Ultragene Warlord

ed each other, as did the members of the four prime races, followed leisurely by the Yeluo, crag eagles, and wood spirits.
The rock spirits had no interest or ability to consume the meat broth, so they stood by the outer border of the plaza.

Even so, the line of hunters waiting for the food snaked all throughout the plaza and toward its outskirts.

”Praise Renhuang! ”

The hunters who had managed to get their food early immediately began to eat by the wooden tables that had been laid out. 

Under ordinary circumstances, they would never have been able to consume such high-quality food.
Despite the danger and uncertainty of the battle, they had ultimately succeeded in taking down a sura empire and sacked centuries ’ worth of treasure from their capital.

The empire of stars was the strongest of the sura empires, and its treasuries were comparable to three other sura empires.

In other words, echoing what Yun Bing had once said, it was sufficient wealth and resources to propel Renhuang forward by a hundred years of development; once its researchers had fully digested the research materials, it might even be worth three hundred years instead.

After the banquet, Zhang Lie began dividing up the spoils of war on the spot.

Everyone present, including both the forces that had participated in the battle and those that had stayed behind to protect Renhuang, would be eligible.

In some sense, it was like investing in the stock market—now that the war was over, Renhuang would pay out dividends.
The four prime races were the ones that stood the most to gain.

They had invested in Renhuang since before the battle started, and they would each rake a thirtieth of the profits from the battle.
A thirtieth didn ’t seem like much, but given the magnitude of the empire of stars ’ treasury, it was enough wealth to build a city from the ground up.

The herbs that were immediately usable were handed to the Yeluo chieftain, and those that weren ’t were left to the wood spirits to cultivate.
Ores, gems, jewels, and minerals were ceded to the rock spirits.

A few remaining oddities, trinkets, and other treasures were kept in Renhuang ’s national treasury, filling it up to the brim.

The Yeluo chieftain smiled beatifically as he looked at all the resources that Renhuang had gained.

”These resources might be significant, but they ’re not the best of the treasures we claimed from the empire of stars, ” Zhang Lie reminded him.

The Yeluo chieftain stared at Zhang Lie agape.
What could beat these resources that had taken even the empire of stars centuries to amass?

Zhang Lie handed over the research materials that he had claimed from the monarch of stars ’ study.

He didn ’t dare cart them around or leave it for anyone else to handle—the research went straight into his own potbellied toad pouch.
They were so precious as to be worth more than even the twelve stelae of time.

The Yeluo chieftain ’s eyes bulged.
His gaze turned scorching, and he gaped at the papers Zhang Lie deposited in his hands without fully believing that they were real.

He murmured in shock, ”Th-These will speed up our development by centuries! ”

The research institute that Zhang Lie had ordered to be built was currently specialized for herbalism, and it lacked significant research on other topics of interest in the second realm.

With the research materials from the empire of stars as its foundation, Renhuang would be able to reach the frontier of modern knowledge much more quickly, and it would even be able to evolve beyond it.

The Yeluo chieftain flipped carefully through the papers, particularly those pertaining to herbalism.
The empire of stars ’ centuries of work wasn ’t as specialized as the Yeluo clan ’s, but it was comprehensive and worthy of careful perusal.