Lai Ni's evolution ritual was conducted at the Outstanding Grade Miracle Building, the "Ice Heart Lotus Platform," with a complete set of auxiliary materials prepared.
This was treatment reserved for the core personnel of Tian Yuan City.
Otherwise, if every elite required a complete set of materials for each Epic evolution, Tian Yuan City, with its modest resources, would have been dragged into ruin long ago.
Within the secret realm, a pillar of pure white light shot into the heavens. A vast mass of purple clouds drifted over from the edge of the sky, rolling grandly onward.
It proclaimed the birth of a heavyweight Epic Lifeform.
"My grandmother, is this the supreme and exalted might?!"
White light and purple clouds reflected in Xie Yi's eyes, sending ripples through his pupils again and again.
After a long while, he took a cigarette from Kabuto and held it between his fingers. A wisp of flame sprang from his fingertip, but after thinking it over, he waved it out. He merely held the cigarette between his lips and gazed into the distance until the radiant glow far away faded. Even then, he maintained the same posture, his gaze distant and weathered.
Xie Yi had not been born entirely as a wandering troop.
He had once served under a lord. At the lord's invitation, he had left the Recruitment Ground, sworn his allegiance, and made meritorious achievements for the territory.
With his assistance, the territory had grown stronger by the day.
From a small town, to a town, to a prosperous city.
High-rises rose from the ground, warriors were fully equipped, and they swept through the wilderness, wiping out one Monster Camp and tribe after another.
That had been the most unforgettable period of Xie Yi's life.
Later,
the territory was destroyed in a