Between Sleep and Dreams

The blackwater creations that shielded Han Dong's team during their large-scale migration did not resemble the monsters from the Alien films. Instead, they were humanoid beings with long, flattened heads, their bodies covered in shells similar to those of xenomorphs.

The experimental records described such forms as "incomplete metamorphoses" or "inferior metamorphoses." They were all classified as failed products and used only as guards for Round Valley Bag.

Even Though these things had no cultivation value, short lifespans, and intelligence no better than that of beasts,

their physical capabilities were still formidable... More than a dozen of them were elite types—the very monsters that had ambushed Mia in the forest at the start and nearly cut off her head.

It was precisely because of this large-scale migration

that, Even Though they passed through other "cultivation zones" along the way, the locals politely made way for them. After all, several thousand blackwater creations counted as a fairly powerful army in the outer regions.

Not a single local discovered that Han Dong and the others were mixed among them.

After traveling for two full days and nights with barely any rest,

they relied on Travel Mode to cross a serpentine valley through which green water flowed, finally arriving at the largest desert where the Divine Capital was located—the Gray Domain.

Completely unlike the yellow wastelands in his memories, this desert was composed of countless grains of Gray Sand... These gray grains might not have been silicon crystals at all, but some other material.

The Gray Domain Desert lay at the lowest point on the planet, much like a basin.

"You really can't find such an exaggerated geographical formation on Earth."

There was nearly a thousand meters of elevation difference between the Gray Domain Desert and the valley region where Han Dong's group