Seeing Lan Yunxi Again

At this moment, many outstanding members of the younger generation from the six great families of the Jin-Yun Kingdom—the Zhang Family, Lan Clan, Ou Clan, Tantai Clan, Wang Family, and Li Clan—had gathered at the Crystal Battle Fortress.

Aside from the ordinary Warriors responsible for keeping the battle fortress running, those sent here by the six great families to fight were all elite members of level 9 and above. Even among the Warriors tasked with maintaining the fortress and bearing purely defensive duties, more than one-third were above level 6, while the remaining two-thirds were high-level Battle Soldiers between levels 4 and 5. It was hard to find even a single person below level 3, including those who stoked the boilers in the fortress.

There were more than 25,000 people in the Crystal Battle Fortress altogether. Each family had stationed roughly 4,000 people there, and of those 4,000, around two to three percent—or about a hundred—were level 9 or above. Though it could not compare to that terrifying Devil Race legion, Zhang Tie found such a lineup lavish enough. Throughout the entire Selnes War Zone, there were only a handful of countries capable of deploying more than six hundred level 9 Warriors in a single battle fortress.

Liu Xi arranged for Zhang Tie, Ximan, and the others to stay in a cramped room near the fortress walls within Huaiyuan Hall's battle fortress, its ceiling crisscrossed with dense steam pipes.

The room shared by Ximan and the other three totaled only a little over three square meters. Four high-strength wire-frame beds fixed to the walls were all the furniture it contained. Several steam pipes in the room radiated heat, keeping the temperature more than five degrees higher than outside. Since the battle fortress had been transported by air, insulation boards for