Published: February 11, 2025
On the hillside, Ye Zhongming and Little Tiger stood there, watching the people working below.
This was a newly cultivated piece of farmland belonging to the Blue Secret Realm branch of Cloud Summit Farm.
"You say, how credible is what that Six-Winged guy said?" Little Tiger asked Ye Zhongming while looking at the farmland, which was temporarily under the protection of their squad.
"What aspect are you referring to?" Ye Zhongming inquired.
Little Tiger pointed to the sky, "About the time before this place collapses."
Six-Winged was a clone of the Nine-Winged Crow, and since it was the sixth wing, everyone now called it Six-Winged.
After marking the coordinates on the Key of the Secret Realm, Ye Zhongming and the people from Cloud Summit were able to return to the secret realm. During this process, everyone discovered that Six-Winged had a remarkable control over space; every time it used the Time Listening Hammer to mark a coordinate on the Key of the Secret Realm, it could approximately tell where that place was. After opening the space-time gate, the location was almost always accurate.
This gave Ye Zhongming and the others a new understanding of its strength; naturally, it also sparked intense curiosity about the Nine-Winged Crow, a ninth-level life form.
A clone's strength could only be at most one-ninth of the original's, so how powerful must the main body be?
Everyone was quite fortunate to be able to collaborate with this clone, as it allowed them to return to the Blue Secret Realm. Otherwise, even if someone evolved to the nine-star level or the ninth level, they likely wouldn't be a match for the Nine-Winged Crow.
Six-Winged was practically a living map of the secret realm; even if it wasn't too familiar with the places of the posthumous child and the Temple of Dawn, after receiving their detailed maps, it could produce coordinates that were quite close. Because of this ability, the posthumous children and people from the Temple of Dawn stranded in Royal City managed to come to Earth, marking a grand retreat.
Now, the Temple of Dawn had set up a temporary camp in West Asia, not large in scale but capable of accommodating tens of thousands. The Holy Maiden and other leaders instructed their subordinates to start adaptive rotations and began exploring further based on the temporary camp. It was believed that it wouldn’t be long before they thoroughly familiarized themselves with many areas in West Asia, at which point they would decide where to build a city.
The conflict between alien races and Earthlings would begin then.
For now, the posthumous children had not left and continued to live centered around Cloud Summit and based in Ying City, because the focus of the Temple of Dawn was beginning to shift towards West Asia. The primary service targets of the Cloud Summit Mercenary Guild were starting to become the posthumous children.
This made the figures of the posthumous child warriors almost ubiquitous around Ying City.
Originally, the posthumous children were a very loose force, and after several major battles, the deaths and injuries among the king zun caused a depletion of their core members. Some super powers had also seen a severe decline in strength, greatly reducing their constraints on other races.
This made many tribes reluctant to follow the posthumous children’s large troop to the place Ye Zhongming had initially promised them for reconstruction after they established their camps elsewhere.
They had begun to adapt to life around Cloud Summit and Ying City and felt that living this way was not bad at all.
In fact, their quality of life was indeed much higher than when they were in the Blue Secret Realm. Here, there was fertile land, numerous mutated lifeforms, no cold seasons, and friendly companions from Cloud Summit and Ying City.
Regarding this situation, Hongxiang and Ling Kun felt powerless; after all, they currently did not have the ability for large-scale long-distance migration. Unlike the Temple of Dawn, whose people could directly use portals, they had to trek long distances, a process that was bound to be incredibly arduous.