Only I Walk Alone

The reproduction speed of the Mechanical Worm Race was very fast. In just ten years, the population of the Mechanical Worm Race had reached fifty million. Wu Ge organized them into a mechanical worm army, managed by the first generation of the Mechanical Worm Race.

The first generation of the mentioned race was a test batch, numbering only twenty-seven. They received personal instruction from Wu Ge and then all mastered the “power of the heart”.

The so-called “power of the heart” refers to the ability to amplify one’s own capabilities using mental strength. Emotions such as confidence, anger, and slaughter could all affect their combat effectiveness. The mentally strong Mechanical Worm Race could even easily cut through steel with the knives in their hands.

Wu Ge only taught these twenty-seven mechanical worms and granted them the surname “Chong.” These first-generation mechanical worms became leaders, with the eldest being the supreme commander. The other mechanical worms each controlled their own team. Then, they passed on the techniques they learned from Wu Ge to their soldiers. Mechanical worms with strong learning abilities and quick comprehension were promoted to positions like squad leader and vanguard.

Currently, Wu Ge and others each had their own responsibilities. Xiao Luo became the leader of the werewolf race’s science faction, focusing on scientific research. Those werewolves with a talent for science were recruited by her and worked in collaboration with her.

These werewolves had evolved to be almost indistinguishable from humans, not only in appearance but also in intelligence. However, their average lifespan still had not broken through 70 years. Xiao Chao implemented a longevity plan for them, which significantly extended their lifespans, but did not grant them true immortality.

Xiao Chao used lifespan as a form of motivation, only extending the lifespans of werewolves who achieved extremely high accomplishments in the field of scientific research.

Sister Mei became the deity of the werewolf religious faction. She was very proficient in the way of ghosts and gods, and her mastery of the power of faith grew more skilled by the day. Werewolves who believed in her received her blessings; those with shallow faith received health, while those with deep faith gained strength.

For example, the current four knights of the divine temple possessed great strength, but this power came from the faith of the masses. Without faith, they were just ordinary werewolves; with faith, they could obtain long life and powerful strength.

Wu Ge commanded an increasingly large number of mechanical worms. These mechanical worms had short lifespans but astonishing reproductive capabilities and terrifying combat abilities, especially after Wu Ge passed on the power of the heart, their strength reached a frightening level.

Three different paths, three methods of enhancing strength, three leaders each with their own responsibilities, advancing together, collectively strengthening the power of Earth’s civilization.

Earth’s civilization continued to grow and develop. Xiao Chao devised a hundred-year plan, within which, in five hundred years, they would be capable of traversing space. At that time, the peaceful development phase would end, and a cruel period of conquest might begin.

Earth’s civilization developed in an orderly manner. In the 157th year after the disappearance of all humankind, Wu Ge suddenly woke up from a bizarre dream.

Reaching Wu Ge’s realm, he was not prone to dreaming. The dreams he had were more about the spirit leaving the body to see sights outside, a state referred to in Daoist realms as the “out-of-body spirit”.

After breaking through delusion, Wu Ge could occasionally achieve the out-of-body spirit state, and what the out-of-body spirit saw was not dreams but reality. For example, if he used the out-of-body spirit state to check a book he had not seen before, when he physically looked at the book the next day, it would indeed match what the out-of-body spirit had seen.

This was also known in dream cultivation as “dream verification”, a method used to prove that one’s soul had indeed left the body and was not just dreaming.

This was the third realm of Wu Ge’s solitary cultivation: Out-of-Body. After achieving the out-of-body state, he could still control the flying sword that he refined day and night with his spirit. This allowed him to entrust his out-of-body spirit to the flying sword, then control the flying sword to fly thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers away to kill enemies, and then fly back.

Therefore, the dreams Wu Ge has are not ordinary; they likely indicate that he has sensed something ominous, appearing in his dreams in the form of prophecies.

For instance, if someone harbors malice towards him, this malice disperses into the world and is eventually sensed by Wu Ge.

The dream Wu Ge had was very bizarre; he dreamed that he became an upright tiger person with tiger ears and a tiger tail.

Around him were all kinds of upright animals, including upright goats and upright rabbits, all of them bipedal creatures that walked on two legs and used their hands to hold things.

By comparison, Wu Ge felt that these upright creatures were similar to the tiger demons, black bear demons, and elephant demons from “Journey to the West.” Typically, demons that become Immortals or Buddhas take on human appearances, but these demons had human bodies with heads that remained demonic.

The tiger demon Wu Ge portrayed lived here, in a demon kingdom where they farmed, chopped wood, and went to the market to buy vegetables. At the same time, they also fought and killed each other.

Judging by the weapons they used and the clothes they wore, they seemed to still be in the era of the ancient Ming Dynasty. They followed certain etiquettes and knew some martial arts moves, but their power was much stronger than that of humans.

They had their own culture and understood music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. In this kingdom, there was also an emperor, a powerful Flood Dragon, but he was a tyrant who controlled everything, arbitrarily taking the lives of demons and seizing beautiful fairies. His oppression made it difficult for many demons to breathe.

However, as the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. Under the rule of the tyrant, some demons finally started to resist!

The tiger demon Wu Ge portrayed was a member of the resistance. He was the brother of the leader, with unparalleled strength, often taking to the battlefield himself. He also had a beautiful fox wife, and the two demons were very much in love.

The resistance and the emperor’s army fought endlessly, and the battle lasted for ten years.

During these ten years, the resistance grew stronger while the emperor’s army weakened. Just as the resistance was about to win, a major event occurred in the demon kingdom.

It turned out that this kingdom was a large space created by ancient powers, similar to the fox cave where the Fox Immortal resided, attached to but not on Earth.

Because humans were too powerful, the demons hid in these spaces to barely survive. However, as time passed, most demons no longer remembered why they had hidden there in the first place.

The major event was that this space was about to collapse. To prevent the collapse, it was necessary to sacrifice nine powerful warrior souls to replenish the energy of a certain artifact that maintained the space.

To preserve the space, the resistance, and the emperor’s army stopped fighting. They had to select nine powerful warriors and use their souls to replenish the artifact’s energy. Naturally, the tiger demon Wu Ge portrayed was chosen, and fortunately, the powerful tyrant was also selected.

The task was carried out by an even more powerful council of elders, who didn’t care about how the demons lived but had to ensure the stability of the space. Thus, even the powerful tyrant was easily subdued by an elder.

Because the tiger demon volunteered, he was allowed three days to say goodbye to his loved ones.

As the tiger demon bid farewell to his wife, a glimmer of hope suddenly appeared amidst despair. A demon who had left and returned to this space said that all humans in the outside world had disappeared, and there was no need for them to hide anymore!