The Golden Palace Great World.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
The once-prosperous mining world, formerly guarded with utmost vigilance, had become a wasteland.
Across the land, enormous mining pits gaped like hideous scars, their depths impossible to see.
Every major treasury had been stripped bare.
Gan Tian hovered in midair, sweeping the entire world with his Divine Sense to make sure nothing had been missed.
The cultivators under his command were rapidly assembling around him.
"My lord!" A commander at the Hunyuan Infinite Late Stage approached Gan Tian and excitedly presented a storage ring.
"All the ore already mined from the major mining districts is here."
"And we found a huge quantity of Void Divine Iron in Mining District Seven!"
Gan Tian took the ring and sent his Divine Sense inside.
At the sight of mountains of that distinctive divine iron, gleaming dark silver, even his heart stirred.
It was done.
One of the tasks his senior had entrusted to him was complete.
But...
Gan Tian knew this was no time to celebrate.
They had pulled a tooth from the jaws of a sleeping tiger.
And that tiger could wake at any moment.
The Divine Luo Domain's response would be swift and ferocious beyond imagining.
"Time's up." Gan Tian looked down at the last group of cultivators arriving to join them, his voice utterly flat.
"Withdraw!"
At his command,
Gan Tian took out the Teleportation Token Zhou Ming had given him without a moment's hesitation.
Hum—
Space rippled.
Led by Gan Tian, the group vanished silently from the Golden Palace Great World.
Less than the time it took an incense stick to burn after Gan Tian and the others left,
a rift was torn open in the Chaos Void outside the Golden Palace Great