Baijiazhuang was in an uproar.

The news of the White Dragon King's death had come back along with its body, and the more than eighty thousand residents couldn't stop talking about it. Either way, they had seen off the White Dragon King, a Firestarter Spirit, and welcomed a king of their own kind—the Mountain King.

"What does the Mountain King look like?"

"Did the Mountain King really kill the White Dragon King?"

"Does the Mountain King have three heads and six arms and stand a hundred meters tall?"

"Are you blind? The Mountain King's truck isn't even a hundred meters long, so how could a person be that big? Don't get carried away. He's about the same as the rest of us!"

"What his body looks like doesn't matter. What matters is strength. Li Heng already told me the Mountain King killed the White Dragon King with ease, and hunting down the Twin Kings of Taiyuan and the Sword King won't be any trouble for him either."

"You women are in luck. Hurry up and get ready. Your chance is right now."

Shen Cong paid no attention to the common residents' chatter. There weren't many evolved people. With the White Dragon Envoy and the rest already dead, fewer than six hundred were left. Not a single one of them was even super-grade. Honestly, a group this weak had been reckless to break out of slavery under the Firestarter Spirits. Holding on to an oasis and staying alive would be hard for it.

Still, there was no denying these people had a lot of untapped potential.

Exposure to a Firestarter fragment's radiation was one chance to raise Talent. Devouring fire-spirit medium was another chance to raise Talent. Add the Primal Energy Fluctuation Method, and a few super-grade evolved individuals were sure to emerge, maybe even ultimate-grade evolved individuals.

Down in the hot-spring lake.

Shen Cong found the Firestarter fragment the White Dragon King had often ground and polished.

This fragment was as big as a basketball. It gave off far stronger radiative fluctuation than any of the three fist-sized pieces Shen…