The Space-Time Fortress lingered over this desolate sandy wasteland for only a moment, retrieving the gray beans that had stopped responding and floated motionlessly in the air. Then it flew off again toward the Star Source Holy Mountain.
Inside the Space-Time Fortress.
The scholars who had come on the second expedition gazed at the gray beans with curiosity, admiring the intricate, mysterious runes on their surfaces as though they were works of art crafted with extraordinary skill.
"By the looks of it, the Shadow Wall Demons didn't just work—they worked astonishingly well!"
After Corleon spoke with delighted surprise, he murmured, "All that effort I went to wasn't for nothing. Gathering... oh, no, inviting so many Shadow Wall Demons."
It was now certain that the gray Bean Soldiers were indeed being controlled by those bizarre Qinghui Worms!
Although the Academic World knew little about the Shadow Wall Demons' social structure and way of life, one fact was enough: they were a species civilization that had evolved by chance during the ancient biological era of the Starveil Land. They inhabited the lowest layer of Curvature Space, and their society was utterly chaotic, brutal, and warlike.
The scholars could almost picture it.
When these strange, downy creatures encountered the Qinghui Worms, who also lived in the lowest layer of Curvature Space, a brutal hand-to-hand war was almost inevitable as they fought over the precious energy within it—a conflict harsher than anything in the surface world.
One day later.
Another group of gray Bean Soldiers appeared ahead.
There were dozens of them this time, and they seemed to have noticed the enormous object flying in from the horizon.
The gray Bean Soldiers all came to a halt.
Their shells were wrapped in fine sand armor, turning them into sand giants of different shapes. They