Hell was now in high gear.

Even the blind could tell that Hell was currently filled with tension right now. Furthermore, Qin Ye hadn’t embargoed the flow of any information, so word soon got around that Hell was going to be mobilizing its troops in the near future. That said, nobody knew for sure when it was going to happen, or who or where the target was.

“Some say that we’re marching against Nippon, some say that we’re marching for the old Hell, while others are saying that we’re heading out on the expedition for the new port city. But the most popular rumour is still that Hell is going to march against the twelve envoys… In short, there’s practically rumours about everything.” Su Dongxue stood beside Qin Ye, staring at the flickering lights in the distance as she reported to him in a low voice.

The sprawling Hell’s Gate was right in front of their very eyes, and the Mirror of Eminence hung at the very top of the structure, shimmering with dazzling light as it shone a conspicuous dark beam of light across Hell like a massive searchlight. What it was doing right now was to locate Yin nodes where the concentration of Yin energy was the densest, because the special buildings of Hell could only be constructed upon such places. Incidentally, these nodes could only be spotted by the Mirror of Eminence that hung high above Hell’s gate.

On the other hand, Qin Ye had long appreciated the fact that such Yin nodes were limited in number. When Hell was no more than the size of a village, there was only in existence a single Yin node that allowed Hell to construct a single soul induction platform. But following...