These people were not allowed into the Fengli Organization because they were too politically seasoned. They were not a match with how largely the organization worked. 

  Like this time, when they were called in for a meeting, they started to throw wild speculations behind what Qin Feng’s intent was before listening to what he had to say. 

  A few moments later, Qin Feng finally walked into the meeting room and sat on the chairman’s chair. 

  “Everyone! Please be seated!” Qin Feng said. 

  After seeing everyone seated, Qin Feng pondered for a short while before opening his mouth, “Things are looking up in the North Sea State. Half of the North Sea’s desert has now been turned into oases. There is also a huge decrease in the ultra beasts’ number in the area. However, at the same time our resources have been vastly depleted too!” 

  This was frankly quite unavoidable. 

  In fact, to develop a powerful city, the best way was to own several entrances to several secret territories. The point was to be on the offensive instead of waiting for ultra beasts to come and attack them. 

  And to do that, they would need more manpower. With more capable aptitude users joining the city, more taxes could be collected which then would be spent in developing the cities. 

  However, the North Sea State did not have such advantages. 

  Qin Feng continued on, “Due to a huge climate change in the desert and cities growing larger and closer to one another, there was no need for the cities to construct walls to defend themselves. Yet, this also means that all the four cities are congregated together. Not only that, there are very few expedition teams to scout useful lands for new settlements. To add more, there seems to be some mismanagement too. The ancient warrior families are avoiding taxes by abusing the privileges that they have!” 

  These, however, were not the fault of these aptitude users—these were the problems that were all rooted back to Gao Yukang’s governance. 

  These people were associated with the Huaxia Alliance but they were largely uncontrolled by Gao Yukang. Meng Lin, for example, had to allow these ancient warrior families to abuse their privilege and get huge sets of benefits because they were too weak to stand up against them. 

  If the ancient warriors were holding up their side of the bargain, things would at least be better. However, they did not. Whenever the ultra beasts came attacking, they just lay back and watched, refusing to send their men to come to face these beasts. However, whenever there were some loot or benefits to share, they would come and ask for their “share”. 

  With no one able to take on the ultra beasts and these schmucks robbing the government of all the money, no wonder the North Sea State was so weak. 

  Of course, Qin Feng was not going to badmouth Gao Yukang. The man was dead. It was unwise to be disrespectful toward the deceased. Besides, Gao Yukang was the one who passed on his title to Qin Feng; so, he was grateful toward Governor Gao for this opportunity. 

  Sure, there were a lot of things that Gao Yukang could not change during his service. However, Qin Feng could do what he could not! 

  After hearing Qin Feng’s analysis, everyone started to show some discontent. 

  “Governor, it’s not that we don’t want to collect the taxes. But most businesses are owned by these ancient warriors. They are quite powerful—even more powerful than our patrol units. There’s no way we could tell them to get in line!” 

  “Yes, governor. This is hardly our fault. No one helped us in dealing with these leechers!” 

  “Some of these ancient warriors have C-tiers among them too!” 

  Qin Feng took a slow sweep at everyone with his eyes, forcing everyone to shut up with his tenacious glare. 

  “Are you done? It doesn’t matter how it was back in the day. From today onward, these ancient warriors must pay their taxes. Send my message to them. If they dare to skip on even one cent, I’ll go knock on their doors for a chat!” 

  Qin Feng emphasized the word “chat” when he said that. 

  Would it be just a “chat”? No one knew. 

  However, these people of authority knew Qin Feng meant business now! When he first became the governor, he did not show these people his authority. Now, they had seen and felt it. 

  Qin Feng continued on, “I gave them one year for them to adjust to the new government here. So, I hope they know just who the boss is in the North Sea State!” 

  This was a low-key threat but not toward anyone in the meeting room. As such, after hearing this, they felt a surge of confidence. 

  To them, this was good news. 

  “Of course, Governor. We understand!” 

  “Yes, Governor! You’re absolutely right in this. I’ll do what you’ve asked!” 

  “Hell yeah! It’s about time!” 

  Qin Feng waved his hand to signal for everyone to settle down. “The biggest threat in the North Sea State is now gone. So, many aptitude users have ascended and improved in this one whole year. Now, we should do our best to prevent these new blood from moving out of our state!” 

  Back then, the North Sea State had nothing but desert, and Shadong Town was a dog-eat-dog world. As such, even the Three Cities along the Sun would send E-tier aptitude users to help deal with the safety here. 

  Now that things had changed, there were many more local aptitude users showing up. 

  These aptitude users would need resources, money, ultra beasts’ crystal cores, runes and scrolls to ascend and grow. If the North Sea State could not give them these, it was quite natural for them to leave and seek for better opportunities elsewhere. 

  With these people gone, it would lead to the North Sea State losing power; and with less power, this meant less control for the government—the last thing a governor would want to see. 

  Thus, everyone in the meeting room now knew what Qin Feng wanted to announce. 

  “Boss, you mean to develop the North Sea State? To make our state stronger?” Meng Lin carefully opened his mouth, trying to uncover what Qin Feng was thinking. 

  Still, there was no need to announce this outright. After Qin Feng had become stronger, he would start to feel that governing the North Sea State was not much of a challenge anymore. However, it would be very wasteful for him to just give it away. 

  As such, Qin Feng now had three choices: 

  One, to resign from his post and leave the North Sea State. He could earn more as a support general for the Huaxia Alliance. 

  Two, apply for a transfer to become a governor of another state. However, this would mean that he could offend someone from another faction. 

  Three, develop and strengthen the entirety of the North Sea State. However, in order to do so, he would need time and money. However, if things went well, the benefit would be tremendous. 

  In the Northern Region, other than Beihua City, there was also Hanchuan State, where many capable aptitude users were born due to its plentiful resources. Compared to that, everyone from the North Sea State was so weak that they would bend whenever they passed by someone from another state. When he saw this, Qin Feng could not help but feel ashamed of this. 

  Thus, Qin Feng chose the third route without hesitation and gave Meng Lin his reaffirmation, “Yes. That is what I have in mind. That is why I’m gathering all of you here to ask for your opinions.” 

  After hearing this, everyone started to form their opinions and another wave of discussion had begun. Some of them were really giving proper analysis and suggestions on what to do to develop the state while some of them were just doing their darndest to secure some benefits for themselves. Qin Feng listened carefully to the former while completely giving the latter his cold shoulder. 

  “Alright, there’s a good suggestion right there. Let’s build a new city behind the four cities in order to accumulate the population in the area—right here!” 

  Qin Feng switched on the big screen behind him and pointed at one spot on the map! 

  As they looked at the map, they did not see the burning excitement in Qin Feng’s eyes. 

  Qin Feng knew that in less than half a month, a huge incident—an incident of opportunity would happen on this very spot! 

  That was why Qin Feng wanted to claim this exact spot preemptively. 

  Before he was reborn, Qin Feng remembered that in February, A.C (After Calamity Calendar) 219, Qin Feng was just a mere F8-tier aptitude user. He had no resource and power to do anything to grab this opportunity for himself. 

  But now! He could with all the resources and power he had with him!

  Chapter 627: The Balls that Squeezed Through Dimensional Rifts

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  Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation 

  Everyone went straight to work after receiving orders from Qin Feng. 

  The things that Qin Feng wanted done would usually require them half a year to complete. However, Qin Feng was a person who liked to keep things going and hated just sitting there and waiting for things to happen. Despite him not usually being stationed in Fengli, Qin Feng immediately brought a D-tier ground type ability user with him in the Fengli Dweller and went straight to the spot he wanted to start a settlement in the very next day. 

  This place was one of the outskirts with a lot of ultra beasts lurking around. It would usually take some time to clear them all out. 

  However, Qin Feng was not some schmuck. 

  When he was in the Dusan Basin, Qin Feng was able to sweep all those insectoids like it was nothing. In this area, the strongest ultra beasts were of E5-tier. Most of the ultra beasts here were just F-tiers. 

  How could they take on Qin Feng? How could they withstand his attacks? 

  After several waves of flames, Qin Feng was able to clean out an area to begin the construction of the new city—including a huge area designated for farming. Many of the attacks Qin Feng unleashed included magma attacks, which then turned the soil in the area into a mineral-rich one that was vibrant enough for farming. 

  Then, he asked the D-tier ground type ability user to bulldoze the terrain in the area so that it was flat enough for city building. 

  As these two got to working, the others in the four cities too were working their asses off. They kept gathering funds, manpower and surveying the population in rural areas, etc. 

  In this age and era, due to a lack of tragedies happening now, there were a lot of people waiting for this opportunity—that someone of privilege and authority would give them monetary opportunities and a chance to live within the safety of a city. 

  In less than half a month, the city was built. 

  The roads were spread across the city like a web, connecting to the closest city in the area—Qin City. There were countless people moving in and out of the city, filling the city with vibrancy of life. 

  Atop of the city was a machine that allowed manipulation of dimension and three huge aircrafts. The city was equipped with the best technology and defenses, making it basically a stronghold. 

  Standing on a watchtower in the middle of the city, Qin Feng scanned around at the western side of the city. From time to time, he kept looking at the time displayed on his communicator. 

  Thankfully, no one noticed that he was acting strange. Bai Li, clad in her dress that was made with Blight Butterfly wings, was hanging out next to him playing with her toy. 

  Suddenly, a sharp signal could be heard from the dimensional device in the sky! 

  Beep Beep Beep Beep!!! 

  Qin Feng’s communicator too was sounding the signal as a loud, calm announcement could be heard from the hundreds of speakers in the city. 

  “Warning. Warning. A Dimensional Rift has been detected within the radius of 30 kilometers!” 

  Thirty kilometers. That was really close to the city. 

  It was quite usual for a city to install a dimensional device to stabilize the area while building a circle of watchtowers within twenty kilometers in radius from the center of the city. If it was thirty meters, it was like a half an hour drive in an ordinary car from here. 

  However, if it was a hover car, they could reach there in ten minutes at full speed. 

  Witnessing a Dimensional Rift opening up so close to them, the citizens felt as though the world was coming to an end. 

  Meanwhile, the aptitude users in the city were surprised when they heard this. 

  “Quick! Send out the drones to scout the area!” 

  “We won’t make it. It’s just twenty kilometers. Just use the long-distance scanning!” 

  “Well? What are we waiting for! Start the scan!” 

  Bai Li stood up and approached Qin Feng. “So, is this the one you’re waiting for?” 

  Bai Li was no kid no more. Her cognitive abilities were now the same as any usual human being. In fact, with all those memories embedded and passed down to her via her DNA, she might actually be more knowledgeable and experienced than a reborn warrior like Qin Feng. 

  She had always known that Qin Feng had some kind of ability to “see the future”. To her, this was nothing unusual—the universe was a vast weird place. There were many other creatures with the ability to see the future—predicting a disaster weeks before a human’s machine could detect it. 

  “Let’s go and take a look. It must be a hell of a sight there.” 

  “Alright, let’s go!” 

  Bai Li activated her conscious energy and enveloped them in her silver dimensional runes before teleporting them to their destination in a burst of silver ray! 

  Her ability to transport herself and others via her dimensional powers had now grown so much that she could teleport anything to as far as five thousand meters! 

  This meant that she could reach the Dimensional Rift in just four jumps in the dimensional tunnel. 

  When the whole city was watching from afar anxiously, Qin Feng and Bai Li had reached the rift in the span of ten seconds. 

  In front of them was a huge, round hole appearing in mid-air. 

  Not only that, there was already a sphere-like object squeezing its way half-way into this side of the dimension when they got there. 

  The thing looked like a fiery ball. 

  Bai Li looked at the huge hole in the air and recognized that it was the result of a forced attempt at tearing a huge hole in the dimension on the other side. 

  “Should I seal it up?” Bai Li asked. 

  Right now, she was powerful enough to completely seal up this rift. 

  “No. I’m waiting for them to come!” 

  As Qin Feng was talking, the huge fiery ball had already gotten through and was about to enter this world. 

  The fiery ball was huge, about forty-meter in diameter! The thing was dropping straight toward the ground from five hundred meters above! It was horrifying to look at! 

  Booom!! 

  In the blink of an eye, the fiery ball had landed and sent out a massive shockwave. However, there was no tremor felt from its landing! 

  Standing on a high ground, Qin Feng could see that the split second before the ball reached the ground, it exploded and covered the ground in flames! Then, several hundred humanoids, in kneeling position, stood up from the fire. Their skin was crimson red with countless fiery cracks, like that of magma. One needed not to stand near these humanoids to see that there were flames burning on these small cracks on their skins. It was quite clear that these humanoids’ body temperature was hot. 

  It felt like he was looking at a group of self-immolated fiery people. 

  In fact, these “fiery people” were much larger than an average human being—they were about four meters tall, with sturdy solid muscles! 

  They were the Cinderclast Golems! 

  There were several hundreds of Cinderclast Golems standing down there. The weakest golem was a C8-tier. Some of the bigger ones were B-tier. 

  Everyone in the city, including Zhou Hao and his friends, took in a breath of horror when they saw these horrifying creatures. 

  “Scan their energy levels, quick!” 

  “What are their tiers?” 

  “The strongest one is B1-tier!” 

  “What?!” 

  “What should we do? Should we evacuate?” 

  Everyone was panicking. 

  B1-tier. That was a foe that they had never dared to take on. 

  However, as everyone’s attention was fixated on these Cinderclast Golems, the sky started to crack again! 

  Crack! 

  Everyone could hear a loud crack, as though something huge had been broken. The people in the city moved their scanners to look at the direction it came from. Qin Feng and Bai Li too raised their heads to look at it. 

  Another huge fiery ball was appearing mid-air, just like the one before. 

  Not only that, the entire sky appeared as if it was going to crash down. There was no more familiar blue sky anymore. Instead, there were only silver rays everywhere as the huge, black dimensional rift was pushing out another fiery ball. And then another…… and another…… 

  In an instant, there were eight fiery balls in the sky.