"Fortunately, I left the Armor General there. Those people shouldn't dare get too out of hand..."
"Besides, Yue Feng is there. He's more than capable of keeping the military in check..."
"Jin Mantang, too. He can keep the Zhou Kingdom's civil officials under control..."
"Qi Ming is harder to predict. He's a schemer. With the Armor General there, he probably won't cause trouble, but I doubt he'll obey Sister Yu Na's orders. The entire General Affairs Bureau might even go underground..."
"As for everyone else, there shouldn't be any problems in the short term..."
*...*
All Zhou Yan could do was reassure himself with these thoughts.
There was nothing else he could do.
Although Zhou Yan was confident that he would eventually return to the Small World.
He had no way of knowing how long it would take.
If he was gone for too long, never mind Qi Ming and the others-even Yue Feng and Jin Mantang would probably be unable to keep things stable.
A large ship could easily spin out of control without someone at the helm.
So Zhou Yan's most pressing task was to raise his cultivation quickly and find a spatial Secret Art.
He had only two paths available: either rely on overwhelming strength to find his original Small World, overcoming every obstacle through sheer power, or use a powerful spatial Secret Art to locate clues to his original Small World, then return through that art.
"Something big is coming! It's a Wasteland Beast!"
Tian Wei's slightly panicked voice swiftly snapped Zhou Yan out of his thoughts.
Zhou Yan looked at the enormous beast that had appeared in the distance. It stood a full three meters tall and measured five or six meters long. It resembled a tiger, but its body bore vivid yellow and black