3759: C3759 Useless Outposts

C3759 Useless Outposts

Sword Maniac completed her three year mission and returned to the Defense Department.

Reporting to Hei Yuankui was very casual, Sword Maniac said that she did not find any trace of immortality in Universe of Eight Kings, and with just that one sentence, everything was over. However, Hei Yuankui also knew about Sword Maniac's character, so he did not mind.

However, what Hei Yuankui didn't expect was that after returning, Sword Maniac immediately stood up and prepared to return to the World of Meaning.

A person like Hei Yuankui was also surprised. He even asked, but did not get an answer.

Sword Maniac wanted to go back.

The second day after Sword Maniac decided to return to the World of Meaning, she set out on her journey.

A person like Sword Maniac, in the current World of Meaning, was too rare. Hei Yuankui actually felt that Sword Maniac was rather old-fashioned, as if there were a lot of such Dao Lords in the World of Meaning before immortals appeared.

Although the departure of Sword Maniac caused Hei Yuankui to lose an important member of his team, it was still possible for Sword Maniac to complete the mission of checking out the immortals in just three years.

After Sword Maniac left, Hei Yuankui began to "seal" his Universe of Eight Kings.

First of all, World of Meaning gave him an approval, bestowing him with a lot of authority. Under the support of these powers, Universe Security Office of the Eight Kings seemed to have become as much authority as those imposing halls in the border universes.

The first power was that the Defense Department could announce that the Universe of Eight Kings had entered into a state of vigilance at any time and issue martial orders. The second power was that the person in the Defense Department had the status of "Supervisor", could monitor the actions of the eight Divine Kingdoms and the Great Reef Council. The third power was that the Defense Department had the authority to punish the eight Divine Kingdoms and the Great Reef.

These three powers were too great.

First of all, if any external Divine Kings wished to enter the Universe of Eight Kings, they would have to report it to the Defense Department for the record first and receive an audit. Only after they passed the examination would they be able to enter the Universe of Eight Kings and even have the qualification to do so. First of all, all the Divine Kings below the fifth level of tribulation didn't even have the qualifications to be examined.

And for Divine Kings with five trials and above, even if they passed the examination, they weren't free to walk within the Universe of Eight Kings, they were given the authority to do so. If the Defense Department provided for a Divine King who could only live within the Universe of Eight Kings, then he was not allowed to step outside the limits of the Great Reef, and if the Defense Department still required him to leave within a year, then he had to leave.

Anyone who violated the Defense Department's requirements, or directly headed for the Universe of Eight Kings without going through the Defense Department, would be deemed as having committed a martial arts offense and received a heavy punishment for provoking the authority of the World of Meaning!

As a result, the seal on Universe of Eight Kings was basically completed.

However, it was still very difficult for one Defense Department to supervise the entire Universe of Eight Kings. The Universe of Eight Kings was too large, there were too many Divine Kings, and there were only a limited number of Defense Department staff, after all, in these few years, the Universe Security Office of the Eight Kings had always been maintained as an immortal, which was only known as Hei Yuankui, and adding the tradition of three Celestial King of Ten Tribulations Dao Lords as vice heads, the vice heads were often replaced, and below the vice heads were more than seventy apostles. These apostles' realms were almost all under the Nine Tribulations, however, there were five of them who temporarily did not receive the status of apostle.

Just by looking at this, the power of Defense Department was still quite strong. An undying commander had eight Celestial King of Ten Tribulations below, and the lowest was the Nine Tribulations, but this power, in order to supervise the entire Universe of Eight Kings, had to check if anyone broke the rules, which was far from enough.

So Hei Yuankui started to change the system. On one hand, anyone within the Defense Department who had worked for the Defense Department for over two hundred thousand years and was at the eighth or ninth tribulation, but had yet to obtain the identity of an apostle, was bestowed with the identity of an apostle. This was something that they had always desired. At the same time, Hei Yuankui also wanted to expand the team of the apostles to give the eight Divine Kingdoms and Great Reef a placing. The nine powers could choose the Divine King and send it to the Defense Department, and after a simple examination, there was no problem, it would serve the Defense Department with a strength of more than two hundred thousand.

This move could not be any better for the eight divine nations and Great Reef.

Also, Hei Yuankui was very ruthless this time. In the eight Divine Kingdoms, each of them got 200 slots, and Great Reef was established relatively late after all. For many reasons, they were given less slots, but there were still 80 of them.

Therefore, the eight Divine Kingdoms and Great Reef began an internal audit. They picked out the outstanding ones, the Divine Kings of the seventh, eighth, ninth, and even the Divine Kings of the tenth tribulation, and sent them to the Defense Department.

After fighting with all his might, he managed to win another fifty places from Defense Department.

Seeing that, the other Divine Kingdoms also contributed a large amount of resources to Defense Department in exchange for slots.

After a few years, all of the slots were finally filled. Through Hei Yuankui's hand, his Defense Department increased by almost two thousand Divine Kings in an instant, and he had enough people.

At the same time, the people sent by World of Meaning had also arrived. A few Ten Calamity Dao Lords and more than a hundred apostles.

With such a powerful force, Hei Yuankui started to set up relay stations everywhere on Universe of Eight Kings and secret strongholds of all kinds of Defense Department, and set up many spies. Later on, in order to cooperate, the eight Divine Kingdoms even issued bounties on their own, searching for the foreign Divine King who entered Universe of Eight Kings without going through Defense Department after the decree was issued.

Hei Yuankui could be said to have completely controlled the Universe of Eight Kings and sealed it as well.

But Hei Yuankui was still worried.

He also obtained the power to collect taxes on Universe of Eight Kings from the World of Meaning s. Through the collection of taxes, he gathered a large amount of resources over a period of dozens of years.

These large projects, had also become the most important thing to do in the following two hundred years.1

When Defense Department did such a big thing, although they had always cooperated with it with all their might, and because they could gain the identity of an apostle, many people were very excited. However, there were also quite a few people, especially the leaders of Universe of Eight Kings, who had been worried the entire time.

What was going on?

What happened?

No matter whether it was Defense Department, or whether it was World of Meaning, from start to finish, they had not told Universe of Eight Kings about what had happened.

The Defense Department had also sent some clear text, saying that it was only to strengthen the security and defense of the Universe of Eight Kings, and to maintain the prosperity of the Universe of Eight Kings because Universe of Eight Kings was too important.

These leaders naturally wouldn't believe it.

But Defense Department did not mean anything to him.

Soon after, many people in the Universe of Eight Kings discovered some other unusual things.

After a large number of outposts and footholds were built, on average, there would only be one or two apostles stationed at each outpost and foothold. In some places, there weren't even any apostles guarding, but quite a few living beings moved out from within the Universe of Eight Kings and resided in these outposts and footholds.

Initially, Universe of Eight Kings thought that Defense Department wanted to build a great wall.

This was because the distance between each outpost was a bit far, as if Defense Department was intentionally pulling the distance between these outposts, and in these outposts, there were only very basic defensive facilities, almost no defensive effects. Adding to the fact that each outpost only had one or two apostles with low realms overseeing it, it was even more ineffective.

The farthest outpost was filled with Celestial King of Ten Tribulations. It would take twenty to thirty years for a single outpost to return to Universe of Eight Kings, and this was not the end. Defense Department was still planning to establish a outpost that was even further away from them.

There were many outposts scattered throughout the world, and there were almost no effective means of defense. However, to maintain so many outposts, one would have to consume a huge amount of resources. This was a loss that could not be compared to gain.

Each outpost had a rather powerful communication array, which allowed them to contact the surrounding outposts within a short period of time.

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