"This trait tag came at just the right time."

A golden trait tag was naturally worth equipping.

Especially in the simulation, under the current circumstances, the difficulty of Chen Yi and his twenty companions having to face the Dragon-Man tribe's Slave Management Army in the Three-Headed Realm was unimaginable.

With "Leader Aura," at least it could balance the strength between both sides.

"This disguise and face-changing one is also necessary. When outnumbered, you have to rely on cunning. Infiltrating undercover with a disguise is probably a classic trope."

[You have replaced "Formation Master" with "Asian Evil Art."]

[You have replaced "Chinese-Style Succubus" with "Leader Aura."]

[Because you have already acquired the Dragon-Man tribe's racial talent through "Calamity of Ten Thousand Races."]

[Based on this trait tag's effect, you can now mimic the form of "Chen Yi Edition Dragon-Man," meaning you have your own face but the physical characteristics of a Dragon-Man.]

[Combined with "Asian Evil Art," you figure you can easily slip into the enemy camp.]

[Under the guidance of your two newly recruited underlings, you flew over a barren, lifeless Crushed Zone.]

During the journey, through the Cauldron's external field of vision, you witnessed many tragic scenes.

[Some places should have been the main battlefields where the Three-Headed race resisted the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[Corpses lay everywhere, bones bleached white, rivers of blood, broken armor and shattered blades piled up like mountains.]

[What made you hesitate to dwell on it was that you only saw the corpses of the Three-Headed race, not a single body of a Dragon-Man.]

[This was a one-sided massacre.]

[A war that had only been actively fought for a year, and the disparity in strength between the two sides was unimaginable.]

[Add to that the fact that the Dragon-Man tribe were a bunch of cunning old foxes; even when facing weaker opponents, they likely did thorough preliminary work before striking a fatal blow.]

[Apart from having three heads, the Three-Headed race's bodies were no different from humans.]

[If you cut off the two heads on their shoulders, they were basically human.]

[Under the confused gazes of your teammates, you stopped mid-journey, left the Cauldron Realm, and touched a Three-Headed corpse outside.]

[You couldn't trigger "Calamity of Ten Thousand Races."]

[It seemed this trait tag required you to touch a living target.]

[During the journey, through the Cauldron's external field of view, you witnessed many tragic scenes.]

[If there was, you could just fly the Cauldron in and head home together.]

[Seeing that you wanted to scout for information alone, Wu Yue immediately spoke up.]

["No way, it's too dangerous for you to go alone. I'll go with you."]

[Seeing this, Wang Mingbai also volunteered.]

["I'm coming too! Uh... I wonder if the Dragon-Man tribe is short on spirit crystals?"]

[You gave Wang Mingbai a bitter smile.]

["Probably not."]

[You didn't explain much, but right in front of them, you transformed—sprouting a set of black scales, a pair of sharp horns, a long tail, and your entire posture became somewhat hunched like a Dragon-Man's.]

["Holy crap!!"]

[The crowd was stunned and quickly put distance between themselves and you.]

[Only Wu Yue remained relatively calm.]

["Is it some kind of illusion or shape-shifting technique?"]

[You pulled out a bunch of cosmetics from your Storage Ring and started applying them to your face.]

[You were aiming to make yourself look similar to Ka One.]

["It's even better than shape-shifting. No matter how strong the Dragon-Man's Divine Sense or identity recognition abilities are, they won't see through my disguise."]

[Wu Yue was relieved now.]

["No wonder you wanted to go alone. If we went with you, we'd probably just be a burden."]

[Baili Su stepped closer and asked tentatively.]

["Brother Chen, you haven't actually been possessed by some alien race, have you?"]

[The Ten Thousand Souls Golden Banner smacked him on the head with its pole.]

["Possessed your head! This kid Chen Yi is the craftiest of them all. Who could possibly possess him? He just has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. You'll understand once you've been around him long enough. Just relax and stay in the Cauldron. Watch how my brother and I carry you all!"]

[Everyone was actually a bit confused by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.]

[An Immortal Artifact is still an artifact, so why did this guy always address you as a brother?]

[These days, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner hadn't mentioned the Earth Vein in a long time.]

[No one knew if he had given up or just felt it wasn't necessary anymore.]

[After all, he had already surpassed the level of an Immortal Artifact. Whether or not he got that hollow title of Spirit Artifact Nation's king probably didn't matter to him anymore.]

[They said you were going alone, but actually, everyone was still there.]

[Because you had stored the Nine Provinces Cauldron inside your body.]

["So, we're all inside Brother Chen's body right now? Hmm..."]

[Long Yang was seriously pondering this question.]

[Wu Yue glanced at him and said calmly.]

["Strictly speaking, it's the sea of consciousness. But you could say 'inside the body' if you want."]

["The sea of consciousness... I've heard of it occasionally. Does it function like a storage pouch?"]

["In the human world's martial path, we don't train or develop the sea of consciousness. It just slowly expands as one's cultivation level rises, enough to hold a few Spirit Artifacts. Spirit Artifacts, because they've acknowledged their master, are essentially part of our bodies, so they can enter the sea of consciousness. Ordinary items can't get in."]

["I see. Thank you for the lesson. It's true that one gains more knowledge having grown up in the Holy Lands. We are humbled in comparison."]

[The Reserved Zone had many tall walls constructed, each wall engraved with formations inscribed with Dragon-Man script.]

[Ka One and Ka Two told you that these walls were used to prevent slaves from escaping and to demarcate different work zones.]

[You disguised yourself as Ka One, had Ka Two accompany you, and successfully infiltrated the outer perimeter of the Reserved Zone.]

[Since Ka One and Ka Two weren't in charge of the World Passage affairs, they didn't know the specifics of which passages existed. Now the two of you were going to go and see for yourselves.]

[Inside the Reserved Zone, you saw many "factories."]

[Of course, they weren't the mechanized factories like on Earth. Here, the factories were huge wooden or stone structures.]

[There was a constant rumbling from inside.]

[You swept your Divine Sense inside and saw large Spirit Artifacts in the factories. Under the operation of the Three-Headed race, they were refining Spirit Pearls one by one.]

[Depending on their Five Elements attribute, these Spirit Pearls would transform into different Demon Spirits, which were the biological weapons the Dragon-Man tribe used when waging world wars.]

["It's impressive that you Dragon-Men can refine such complex integrated devices with practitioners who have no cultivation realm. Your technology is quite advanced."]

[What was in the factory were Spirit Artifacts, not technological creations.]

[But Spirit Artifacts were supposed to be controlled by cultivators to display their various marvels.]

[These enslaved members of the Three-Headed race were obviously not cultivators. Yet they could keep the entire assembly line running smoothly through simple operations.]

[Ka Two replied.]

["In terms of how to wage war more efficiently and secure war resources, our world has painstakingly researched it for tens of thousands of years. We've also merged knowledge from many other worlds. Naturally, we appear more advanced."]

["Truly a troublesome enemy to face."]