After Earth was unified, the Base Cities across the planet continued to expand.
All the monsters were kept at least ten kilometers away from the Life Bases. They could no longer threaten the Earthlings' everyday lives and had even become hunting targets for many of them.
With Li Xin, Hong, and Thunder God absent for so long, however, some people who resented submitting to China began making covert moves.
Later, Li Xin's father, Li Houming, brought three Mechanical Puppets with power comparable to Star Level fighters and killed everyone involved. After that, no one dared stir up trouble again.
One day, an egg resembling a meteorite fell from space and crashed onto Earth. Not a single satellite detected its arrival.
Earth's satellites failed to spot it, but the miniature mechanical detectors Li Xin had buried on Hawaii Island in advance detected the Golden Horned Beast's egg.
"Target detected! Target detected!"
"Master's prey located. Xuanjin Team, deploy and capture the target alive."
Xuanjin was a C9 Rank intelligent life that Li Xin had deliberately left on Earth. It commanded a team of ten Mechanical Puppets stationed there specifically to await the Golden Horned Beast's arrival and capture it alive.
The Mechanical Puppets had no life signatures, so when the Golden Horned Beast sensed Earth, the strongest beings it detected were only at the Planetary Level. That allowed it to choose Earth as its birthplace without any reservations.
"Roar!!!"
Yet the Golden Horned Beast regretted its decision almost as soon as it arrived.
It had just hatched, eaten its eggshell, and devoured the monsters nearby.
It was happily imagining eating all the delicious food on this planet to help itself grow.
As it leisurely prepared to look for food elsewhere, it spotted a group of utterly delectable pieces of metal flying toward