[The immortal-level master artisans forging alongside you were all utterly astonished, exclaiming continuously.]

["When this artifact is born, it actually triggers celestial phenomena? Could it be the legendary Phenomena Immortal Artifact?!"]

["None of the existing Immortal Artifacts in the human world are Phenomena Immortal Artifacts. Wouldn't this Ten Thousand Souls Banner become the king of all Immortal Artifacts?"]

["With such a sacred and magnificent celestial phenomenon, is this really the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"]

[Enhancement! had taken effect.]

[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which was originally supposed to be an Immortal Artifact, was raised in quality by one tier.]

[But this quality was marked as "?."]

[It was certainly above an Immortal Artifact.]

[But how did it compare to a Great Dao Immortal Artifact?]

[There was no way to know.]

[With your current knowledge of artifact forging, you believed that Great Dao Immortal Artifacts and man-made artifacts were two different tracks entirely.]

[Great Dao Immortal Artifacts were spontaneously conceived by the natural world of the Void Realm, completely different from man-made objects.]

["Old Wan, is it still appropriate to call you the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"]

[In your hand at this moment was a Phenomena Immortal Artifact, its entire body glowing with golden light, radiating a holy radiance. Faint, colorful mist seeped out from within, smelling refreshing and pleasant.]

[Even the Ten Thousand Souls Banner itself found it quite strange.]

["This method left by the Heavenly Hun Demon Venerable has such a miraculous effect? It seems I've not only changed in appearance; I feel like I'm stronger than an Immortal Artifact now! Where's that Dead Chamber Pot?! Come out! Let me have a go!!"]

["There's no need to test it out. You are indeed stronger than an Immortal Artifact now. I want to know, specifically, what aspects of you have been strengthened?"]

["Hehe... wait a moment."]

[The golden light on the surface of this golden banner flickered continuously, seeming to follow some unique rhythm.]

[From within came the sound of zen chants and celestial music, sacred and inviolable.]

["Alright."]

["What's alright?"]

["Come out, Human-Dragon-Man double agent, Hu Chacha!!"]

[Hu Chacha's soul was released by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.]

[As soon as this guy came out, he knelt down on one knee before you, bowing his head in submission.]

["Hu Chacha pays respects to the master!"]

[The corner of your mouth twitched.]

["What's going on?"]

[Dragon-Man tribe members who had infiltrated early were notoriously stubborn and had backbone.]

[They would rather self-destruct than allow themselves to reveal even a single secret of the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[This Hu Chacha, during his time sealed within the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, was constantly cursing your ancestors for eighteen generations.]

[And now, he was kneeling and calling you master?!]

[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner's proud voice came through.]

["Reformation."]

["I'd call it brainwashing."]

["There's also another trick."]

[As he spoke, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner released the Fish Demon, which had been collected into the banner years ago.]

[The banner's surface twisted into the shape of a hand, pointing at a small hill not far away.]

["Go!"]

[The Fish Demon let out a strange howl, its entire soul transforming into a beam of purple light, charging forward in an instant, smashing the entire small hill to smithereens! Boulders flew through the air, the earth shook and the mountains quaked!]

["I remember this guy was only at the Golden Body Realm. How does he have this much destructive power?"]

["This move is called, Enhancement!"]

[Previously, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had basically only one use for the souls collected inside: refining.]

[Of course, as mentioned before, "refining" was comprised of both "refining" and "transformation."]

[Now, he had gained "Reformation" and "Enhancement!"]

[Of course, this wasn't the full extent of the golden banner's power.]

[Knowing the Ten Thousand Souls Banner's nature, he was probably holding back quite a few tricks up his sleeve.]

"Truly incredible, this old boy, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. He's actually become the Human Emperor Banner now!"

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi was quite envious of this brand-new version of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

But there was no rush.

Once the simulation was over and he had inherited the Artifact Forging technique, Chen Yi would also be able to forge the Immortal Artifact Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Then, with an "Enhancement!", he could get the Human Emperor Banner too.

However, he would need to go to the Starry Domains to source the forging materials.

[This epic-level upgrade for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had directly caused Hu Chacha to "abandon the darkness for the light."] 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

[You immediately sat down cross-legged on the spot, activating your intelligence gathering mode.]

["Hu Chacha, let me ask you, how many Martial God realm experts do you Dragon-Men have?"]

["Reporting to my master, in our Dragon-Man Realm, the Martial Kings, Martial Saints, and Martial Gods of the human world are called Dragon Kings, Dragon Saints, and Dragon Gods.

The Dragon-Man Realm is far vaster than the human world. Your subordinate has only just left the nest. After passing a loyalty test, I was allowed into the advance scout special intelligence battalion of the Third Expeditionary Force.

As for the top-tier combat power of the Dragon-Man Realm, I don't really have any means of knowing. I only have hearsay from when I was still in the Dragon-Man Realm.

From what I know, a single expeditionary force has at least three Heaven Venerables and ten Earth Venerables.

Those granted the title of Heaven Venerable are definitely Dragon Gods.

Those granted the title of Earth Venerable are at least Dragon Saints, but there might also be Dragon Gods.

After all, even within the same realm, there are differences in power. Some people can fight across realms even at a lower cultivation level."]

["So that means, one expeditionary force has at least three Martial Gods... How many expeditionary forces does the Dragon-Man Realm have?"]

["The exact number of expeditionary forces is unknown, but your subordinate knows that when the Dragon-Man Realm attacks a world, it deploys at least two expeditionary forces: one for the main assault, and one on standby for reinforcements."]

[From the last simulation, you learned that the Dragon-Man Realm could wage war on four Void Realms simultaneously.]

[That meant at least eight expeditionary forces!]

[Added up, that was at least twenty-four Martial Gods!]

[And this was only counting those in the expeditionary forces, not those on their home turf, nor those second-tier Martial Gods among the Earth Venerables.]

["My god..."]

[You felt like you could barely breathe.]

[In the human world, you had an incredibly difficult time just trying to find seven Martial Gods.]

[And on the Dragon-Man side, a rough calculation gave you twenty or thirty Martial Gods who were all in their prime, ready to conquer other worlds!]

["Fortunately, they are eager to achieve total victory in the world war, so they have divided their forces. We will be facing at most two expeditionary forces."]

[You hoped it would be just one. As for the other one on standby for reinforcements, if you could cut off their intelligence communication, preventing the other force from receiving the news and coming to reinforce, that would be ideal.]

["How did you infiltrators who came over for intelligence manage to get here? Aren't there world barriers between Void Realms, making it difficult to cross?"]

[Thirty thousand years ago, in the Ancient Era, there were indeed many spatial passages connecting the human world to other worlds.]

[But they were all closed after the war with the Demon Tribe. Could there have been some that were missed?]

[Hu Chacha told you that the Dragon-Man tribe hadn't found any missed remnants of the old passages or re-opened any closed ones.]

[Such methods were time-consuming and labor-intensive, with no guarantee of success.]

[The Dragon-Man Realm just used brute force.]

["First, we have to forge a special treasure called the Demon Seed.

This item can attach to any living being, using the host's life force to sustain itself, continuously sending spatial-temporal coordinate information back to the Dragon-Man Realm.

Then, we use a 'Chaos Space Cannon' to fire the Demon Seed at a random world.

Demon Seeds can be regarded as things without realm, sentience, or extraordinary power, so they travel through space more easily.

But the landing point is random. It might end up lost in Spatial Turbulence.

No matter. As long as we fire enough of them, one will eventually land in another Void Realm.

Then, we wait to receive the location information sent back by the Demon Seeds that successfully landed in other worlds, and use a 'Qiankun Space Cannon' to open a small, temporary gap to the designated location.

This gap can only allow a small number of people to pass through, and those people cannot have too high a cultivation level.

I, along with a group of colleagues, came to the human world through such a small gap."]