Beyond the Timescape

The war was heating up in the eastern theater. Fighting was breaking out all over the place. Sparks flew. The scale of the fighting wasn’t very large. Most battles were skirmishes involving about a thousand combatants. But the number of battles was growing.

Of course, war had to be judged as a whole. And there was a reason for everything that was happening. It didn’t matter if it was large-scale battles or minor skirmishes, they all played out for specific reasons. And if those various goals were met, then it would build up momentum to reach the biggest goal of all. That was the essence of war. It was like a game.

For example, the information brought in by Xu Qing and everyone else seemed to point to the same conclusion: the event in the staging areas of the eastern theater was over. At the same time, more skirmishes were breaking out on the front lines. Given that... the goal was obvious.

Both gods and cultivators were using the skirmishes to hide their true motives! At the moment, as sparks were flying because of all the skirmishes, there was one battlefield located in an asteroid belt.

The fighting was bloody. Taking in the scene as a whole, rumbling booms echoed out, rubble sprayed everywhere, and mutagen clashed with immortal energy constantly. One side was making an incursion. The other side was trying to stop them. It was a very intense situation.

Beyond the periphery of the fighting, amongst some scattered asteroids, a group of people was observing the battlefield. There were a few hundred of them, all wearing gray and black garments. They looked like vultures, their eyes glittering as they kept a close eye on their surroundings. Clearly, they were ready to fall back if the fighting got too close to them.

One of them, an old man, was talking to some cultivators standing around him.

“I was right, eh? I knew this fight wouldn’t end quickly. My guess is that it’ll keep going for at least another hour. You know, if I hadn’t noticed you a few months ago, and also sensed your command medallion just now, I wouldn’t have called you over here.”

The cultivators around him all had baleful auras that were surprising even to him. That was especially true of their leader, who had the strongest baleful aura of all.

“You know, you’re actually pretty famous for getting through the staging areas to the front lines. But since you’re part of the Logistics Division now, there are some things you need to understand.”

The people around him were, of course, Xu Qing and the other ascendees. After their request for a mission was approved, they had been assigned to this location, and had arrived only about four hours ago. However, before they could get close to the battlefield, this old man had stopped them.

He was also a Corpsedrainer. Being aware of who Xu Qing and the other ascendees were, he had shown them some goodwill by inviting them over.