The Tea Restaurant's Story

Inside Earth's Core City, in a tea restaurant called "Dao Heaven."

Though it was called a tea restaurant, the decor was exceptionally elegant. Even the gemstones adorning the walls were high-grade spirit stones, and a sign stood at the entrance: "Only Earth's Core residents with more than twenty years of residency rights are served."

In other words, the weakest martial artists who could enter and leave this place were renowned, veteran Mountains and Seas.

Over time, this tea restaurant had gradually developed into an upscale social venue for Mountains and Seas, becoming an offline platform where many top Mountain Sea powerhouses exchanged intelligence. The famous "Black List" of Earth's Core City had originated here.

It was said that one or several Wang Hou stood behind this tea restaurant, though it was difficult to tell whether the rumors were true.

Ever since the full-scale war against the invasion of the myriad races began, the place had become much quieter. It was only today, more than a month later, that the tea restaurant had finally become lively again.

"How's the situation now?"

The attendants at the entrance were merely service workers specially permitted to enter Earth's Core City and knew nothing of the outside world. Seeing so many familiar faces from the past reappear, one of them could not help asking curiously.

"It's stabilized for the moment, I suppose. Most of the elite powerhouses from the myriad races have temporarily retreated behind the 'doors,' but the situation in the forbidden zones is still far from optimistic..."

A Mountain Sea powerhouse who looked like a young man answered casually.

"Zou Fourth, you really know how to talk. Far from optimistic?" Another voice sneered from within the restaurant. "Is there even any territory left for us humans in the forbidden zones now? Forget the