The glove maintained skin contact with the General for a single second, transmitting an update status on the Legion deployment in the Higher Heaven, while also receiving the update on the Legion's growth and development in the Lower Realms.

As expected, the General had things well in hand here, since she received an influx of Bronze Pills from herself, plus a trillion bits of Ascension food from the Cook to replenish the Legion ranks fallen in constant war. The golith menace still plagued the distant universes, and obviously the inter-spatial places in-between. Nothing that a Legion Sergeant in Tier 10 couldn't deal with, but they weren't numerous enough to cover everything.

Even a third of the Phoenix lands above were so large that a billion Bronze Realm Soldiers were barely enough to keep them under control, not to mention the Lower Realms being a dozen orders of magnitude larger. And as always, cultivation resources were insufficient, so expanding Legion numbers to cover everything was still slow.

On the bright side, the General had received a sealed jade box with chattering insects inside, from their Compact ally, Gena Feng.

"Silkworms?" the glove mused softly as her recognition patterns aligned on a certain track, without opening the box.

"Jade Silkworms. Not native to the Three Realms, I think." the General spoke in a cautious voice.

The glove stored the box in her pocket, already predicting a massive upheaval in the Higher Heaven once the silk of these jade worms appeared. The Mirror of Samsara always induced Chaos with every move, not always obvious except in hindsight.

"The sounds they make...are they a Song?" the glove asked to make sure. It sure sounded like an alien song to her.

"So you hear it too. Indeed, it's a song. Not sure if it's the Song we need, though. I thought that Twin Angel project will provide us our Song." the General said in a warning voice.

"I doubt Xia and Xie will even emerge from the Mirror Universe in time to meet our Cook. Regular people need millions of years to Ascend to Tier 5. Probably more." The glove answered with a careless shrug.

"Most likely, this is why. A faster Song, for the Mulberry Tree. The Silent Monk still doesn't speak, I guess." The General inferred with a sad voice.

"I don't think Tier 12 will change anything with our dear monk. The Tree wants a mouthpiece, but only after it returns to Tier 13. And the Mirror wants to watch a nice show. It will be a bloodbath." The glove spoke with a calm voice, then stored the Soldiers waiting in ranks below the Mercy Seat, and entered the Sword River.

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A shadow grew behind the Imperial Artifact, and a certain Legion Soldier emerged, now at the peak of Tier 2.

"She saw me anyway." Zen complained out loud, probably to her sentient sword, since the General didn't care. Too much to hope for though.

"You're tied with Fate and Karma strings to her user, Undying Sword. Any Steel Eminence can see the strings, not to mention my dear orange glove." the General spoke in a lighter voice, and flicked a low-level Barracuda Burger to her strange Soldier who just couldn't die.

"Oh! Pef made this!" Zen exclaimed with joy, and gulped the whole thing in one gulp. Her body expanded into a cloud of shadows for a second, then returned as a new Tier 3 Soldier, without any issue. Not even a Tribulation cloud showing up to check on it.

"Go back to the Bee Starfield and train. When the bloodbath begins up there, you wouldn't want to miss the fun." the General ordered in a casual voice, answered only with a bang on Zen's breastplate as the Undying Sword ran off towards the transport junction, without further comment.

A second later, Queen Shiara emerged from her own shadow nearby, and took the offered storage ring. "A trillion new Ant Soldiers, my General?" the Ant Queen asked to make sure. The burgers inside would Ascend her newborn Ants from Saint Realm to Tier 2, thus ready to become Legion Soldiers instantly.

"Indeed. And select 500 million Ants for the Phoenix Lands, even if you weaken the Starfield Army. I think I'll send 500 million Devils for the other half of this deployment. They should be useful in the bloodbath." the General mused with a thoughtful tap on her chin.

Shiara sighed and was about to leave, when the General locked her in place with a single gaze. "Pef sent you something, Shiara. I can't open it, so I don't know what's inside." The General spoke in a strange voice, and held out a thin glass vial, opaque to any eyes or senses. Most likely some kind of Formation, too advanced for anyone in this Realm.

Shiara took the vial, then vanished for a second. Probably inside the vial, if it had a storage space inside. "What is..." she began to ask, when her body cracked and Ascended to Tier 11, but only pushed her cultivation realm from 6th to 7th Star in Tier 7.

Luckily, body cultivation was not a workable method to transcend the Dao Barrier above the realm, so this strange gift only made the Ant Queen nigh-invulnerable to most kinds of damage, even from Tier 10 experts. Shiara froze for a second, then flapped her wings gently to flit about faster than any Tier 10 around could do.

"That boy...I don't know what to say, except eternal gratitude." the Ant Queen spoke in a reserved voice. Who gave away this kind of gifts? And how? And why?

"I'm sure the cultivators in the High Heavens feel exactly the same way, Shiara. Your new children should be born directly Soldiers from now on. I look forward to your service." The General answered with a bewildered head-shake. When she asked the Mirror for a miracle weapon, nobody had imagined what form it would take.

Now they saw it, and still didn't know what happened. And the Mirror seemed rather confused as well.