Chen Cheng then left the small island as well. After finding the continent, he used the land as a point of reference and headed south.
All the plans had now reached their final juncture, and he had to seize that ultimate cheat which had been born ahead of time.
It could not be helped. Old Ke and the others had designed the final BOSS to be so absurdly overpowered that it was practically invincible, without a single weakness.
So he could only seek out a cheat and use one cheat against another.
Heading south along the coastline, Chen Cheng saw the warships and soldiers returning to port. Many of them had originally been grievously wounded and on the verge of death, yet he had saved them in the end.
Seeing them return safely and reunite with their families, Chen Cheng felt that he had done something truly meaningful.
Yet as he continued south and began venturing inland, scenes of displacement and families torn apart by the war unfolded before his eyes.
At that moment, Chen Cheng saw with his own eyes what it meant for villages to be utterly desolate, and what it meant for children to be sold for grain.
The people's livelihood here was no longer merely one of countless hardships; they had already been pushed to the very edge between life and death.
Within Chen Cheng's Divine Kingdom, Kui Niu and the others could also see the bleakness of the land through Chen Cheng's vision. Lyka in particular, when he saw the people's lives ruined to such an extent, felt a tide of sorrow surge into his heart.
"How could they dare? How could they dare?"
When he heard that the Empire he had established was gone, Lyka had not been saddened. At least he knew that,