Netherworld Retrograde

The next day, at the train platform outside the high walls of No.3 Border City.

The night scouts of Champion Team One were ready and assembled.

Each black cloak fluttered in the wind, and the lamellar armor on the shoulders of their trench coats shimmered in the sunlight. This was the symbol of the elite night scouts!

This signaled that the hundred or so night scouts standing here were all Fifth Sense and above experts!

This was the strength of Champion Team One now—over a hundred Fifth Sense, thirteen Sixth Sense, and one Overlord!

This had surpassed the once peak Team One, and was currently the strongest team within the Giant City!

This was also the result of a large influx of new blood into Champion Team One, after multiple raids on dangerous battlefields.

And Team One received an invitation from Master Mo Hai. More than half of the members were about to carry a large amount of precious materials, even including Supreme Horror Demon materials, to ride the train to No.1 Border City.

This wasn't any secret.

In fact, the massive corpse of the Thunder Dragon King, even after being cut, was indeed hard to hide. And the pressure and lingering divinity emanating from that corpse were enough to be sensed by Spiritual Ability Users dozens of kilometers away.

But even knowing that there were Supreme-level precious materials on the train, no one dared to risk robbing it.

After all, two champions and more than half of the Team One's strong members were on the train—what kind of bandit would dare to hijack such a train?

Moreover, humans have mastered core technology from Demon Abyss Mountain, the Coordinated Pulse Array Technique!

Mountain City openly shared this technology with all Human Giant Cities and provided some of the materials needed for the array. Specifically, the Abyss Crystal Stone from the Dark Abyss within Demon Abyss Mountain.

Using the coverage and isolation of the disaster fog at the time, human experts almost emptied that stretch of Extraordinary Ore Vein, and removed all Forbidden Zone supplies covered by the disaster fog and set up a large number of traps.

How Demon Abyss Mountain would rage was unknown. Anyway, other Forbidden Zones would surely be annoyed and curse Demon Abyss Mountain wildly.

After mastering the Coordinated Pulse Array, humans could borrow its power during defense, greatly enhancing defensive strength!

Many Giant Cities began to modify their high walls, making the defense and Coordinated Pulse Array Technique more compatible.

And coordinating the Pulse Array Technique with the train turns it into a moving fortress!

If the Eighth Champion were to lead the array, even a Forbidden Zone Supreme wouldn't be much use.

On another note, this promotion made it more reasonable for Champion Team One to go to No.1 Border City.

When the so-called 'opportunity' appears, Champion Team One intervenes without arousing external speculation and suspicion, preserving Li Ye's 'Emperor's Fall' and 'Copper Face' identities.

At the same time, it could draw out the mysterious Heavenly Destiny Walker.

At this moment, on the platform, Moon Shadow, Yin Fire, Captain Cang Bai, and others came to see them off.

Looking at Yang Chen's almost unbearably smiling face.

Moon Shadow complained: "They said not to announce this for three months. Look at your smug face, does anyone still not know?"

"Let him be proud. After the official announcement, the Spiritual Ability Families will surely think he's some Innate Reproduction Saint Body—now that will be entertaining." Yin Fire also complained: "Those who strive for Sixth Sense for years, taking drugs and supplements, struggle to have offspring. But he's an Overlord... the families and Great Families must be envious."

The members of the Giant City's official team comprised only two types.

One is those who naturally awaken talents among ordinary people, like Yang Chen, Little Mad King, Heavy Knight, Detective...

Their parents were not Spiritual Ability Users, belonging to the rarity of natural awakening.

The other type is members from various Spiritual Ability Families and Great Families, like Jing Lin, Ma Hongyi, Starfire, and others...

As descendants of Spiritual Ability Users, their chances of becoming Spiritual Ability Users were greater than those of ordinary people.

To some extent, spiritual ability users' offspring can indeed be steadily produced—the so-called bloodline theory.

The offspring of Spiritual Ability Users are not necessarily Spiritual Ability Users. And even if they are, their talents may not be good.

But high-level Spiritual Ability Users, especially after possessing divinity, find it difficult to have offspring. Yet if they do, the talent shouldn't be weak. This is a characteristic of Divine Beings.

This is why various families value bloodlines highly. Even several generations apart, the spread of bloodlines must be monitored.

Someone from the Jing Family once said that Li Ye's rapid growth might be due to the Jing Family bloodline within him.

Other families mock this, saying you're just giving yourself undue credit—it's not like you raised him.

Overall, within the official team, the ratio of the two types of Spiritual Ability Users is approximately four to six.

As various calamities appear, the proportion of natural awakenings will increase.

For instance, during the disaster fog.

After the Supreme's death gift, many citizens awakened spiritual energy. The talents varied, some perhaps never advancing to Second Awakening in a lifetime, but they entered the realm of Spiritual Ability Users.

But cases like Yang Chen's are just too rare.

A Divine Being so easily having offspring—if he were indeed the Innate Reproduction Saint Body—the Great Families would lose face but would still send their women to him.

After casting a glance at the two who were still mocking, Captain Cang Bai said: "Just lucky, where are you all going with this? Maybe it's just Night General's luck balance?"

"Do you really hope I'm the Childbearing Guanyin more than the Captain being Innate Reproduction Saint Body?" A stunned Li Ye watching the scene asked: "Is it 'Better you than me'?"

"Heh-heh... Then you all work hard." Cang Bai smiled glancing at the Doll and Cheese next to Li Ye.

The Doll didn't understand her teasing look—as the 'Think Tank,' she was genuinely happy for the captain.

Cheese, with mild dark circles, wanted to say something 'harsh,' but thinking her voice was still a bit hoarse, she gave up.

Last night, she got excited again... even after advancing to Sixth Sense.

In the same-tier battle, she indeed wasn't Li Ye's match. In physical strength, there was quite a difference...

At this moment, the distant train driver shouted: "Captains, it's almost time."

Cang Bai looked at Yang Chen, originally pale, her complexion became somewhat rosy: "When you return."

"Hmm." Yang Chen responded, "You head back early too."

Moon Shadow asked: "By the way, have you thought of a name yet? Want me to help? Don't forget, I'm a liberal arts major!"

"No!" everyone said in unison—who in their right mind would let you, the king of trolls, name anything?

...

And as the whistle sounded, the Netherworld Train packed with materials set off.

Perhaps because Li Ye was also on the train, the Netherworld Train behaved very well, not daring to even shudder.

In a certain carriage, Yang Chen and Li Ye confirmed the objectives of this operation and the points to be careful.

To support this action, Little Mad King brought Biomimetic Tear Drop, and Champion Team One prepared nearly twenty thousand Imitative Heavenly Soldiers.

Meanwhile, the higher-ups of No.1 Border City didn't know about Li Ye's Emperor's Fall identity. Li Ye's subsequent operations need to keep this in mind.

"If they don't know my identity, how do they spread the Chaos Contract?" Li Ye asked.

"Currently, it hasn't spread to other Giant Cities." Yang Chen replied: "There can't be a risk of exposing your identity. Even if you are no longer in disguise, we can't ensure other Giant Cities fully trust you. Mountain City was a special case, eventually hard to replicate."

Li Ye nodded silently.

Several hours later, the Netherworld Train passed far by the Second Border City and continued approaching No.3 Border City.

But as the sky darkened, Li Ye's face changed slightly.

He felt a faint sense of spatial distortion, as if he had suddenly entered a different space, where light, temperature, and humidity changed noticeably upon passing a specific location.

And those whose faces changed similarly were Yang Chen and Champion Team One.

Peculiar, stunned, incredulous...

"What the... is there actually a hijack?"

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