The Xin Huo Secret Realm, a transit hub.
A mysterious black spherical object hung dozens of meters above the ground, with winged snake trains occasionally emerging and disappearing into spherical cavities on the other side.
Transporting personnel or delivering supplies.
"Today's cargo throughput, 74,600 units."
"Today's revenue: 129 units of Legendary material, including 4 Legendary eerie items, over 6,000 units of Epic material... This figure only counts income from exploring the Eerie Realm."
"9 new experts at the Seven Senses Mythological Realm have been added. Information on new personnel has been sent to all departments."
"The Exploration Guild discovered 19 new oases today, 15 of which are major oases."
"In the past month, 59 small-scale disaster tides have been observed, a 13% increase compared to last month. Furthermore, the claws and servants of evil gods are becoming increasingly active, with several exploration teams encountering evil god servants in the wild, with mixed results."
"In the past month, disputes in the extraterrestrial worlds have also become more pronounced, primarily conflicts between the evil god factions. Now, in many normal-level worlds, evil god servants are frequently seen descending in avatar form, causing endless disasters."
"It is becoming more difficult for mythological beings from the organization to descend into extraterrestrial worlds. Encounters with evil god servant avatars in such environments do not hold an advantage. The six high-level worlds currently suffering erosion are in an increasingly fierce battle. It is proposed to increase combat power investment to quickly defeat the evil god's claws and to manage the population and resources of these worlds... The plan is to invest 18 special-grade combatants and 188 first-grade combatants, completing the mission for World One within 52 days... This plan, after calculation, offers the highest comprehensive return."
In the illusory world formed by the confluence of countless data streams, a girl in a white dress sat solemnly, her expressionless face and mechanical, indifferent voice.
With a gesture, the vast data streams were categorized and organized.
"Level Two information needs to be sent to all core personnel."
"Level One information, well, sent to the main body for review."
"Special Level information, sent to the Master's panel for the Master to decide."
She spoke, her voice flat and without fluctuation, and in an instant, countless pieces of information flew out, disappearing into various destinations.
Suddenly, the girl's eyelashes trembled. A ripple of emotion appeared in her calm, cold, mechanical eyes. She stretched lazily, "Let me see what interesting things have come up recently."
Xiao Huan's true consciousness temporarily took over this artificial intelligence loli avatar.
Instantly, a massive amount of information poured in, but she didn't care. When she was weak, she could quickly sort through these data torrents. How much more so now that she, Xiao Huan, was a dignified high-ranking expert.
It was just that high-ranking experts needed to study the laws more diligently, and this kind of study couldn't be as easily sorted as data streams. She was a little impatient.
She still preferred to do work that would increase the organization's wealth.
"Anyway, I've already implanted the law observation module into avatar number two. Its learning efficiency is 70% of my own perfect state, so it will be soon. I'll leave the important task of improving my law attainments to number two."
It wasn't that she wasn't trying. It was just difficult for her to study, and she couldn't maintain a perfect state at all times.
Moreover, she was just redirecting her efforts to shine and contribute elsewhere.
Compared to individual strength, the organization needed her more.
That was how it was.
"One Divine Source, two Divine Sources, three Divine Sources..."
"The income of Divine Sources this month has clearly increased!"
"However..."
Her brow furrowed again. "This is because the frequency of high-level eerie beings appearing in the various domains of the Eerie Realm has clearly increased. Super oases have already been destroyed, even outside of disaster tides."
"Another human super oasis was destroyed by the aftermath of a battle between an ancient being and an evil god's servant."
"These are also important pieces of information that need to be packaged and sent to the Master."
She took over the avatar's work, processing various information with even greater computational power, calculating the optimal points of return for each project.
At the same time, Xiao Huan focused on building the 'Organizational Network.'
She was continuing to enrich the panel functions, refine the attribute display, and add features such as group chat, calling for reinforcements, positioning and route planning, and precise promotion of organizational goods under the communication module.
She was also setting up a 'virtual network' that could be used by external personnel.
This was also the Master's task.
So she hadn't slacked off on her cultivation; she had simply maximized the value of her time.
Countless data streams appeared in Xiao Huan's eyes.
The work of a new day had begun.
...
East Eerie Realm, adjacent to a domain in the Central Eerie Realm.
This domain was an uninhabited area. Looking into the distance, one could not find any signs of life, only drifting gray mist and wandering eerie beings.
Such completely dead domains often had more dangerous environments, containing many death zones that were perilous even for mythological beings.
At this moment, in a certain death zone that made high-ranking experts frown and explore cautiously, countless eerie beings prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling.
The prostrate eerie beings ranged from small ones only dozens of meters tall, which were four-star eerie beings, to large ones up to tens of thousands of meters tall, which were eight-star eerie beings capable of destroying super oases.
Further in the distance, there was an indescribable monstrous giant, pierced by countless sharp spears, red and white, tens of thousands of meters long, pinning it to the ground.
This scene had happened not long ago.
Two even more terrifying high-ranking eerie beings had turned their silk into sharp spears and, within a few moments, pierced a high-ranking eerie being who had been bewilderedly residing in this death zone.
It was a one-sided crushing.
However, eerie beings were collections of negative factors devoid of reason and intelligence. This was true for high-ranking eerie beings, let alone eight-star or seven-star eerie beings.
Eerie beings did not possess emotions of fear, nor did they have reverence or dread.
However, at this moment, this large group of eerie beings, not controlled or persecuted, were all prostrating themselves on the ground, emanating an aura of reverence.
They revered the figure in the distance.
A girl with black hair, an expressionless face, and her exquisite figure completely covered.
It was An Jianyou, who had gone out to cultivate.
Her cultivation method was very peculiar. She was using the Underworld to absorb a certain essence factor from the vast filth emanating from the death zone.
And in this way, she was strengthening her eerie babies.
At this moment,
The death zone rumbled and trembled. Countless wisps of black mist rose from the depths of the gray-black earth.
Although the colors in the death zone were predominantly gray-black, these dark wisps of mist, when they emerged, were still distinctly visible against the surrounding environment.
This black mist was true black, ultimate black, a colorful black!
Compared to it, the gray mist in the sky seemed too pale.
The surrounding eerie beings were enormous and menacing. An Jianyou's small body stood among them, appearing as if it could be torn apart at any moment. However, in the eyes of the eerie beings, An Jianyou had an infinitely tall, infinitely large, infinitely menacing silhouette behind her.
It was a great terror that could suppress even an eight-star eerie being with its mere presence.
Black mist, like pillars, surged out from a hundred miles, a thousand miles, ten thousand miles, a hundred million miles. The entire death zone trembled. Countless black mists, like thick water pipes, spanned the gray misty sky and poured into the back of An Jianyou.
In front of her, the wisps of black mist on the core eerie being's Wan Jie Hong Yi had become extremely viscous, coiling and tightening in circles, almost forming a black cocoon hundreds of meters in size.
The Wan Jie Hong Yi itself was only a dozen meters tall.
The black cocoon exuded a terrifying aura, melting the surrounding hundreds of thousands of eerily beings that were relatively close, turning them into thick black liquid.
The other eerie beings trembled even more.
Behind An Jianyou, the ink-black darkness was also spreading, spreading without limit.
Tens of miles, hundreds of miles...
Within the pitch-black ink mass, a vast world spanning thousands, tens of thousands of miles seemed to be revealed.
In the extreme darkness, flecks of colorful luster gradually appeared.
That was the Underworld's Yellow Springs Road.
That was the Naihe Bridge and the Other Shore Flowers.
That was a series of dark and silent giant cities, where a terrifying shadow's light step would cause tsunamis that shook the heavens and the earth, engulfing the countless eerie beings outside.
At the same time,
On the panel that An Jianyou herself could not see.
The core skill "Underworld Apostle," marked as "Legendary · Three Stars," flickered slightly. After flickering for a while, its rank marking remained blurry and fluctuating, finally settling on the two large crimson characters: "God Demon."
A crimson skill!
An Jianyou also sensed it.
The desolation in her eyes slowly receded as she gazed around.
Here, the gray mist was sparse, and eerie beings were rare. Countless impurities were rapidly dissipating. This death zone, which even high-ranking experts of the ninth realm had to treat with caution, was degrading and would soon become an ordinary region.
"This path is indeed feasible!"
"Soon, I will be able to improve Xiao Hong, Xiao Bai, and the others, allowing them to play a role in real battles and help the Mentor."
She was a little dejected when she couldn't be selected for the first team upon entering the Central Eerie Realm.
Even though, at that time, it was because the second team needed a brain.
"An Jianyou, cheer up~!"
She clenched her fists. Once the red-clothed eerie being broke free from its cocoon, she flew towards the second death zone she had already scouted.
...
Boom—!
"You eerie brat, die for your great Uncle Xing!"
In a certain domain, the Xin Huo Number Four Oasis was undergoing its ninth-level promotion. Xing Jinglei transformed into a colossal giant, charging into the eerie tide and engaging in close-quarters combat with high-ranking eerie beings.
He continuously expanded his body. Even though he was covered in eerie beings, he remained invincible in the eerie tide.
Combat, just charge ahead!
If charging ahead didn't work, it only meant he wasn't strong enough.
Coincidentally,
In the Western Eerie Realm, on the front line of an oasis undergoing its ninth-level promotion, Yin Luoxi, who had been hired, was unleashing her firepower in a frenzy.
She unleashed countless celestial fires, which crashed down violently. With her alone, she cleared out most of the endless eerie tide.
The vast city also trembled under the impact.
Although the city suffered no damage under the ritual's coverage, the deafening roars and immense tremors were still terrifying.
Beside her, the head of a dominant force in the Western Eerie Realm, a demigod, couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his brow.
"Your Excellency, the big eerie beings haven't arrived yet."
"No matter."
Yin Luoxi waved her hand.
She stood on the city wall, her wine-red hair, lengthened by magic to reach her hips, fluttering in the wind like a soaring firebird, fully displaying her empress-like demeanor.
"As long as the firepower is sufficient, there will be no fear of insufficient firepower."
As expected of her, to say something so logical!
Yin Luoxi thought gleefully. She looked at the passerby demigod beside her, "Just wait with peace of mind. If even one eerie being crosses the defense line today, I, Empress Yin Luoxi, will write my name backward."
To be honest, Yin Luoxi's firepower far exceeded this demigod's imagination.
He had seen ninth-realm experts going all out, but compared to Yin Luoxi, the difference was significant, especially in large-scale battles against eerie tides.
The firepower output of Your Excellency Yin Luoxi was too fierce; even a hundred demigod myths couldn't keep up.
However,
The tribulation of a ninth-level promotion wouldn't end in just one day.
Was Your Excellency Yin Luoxi reliable or not?
The nameless demigod fell into contemplation.
...
Yin Luoxi might be unreliable, but Xin Huo was definitely reliable.
In the past few months, several eighth-level oases had successfully overcome their promotion tribulations with the assistance of Xin Huo experts, and the damage to the entire oasis city was minimal.
The reason for the losses was that during the promotion tribulation, many high-level eerie beings emerged directly from within the oases, making them impossible to guard against. Many dominant forces' defensive arrangements within the oases did not invest as much as Xin Huo.
These casualty reports, while causing Fang You to frown, were considered great victories by other dominant forces, victories that were unprecedented.
Even the Wudong Empire couldn't reduce losses to such an extent.
It could only be said that the strong reinforcements from the Xin Huo organization were very effective.
Whether it was high-ranking experts, demigods, or mythological realm powerhouses.
Even in case of unforeseen accidents, the Xin Huo organization could dispatch reinforcements in a timely manner. Thus, although the eerie tides faced during these promotion tribulations were larger than ever before, the losses suffered by human forces were vastly reduced.
The word "reliable" was the assessment of countless dominant forces towards the Xin Huo organization.
Many super oasis powers had placed orders, seeking external aid to promote their oases to seventh or eighth level.
Every little bit helps.
Xin Huo accepted all these orders. They did not lack idle demigod or mythological combat power. Doing so also helped to improve the overall strength of humanity and enhance resistance to disasters.
On a larger scale, the more oases there were and the higher their levels, the stronger the vitality of the entire Eerie Realm.
Due to the extremely high reliability of the Xin Huo organization and the affordable fees for hiring experts, most dominant forces now intended to find strong reinforcements from Xin Huo. However, due to the preliminary preparations of various forces, after more than half a year, there were still very few ninth-level oases that had truly been promoted.
Not many more than Xin Huo's own ninth-level oases.
Fang You emerged from his seclusion, leaned back on a lounge chair, and with a light gesture, a cup of coffee appeared before him.
He took a sip, and like a retired cadre, pulled out a newspaper. On it, lines of data information scrolled by, summarizing the major and minor events that had occurred during this period.
"Not bad, all plans are progressing. However, we may only have a few years left."
In ancient times, the Kandora Empire proposed the God-Slaying Plan.
Today, the Xin Huo organization aims to create a Great Wall of Oases.
Time flowed by month by month. Undercurrents surged in all directions, and more and more disasters brewed. The winds of change were imminent.
In the four regions of the Eerie Realm, ninth-level oases were born from time to time, and good news spread throughout the Human Alliance.
But what people didn't know was that in places that were difficult to observe, the Xin Huo organization was also quietly nurturing one ninth-level oasis after another.
The rudimentary blueprint was gradually being completed.