The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

Leon put down the slideshow, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked at the external sensors of the fighter jet, where the monitoring footage was being transmitted.

In the distance, in a crater of moderate size, a dozen or so mutated beasts were digging a hole with a "chirping" sound.

These mutant beasts were all second-stage evolved mutant beasts. They were large in size and powerful. A dozen of them worked together and soon dug another deep pit in the meteorite crater.

Leon released a tiny monitor, no bigger than a fly, which flew over the pit to see what the mutant beasts were doing.

They are still digging down.

"They're digging holes again. What are these monsters trying to do?"

This was the seventh time Leon had seen the mutant beasts digging burrows since he started patrolling.

His superiors only ordered him to patrol and monitor, not to attack the mutant beasts, so he would just look around, make some notes, and then leave.

This time is no exception.

Just as Leon turned the steering wheel, preparing to leave in his fighter jet, a plume of black smoke rose from the crater.

Upon seeing this, Leon immediately issued instructions to the machine.

"Optical invisibility, lights off, silence!"

Leon's car gradually became transparent and quiet, imperceptible to the naked eye.

There were several plumes of black smoke rising from the meteorite crater. The smoke was in clumps, without a fixed shape, but it was condensed and did not disperse.

Within each plume of black smoke, a red light appeared, like an eye, and it would flicker and blink.

Leon was somewhat excited.

"After so many boring patrols, we've finally made a new discovery! Maybe this will earn us a promotion!"

Leon secretly released some listening devices, sending them to fly near the black smoke.

One of the plumes of black smoke spoke.

The language he spoke was not Dark Star Language, but some kind of language on Earth.

"All the tunnels have been dug; we can proceed to the next step."

Another plume of black smoke spoke up, speaking in some kind of language from Earth, but different from the one that had just spoken.

"I didn't expect it to go so smoothly. Humans are too busy fighting among themselves to pay any attention to us."

Even black smoke can talk.

Strangely, they all speak languages ​​from Earth, and even some that are different from each other, yet they can still have normal conversations with each other.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Although it deviates somewhat from the Dark Emperor's intentions, it is entirely beneficial for us to achieve our ultimate goal."

"Alright, enough talk. Notify the three kings to deploy the high-level explosive beasts."

"Should we just use the higher-level one?"

"Of course, to blast the moon into pieces and send it crashing to Earth, we must use the highest-level explosive beasts to detonate it all at once, allowing the moon to slow down sufficiently. Otherwise, the moon will just become a ring around Earth."

Leon's eavesdropping and spying were full of illicit thrills.

Although the black smoke was speaking various Earth languages, Leon's device had a built-in translation function, so he could understand it all.

"Oh, so they're going to blow up the moon? That's some big intelligence! Reporting this will definitely earn us a commendation... WTF?! Blow up the moon?!"

"Who's there! Who's there!"

"Emma, ​​we've been exposed!"

Without saying a word, Leon immediately activated the fighter jet's super-acceleration, and a beam of light shot out from the bottom of the machine as it soared into the air.

The several dark figures didn't give chase, but instead looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What do we do? The plan has been exposed."

"It's alright, they're celestial beings. They're hostile to the Earthlings, so they might even help us."

"Hopefully so. However, even if there are obstacles, they cannot stop our operations. They have abandoned the lunar battlefield during this period, giving us the opportunity to make extensive deployments here."

Leon sped along, flying out of the moon and into space, arriving at the Interstellar Faction's space front base.

In this base, which resembled a giant gyroscope, Leon reported his recent discovery to the base's commander.

"What? The Dark Star people are planning to blow up the moon and send lunar debris crashing down on Earth?"

"That's right, I eavesdropped... I risked my life to capture a Dark Star lifeform and tortured him into revealing this!"

"This is going to be a disaster... If the moon is blown to pieces and crashes onto Earth, the Earth's ecosystem will suffer a devastating blow, becoming uninhabitable for a long time, and human civilization will be completely reduced to dust!"

Leon adopted a fawning demeanor.

"Commander-in-Chief, this is great news! Earth is destroyed. Let's see where those returnists can go now! They'll have no choice but to join our Interstellar Faction!"

"Idiot! The Earth is about to be destroyed, and you still say things like that!"

The commander-in-chief's sudden outburst left Leon completely bewildered.

"Commander-in-Chief, aren't we, the Interstellar Faction, destined to embark on interstellar journeys someday? What does the fate of Earth have to do with us?"

"What do you know!"

The commander-in-chief stood up, walked to the glass curtain wall, and looked into the distance at the blue gem in space.

"No matter how far a sailor is from home, or what stormy seas he endures, he can forge ahead and overcome everything."

Because he knew that home was there, even if he might never go home until he found the great treasure.

But if the homeland is lost and the home is destroyed, people will have nowhere to turn, and survivalism will prevail.

At that time, we will no longer be people from Earth, which possesses a brilliant civilization, but will be transformed into a terrifying existence!

Just like those people on the Pathfinder back then…

Leon blinked; clearly, he didn't understand or comprehend this idea.

"Then...should we go stop them?"

The commander-in-chief withdrew his emotional gaze and returned to his rational state.

"I'll go negotiate with the Dark Star people first and find out their purpose. If they insist on their way, I'll notify the Return Faction. Ha, Earth is in trouble, how can the Return Faction sit idly by?"

Leon's expression was complicated; he couldn't figure out whether the Commander-in-Chief cared about Earth or not.

Humans are so complicated.

……

Blue Star, somewhere in Central Asia.

"My shoes are torn, my hat is torn, and my robe is torn..."

Master Yan was dressed in tattered clothes, his Taoist robe was torn and tattered, he was unkempt and emaciated, and he wandered alone in this deep mountain forest.

In the battle of Glory City, he was ultimately taken away by the Dark Cross.

During their escape, the two were hunted down by federal judges, and Cross, feeling he was a burden, abandoned him.

Since Master Yan did not possess the Dark Bronze Mirror, the judges and special agents who were chasing him were all following the fluctuations of dark energy.

Surprisingly, Master Yan managed to escape capture.

But he couldn't get into the city and could only survive in the wild.

They drink dew when thirsty, eat grasshoppers when hungry, sleep in tree trunks at night, and hide in caves during the day.

Even though he had fallen on such a low point, Master Yan remained optimistic and would often hum a little tune.

On this day, Master Yan, who was still struggling to survive in the wild, heard a sound that made him weep with joy.

"Lord Aruda, proceed immediately to Midun City in the Huaxia District. I have arranged for someone to meet you there. It's time to reclaim your Dark Bronze Mirror."

Master Yan initially found it hard to believe, wondering if he was delirious from hunger and hallucinating.

But the other party knows my real name, which means...

"Dark Emperor! Is that you! Dark Emperor! You've arrived on Earth?! Hahaha!! We...we can finally avenge ourselves! We'll wipe out the bandits! We'll wipe out humanity! We'll complete the greatest plan in the entire universe!"