This wasn’t bad. I knew I’d take more time to solidify my energy and raise my base slowly. If each session took around six months like the first one, then I had four chances to train.

Getting to the top ninth small stage was a dream. I would be pleased if I ended up at stage five or six at most.

This was the limit of training for two and half years.

As I checked my energy, I found that it had made another leap. It was pale blue before, and now it is dark silver in colour.

I could also see a faint golden colour from time to time.

The energy got a good boost indeed. And when I examined it closer, I found that it grew thicker as well. It looked like what I gained from my earlier jump wasn’t just a simple upgrade to my cultivation base.

My spiritual energy got a total enhancement as well. Hopefully by the end of my training here, the energy would bypass the pale gold stage and enter the dark gold stage or even better; the black stage.

Unlike what I expected, that miraculous epiphany state never recurred again. Each time I’d be sent into a simple world without the same feeling like before.

And with each training session, I took almost from two up to four months. I never had a long six months period.

I trained diligently and only took a few hours of rest each time. I checked with Lily and Angelica about the updates on their side.

Things were heading smoothly out there. The plan of strengthening my humans and other weak races and granting them access to cultivation was proceeding smoother than I expected.

And training these forces and much more was going as planned. My little Qi was doing a great job in controlling monsters and letting the scary dudes away from my forces.

According to Lily, they were now working on ten different continents. And that number was destined to grow more in time.

One year and a half years have already passed. And that made me contact Silverlining again and pay him in advance for the rest of the period here.

He was slightly shocked by the fact that the fifth quest didn’t yet start. I didn’t explain anything and knew he got a point to be suspicious.

According to him, not only his race sovereigns and strong names were puzzled by this, but even the Hescos higher ups were as well.

Of course they got all the right to feel so. Time flew at their end normally, but at the worlds related directly to me it passed in a different concept.

Silverlining even told me they ran checks over such phenomena and found out that at different points in the past, time flew differently as well.

Yet it never happened to run in such a way before, where what was supposed to happen in a few weeks didn’t start even after the passage of a year and half.

I kept my silence towards this matter and didn’t explain anything to him. This time manipulation effect was something related to me, one of my deepest secrets. And it was better to keep it hidden from the eyes of outsiders as long as I could.

I paid the price and closed the chat with him before asking Lily about the situation of the outside world. According to her, everything was processing smoother than we planned.

The warm welcome of the new mating experience between different races brought forth many new talents to my forces. Not to mention all of the new generations had cultivation already, and many of them joined my armies.

The resources gathered from the second Earth world and the pocket world were processed at great speed and high efficiency. According to Angelica, the resources we got right now was enough to cover up entire continents.

Not to mention all of these were high grade resources, considered even rare materials and some might ascend to the ranks of treasures.

Angelica proposed to use these in exchange for the unending influx of races and humans here. But I reassured her that it wasn’t needed.

She led the building and mining projects, and the former was indeed going very well. The number of inhabited continents was much bigger than the ones used in training, reaching eighteen continents so far, almost double those used as training grounds.

On another hand, Lily gave me the great news about the research department. These folks managed at last to modify my human arsenal weapon systems, making them apocalypse friendly.

According to her, the newly developed weapons held much more destructive power than anything she saw before.

These scientists didn’t just stop at modifying the old human arsenal. They started to create new weapons using both human and alien technology.

And these new weapons were indeed terrifying per Lily’s words.

She also told me that old Gan succeeded partially in his task in deconstructing and understanding Hescos suits.

It seemed that the old man dreamt about building a totally new suit that belonged only to my forces. When I heard about this, I knew this goal would take a very long time indeed.

However it was worth the wait.

In addition to that, he developed a few weapons that could hurt those Hescos even when using their suits in flight.

But according to Lily’s words, these weapons were still in the stage of development, and their number was still small.

However this was just the beginning. This all happened in a year and half. What would happen after another year?

I had high expectations for this. The dream of finally using the human firearm weapons that rendered useless on Earth was finally getting closer to being true.

Once they mastered the right way to do it, I’d then release lots of forces all over Earth and start gathering the already broken and useless firearm arsenal back there.

When wielding yourself with knowledge ahead of everyone else, even a scrap of metal would turn into a priceless treasure.

That was the power of knowledge, and that was part of my power, luckily.