My Apocalypse Territory

Wang Hu suddenly heard an exclamation, he turned his head and froze in shock.

Behind them, in the distance, stood a sacred mountain piercing through the sky, its summit veiled in mist, magnificent buildings like jade palaces adorned its top, with divine birds circling and swooping, their 'cry cry' calls could be heard even from afar.

"Don't all crowd on the transmission array platform, get down, newcomers need to register their identity information."

Several Awakeners, clad in black tight-fitting attire, shouted at them.

Their presence wasn't fully concealed, and Wang Hu realized instantly that each of these individuals had achieved Awakening Tier Perfection, and they exuded a sense of oppression far surpassing that of the Great Perfection from the Gecko Clan.

'Perhaps I wouldn't be able to withstand even a single move from them.'

The ordinary citizens were somewhat restrained, but to their surprise, those clad in black, although speaking sternly, seemed quite understanding.

Anything they did not understand, the Patrol repeatedly explained with patience, and around the transmission array, numerous runes were carved onto some stone walls, which gave direction amidst their confusion.

...

"Name: Wang Hu."

"Place of origin: Cliff Heart Empire—Province of the Eastern Capital—East Sun City."

"Age:..."

Wang Hu could read; the main script of the Cliff Heart Empire was similar to the mainstream script of the mainland. At this moment, he filled out a "personal identity registration form" according to the instructions.

He didn't understand what 'registration form' meant, but felt that everything in this burgeoning city was very orderly.

Among Wang Hu's group, aside from himself, Yang Hong, and a few others, not many were literate.

East Sun City had no academy, and the academy in the provincial city was only available to the Scorpion Clan.

It was fine if someone couldn't write, for the Tao Sect had prepared thoroughly in all aspects. Inside the 'registration hall', there were dedicated translators who could even translate the most obscure local dialects, spoken by only a few, enabling the officials to fill in the 'registration form'.

At the same time, many people were registering. Wang Hu heard that among those inside the registration hall were humans from the eight Kingdoms, as well as those from the Dachang Kingdom neighboring the Sky-Cutting Mountain Range to the south, and from the Desolate Ancient Seven Cities near the Desolate Ancient Cave Heaven in the Extreme North.

He hadn't known these places before, but when Sun Yu projected the map previously, he had glanced at it and memorized some regional and national names.

Thinking back on it now, he was even more astounded.

It seemed that from Tiannan to the Endless Sea, and even beyond the continent, there were transmission formations of the Tao Sect.

Did it not cost Source Crystals to build transmission arrays?!

On reflection, Wang Hu concluded that perhaps the Tao Sect truly did not care, for they waived all the fees for the multitude of humans using the formation without batting an eye!

They had no idea that the transmission cost of the Tao Sect's transmission arrays was a fraction of one percent of what it cost elsewhere.

After Wang Hu, Yang Hong, and others had registered, Sun Yu also prepared to leave.

He had experience now, but with the human provinces deep in war, he would perhaps find very few survivors if he arrived too late. Whether it was missions or lives, each required him to act more swiftly.

At this moment,

Wang Hu suddenly said, "Brother Sun Yu, are you going back to the Cliff Heart Empire to find more human survivors?"

Sun Yu nodded.

Wang Hu spoke, "I might know of a few places where people are currently hiding, I wonder if I might... accompany you?"

...

The mission assigned to Tang Yu, Chen Xiaojia, and Lu Xiaopeng, aside from spreading the name of the Tao Sect, was naturally to recruit people, the more the better.

The White City, populated by billions from the Alien Race, had such numbers only because the birthrate of the White Feather Clan was low, and their population limited.

Although humans were just an ordinary race with a limited number of strong individuals, in terms of numbers, they were second only to the Beastman Clan.

The Beastman Clan is an umbrella term that includes Tiger-men, Werewolves, Bearmen, and others; if talking about a single race, the human race could be considered as the largest.

Aside from the combat power at the same tier being slightly inferior, the potential for progression among humans was not bad. As such, they were somewhat suppressed by the more powerful races, so that true heavyweights could not emerge.

In his vision, Tao City was to be a super-metropolis with humans as the main population, assimilating a multitude of races. Some neutral cities, like White City, rarely had unawakened ordinary people; though Tao Sect did not shy away from this.

Those unable to awaken were seen as burdens, flawed existences by many forces... merely because 'the correct way to utilize them' had not been discovered by those forces.

Mountain and Sea World was also a cultivation-first world, nowhere had positions like those on Earth, which could be competently filled by countless ordinary people.

What they feared was a lack of population, for everything else, they had their mature methods of cultivating 'crops'.

...

On the twenty-fifth day since the founding of the Tao Sect,

The first phase of construction was completed.

A vista of buildings combining classical and modern styles towered magnificently, with pavilions and terraces, mansions and palaces throughout; the spacious streets crisscrossed with the occasional Floating Car zooming past.

At the end of the sprawling buildings, there was a thirty-meter-high black wall, like a giant dragon lying across the land.

The wall wasn't very tall; it merely marked the division between the Inner City and the Outer City District, meant to significantly raise the property values within the Inner City in the future.

It served more as a symbol than for practical use.

In a special area near the east side of the walls in the Central District,

—there was the Transmission Square.

Compared to twenty-odd days earlier when only an occasional dim halo would appear on the Transmission Square, at present, the eight 'standard platforms' would light up with a halo every few minutes, with hundreds of people disembarking at times, just a few at others.