"What happened!? We suddenly sensed a massive wave of energy that forced everyone stop what they were doing." Christine arrives with a pale face.

"Don’t worry, that was just me breaking through gold rank."

"You’re now at gold rank!?" She screams in shock.

"Yes, with my current strength, I can start expanding to other worlds but I decided to use my power to save the humans from the other zones first."

Christine looks at him with shining eyes, her heart starts beating rapidly, his confidence and strength draws something inside of her.

"I’ll be bringing them to Golden Qi Capital, if you want to recruit some of them, you can go to our city using your city’s own space gate."

"I understand, our city is truly lacking in people, after we rebuild half of it, we’re going to rename it into Skyhigh City, the dream to reach the skies."

"What an amazing name and a great goal, I expect great things from you guys, after all, both yours and City Z4 are going to be the only cities in our zone besides ours."

"Yes, I’m also thinking of a great future on our cities, who knows, maybe, when we’re strong enough, we might also join your conquest to the other worlds."

"Why join our city? You guys can also do your own conquest, there are definitely multiple portals in the area, the only ones that are going to be cut off are the ones that are incredibly close in the city."

"No, we’re going to focus in our two department before thinking of increasing our manpower for conquest, after all, we still have to build our own schools and academies."

"What a clear thought, it seems that this city is going to be okay in the future, don’t worry, you guys have access with our space gate but only at morning, at noon, our gate is going to be the one sending people not receiving."

"So, it can’t be used at the same time?" Christine was surprised to hear this.

"You can but there’s a chance of overloading the space gate, so, preferably, there should be a set of schedule and also guards for the space gates."

"How strong should the guards be?"

"I strongly recommend silver rankers of at least two individuals."

"That’s going to be difficult for us, we don’t have enough people to guard the space gate."

"So? Hire one from the Adventure Guild, you guys can fill that situation when you have enough people."

"It seems that we have our jobs cut out for us."

"Even though, you’re saying this, you’re smiling so widely."

"Am I?"

Seeing him chuckle, she knows that she might had shown her true emotion.

"There might be a lot more things to do but at least, we can see hope for the future, it’s much better than what we had been feeling after our return to this zone."

"Yeah, the future is for us to grasp, we’ll continue to improve and finally, see through our ambition with a wide grin."

The two of them talks about their plans for the future, it was harmonious.

John was busy supervising everything, wether in the sky or in land.

He would sometimes help in carrying materials and people, he would also settle disputes.

He’s now known as the temporary city lord, Christine still holds this title but everyone doesn’t want to brother her, they want her to focus in her cultivation.

Sean’s presence was also comforting to everyone, also, the growing image of the space gate made them all smile.

A couple of days later, Sean finally builds a space gate near the city, it wasn’t as large as the one in their city but it still looks promising.

"I never thought that building this on my own was incredibly hard, I’m just glad that I have Bai and Minerva to help me."

Sean was a bit exhausted that he has been working all this time without even resting, physically, he’s fine but spiritually, he’s very much on the verge of fainting, keeping the space locked into a singular point is quite difficult without any support.

He’s just glad that he had broken through gold rank before attempting to finish as quickly as possible.

"It’s complete, we can get online three days later, I need some rest."

He falls to sleep, the portal is already fine, he’s now more proficient at inscribing runes, there’s also the fact that he now have Longshen to help him set up one of the Titan Tree near the space gate.

Three days later, he opens the portal and it works, it was wobbly for a few minutes but gradually become still after getting used to the contraction of space.

"Finally! With this portal, you guys can travel to Golden Qi Capital in an instant but if you want to return here, you guys should wait for the schedules that are going to be given to you by the people of our city."

"With this space gate, it will prevent any random portal gate from opening nearby, right?" John hurriedly asks.

"Yes, it will also lock the space around you, preventing any Innates from being able to teleportat around your territory, not to mention, the longer this space gate exist, the denser the spiritual energy in the surrounding area will be, once the space stabilized, it will automatically absorb the spiritual energy from the void and disperse it in the area, hopefully you guys can develop a spirit stones mine of your own, not only it’s hard currency, it is also vital for any project involving me and the space gate."

The members of the Wind Family looks at each other, their eyes are shining brightly, if this is the case, then, they might be able to ask him if he can let their space gate connects to more cities.

But, this is just a dream, they still haven’t found any spirit stone mine.

Waving goodbye to everyone, he flies towards the direction of City Z4.

Looking at his vanishing back, John and the rest can’t help but release sighs of disappoinment.

"We need to let someone return to Golden Qi Capital to serve as both our ambassador and intelligence agency."

"Who should it be?" Asks the others.

"It’s either Prim or Cheryl."

"Sorry, it can’t be me, I’m going to focus helping my family rebuild." Cheryl suddenly interjects, this is the first time she goes against her crush and her idol.

"I understand, what about you, Prim? Are you also unavailable."

"No, I only have one family and that was teacher Freyn, unfortunately, I was unable to see her one last time, I’m going to use this time to grow stronger and join the Adventure Guild to hunt the members of the Abyssal Church and Genetic Upgrade to avenge her!"

"Don’t worry, our entire city will be backing you up, we’re also not reconciled with the fact that we didn’t get revenge ourselves."

The entire Skyhigh City was in a great mood, with the portal in front of them, they can see a bright future, it also serves as an escape against any powerful entities or a way to obtain reinforcement from the most powerful city in their zone.

Meanwhile, with his current rank, his power and control over the wind is much greater than before.

He zips through the sky like lightning, his figure can’t be seen by the naked eyes of mortals.

"To think that Xi Mu and the others were actually searching near the territory of City Z4."

Below him, Xi Mu and the others were traveling with a group of people, looking at their appearance, they look like survivors.

He descends.

"Danger!" Xi Mu was the first one to react and flies towards Sean but when he saw who it was, his eyes lights up.

"My lord, has City Z2 been rebuilt?"

"Not completely but it’s already going along quite well, there’s also a space gate situated near the city. Also, don’t call them by numbers anymore, call them Skyhigh City, it’s the name of their city."

Xi Mu was envious, he also wants to rebuild City Z1.

"Tell me, what are these people and why do some of them are infected by energy from the traitors?"

"What!? They’re infected!?" Xi Mu was shocked, he didn’t sense anything.

"It’s hidden deep inside their bodies, probably people that those bxstards wants to plant into our cities, once those energies explodes, unless their will is strong enough as I doubt it will since those energies are preventing them from growing stronger through martial arts, they are going to be corrupted."

"Treacherous bxstards!" Xi Mu roars.

"Don’t worry, it might be impossible for others but I’m the bane of their existence."

He then approaches the survivors and with a wave of his hand, a couple of individuals flies towards him.

He grabs their heads and fills their bodies with his own energy, purging the volatile energy within their bodies.

He spent some time purging every single one of energy within their bodies, he waves his hand once again and an image of a tree with a green dragon wraps around it appears in the eyes of everyone.

Healing power descends in their bodies, quickly healing the injuries all of them suffered in their journey.

"Tell me, where did you guys come from?" He asks.

"We were once civilians from City Z3."

"Civilians from City Z2."

"Soldiers of City Z1."

"Civilians from City 6."

Hearing that they all come from different cities, the bxstards might had released them purposely to let them gather and activate the hidden energies within their bodies.

"Interesting, so that’s your plan." He turns to five individuals in front of him, seeing his smile, the five individuals reacts and attacks him.

"How amusing."

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The five individuals were all planted to the ground by his punches, their mere strength is incapable of making him serious.

"Are they?"

Xi Mu hurriedly asks.

"Yes, these five individuals are all traitors, you guys deal with them, I’m going to bring all of them to City Z4."

"Wait, we want to travel with general Xi Mu!" The soldiers that are no longer burdened of protecting the survivors hurriedly pleaded to go with their comrades.

"No, you guys are too mentally exhausted, all of you are already on the verge of insanity, you are only holding on because of your sense duty, you must rest, don’t worry, general Xi Mu will return to our city after their travel, you guys have enough time to travel together."

"But-"

"Heed my command! As the remaining general of our zone, with the authority given to me by my achievements and strength, I order you to follow lord Sean’s arrangements and wait for my return!" Xi Mu suddenly interjects after hearing that they might lose them.

Even the soldiers that came with Xi Mu and the students persuades them to go with Sean.

Even though, they are reluctant, with everyone pushing them, they can only accept and turns to Sean.

The survivors were stunned when they see a large thick cloud expanding in front of them.

"We’re going to ride this to travel to City Z4, we’re building some sort of teleportation device in that city which can be used to travel to my city, City Z5, which is now called Golden Qi Capital, you can use the space gate to travel to either City Z4 or Z2."

"But, my lord, City Z2 is now occupied by the terrorist organization."

"Xi Mu didn’t inform any of you?" Looking at their confused expression, it seems that they are really confused.

"City Z2 was freed from their control, I had lead my group in killing every single terrorists there, it was just recently rebuilt, it’s now being managed by Christine Wind, the current principal of your school, well, she’s no longer that since your school was destroyed during our attack."

"Our city was freed and rebuilt? Amazing, I’ve heard that there were two Innates guarding the city, did they leave before your attack?"