"This will do."
Feeling the changes in his body.
Regarding the coordinates he perceived in his mind, the current Lu Xing was now fully confident he could open a gate and return directly.
There was just one small problem.
It was a dimension that even Lu Xing, with all his authorities, could not interfere with: time.
The flow of time in a World Bubble and the Quantum Sea were different. The flow of time between different regions of the Quantum Sea also had considerable discrepancies.
Although he was directly breaking through the sea's surface with a spatial ability, the distance of this warp was so exaggerated that he would inevitably be affected by the flow of time.
"..."
His perception, magnified to its limit, swept across the Quantum Sea.
To Lu Xing and the Hybrid Honkai Beasts, the warp process felt like a brief instant, but the outside world's time, specifically the "original world's" time, would have passed by at least a few months, and at most a year.
"Forget it."
There was no need to dwell on this problem.
He had left an avatar in the original world, after all. Calculating the progress, the Tenth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Domination, should be appearing soon. With the Mu Continent already sunk by him, if humanity still managed to "play" their world into the sea under these circumstances, then they would be truly beyond saving.
"Vmm!"
Lu Xing tapped lightly above the "mini World Bubble." A shining golden ring appeared from the void, directly enveloping all the Honkai Beasts.
The spatial rings were gone.
However, with Lu Xing's current power, creating a thousand or eight hundred Subspace Lances to open a gate with a wave of his hand was completely effortless.
Before the aftershocks of the tide that accompanied the civilization's demise could rush in from the deeper parts of the Quantum Sea, Lu Xing, taking the "orphans" of that civilization with him—
"Swish!"
Vanished without a trace.
"Swish."
A bone-chilling wind blew across the vast, white land.
Less than two meters above the ground, space distorted for an instant. The next moment, two figures leaped out directly from a spatial gate.
"Crunch."
They stepped onto the snow, which was mixed with ice crystals.
The scraping sound, sometimes light, sometimes harsh, was drowned out by the howling wind the moment it was made.
"Thump!"
From the shoulder of the taller figure, an unconscious human was mercilessly tossed into a snowdrift.
"Big Sis."
"Just the two of us, we've already caught nearly 30 of these things, right?"
"The Black..."
"What does the Emperor want these guys for?"
"Could it be true, like the Serval guessed? That he was seriously injured in the battle on the Mu Continent and needs these cores to recover?"
That's right.
The two "people" who appeared here were none other than the Loli Demon God, and her number one enforcer, the [Shunnin Death-Samurai].
"Don't make wild guesses!"
The Loli Demon God glanced at the unconscious "human" on the ground.
"These 'inferior goods' might still have some value to us, but you don't even need to reach the Emperor's level—even for someone at Sheshe's level, these are just desserts."
"Recovering with these things..."
"I shouldn't have expected any good suggestions from you."
"Then..."
The [Shunnin Death-Samurai] was about to speak, but the Loli Demon God had already cut her off:
"Don't even think about it."
"True, eating them would give us a considerable boost, but can you conceal the aura on your body?"
"How many we've captured..."
The Loli Demon God looked towards the southeast with lingering fear—that was the center of the Antarctic continent, and also the legions' new territory.
"The Emperor is watching everything."
The legions were in a state of rest and reorganization.
But their clandestine operations had not stopped, especially with the Tenth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Domination, having already appeared.
This Herrscher was different from the previous nine. They were an existence known as the "Thousand-Person Herrscher." The Herrscher of Domination possessed a total of 1000 Herrscher cores, but the upper limit of these cores' energy levels was only that of a pseudo-Herrscher core. Lacking a large supply of Honkai energy, the combat power displayed by the vast majority of the Thousand-Person Herrscher's individuals was only on par with a lower-tier Honkai Beast.
This was not a weakness.
It was precisely because of the extremely low energy level of the Thousand-Person Herrscher that they could truly hide within human society. Unless they revealed themselves or were subjected to prolonged, specialized investigation, ordinary methods could simply not identify their existence.
This was...
A Herrscher that disintegrated humanity's "trust" from within.
Moreover, not all of the Thousand-Person Herrscher were without combat ability. The individuals responsible for "frontal" combat mostly possessed weakened versions of the "Herrscher authorities" of the previous nine that had already appeared.
The Herrscher of Domination had appeared about eight months ago, which was the fourth month after the battle of the Mu Continent.
Their appearance was crucial.
Humanity had just recovered from a precious period of respite.
Due to the losses suffered on the Mu Continent, humanity's entire cutting-edge scientific research capability had suffered an unprecedentedly heavy blow.
The so-called recovery was merely the various factions regrouping their remaining forces with the assistance of the Flame-Chasers.
More and more Honkai energy rifts appeared around the world, but they were mostly leaderless. Although they caused considerable trouble, they couldn't inflict any substantial, crippling threats to humanity. Having been "polished" by the Emperor, humanity's experience in dealing with Honkai Beasts was now exceptionally rich.
Faced with this state of fires breaking out everywhere.
Whether it was the Flame-Chasers or the major powers, they even felt...
A bit easy?
However, for the humans who had experienced the Black Emperor's various "instant revivals," they could not rest easy for a single moment until they had confirmed the Black Emperor's absolute death—even if he had disappeared along with the Mu Continent into a black hole where survival should have been impossible.
For this reason.
After a series of probes and the swift eradication of scattered Honkai energy rifts across the globe, humanity finally discovered and prepared to make a move against the legions stationed on the Antarctic continent.
The Black Emperor was nowhere to be found, and humanity's strength was still ample.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to eradicate this great threat to their heartland... or at least partially eradicate it.
It was at this moment that the Herrscher of Domination was born.
The identities of the Thousand-Person Herrscher were extremely varied, from army soldiers to high-ranking officials, from street vendors to members of the Flame-Chasers... they were truly everywhere.
They took only a few short days to achieve their goal.
Before humanity could react, the union that had been painstakingly facilitated under the leadership of the Flame-Chasers was completely shattered. Dr. Mei was poisoned by her own chef; Great Britain's last fleet was attacked by nuclear missiles launched from North America; Shenzhou's Tiangong Institute was blown up by spies from Yingzhou...
Incidents like these were innumerable.