By then, Great Xia's territory had shrunk to one-fifth of its original size, eking out an existence between the Other Races and the Evil Demons.
Its national strength kept declining, and even I had little hope left.
Who would have thought that, under these circumstances, someone would actually come to our aid!?
At first, nearly all the senior officers at headquarters and I were suspicious of Wan Ming.
But Wan Ming himself paid that no mind, explaining his origins and intentions in detail.
After some veteran soldiers identified him and we checked the East China Army's records, we made an unexpected discovery:
This powerful man from the mid-tier Plane known as the Radiant Stars Nation had actually lived in Great Xia for decades and served in its army!
What was more, his son and wife were still living in Great Xia.
That truly caught me by surprise.
According to Wan Ming, he had left Great Xia precisely because he had foreseen our current predicament and tried to find a way out.
Unfortunately, Great Xia's existential crisis had arrived a little sooner than he had expected.
After testing Wan Ming several times, I found that his words seemed genuine.
One reason was his extraordinary strength... by my judgment, he was at least as strong as the Grand Ghost King had been when I first met him!
I specified "when I first met him" because, after obtaining more Nether God Divine Godhead Fragments, Wutian's strength had soared at an unimaginable rate.
His strength was now worlds apart from what it had been when I first faced him.
Under Grand Ghost King Wutian's leadership, the Ghost Race's civilization points had also soared, lifting them from around a thousandth place in the Ten Thousand Races Rankings to the top hundred.
According to Wan Ming,