otherwise, given the intensity of this Heavenly Tribulation, while it might not be life-threatening, injury was certain.
The lightning during the Heavenly Tribulation could temper the body, and its energy could be absorbed and utilized!
On the principle of not wasting, Ye Yun immediately sat down. He directly circulated the Great Nirvana Art, which he hadn't practiced in a long time!
Instantly, a small vortex rose from the top of Ye Yun's head, like a black hole, desperately devouring the surrounding lightning. However, what Ye Yun found hard to accept was that no matter how much true essence he outputted, the vortex's absorption speed and size remained at a steady, moderate pace.
Despite the small absorption rate, the energy refined was astonishing. If Ye Yun were to infer his real-world strength gain based on the in-game attribute point increase, the energy he was currently absorbing was equivalent to gaining two to three hundred million attribute points per second!
Unfortunately, it seemed that only when the game materialized into the real world did it happen. In reality, apart from the wealth locked in before the server opened, nothing else had materialized into the game!
This was the first time Ye Yun felt his strength increasing so rapidly without relying on the game. The sensation was utterly intoxicating.
This led Ye Yun to cultivate for more than ten hours. During this time, to absorb the energy quickly, Ye Yun entered the Heavenly Dao again and exchanged for a considerable amount of attributes.
What Ye Yun didn't know was that about six hours into Ye Yun's cultivation, a faint dark shadow appeared at the entrance of the domain gate. However, because the domain gate was too close to Ye Yun's tribulation location, and the lightning snakes were too numerous, it dared not venture out of the domain gate's protective shield.