Although Lai Ya had said, "We'll head north again in half a year," there was actually no need to wait that long.
Three days later.
Yes, just three days later, Lai Ya led more than two hundred Dominator-tier cultivators north at top speed, launching a surprise attack on the Mechs' territory.
This massive force naturally included Su Yu and Morningstar.
This team consisted entirely of Dominator-tier cultivators, without a single one below the seventh rank. Before long, they stabbed deep into the Mechs' heartland like a sharp blade!
Dominator-tier cultivators all possessed extremely high Flying Speed.
In barely a dozen minutes, the main force had advanced over a thousand kilometers, bearing down on the Mechs' northernmost core city—Crystal Lattice City.
Only here did they encounter their first serious resistance.
The reason Lai Ya had launched the surprise attack so quickly instead of waiting half a year to head north was because she had discovered something.
That was—her strength was far greater than she had expected, by more than tenfold!
On the day Lai Ya broke through, she brought the powerful cultivators and wounded from the South Pole back to Wind Valley City.
One night during the return journey, she flew into space, intending to study her own strength.
However, she was shocked to discover—the power she wielded was terrifying, more than ten times greater than she had imagined!
To put it in concrete terms.
If the strength coefficient of an ordinary Dominator-tier cultivator was set at "1," then seven days ago, the strength coefficient Lai Ya had displayed while fighting that legendary Mech had been roughly 8 or 9.
She was an 8 or 9, and that Mech had also been an 8 or 9.
But now, she was astonished to find that her strength coefficient had actually reached