Chapter 1297: Secret Realm exploration

Ye Zhongming and Little Tiger stood on a hill and looked at the people working below.

This was a farmland that Cloud Peak opened up, and it belonged to the Blue Secret Realm division.

“How trustable do you think the sixth wing is?”

Little Tiger looked at the land that his battle squad was in charge of and asked Ye Zhongming.

“Which area?”

Little Tiger pointed, “About the time this place will take to collapse.”

Sixth wing was that clone. As it was the sixth wing, everyone called it that.

After placing the coordinates on the key, Ye Zhongming and Cloud Peak returned to the Secret Realm. They realised that the sixth wing’s control of space was very amazing. Each coordinate it hit onto the key would be where it said it was.

This gave Ye Zhongming and the others a new understanding of its strength. Of course, they were very curious about this lifeform.

A clone had 1/9 of the original strength, so how strong was the main body?

Everyone felt fortunate to work with this clone. This allowed them to return to the Secret Realm. If not, even if people reached nine-star, they still wouldn’t be the nine winged bird’s match.

Sixth wing was a living map. Even places it was not familiar with, like the Posthumous People or Saint Light Hall lands were reachable after they drew a detailed map. This ability lets the remaining people in the Imperial City return to Earth, completing the large-scale retreat.

Now, Saint Light Hall had built their base in West Asia. The scale wasn’t huge, but it could contain tens of thousands of people. Saintess and the other heads told their subordinates to adapt to life and use the camp as the foundation to explore further. In a while, they would find out about West Asia. That would be the time that they decide when to build their city.

The conflicts between aliens and Earthlings would start then.

Posthumous People didn’t leave. They still lived with Cloud Peak at the center and Ying City as a base. Saint Light Hall moved towards West Asia, so the Cloud Peak Mercenary Guild’s main target became the Posthumous People.

This meant that they were seen everywhere around Ying City.

Posthumous People were a scattered faction. Along with the kings dying and the core members weakening, some super factions were very weak.

Many tribes built their camps and weren’t willing to follow the original plan and follow the Posthumous People army to the place Ye Zhongming had promised them.

They started to live around Cloud Peak and Ying City and felt like this life was good.

In truth, their quality of life was much higher than in the Blue Secret Realm. There was fertile soil and many mutated lifeforms. There was no winter, and they had friendly forces in Cloud Peak and Ying City.

Ling Kun and Hong Xiang were helpless about this. After all, they were not strong enough to force everyone to move. They were different from Saint Light Hall. They had a teleportation gate while they had to walk. This process would be tough.

The kings did consider breaking their word. The place Ye Zhongming promised was too far away, and they wanted to find a nearby place.

Of course, this would depend on if the location was suitable for the Saint Pool. Learning that the Saint Pool was one of the space saint artifacts was one of the better things they had heard recently. ᚱ𝔞ɴỔΒЁṥ

But no matter what, they were finally out of the Secret Realm. Even if people still entered, they were going there to work and weren’t trapped there.

This was because of the brand-new key.

The sixth wing surprised everyone, too, with its estimation of the time that the Secret Realm would collapse.

It said that if its main body didn’t go mad, it could last for 2000 days.

Little Tiger and Ye Zhongming discussed the accuracy of that number.

Based on that number, in the recent few years, the Secret Realm could bring them enormous wealth.

“So what if it is not accurate? There should be at least a thousand days. That is enough for us to do many things.”

Ye Zhongming looked at the fields and estimated. There were over a hundred of such fields, and there were thousands of workers. If you considered the guards, there were over ten thousand.

These were just the farmland alone. There were more free adventurers. Since factions from Ying City were allowed to enter the Secret Realm, Posthumous People, even those from Saint Light Hall, were hired by these battle squads to go on adventures.

Of course, the battle squads would keep the crystals, but the materials, herbs, stones, etc., would be handed to Cloud Peak. They could take those that Cloud Peak didn’t need, but for those that they needed, they would be purchased at a low price.

But these battle squads weren’t unhappy; they wanted Cloud Peak to allow them to enter the Secret Realm. Although most of the materials would be taken away, they would get more than they would on Earth. Just demon crystals alone were things they could find by digging a random hole.

Recently, however, the mutated lifeforms around Ying City started to behave weirdly. The appearance of so many humans shocked them and also delighted them.

“Actually, we can do this ourselves, so why do we need to hire people? We also need to keep them safe.”

Little Tiger felt that since Cloud Peak was expanding, they could get the new people to work here. Then, the resources from the Secret Realm will all belong to Cloud Peak.

“If this place can last for a few dozen years, I naturally won’t let them enter. But it might only be able to last for a few years. Just Cloud Peak alone won’t be able to get much. You have seen the recent income where our spoils have filled warehouses. Compared to our efforts, it is a huge win. This is also why I want to explore the Secret Realm.”

Ye Zhongming slapped Little Tiger’s shoulder, “This is the place we want to grab resources and not nurture resources. We need to get more of it in the shortest amount of time!”

“We need to trade these items for power. My first mission is now.”