Social Animals? My Brother is a Female Empress in the Underworld and Earns 10 Billion a Month!

329: Main battlefield firing range—R countryShang Wan Ning opened the system panel.

The translucent light screen unfolded before her eyes, and deep blue characters slowly flowed across it.

Character: Shang Wan Ning

Identity: Netherworld Empress (Highest ruler of the Underworld)

Cultivation: Eighth Tier Peak

Buildings: eight views of yin mountain, Yin Street, Underworld Building, Empress’s Traveling Palace... incense value: 673.936 billion

The number was massive, glowing with a cold, blue light.

Little Four asked in confusion, ”great host, isn’t that a lot of incense offerings? It’s enough to buy one-fifth of Mercury.”

Shang Wan Ning twitched the corner of her mouth, the curve devoid of warmth. ”Tsk, buy Mercury?”

Her hand hovered above the light screen and tapped open the holographic projection of the Mercury Plane. The azure planet rotated in the darkness, appearing so fragile that it looked as if it would shatter upon contact.

”Is it possible to construct a protective barrier sufficient to cover it?”

Little Four fell silent for a moment, rapidly performing calculations.

”Host is referring to... constructing a defensive shield covering the entire Mercury Plane? Using incense value as the foundation to resist the impact of late Ninth Tier?”

”Mm.” Shang Wan Ning let out a soft hum from her nose, her gaze blazing as she locked onto Mercury.

”Sabrina has temporarily retracted her claws, and those old fellows from the Source Realm are about to awaken. The aura of Mercury’s Spiritual Energy Revival can be smelled even across planes.”

She swiped across the projection, creating ripples. ”My territory must be protected first.”

The data stream on the light screen refreshed quickly.

Little Four: ”Maximum protection plan simulation complete. Covering the entire Mercury domain, normal defense level: early Ninth Tier.”

”Peak tolerance: one full-strength strike from late Ninth Tier. incense value consumption...”

A bright red number jumped out, blindingly stark. ”Daily consumption: 100 million incense points. Annual consumption: 36.5 billion. Basic reserve for one hundred years of maintenance: 3.65 trillion.”

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Shang Wan Ning stared at the astronomical figure, the knuckles of the hand clutching her phoenix robe turning white.

Six hundred billion?

It was a drop in the bucket, not even enough to cover a fraction of the hundred-year maintenance cost.

”No wonder great host has recently turned into a ground-scraping maniac,” Little Four complained with a hint of helplessness. ”You even scavenged the glowing pith stones in Wormrock City.”

Shang Wan Ning ignored the system’s teasing.

”The protective shield is just the shell. If a real fight breaks out, I intend to press the battlefield onto Mercury itself.”

She lightly touched the Mercury projection, and a narrow archipelago—the territory of R Country—was conspicuously highlighted.

”Change this place into the Main Battlefield Target Range for me.”

The light screen’s view zoomed in rapidly, clearly displaying the topography of R Country.

”great host, the reason?” Little Four asked.

”It’s small enough, remote enough, and I won’t feel bad if it sinks after being bombed,” Shang Wan Ning replied, her tone as calm as if discussing the weather.

”Last time Zhu Yan infiltrated the Netherworld and damaged the Ghost Gate Pass; the repair costs still sting when I think about them.”

She tapped the archipelago on the light screen with a bent finger. ”Let the riff-raff below Ninth Tier come in and fight. Use their divine blood to charge my defensive shield.”

Little Four sorted the information, integrating large amounts of data in the background:

Geographic Factor: Island Nation

Risk of affecting the main continent: Low

Ecological impact of sinking: Controllable

”Energy Dispersion Control: Requires pre-laying a ’Netherworld Bone-Corroding Vine’ Spore Matrix around the four islands (Incense consumption: 50 billion) to construct an energy absorption/confinement field. Approximately 30% of dispersed divine power from the battlefield can be converted to supplement the defensive shield.”

”Spatial Stability: This region is located at the intersection of the Pacific Plate, with active geology. Existing volcanoes and seismic zones can be utilized to pre-embed ’Nine Netherworld Prison Suppressing Nailss’ (Incense consumption: 30 billion) to reinforce spatial nodes and prevent battle repercussions from tearing the plane barrier.”

”Estimated total consumption for battlefield construction: 100 billion incense value.”