What Are Candles Good For?

The meteor in the sky flickered. Then, as if some ring had turned, it suddenly surged forward by a vast distance. It split into three and scattered across the city, falling silent once more.

Bang!

"Useless trash!!" A furious curse rang out alongside the shattering of a teacup.

Jade River City in Jing Province was a second-tier city next to the City of Sound. Its pace of life was relatively slow, but its residents could clearly feel that, since last night, the atmosphere throughout the city had suddenly become far more tense.

The shouting had come from within the Jade River City branch of the Countermeasure Bureau. The branch director stood behind his desk, drenched in cold sweat. After all, they had made an enormous mistake last night.

Because it was difficult to predict where the candles would land in advance, all they could do was maintain surveillance and order personnel in every region to prepare for reception. Once a target location was discovered, they would immediately activate the teleportation device and head to it.

Things had reached the final stage, and the Countermeasure Bureau was no longer conserving resources. Nationwide teleportation and other spatial abilities required vast resources to stabilize space-time in the environment of the main world. Otherwise, those great existences might find an opening to exploit.

Thus, in the past, the teleportation option would only be used when the situation was extremely urgent. But this time was different. An army was raised for a thousand days to be used in a single moment. After accumulating resources for so long, it was naturally time to spend them.

Yet Jade River City had made a mistake yesterday. Everyone had harbored a slight sense of luck. Great Yue was so vast—what were the odds that it would happen to strike