"Bread Crab" and "Peregrine Falcon"

Deep in the wilderness west of Dragon City.

Half a year ago, this had still been a paradise for monsters.

But after humanity's successive victories and half a year of massive construction, it had become a military base where gleaming metal fortresses overlapped, dense firepower points interwove with minefields.

Armored airships periodically took off and landed above the base. Their Crystal Engines drove their propellers, producing enormous roars that tore through the air and even dragged several visible vortices behind them.

Yet these roars were swiftly drowned out by the ear-splitting explosions from tests of the new Train Cannons.

By the time Meng Chao reached the military base, Long Feijun, Ye Xiaoxing, and most members of the ten exploration teams participating in this reconnaissance mission had already arrived.

The military reconnaissance squad led by Long Feijun, the special investigation unit led by Ye Xiaoxing, and the Hunter teams headed by veteran hunters "Man-Eating Shark" Zhou Chong and "Snake Eyes" Mo Lan... were all old acquaintances who worked together seamlessly, so there was no need to say more.

After half a year of tempering, especially with abundant resources nourishing them, Middle Generation powerhouses such as "Snake Eyes" Mo Lan had welcomed a "second spring" of soaring strength. Compared to when Meng Chao had seen her in the Nest City Battle, she had undergone a complete rebirth and seemed like an entirely different person.

Of course, compared to the changes Meng Chao saw in everyone else, Meng Chao himself had changed the most in their eyes.

After the Nest City Battle, Meng Chao had stayed in seclusion at the Superhuman Tower to train, keeping an extremely low profile.

To the point that many insiders worried he had overdrawn himself during the Nest City Battle, exhausted his cultivation potential, or even suffered a