He slowly closed his eyes. The bustle in the small city had only just begun; it would be a while before more people arrived.
Ten days later, the small city could no longer be considered a ruin. It was just like a real city now, with tens of thousands of people gathered there. Most were experts from the Outer Universe's various factions. The scale of this gathering was no less than the forced conscription during the border war.
Xuan Jiu had come too, waving a large flag as he went around swindling people. He told everyone he met that they were inheritors of Gu Yue's legacy, drawing no small number of people who chased after him. He felt wronged, too. He'd only ever said nice things, and he had no idea who'd smeared his reputation by claiming all his predictions were the opposite of the truth. It was a rumor.
Xi Qi had come as well. She had been traveling around the Outer Universe during this time, searching for and interpreting Origin Treasures. She had been doing quite well.
Whenever a ruin appeared, there was a chance an Origin Treasure might be found there, and she was looking forward to it.
Above them, Fish looked down on the crowd, lifting his fins to mock everyone he saw.
More than ten days passed. During that time, the experts from the Eastern Frontier Alliance who had come to the small city's ruins fought several battles against the experts from the Central Frontier coalition inside the city. Mu Nishang, Meng Tianlong, and the others all joined in. If Yuehua Mebis and the others hadn't stopped them, their fighting might have affected the entire city.
Although the two sides had temporarily stopped fighting, they remained clearly divided.
No one from the Great