As the Horizon Jade chat group became less and less useful to him, Song Ankang could obtain all kinds of resources and intelligence through other channels even without going through the Treasure Supplier and Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier.
Thus, Song Ankang entered the chat group less and less often, and his relationships with certain cultivators in the group gradually grew distant. He spent most of his time cultivating.
After learning about the Central Plains' current situation, Song Ankang gave it some thought and decided to continue taking risks, sending his two Saint avatars to fleece the Nether Race. After all, the Nether Race possessed the greatest quantity of materials for refining Saint Dread Pills.
If the Nether Race learned that, simply because they specialized in materials for refining Saint Dread Pills, a large number of Saints had been enslaved by Song Ankang, who knew what they would think.
Meanwhile, Song Ankang's true body had once again begun cultivating. At the same time, he split off a wisp of consciousness and entered the Myriad Tribulations World.
Myriad Tribulations World, eastern region, Yuanxia Federation.
After careful consideration, Song Ankang ultimately decided to take the Myriad Tribulations World down the sci-fi route—the path of combining technology and fantasy.
Thus, beginning more than a thousand years ago, a modern metropolis had appeared in the eastern region of the Myriad Tribulations World. Towering buildings, neon lights, streams of vehicles... Song Ankang had directly transplanted the technology of twenty-first-century Earth from before his transmigration, leaving it throughout the modern city, especially in its libraries.
In this way, the relatives, friends, and subordinates who had just entered from outside began learning this modern knowledge, using it to work and live.
The first batch to enter the Myriad Tribulations World had basically been Song Ankang's relatives and friends—those approaching