The mastermind behind the scenes starting with the calamity of all races

Jiang Yao stroked Yun Jie's cheek and said tenderly, "There's no need to rush."

Yun Jie pinched Jiang Yao's slightly round cheek and said to her with a smile, "Shall I go?"

"you dare!"

Jiang Yao reached up and twisted Yun Jie's waist gently.

"Hiss," Yun Jie feigned pain and cried out, "Do all you women know this move without a teacher?"

"Oh? You women?"

Jiang Yao tilted her head and smiled at Yun Jie.

Although she has a beautiful smile, Yun Jie is in no mood to appreciate it at all. Oh no, he accidentally let something slip.

Yun Jie was panicking inside, but he maintained a calm demeanor on the surface and said nonchalantly, "Yeah, Lao Xia and the others often discuss this issue, I'm sick of hearing it."

Yun Jie thought to himself: This should be enough to get away with it, right? But I still need to talk to Lao Xia and the others first, so as not to give myself away.

Is that so?

After hearing Yun Jie's explanation, Jiang Yao looked at him suspiciously. She couldn't imagine what Xia Wushen and the others were like when they discussed this issue, but she didn't find anything wrong with Yun Jie, so she could only reluctantly believe him, "Okay, I'll believe you for now."

Judging from her expression, she clearly had no intention of letting the matter rest, but rather wanted to investigate it thoroughly.

Yun Jie was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. Women were just too difficult to deal with...

Horrible! Horrible!

However, Yun Jie is not a scumbag. The reason he knows that girls like to put their hands on their waists is because he heard it too many times in his previous life, and also because he had a girlfriend in his previous life, so... he has a deep understanding of it.

He just let it slip; he's still chaste in this life.

"Let's go back to the Great Xuan Mansion."

"Daxuan Palace?"

Jiang Yao asked in confusion, "When did a Great Xuan Mansion suddenly appear?"

"Have you forgotten? We marked out the territory back then, and my territory is now called the Great Xuan Mansion," Yun Jie reminded her.

Jiang Yao suddenly realized that she hadn't paid much attention when the territory was being divided up, as her eyes were on Yun Jie at the time.

"Let's go."

Yun Jie took her hand and flew towards the Great Xuan Mansion. This time, he wasn't in a hurry, so he chose to fly back slowly with Jiang Yao and enjoy the beautiful landscape of the Human Realm.

Moreover, Yun Jie estimated that by the time he returned, the four legions should have almost completely wiped out the alien races within the Great Xuan Mansion.

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Five days later.

Yun Jie brought Jiang Yao back to the Hengduan Underground City.

The four legions have almost completely eliminated the alien races within the Great Xuan Mansion and are currently carrying out the final cleanup work.

During this period, the four legions rescued many people one after another, but they were all settled in Yaoguang City, as the underground city could not accommodate so many people.

Inside the underground city, in the city lord's mansion.

Yun Jie called Wei Yu over.

"Lord!"

As soon as she entered, Wei Yu clasped her hands in a respectful greeting to Yun Jie.

Yun Jie nodded slightly. "Yes, sit down."

Taking a sip of tea, Yun Jie asked, "How many people have been rescued so far?"

“Roughly three million,” Wei Yu said, noticing Yun Jie’s surprised expression. She quickly explained, “Actually, there weren’t that many originally, but more than ten years ago, the alien race’s massive sweep in the northern part of the human realm forced them all to come to the south, which is why there are so many people.”

After Wei Yu mentioned it, Yun Jie also remembered. But if that were the case, wouldn't the various prefectures in the northern part of the human realm be in dire straits? There might not even be many people left.

"So how did you arrange things for these people?"

"Arrange it however you see fit," Wei Yu said, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

However, it's true that she was the one who arranged the people in the underground city back then, and things should still be the same as they were back then.

However, that wasn't Yun Jie's main concern. He continued, "There must be many orphans, right? What do you plan to do about them?"

After thinking about it carefully, Wei Yu realized that there were indeed quite a few orphans, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

She said, "There are indeed many, but we selected a group of older children to live independently, while we will take care of the younger ones."

"After that, we will select those with cultivation talent and have them join our legions, while those without talent will be assigned to logistics."

Yun Jie nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad, this arrangement is acceptable."

"Here's what you'll do: help me select a group of orphans aged 15 to 18, regardless of gender, but they need to be talented. About 600 should be enough."

"My lord, what are you thinking..."

"No need to ask any more questions, just go and make the arrangements, and be sure to keep it confidential."

Yun Jie didn't say much. Wei Yu had been with him for so long, and she was always steady and prudent in her actions.

"Yes."

Since Yun Jie wouldn't say anything, Wei Yu didn't press him further. Just as she was about to leave, Yun Jie called her back, "Wait."

Yun Jie thought for a moment. He had other plans for the 600 people that Wei Yu had chosen, so the Great Xuan Mansion would still need a "covert guard in the open" in the future.

So Yun Jie said, "Select another 500 people, with similar conditions as before, except that the most talented must be among those 600."

"it is good."

Although she didn't understand why Yun Jie wanted her to select two groups of people, the clever Wei Yu didn't raise any questions but readily agreed, which pleased Yun Jie.

Yun Jie nodded slightly and instructed, "Yes, go down and get things done as soon as possible."

Watching Wei Yu's departing figure, Yun Jie fell into deep thought. The second batch of five hundred people could be trained "openly," while the first batch of six hundred people he planned to take into his small world, and later send them to the upper realm or hide them away.

However, Yun Jie felt that they would be of little use before they advanced to the Eternal Realm. Under normal circumstances, having the four legions would be sufficient.

Moreover, it's practically impossible to train all 600 people to the Eternal Realm. If the Eternal Realm were so easy to train, they would be everywhere by now.

Do powerful races like gods and demons lack resources? Probably not.

Do they lack talent? Probably not.

However, each of their clans only has about 120 eternal powerhouses, which is the result of their accumulation over countless years. Although many of them have also perished, it is undeniable that the Eternal Realm is not something that just anyone can break through.

Being a genius isn't enough; even the most outstanding talents only have a 30% chance of breaking through.

As for why more than 20 people have broken through to the Eternal Realm in just one hundred years since the Human Realm connects to the Battlefield of the Heavens, and why another batch will break through in the future.

Yun Jie believes that this is largely due to the influence of the human race's fortune.

When a race faces a life-or-death crisis, most of them will regain their vitality, as if they were experiencing a final burst of energy before death.

It was like a violent struggle before death.

This could be a miraculous escape, or it could exhaust one's last bit of strength.

Perhaps that's why this tide produces so many "madmen"—they're obsessed, they're willing to go all in, and they'll decide the fate of the world in one battle.

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Wei Yu was very efficient. In just two days, she had selected all the people. She took the batch of 500 people directly to the city lord's mansion, and put the remaining 600 people into the divine weapons that Yun Jie had prepared for her in advance, without anyone knowing.

"Lord."

After bowing, Wei Yu handed an item to Yun Jie, which was a divine weapon that Yun Jie had given her two days ago, containing six hundred human geniuses.

It is worth noting that there is a big difference between geniuses and prodigies. A genius may appear out of hundreds of people, but a prodigy may appear out of millions of people. As the saying goes, geniuses are easy to find, but prodigies are hard to come by.

Yun Jie waved his hand, putting away the divine weapon, and said casually, "Those five hundred people will be temporarily placed in the city lord's mansion, and each of the four legions will select one person to teach them."

Yun Jie doesn't plan to manage this group of people. He'll find a suitable commander for the secret guards later and then hand them over to him.

The city lord's mansion is very large, the largest residence in the entire underground city, and can easily accommodate hundreds of people.

Moreover, soon the inhabitants of the entire underground city will return to live on the surface, at which point the underground city will be vacant, making it a perfect place to transform into a secret realm of vital energy.

At that time, this place will become Yun Jie's "secret base," a place specifically for the various legions and "dark guards" to train. Perhaps occasionally, some geniuses will be allowed to come in and train.

To be honest, if the Hengduan Mountains weren't so far from Yaoguang City, a full eight hundred miles away, eight hundred miles might not be much for a strong person, but for an ordinary person, eight hundred miles would be a very long distance.

Otherwise, Yun Jie would have planned to establish the future academy here, since such a large secret realm would be a waste to provide it only to the legion.

At that time, there will definitely be fewer geniuses in the legion than in the academy. The reason why there are so many geniuses in the legion now is simply because they have no other way out and no other choice. When the legion develops in the future and people have more choices, there will not be so many geniuses joining the legion voluntarily.

At that time, their choice will inevitably be a university, where they can receive proper education.

Within the legion, you might obtain resources, cultivation techniques, and so on, but no one will specifically teach you like a student. You have to find your own way, which leads to many people in the legion being roughnecks. They're fine for fighting, but if you ask them to do anything else, sorry, they won't.

As the capital of the Great Xuan Prefecture, Yaoguang City will inevitably be the location of future higher education institutions, making it not only safer but also offering greater opportunities.

What kind of opportunity? Of course, it's the opportunity to be noticed by a "big shot". In the future, there will be no shortage of people above the Mountain and Sea Realm in the main cities of each prefecture. Once you are lucky enough to be taken as a disciple by one of them, your future will be soaring!

And so, another two days passed.

In the past two days, the four legions have returned one after another and are now organizing the relocation of the people in the underground city.

That's right, it's a relocation.

They were finally leaving this "Shangri-La" where they had lived for decades. Although it was safe, the space was too small and felt somewhat oppressive. In addition, there was no sunlight, and even the wind was artificially created.

Therefore, people still prefer to live on the ground, and the Great Xuan Prefecture is now safe enough. They are not afraid of suddenly encountering alien races or anything like that. With the protection of the Great Xuan Prefecture army, they are fearless!

Indeed, over the years, under the protection of the four legions, not a single one of them has suffered casualties; all those who have died have died of old age. Therefore, the four legions have become a faith in their hearts; as long as the four legions are there, their safety will not be a problem.

The underground city is undergoing a tense relocation, while construction is in full swing in Yaoguang City. Yaoguang City has been abandoned for decades, so many places need to be rebuilt.

Ji Ling and her team mobilized over a million people to work together. They not only wanted to rebuild Yaoguang City, but also to expand and transform it into a super-large city that could accommodate millions of people without feeling crowded!

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