The Rise of the Black Plain

"Then we must hurry and return to the Spiritual World. Leaving them there will only delay them endlessly!" Hollie said, feeling her heart race.

She hadn't seen such a problem with her siblings staying behind before, but listening to Minos today and considering all her experiences, she couldn't help but worry about their future.

"Don't worry, they're fine." Minos smiled at his youngest daughter. "It's true that you'll probably become mid-level Sovereigns, while they probably won't even become low-level Demigods. But while you've had nearly 50 years of your vitality consumed, they've had about 4 years. They have lost nothing, and they will make up the difference with you in the future.

Let them live their lives, have their families, and be happy in our home world. We'll have them on our side again in the future."

Ruth and Gloria sighed at the thought of Rowan and Sarah, but Minos was right. These two would have the chance to make up the difference in cultivation for them in the future, but they would also have the opportunity to join the group when they were in better circumstances.

The current journey had been quite hard and complicated for them, and all of them had almost died in the past few decades. If they returned to the Spiritual World today to take a larger group to Zocarro, these people would not face as many dangers as they did on their own. So not returning now was tantamount to making things easier for Sarah and Rowan in the future!

While the family members thought about this, Vico and Callie thought about how strong Maximillian should be.

"He'll probably be level 108 by the time we get back to the planet." Said the level 107 robot as he looked at Vico and Callie.

"Only that? You're already level 107. How could he, who's been on Zocarro all this time, only be at level 108?"

One native of the Spiritual World, who was also at level 107, answered Callie's question. "It's not that simple. If His Majesty's estimate is correct, then Maximilian had an advantage of only about 15 years of cultivation over us.

We spent so much of our journey in a world with the time distortion of The Enchanted Realm. So our 40-plus years there were only four years for Maximilian.

The advantage he really had was the years we spent traveling from Zocarro to the Spiritual World and from the Spiritual World to The Enchanted Realm."

"That is the case." Minos smiled mysteriously. "My superior in Armhands advised me to go to The Enchanted Realm for that very reason: to narrow the gap.

If we had gone directly to Zocarro instead of stopping in the galaxy, Maximillian would have been about 75 years older by the time we met again, but we'd each be 3 to 4 levels weaker.

Imagine the problems we'd have to face with the enmities I left behind?" He laughed, as he had followed the advice of his superior in Armhands and had benefited from going to The Red Expanse during his time in The Enchanted Realm.

Obviously, it had taken its toll. Minos was currently at level 104, but he had about 700 years of life experience.

Fortunately, his vitality was over 50,000 years, so he wasn't worried about dying because he had used up so much of his vitality recently.

"But we still have to be careful." Ruth sighed as she looked at her husband. "We have left behind powerful enemies who have surely increased the cultivation gap between us and them by at least one level. That may not seem like much, but at the 11th stage, every step up makes a big difference to the Sovereigns."

Minos agreed, especially considering his companions didn't share many of his characteristics. "That's true. You all should be careful in Zocarro.

Not only will the opponents we face be stronger than ever, but most of our group has cultivated several levels in a weaker world. When we arrive in Zocarro, you will all find that your cultivation bases are unstable, and you won't be as strong as those of the same level as you who have cultivated in Zocarro for decades or centuries.

It will take time for you to stabilize your strength, so be humble and careful. We're still quite weak compared to the real Zocarro experts!"

Grisdi heard this and felt goosebumps running through her body as she imagined how fantastic this place called Zocarro must be for Minos to consider himself weak.

If a man like Minos was weak in Zocarro, how insignificant would she be there?

But this thought only made Grisdi eager to enter Zocarro and experience a world of high-level cultivation.

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For the next few days, the group would quietly travel through the wormhole to The Mirror Realm, in the spaceship of the ancient civilization from The Blossom World.

After completing this journey, the group arrived in The Mirror Realm to a grand welcome, as the local leaders had allied themselves with The Enchanted Realm before the war ended. The war had already ended, and news of Minos and his party's departure from the galaxy had already spread to the powerful planets in the region.

When they arrived in The Mirror Realm, the natives were already waiting for them, which only made it easier for them to pass through this world before continuing on to the Dream Station.

Since it was so close to The Mirror Realm, the group would buy their 14 tickets to Zocarro the same day they left the wormhole, guaranteeing their passage to Zocarro on a spaceship leaving the station in 3 months.

For a group that had been planning to go to Zocarro for nearly 50 years, another 3 months of waiting and then a few dozen weeks between their current location and the artificial moon was nothing.

The group quickly settled into the Dream Station, where they received VIP treatment, with free services and cultivation rooms, a gift from the galaxy's leaders to the group that ended their war.

The group would live peacefully in this place for the next three months, cultivating most of the time, as no problems would come their way during this period.

When the 3 months were up, they would board the spaceship that would take them to the Artificial Moon near Zocarro!