Deng Chun did not quite understand how the others were connected, or the hidden meaning in their words. The Magnetized Puppet Hun Dun (Sponsored Training Edition) possessing and empowering him probably did not either. It simply compared the fragments of the Dark Gold Mask and doggedly searched for a matching sensation. Now it had a fresh result.
To be honest, Deng Chun did not understand what the "Sponsored Training Edition" was. But once it possessed and empowered him, its way of sensing things was unmistakably Hundred Peaks Monarch's.
Deng Chun knew more about Hundred Peaks Monarch than most people did.
If he had only been a midlevel member of the Hundun Cult, that "knowledge" would not have amounted to much. But add the label "Deng Yunwei's son," and it was a different story altogether.
He had to admit that, before today, those labels had mostly made his life easier.
That had not stopped father and son from being so "loving" toward each other, of course.
Hundred Peaks Monarch's way of sensing things was atypical because its very mode of existence was atypical.
As commonly understood, Hundred Peaks Monarch had no "center" or "central hub" to speak of. Call it an Aberrant Nest, and it still lacked the complete core "breeding mechanism" found in other nests. Naturally, it had no "core output" either.
The mountainous region covered tens of thousands of square kilometers, with complex terrain and a wealth of species. Cross a single ridge, and the ecology could be entirely different. It could easily be divided into dozens, even hundreds, of separate blocks.
As that "God on Earth" had explained on the Internal Forum, certain special bacteria and fungi had spread throughout these mountains. Through parasitism and other means, they had built channels for energy and information to pass between