Black Mountain City, which is an important steel base in Western Qin Province, has been covered in a thick layer of snow after several heavy snowfalls.

Severe animal tides and snow disasters have seriously affected the normal operation of the city, and many smelters have had to choose to stop production and repair due to the suspension of production in many mining areas. A large army has gathered here, ready to clear the beasts that have taken over the mines.

Some of the ramparts outside the city were filled with all kinds of military vehicles, and the surrounding area of this northern metallurgical city was turned into a military camp.

It only took three days for Ling Li to return from the Ice Domain to the Western Qin Mansion.

At this moment, Ling Li has taken off his disguise and returned to his original appearance.

After leaving the city of Yuya, he flew directly over the Tangwu Plateau, which has an average altitude of six or seven thousand meters.

This snowy plateau between the eastern and northern regions is relatively calm, and most of the alien beasts, including insects, are not very suitable for life on the plateau, even in the process of migrating south, they try to avoid this plateau. Because of the existence of this natural barrier, the entire Eastern Regions seemed a lot safer, and it was not affected much.

With an average altitude of more than eight thousand meters, even an extraordinary person could not fly directly over the Yanran Mountain Range, and it took Ling Li nearly a day to climb over this mountain range. This made him determined to build himself an advanced flying machine so that he could move more freely in the future.

Since the cataclysm, the focus of human development of aircraft has shifted from airplanes to field-effect vehicles, and in fact, the most difficult problem to solve is the power problem. It's still the same saying: as long as the power is enough, the bricks can go to space. In terms of materials and construction, there are still some problems that humans cannot solve for the time being.

The line of Hu'er Mountain, Yin Mountain, Black Mountain, and Wolf Mountain in the northern part of the Eastern Regions is now full of military camps, and the army has built three blockade lines to prevent the beast tide in the north from spreading to the south. After all, the threat posed by alien beasts, especially high-level alien beasts, to the production and life of ordinary people is too great.

As he crossed the Black Mountain, Ling Li saw that almost all the mountain passes had fortified fort posts, and vehicles entering and leaving the mountain were strictly checked.

Ling Li's rank of colonel and military ID card were very useful, and he traveled unhindered all the way to the Black Mountain Defense Headquarters, which was located on a rampart in the north of Montenegrin City.

He first called Jiang Tianyuan, who was the commander-in-chief, and Lao Jiang asked him to go directly to his office to report the situation.

When he entered Jiang Tianyuan's temporary office, he was a little surprised to see that Nie Haiyang was also there.

After listening to Ling Li's report, Nie Haiyang and Jiang Tianyuan didn't have many surprised expressions on their faces.

"Since the Cataclysm, most cultivators have realized that the changes between heaven and earth are not the end, but just the beginning." Nie Haiyang said after listening to Ling Li's report, "As the cultivation level increases, everyone recognizes this point of view more and more. The history of our human beings on this planet is only six or seven thousand years, and the longer history is actually a legend, and it is impossible to verify its authenticity, such as whether the mythological era really exists? In fact, our knowledge of the world is very limited. ”

Jiang Tianyuan smiled, "Actually, I still believe in the theory of evolution, we humans evolved from apes, whether we have been inspired or dialed by ancient mythological characters cannot be completely denied." However, I believe that the humans on the continent today are not directly related to the humans of the ancient mythological period. ”

Nie Haiyang said: "These academic views have always been controversial among everyone, but they can't get any results...... I'd rather lean that humans were enlightened in ancient times, maybe real mythical figures, maybe extraterrestrial humans...... In fact, the human cultivator lineage has always existed, but due to the depletion of the source qi, the strength of the cultivators is getting weaker and weaker, and by about two thousand years ago, the vast majority of cultivators were already inferior to martial artists. Some archaeological discoveries suggest that in earlier periods, some generals or lords used weapons that were difficult for warriors before the Cataclysm to wield......"

In this regard, Ling Li had a guess that before the Chiyan Continent was sealed, there should have been cultivators, otherwise there would not be so many secret realms on the continent. However, it does not seem that the current human beings are directly related to the mythological age tens of thousands of years ago, and there is a lot of evidence from genes and genetics that the current human beings are new humans who evolved naturally from the Australopithecus. However, where did the cultivators who originally lived on this continent go?

There are many indications that they must have left the sealed world in one piece, tens of thousands of years ago.

"Looking at the data of the last cataclysm, the anomaly also started from the north and south poles, what changes have occurred in the South Pole this time?" Ling Li asked.

"There is no news yet, the southern polar region is separated from the continent, and since the cataclysm, the ocean has become a forbidden area for human beings, even if the mutation happens, it will not affect the Anka continent and the southern Megari continent so quickly." "However, the most dangerous areas are actually the coastal areas. ”

Nie Haiyang briefly said some of the latest situation, smiled again and continued: "Some historical records are not necessarily without deviations, and the new disasters may be very different from the past, so there is not much reference. However, since everyone is prepared for this, the damage from this disaster should be much smaller than during the previous cataclysm. Our Western Qin Mansion originally had several secret realms that could accommodate nearly 10 million people, and in addition, everyone regarded the Void Battlefield as a place of refuge when disaster came...... So over the years, they have been trying to expand the scope of control of the various Guancheng, and regard it as a major retreat. But now you've found a new place of refuge......"

"The other world connected to the Nine Mysterious Realms is actually much more dangerous than the Void Battlefield, and I am not in favor of large-scale immigration to that world until I have completed my exploration. We need to explore the continent first...... Also, Minister Nie, is the Void Battlefield leading to the Otherworld? Ling Li said.

"This ...... I don't know. Nie Haiyang shook his head, "The Void Battlefield is currently very small for us humans to explore, we only know that it is a springboard from the other world to the world of the Red Flame Continent, because of the partition of the realm, it is impossible to judge whether it is a complete star or not." There are more unknown and uncertain problems in the Void Battlefield, so it is more dangerous, and Minister Qin and I are even more inclined to increase our efforts to explore the other world that connects the Nine Mysterious Realms. ”

Ling Li nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to the opinions of the leaders and focus on that." ”

Jiang Tianyuan said: "The greater a person's ability, the greater the social responsibility and obligation he has to undertake, only caring about his own cultivation, but not caring about the life or death of ordinary people, what is the difference between this and those cults?" Using the power of the resources of the entire society to cultivate martial artists is faster than those sects resting on their laurels, which is also a major reason why the number of Innate Realm cultivators on the military side is much higher than those in the state capitals controlled by sectarian families. Now that disaster is coming, we must improve the strength of the army as soon as possible, and there are some cultivation resources that cannot be just grasped in our own hands...... Do you understand what I mean? ”

"I know that some of the money I earn will be used for the school and the Jingwu Association." Ling Li wanted to roll his eyes, this old man was reminding himself to hand over some of the resources in his hands, how did he know that he still had tens of thousands of cultivators of the Witch Demon Clan under him to feed.

The high-level intelligence sources are actually much richer, and there are various channels, as for how to arrange it, it is not something he can worry about now, as long as he does his own business first.

Coming out of the Black Mountain Headquarters, Ling Li returned to Qingya City along the northern line of Black Mountain, Wolf Mountain and Enshan.

He was not in a hurry to return to the Nine Mysterious Realms, but was cleaning up and capturing the alien beasts above the seventh order all the way.

After all, this level of alien beast is still too much of a threat to ordinary armies.

There aren't many high-level alien beasts that enter this area.

The high-level alien beasts are also very intelligent, and they are not willing to follow the beast tide to approach the human settlements, and most of them follow the periphery of the Tangwu Plateau, and turn west into the demon beast mountains.

The mountain wasteland in that area is the real habitat of the alien beasts.

The elite students of the major schools in the Western Qin Mansion and the elite troops of the military were all deployed on the front line of the northern mountain range to prevent the beast tide from spreading to the south, and the streets of the Nine Mysterious Realm became much colder.

Ling Li had already removed the Great Array of Mist that surrounded Jiuxuan City and moved it to the periphery of Witch Town.

The current Nine Xuan Secret Realm, except for the Nine Xuan City, other areas are basically all open, and many collective farms have been built in the secret realm. Due to the abundant source power and the warm climate, around Jiuxuan City, the reclaimed farmland is full of green wheat seedlings, and some places near the river are also planted with rice.

Under the unified arrangement of the Western Qin Prefecture, millions of new immigrants entered the Jiuxuan Space and engaged in various production activities. With the accelerated development of the secret realm, more immigrants will come here in the future.

Ling Li came to Duan's house, but saw that Duan Tianya was arguing with an old man who was dressed as a Taoist priest in order to regret his move.

Duan Tianya had dug up a lot of top scientists from the Eastern Regions states, and after Ling Li had met them a few times, he felt that these old men and old ladies seemed to be reckless and naïve, and sometimes they were indeed like children. Perhaps it is precisely because there are not so many cities and simple-mindedness that these people can achieve high achievements in the field of scientific research.

Of course, it may also be that they are used to seeing things that are deceitful and intriguing, and at their age, they disdain to be tempted by others anymore. Just as most chess players are relatively simple-minded, the "bad eyes" are used on the chessboard, but in daily life, they don't want to spend more thoughts, and they appear more pure.