Time passed; twenty-four hours went by in the blink of an eye.
A light breeze swept across the Rococo-style white stone steps, sending several golden-red fallen leaves swirling into the air.
Zong Shen stood on the steps before the main gate of the Lord's Fortress, his gaze passing over layers upon layers of spires and arches.
He looked toward the area at the edge of the territory that had just been cleared.
The countdown for the arrival of the second batch of lords was ticking through its final numbers in the upper-right corner of his vision.
Three.
Two.
One.
The instant the countdown reached zero, the sky over the entire Endless Continent seemed to tremble slightly.
Zong Shen narrowed his eyes, and his spiritual perception spread outward like an invisible spider web.
In the blink of an eye, his spiritual perception covered a range of over a hundred kilometers centered on the main territory.
His Strategy Module was already running at full capacity.
Golden streams of data combined with the Strategy Module, refreshing rapidly in the depths of his consciousness as they filtered, located, and locked on.
The coordinates of the second batch of arrivals appeared in every corner of the vast continent.
Of course, aside from familial bindings, lone individuals among the second batch of lords would not appear within another lord's sphere of influence.
And Zong Shen almost instantly locked onto his parents' location.
They were within the safe zone he had designated, only some fifty or sixty kilometers from the core of the main territory.
"Found them."
The corners of Zong Shen's lips lifted slightly.
Then his figure vanished from where he stood.
Only a faint golden spatial ripple remained behind.
The next moment, he had already flickered over with Phantom God Flicker.
A distance of forty