This time, they gained 45 billion people and eighty thousand cities. Thanks to the Heavenly Domain Barrier blocking the way, most of the population and cities had not been lost.
Great Qin now had a total population of 370 billion—an utterly staggering number—and its cities had reached 520,000. Unfortunately, the City Lord Seals could not be used. Otherwise, just imagining 520,000 City Lords combined would be enough to sweep away everything.
Leaving part of the army behind to continue clearing Corpse Cloth World and gain complete control over it, Zhao Fu led the main army back to Great Qin.
Zhao Fu had also obtained the seven keys. They were rather strange: one foot long, gray in color, and seemingly made of iron. At the top of each key was carved a divine beast—Divine Dragon, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Qilin, Taotie, and Qiongqi.
Zhao Fu did not know what they meant. Once he returned to Great Qin, he planned to open a passage to the Netherworld and investigate that ruin.
However, news soon arrived that filled him with rage: Wind God Empire had forcefully declared that Half Wolf, Green Shade, and Elf—three worlds in total—belonged to the Wind God Empire.
Since this involved two great empires and one world, Wind God Empire was comparatively more polite this time. It merely told them to leave, rather than bluntly telling them to get lost as before, acting so arrogantly and overbearingly that it was unbearable.
Of the three worlds, Great Qin occupied four continents, Mermaid World occupied one, and Demon Horn Empire occupied all the rest. Moreover, Great Qin Empire and Demon Horn Empire were the two strongest factions in this region, so Wind God Empire held some slight reservations toward them.
After all, if it destroyed both empires, Wind God