An hour later.
Fifty kilometers east of Dragon City, within a vast estate resembling an ancient imperial palace, still expanding and under construction.
This estate bore an extraordinarily domineering yet extraordinarily tacky name.
It was called "Cosmos Grand View."
As the name implied, it was the Shen family's grand residence.
During the Monster War, God Realm Experts had no choice but to live in Dragon City's Main District. No matter how luxurious their homes were inside, the space outside was ultimately limited. Trying to build a temple in a snail's shell, no matter how they did it, looked absurd.
With victory in the Monster War, God Realm Experts—especially the leaders of the Nine Great Cultivation Families and powerful figures who controlled vast resources—could finally stake out land openly, claim mountains as kings, and, driven by a certain vengeful impulse, build foundations that they believed could be passed down to their descendants and endure for a hundred generations.
Under the pretext of "guarding against remnant monster forces," these grand residences had built high walls and stockpiled grain, deploying three-hundred-and-sixty-degree, three-dimensional defense systems without a single blind spot, layer upon layer of High-Voltage Grids, and Guard Towers mounted with Heavy Machine Guns and Anti-Aircraft Guns.
Inside were independent soilless cultivation greenhouses, growing fruits and crops rich in Spiritual Energy.
Inexhaustible water sources ran a hundred meters underground.
There were massive ammunition depots, crystal warehouses, and fully equipped small-scale arms-processing factories.
There were even private armed forces stationed there, obeying the orders of God Realm Experts completely and fighting for corporate interests.
Even if another Beast Tide erupted, or the Zombie Virus evolved and mutated seventeen or eighteen more times, turning the outside world upside down.
The scions of the Nine Great Cultivation Families could simply burrow into these grand residences, lock the