Next, Yin Kuang simply repeated what he had done before: traversing—killing—fusing worlds. It was busy, monotonous, tedious, yet absolutely necessary.
From Romance of the Three Kingdoms, to Guan Yu, to Red Cliffs, then to Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, and even a Three Kingdoms novel world called Taishi Ci of Donglai—in short, whenever a world related to the Three Kingdoms appeared, Yin Kuang would travel there from the "Axis" as though riding an elevator.
Sometimes, he even traversed into two identical worlds, such as Guan Yu, though those worlds had all changed somewhat under the influence of academy students. What brought a little amusement to Yin Kuang's tedious journey was that in one Guan Yu world, "Second Brother Guan" finally turned the tables and put a bright green hat on someone else.
Occasionally, he encountered a few "transmigrators" who had done fairly well for themselves. Following the principle of killing rather than letting one slip through, Yin Kuang conveniently ended their life journeys ahead of schedule.
One or two of them were even Second Epoch worlds belonging to academy students—worlds that directly became Second Epoch worlds upon completion of their world missions. Yin Kuang claimed those without the slightest courtesy. Right now, he was like a Taotie, madly drawing in and storing more Source. How could he spare any thought for others?
As he fused more and more worlds, Yin Kuang discovered that raising a world's Epoch level was no easy matter. Nor was Source like cheap tap water that could be drawn endlessly at will. Upgrading a First Epoch world to a Second Epoch world was easy; it only required the fusion of two First Epoch worlds. But advancing from the Second Epoch to the Third required ten Second Epoch worlds—in other words, twenty First Epoch worlds. As