Chapter 1018: Chapter 233: Sadomasochism and Collapse_2

The Golden Pansy Domain is no longer the small territory that would be destroyed at the slightest risk.

Wutong also said, "Is there currently anything you must rapidly strengthen your power to respond to in terms of short-term setbacks?"

"Not really..." Lin Rui thought for a moment; it seems even becoming a god isn’t urgent within a month or two.

So Wutong continued, "Then let’s repair first, prepare for invincibility, and wait for the enemy’s vulnerability. Moreover, increasing the population and talent is crucial for the domain’s future."

The future!

Lin Rui really loves these two words.

Having a future means stable expectations and infinite hope.

These two words are extremely precious, and for many powers, they are an unattainable existence.

Many people live day-to-day without knowing tomorrow or when they might suddenly be obliterated.

Lin Rui didn’t say much more, stating, "Then I will let Caroline start arranging preparations for construction."

Fifty billion units of various resources, even transporting them takes a long time.

Then there’s a trillion of basic resources in total; this adds up to nearly a trillion in scale!

Honestly, Lin Rui had only seen such near-trillion fiscal expenditure within national military budgets before.

Unexpectedly, he now has projects of this level himself.

It can be seen that the domain is truly prosperous now.

Caroline took the blueprint from Wutong’s hand, glanced at it, and said with difficulty, "Lord, but this blueprint requires legendary-level artisans, which we currently do not satisfy."

Lin Rui said calmly, "No problem, I believe once this batch of children come of age, they will surely satisfy. I’ll pray a little later, then I’ll continue investing in Territorial Essence. Apart from the populace from the ’numerous population’ trait, how many children have we born due to the historically significant trait?"

The reason to pray a bit before investing in Territorial Essence is to wait until the citizens are asleep at night before beginning to invest.

No choice here, Lin Rui must leave time for citizens to be seductively tortured and corroded.

Of course, whether this is seductive torture corrosion is hard to say.

It’s quite normal for spouses to have intimate marital lives, right?

To this day, Lin Rui truly feels the seductive torture corrosion in the territory is extremely necessary.

If not, it would be like before the crossing, where citizens married couples’ lives were barely at the world average level, with four-tenths not having any once a week, and even more extreme, hardly once in a month or two.

In such affairs, it’s either extreme drought or extreme flood.

Want to know if there is pure friendship between men and women?

Then get married, guarantee a few years later, the friendship with your partner becomes pure as can be.

This matter is like filling a bottle with stones; the first year can fill most, and for the rest of life, if you can fill the remaining half, that’s good enough.

The vast majority believe their talents extraordinary and can maintain youthful vigor throughout their lives.

Yet, in reality, most people, upon reaching middle age, make the greatest progress when they finally realize they are just ordinary among the multitude.

Therefore, one who builds connections with sexual attraction, when youth fades, affection changes. One who builds connections through love, when love diminishes, bonds end.

Thus, Eastern marriages don’t place importance on love; it’s a Western valuation shock.

Eastern culture emphasizes husband and wife’s harmonious union, resonant harmony, mutual respect, and appropriate family harmony.

This is the classic wisdom laid down by our charming ancestors over five thousand years, showing historic depth, incomprehensible to small civilizations. Thus, they uphold those superficial things like love without understanding the rationale of marrying harmony.

Once married, one realizes how important a woman is who shares similar ideals and interests!

Otherwise, even if her beauty rivaled celestials, when undressed in your eyes, she’s no more than a heap of flesh.

At best, that’s called red-powder skeleton; in layman’s terms, it’s not knowing the wife’s beauty. You’re even too lazy to speak a word to her, seeing her as indistinguishable from a decorative vase on the shelf, less charming than your fishing rod.

But fortunately, the Golden Pansy Domain doesn’t lack seductive torture corrosion, ensuring citizens a harmonious marital life every day.

Such matters have both advantages and disadvantages; Golden Pansy Domain is not a paradise on earth. With seductive torture corrosion’s presence benefiting the domain, there must be adverse outcomes, leading some people to become obsessed with such matters, and some weak-willed individuals drift into the more torturous segments of seduction, developing preferences increasingly distant from the general populace.

Such matters own inevitability in any domain.

A hundred thousandth murder rate, Lin Rui can accept.

He’s not a cosseted infant expecting a perfectly harmonious society without criminal cases or evil.

Fundamentally, a hundred thousandth probability is already sufficient to ensure doors unbolted at night, belongings untouched along the way.

What’s the implication? It’s akin to ancient imperial prosperity, with only hundreds sentenced to death annually.

This probability is comparable to being struck by lightning.

The country annually claims hundreds struck by lightning, especially during rice planting season, encountering plum rain, this probability rises exponentially.

Due to flat terrain, planting farmers become the highest point on plains, and thus, annually struck by lightning, killing hundreds. Yet humanity hasn’t abandoned plains because of this.

So Lin Rui can’t avoid being discouraged and the positive results are very gratifying. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Wutong replied, "A total of 12,489 newborns came, with a gender ratio roughly 49:51%. Zero soldiers of legendary-level talent, one of epic-level talent, ten of catastrophe-level talent, thirty of lord-level talent, anything below heroic spirit level makes no difference in the domain."

"It’s resplendent with outstanding talents!" Lin Rui remarked.

Just ten thousand newborns and already one newcomer with epic-level, over forty soldiers with heroic spirit level!

These individuals are truly talented.

And this is just birth!

Already nearly surpassing the Dragon Race. Keep in mind, even among Dragons, most are not heroic spirit level, many at birth can’t even shout their True Name, becoming disabled dragon beasts.

Otherwise, had Death’s Wings at birth not attracted the Dragon God’s attention, after all being legendary level, and then because of excitement forgot to shout its name, it would’ve delayed its unparalleled talent. But thanks to being born in Golden Pansy Domain, it exceeded beyond Dragon God’s expectations, to a shockingly powerful degree.

If expelled by Audrey from the domain, it would be a bona fide death catastrophe, causing continental bloodshed and chaos.

It is uncontrollable, immune to spiritual energy, nearly immune to physical damage; below its rank, none can effectively harm it. In fair combat, none can restrain it; in same rank fights, it crushes opponents effortlessly. Even higher ranks may not compete against it. This is without Golden Pansy Domain’s empowerment.

Even if someone could defeat it, it runs as fast as its father, Presto.

Only, this carefree Black Dragon has recently inevitably fallen into a hint of melancholy.

It always considered Lin Rui a father, calling him ’wild father’ in secret, much like teenagers calling their father ’old guy,’ never thinking of another father.

It always thought its father would be someone like Lin Rui, spirited and confident, a hero, yet until one day, everyone told it, your father is just that wily, sycophantic dragon in the domain presenting a fawning smile to everyone.

It instantly felt the heavens of its world collapsed!

How could this be?

It’s as if you always believed you were Crown Prince, only to be suddenly told you weren’t the Emperor’s biological son, but an errant son of a rascal, and your shameless biological father even came to seek you!

Death’s Wings didn’t see its world collapse, and being grateful for its strong will didn’t succumb to despair.