Constellations (3)

At that time, Xiaofeng and the two Chinese incarnations who had traveled beyond the Korean Peninsula finally arrived on the mainland, in Shanghai.

The center of Shanghai was filled with enormous concrete walls and martial artists in training robes, with no trace of its former splendor remaining.

There, the seven most powerful incarnations in China—the so-called Seven Stars, who currently ruled the eastern mainland and had established a provisional government—had gathered, radiating a heavy pressure.

“So, you’re saying that a single female incarnation wiped out that enormous undead army in the north with just one train?”

"Something even twenty of our incarnations couldn’t accomplish?"

The martial artists of the Seven Stars seated at the head of the table snorted as though the claim were absurd.

Xiaofeng swallowed nervously and honestly recounted everything he had witnessed in Yeouido before the Seven Stars, but all he received in return was disbelief.

“Did you actually see the battle with your own eyes? Is it possible that someone else intervened?”

"...I didn’t actually see it."

"Of course you didn’t."...