When they arrived at the foot of Giant Peak, about ten kilometers away, they had to look up to see its summit.
It truly soared into the clouds!
Ji Xinghuo, gazing at the clouds circling the waist of Giant Peak, couldn’t help but exclaim, "It’s no wonder it’s a spectacle of the Star Realm, the vertical drop must be over twenty thousand meters."
There are seas in the Star Realm, but they cannot be accurately measured, hence there is no data on elevation.
One can only estimate the height difference from the summit to the foot of the mountain.
The highest peak on Earth, Mount Everest, has a vertical drop of less than 4,000 meters, while the vertical drop of this Giant Peak in front of them was five times that of Mount Everest!
Xia Qingyu said, "On the Bloody Plateau, the Red River Giant Peak also ranks within the top ten in terms of height."
"Just in the top ten?" Ji Xinghuo was taken aback.
"Hehe..." Xia Qingyu, showing off his knowledge, said, "Just in the eastern part of the plateau, there are two mountains taller than Red River Giant Peak. One is Thunderstorm Peak, about 1300 kilometers southwest of Sky Falling Cliff, and the other is Gundamu Peak, about 800 kilometers north from here. I’ve been to both."
Ji Xinghuo listened with keen interest and asked, "Where is the highest peak of the Bloody Plateau?"
"In the southwestern part of the plateau, about 16,000 kilometers from Sky Falling Cliff, it’s called Red Emperor Blood Mountain," replied Xia Qingyu, "It’s a sacred place for the Highlander believers. The vertical drop must be over thirty thousand meters, controlled by the plateau’s most powerful ’Slaughter Blood Tribe.’"
"Have you been there?"
"No," Xia Qingyu admitted, "It’s too far, the journey is too dangerous, and I have no real need to visit Red Emperor Blood Mountain. It’s better to just hang around the eastern part of the plateau."
As they talked, they got closer and closer to Red River Giant Peak.
The reason it was called Red River Giant Peak was that, at the foot of this mountain, a raging river flowed with murky, slightly red water. From a distance, it looked like a river of blood.
Thus, the Red River referred to this very river.
On this side of the river, a military encampment had been established along a ten-kilometer stretch of flat riverbank.
They were an army from the Blood Fury Tribe that had arrived at Red River Giant Peak earlier. Their numbers exceeded twenty thousand, and with He Yan leading his troops to join them, the total count reached thirty thousand.
On the opposite side of the river was the most important political and population center of the Biao Clan’s Skull Crushers, nestled between the two ridges of Red River Giant Peak and forming a sizable tribal settlement. The Biao Clan constructed walls from giant stones and logs, wrapping around the ridges’ outer edge, forming a crude defensive line.
All bridges over the river had been torn down, making it difficult for the army to cross in the short term.
Across the water, many Biao Clanspeople could be seen outside their settlement, digging trenches and traps, setting up defenses, with patrols of Biao Clan roaming the opposite bank.
Ji Xinghuo observed these clanspeople.
The proportion of Third Rank Evolvers was very high, almost reaching half, far higher than the Highlanders from the Blood Fury Tribe.
However, the Highlanders had an absolute advantage in numbers.
A few hours later, another Highlander army arrived at Red River Giant Peak. Nearly twenty thousand strong and even better equipped, they were the core troops of the Blood Fury Tribe’s Chieftain "Guloke."
But Guloke did not launch an attack.
Instead, he set up camp by the riverbank for the night, and the next day, allies of the Blood Fury Tribe arrived.
The Sharp Teeth Tribe and the Heart Eaters, both Highlander groups, followers of the Red Emperor, although the blood-colored tattoos on their bodies were slightly different. These two clans brought twenty thousand and thirty thousand Highlander warriors respectively, bringing the number of troops on the shore to one hundred thousand—a veritable army of one hundred thousand!
The encampment spread out along the Red River, stretching over ten kilometers.
Ji Xinghuo and the mercenaries were stationed in the middle of the encampment, and from his position, his electromagnetic induction spread out, perfectly enveloping the entire camp.
Sensing the magnetic fields of over one hundred thousand human forms within the range, he couldn’t suppress the surge of excitement in his heart.
In his eyes, these were all Spiritual Origin Ability!
"Best to have your brains smashed out, blood drained, and provide me with hundreds of thousands of Spiritual Origin Ability!" Ji Xinghuo looked across the river at the Biao Clan settlement, his eyes filled with anticipation.