All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

The next day, the people who came to trade included city officials and some powerful figures, as well as stronger evolved beings. The crystal cores they brought out were much more advanced. The highest crystal core Zhou Yongcheng received was a level seven crystal core, which was brought out by a level eight evolved being.

In less than a day, everything Zhou Yongcheng brought had been sold.

As soon as Zhou Yongcheng walked out of the shop, the shop instantly returned to its original state.

Tang Mingyue had been waiting outside the door for a long time.

"Mr. Zhou, you're not from our world, are you?" Tang Mingyue asked cautiously.

Yesterday, an evolved being caused trouble in Zhou Yongcheng's shop and was instantly reduced to ashes, which terrified Tang Mingyue, a level nine expert.

Even a level nine evolver who controls flames cannot turn a level six evolver into ashes instantly, which shows that Zhou Yongcheng is very strong.

"Didn't it say so on the bags of rice and flour?" Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

"I just want to confirm."

"What do you want from me? Speak up."

Will you come back to our world?

Tang Mingyue wanted to keep trading with Zhou Yongcheng, knowing that the things they traded would eventually run out.

Zhou Yongcheng glanced at Tang Mingyue. He understood her thoughts well. He smiled and said, "I am just a passerby in your world. I will leave at any time. Although your world experienced an apocalyptic war, so much time has passed and the world is changing. Keep trying, everything will get better."

Although the city walls were occupied by zombies, monsters, and mutated plants, leaving humans with little living space, they didn't just sit and wait to die, did they?

The walls they built show that they are gradually expanding their living space, and as time goes by, they will regain control of this planet.

In Bright City, Zhou Yongcheng had already traded enough crystal cores, which was more than enough for Lü Su's use.

Tang Mingyue watched Zhou Yongcheng disappear from the spot and then returned to her own residence.

Zhou Yongcheng appeared at the mutant plant paradise dozens of kilometers away and saw that many plants had borne fruit.

Many mutated birds were circling in the sky, waiting for an opportunity to steal the fruit from the mutated plants.

A mutated bird spotted a fruit and swooped down to grab it. The mutated plant, as if it had eyes, extended a branch and lashed out at the swooping bird. The bird couldn't dodge in time and was struck hard by the branch, almost falling off. It slunk away.

Seeing this, Zhou Yongcheng smiled. He casually picked a fruit and tasted it. It was delicious, with a very good flavor, but it wasn't as good as the spiritual fruits from the cultivation world.

The mutated fruit contains an energy that can strengthen the body, essentially acting as a natural enhancement agent.

Of course, this kind of fruit was useless to Zhou Yongcheng.

Zhou Yongcheng picked another fruit from the level nine mutated plant and tasted it. This fruit was quite remarkable; it could grant a person superpowers.

This fruit is equivalent to turning an ordinary person into an evolved being. Evolved beings are extremely rare, and they only appear when the world is filled with unknown viruses.

After the unknown viruses in the world disappeared, there were no more evolved beings. Only by obtaining the fruit from mutated plants could one have a chance to become an evolved being.

Not all fruits can turn people into evolved beings; it depends on luck. For example, the fruit that Zhou Yongcheng ate before only strengthened the human body and could not turn people into evolved beings.

Zhou Yongcheng looked at this paradise of mutated plants, chuckled, and with a wave of his hand, stored all the fruits they produced into his storage space.

The mutated plants were furious when they saw their fruit disappear. They stretched out their branches and waved them in the air, trying to find the thief who stole their fruit.

No matter how long their branches stretched, they couldn't find the thieves who stole the fruit.

In the void, Zhou Yongcheng saw countless branches extending from the endless mutated plant paradise below, and then he smiled and disappeared from the spot.

Zhou Yongcheng arrived above a city filled with resentment, and his divine sense swept over the city.

He then frowned; this city only had evolved beings and ordinary people.

Ordinary people do not use gene-optimization drugs. Zhou Yongcheng discovered that there was a base under the city that was similar to Bright City. It also had equipment for manufacturing gene-optimization drugs, but it was not in use. Only some of the necessary equipment was in operation, such as equipment for producing weapons, food, and technological equipment. The entire base was controlled by an AI and used robots.

Zhou Yongcheng didn't let the Red Queen collect information either. It was obvious at a glance that the city lord was behind the situation in the city below.

Zhou Yongcheng looked toward the city lord's mansion. The city lord was an eighty or ninety-year-old man, but he looked only thirty or forty years old.

Because he is an evolved being, an evolved being who can control the element of gold, and an eighth-level evolved being, that's why he's so young.

He was exercising on the bed at that moment, and there were five or six beautiful women on the bed besides him.

Zhou Yongcheng saw a great deal of evil in the city lord and used his supernatural powers to see his past.

This city lord is really wicked. Before the world was in nuclear war, he was just a lowly purchasing agent in an underground base, not even a leader.

When nuclear war broke out, he survived underground. After leaving the base, an unknown virus transformed him into an evolved being who could control the element of gold.

Of those who survived, he was the strongest.

He used force to gather a large number of people, and began clearing out zombies and building defensive walls, which turned the area into a gathering place.

As more and more survivors gathered, the place transformed into a city, and he became its ruler.

To prevent anyone from knowing about the underground base, he killed the survivors on trumped-up charges, thus becoming the sole controller of the underground base.

In order to prevent ordinary people from rising in status, he did not make the gene-optimizing agents in the base available for ordinary people to use, nor did he organize researchers to study the gene-optimizing agents. Therefore, the gene-optimizing agents in the underground base remained at level two, and they were not gene-optimizing agents that could enhance the body. They were simply agents that were developed in the past to optimize human genes and prevent the human body from becoming diseased.

Later, he discovered that crystal cores could make evolved beings stronger, so he took out the resources produced in the base and had the people in the city trade them for crystal cores.

If a woman he sets his sights on doesn't comply, his entire family will be killed. Over the years, he changes women every few years. If he takes a liking to someone, and she has a husband and children, he kills her. The cruelty of his methods is unimaginable.

If his subordinates disobeyed, they would be killed, so no one in the entire city dared to disobey his orders.

There have been two rebellions in the past few decades, but both were suppressed; anyone who tried to cause trouble was killed.

This has led to a gradual decrease in the city's population, and the city has never expanded outwards, remaining the same size as before.

Zhou Yongcheng shook his head. Why keep such a person around? He grabbed at him from a distance, and Zhou Yongcheng took away the city lord's ability to control the gold element. The city lord's strength relied entirely on this ability. Taking away this ability was equivalent to taking away most of his life.

If he had someone develop a gene-optimizing agent, and people could use it while having evolved abilities, he believed that even if their abilities were taken away, the impact wouldn't be too great.

Tang Mingyue of Bright City was quite clever. Even though the unknown virus turned her into an evolved being, she still had people continue to develop gene-optimizing agents. At the same time, she also used gene-optimizing agents herself to make herself stronger. Wouldn't that be better?