Chu Qing's news immediately caused a tremendous uproar.
Though the Otherfolk Alliance was terrified, they had nowhere left to retreat.
They were rural otherfolk; even if they moved, they could only go to another rural place.
And Chu Qing had said that the other continents would also be struck by the Black Tide again.
Changing locations meant walking into death anyway, so they chose to stay.
While the otherfolk were weighed down with worry, the martial artists were extraordinarily excited.
Especially the martial artists of the Twisted Path, who howled and shrieked with excitement.
Because only by fighting forbidden zone creatures could they improve rapidly.
Especially since the more forbidden zone creatures they devoured, the greater their improvement.
The forbidden zone creatures near the human empires had all been eaten clean by them, bones and all.
They had been planning to venture deep into the forbidden zones, yet the Black Tide had come again.
"A gluttonous feast!"
A Mechanical Emperor over ten thousand meters tall strode along the border between humanity and the forbidden zones.
Countless mechanical heads, and even flesh-and-blood heads, were embedded upon it.
This was the world's first Mechanical Emperor, one Chu Qing had helped forge.
This Mechanical Emperor relied on a twisted theory, and no one knew how many Twisted Martial Artists had been fused into it.
The collision and fusion of countless martial artists' thoughts made the Mechanical Emperor desperately hungry for strength.
They growled low, staring straight at the forbidden zone.
Slurp!
Steel tongues licked their lips, bursting with clusters of flame.
"So hungry!"
"I want to eat!"
"Soon. Great Lord Azure Sky said the food is bathing. Once they finish bathing, we can eat them!"
"Heehee, once we eat them, we mechanical ones shall ascend!"
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