The August midday sun was scorching hot.
Boom!
A magnificent pyramid, as if forged from transparent crystal, suddenly broke through the obstruction of the clouds from below,
Ascending to above the stratosphere.
Here, above the sea of clouds, the magnificent pyramid, like an aerial island,
Sailed swiftly through the clouds at a terrifying speed that broke the sound barrier.
The "Nether Moon," in its rapid flight, was no longer the colossal entity spanning hundreds of square kilometers.
Under Chen Luo's control, it had shrunk to a size of several hundred meters.
While still astonishing, its imposing presence had significantly diminished.
Its island-like vast form was its fully unfolded state.
Once Chen Luo gained complete control of the Nether Moon, he could maintain it in its regular, several-hundred-meter form.
In this state, energy consumption would be reduced, and flight speed would increase.
Furthermore, as an immigrant warship of an unknown race, and having endured countless years of void baptism, the Nether Moon itself had acquired a certain spatial attribute.
Regardless of how much it was externally reduced, its internal space remained entirely unaffected.
...
Ever since acquiring the Nether Moon a month ago, Chen Luo had brought all ten million people from the combat group into it.
As a powerful warship for racial migration, the Nether Moon's interior space was more than sufficient for these people to live, reside, and train.
Its various facilities also aided the legion's soldiers in continuously enhancing their strength.
At this moment, Chen Luo was piloting the Nether Moon, having departed from the city they had just visited.
All survivors from that city had already been brought aboard the Nether Moon.
Next, Chen Luo would fly to the Imperial Capital to settle these newcomers.
As for that city?
Once the last of humanity had evacuated, the safe zone would be completely abandoned by the system.
It was expected that within a few days, it would transform into a vast forest.
Chen Luo, seated cross-legged atop the pyramid, gazed down at the sea of clouds below, recalling his unexpected gains from this expedition:
"A hidden profession leaning towards research? This might accelerate the research and reconstruction progress of the Imperial Capital."
A month ago, shortly after the world's ascension, Chen Luo
Had piloted the Nether Moon towards several cities recorded by the Imperial Capital as still having a large number of survivors.
Over the past month, in addition to improving his own strength,
Chen Luo had been using the Nether Moon to search for surviving individuals and expand the marked territory across the Great Yan territory, which had expanded tenfold.
With the expansion of the world's landmass and changes in gravitational parameters,
Satellites in the sky had fallen, and communication on the ground had been largely severed.
Apart from the few large safe zones recorded by the Imperial Capital before the world's ascension, Chen Luo had also found many scattered smaller safe zones over the past month.
However, this process was incredibly time-consuming and arduous.
Even with a month's effort, Chen Luo had still not traversed every inch of the new Great Yan.
After all, the vast, surging forests, mixed with abundant energy, had significantly increased the difficulty of the search.
The reason Chen Luo was able to locate this safe zone, completely enveloped by a wild forest, was actually related to the young man wearing glasses he had just noticed.
Gongshu Geng, a name with a classical flair, and also the possessor of the hidden profession "Ge Wu Tian Gong" (Investigating Objects and Ingenious Craftsmanship).
This profession was not particularly powerful in direct combat but held immense potential in scientific research.
Before the world's anomaly, Gongshu Geng was a highly skilled up-host on the Ab video platform.
After the anomaly, despite lacking strong direct combat capabilities, he survived thanks to his exceptional practical skills and the bonuses from his hidden profession.
Following the world's ascension, while preparing to engage in guerrilla warfare against the undead, he witnessed the absolute overwhelming power of the Beast King nearby.
Thus, he wisely abandoned the idea of charging forward and instead dedicated himself to assembling a device at home.
A device capable of emitting a distress signal in this post-apocalyptic era.
And everything unfolded as he had anticipated.
After a month of searching for parts and enduring multiple failed attempts, he finally managed to send out a sufficiently strong distress signal.
This signal summoned a mighty warrior capable of dominating the entire battlefield.
And this warrior, Chen Luo, was currently in good spirits, having saved another portion of the Great Yan people and acquired a new hidden profession.
The reconstruction of the Great Yan and the upgrade of the territory were now approaching their conclusion.
If one were to look down at the land now, amidst the dense forests,
At intervals, a silver-white flag would be planted into the ground.
Upon the flag, a peculiar, glazed-colored flame burned, deterring monsters from approaching the flag.
Such flags now occupied ninety percent of the Great Yan's current territory!
Chen Luo sat cross-legged above the sea of clouds, his gaze fixed eastward.
There, the pure white clouds, under some unknown power, had turned pitch black.
The power of ice, even from thousands of miles away, Chen Luo could feel it with incredible clarity.
"Soon..."
"The time to slay the dragon..."