Ji Xinghuo stood on a hillside, within the refraction zone, gazing ahead at a Highlander Tribe nestled among the mountains.
He scratched his thick beard, his face weary and filled with helplessness.
Three days earlier, the communicator had received a message from the chieftain of Han Qiu, saying that two Highlander Tribes had erupted in war. He had traveled day and night at the fastest speed, but when he arrived, he found that the war had already ended.
And, it was the second time.
The last time, ten days ago, when Ji Xinghuo had arrived, he only saw the victorious side tidying up the battlefield, burning the corpses of their enemies.
Missing the war twice in a row made him realize a problem.
The Bloody Plateau was too vast.
Communication was also very slow; even though the chieftain of Han Qiu sent the message immediately, it had been delayed by many days before the chieftain himself had received it.
Wars broke out frequently on the plateau, daily, but most were not particularly large in scale.
Like the last war between the Blood Fury Tribe and the Slaughter Flame Tribe, because of its large scale, both sides needed to mobilize and prepare, even hiring alien races, thus there was enough time to transmit the information and arrive at the battlefield in time to harness Spiritual Origin Ability.
The Blood Fury Tribe’s battle had been a rare event in years.
The smaller the scale of the war, the quicker it burst and ended. Sometimes, by the time the message reached Sky Falling Cliff, it was already over.
Ji Xinghuo summarized two reasons.
One was that the transmission of messages was too slow, which was beyond his control.
The other was his own slow traveling speed.
The former was the main reason.
As for the latter, even if he let Qing Hong exert its full strength to run at top speed, then shrink down to rest on him when it became tired and he took over running, it still wouldn’t necessarily allow him to arrive in time.
"My flying speed is even slower than Qing Hong running on the ground, consuming too much Star Power to maintain long-duration flying."
"Unless the war occurs somewhere not too far, within a thousand kilometers."
Ji Xinghuo thought over and over, but couldn’t find a solution.
Over the past ten days, he had almost been constantly on the move, covering tens of thousands of kilometers and exhausting both himself and Qing Hong.
He hadn’t just failed to collect any Spiritual Origin Ability, but he had also delayed his search for the Gale Beast.
Ji Xinghuo turned away from the Highlander Tribe and found a place to set up camp. Inside the tent, after a satisfying meal and drink, listening to the howling cold wind outside, Ji Xinghuo pulled out a map of the Bloody Plateau he had bought on Earth, and after comparing, located his current approximate position.
"I’m northwest of Sky Falling Cliff, about 7000 kilometers away."
"I can’t believe I’ve run this far!"
Ji Xinghuo was surprised himself.
His gaze fell on a city marker on the map to his west.
This marker was very prominent, unlike the other cities, some north of the center of the Bloody Plateau, only a little over six hundred kilometers away from him.
Turning to the back of the map, he found its description.
Ji Xinghuo’s eyes lit up, and he immediately remembered having read about this city online numerous times before he became a Mutant.
Eternal Day City was established by an alien species and contains a Star Gate within the city.
Its status was similar to Olympia.
Such Star Gate cities were eight in the Thousand Peak Abyss Forest, and even more, as many as over twenty, on the Bloody Plateau.
Since leaving Sky Falling Cliff, Ji Xinghuo had also passed through two to three Star Gate cities, but just as Earthlings do not allow alien races to enter Olympia, each Star Gate city was heavily defended, strongly forbidding any alien races from approaching, completely xenophobic.
In the Star Realm, recklessly approaching a Star Gate of an alien species was very dangerous.
Ji Xinghuo had always steered clear.
However, Eternal Day City was a different kind of Star Gate city; it welcomed all races, inviting any alien species to enter.
The founders of Eternal Day City were the "Crystal Elite Clan."
This alien species was very unique, considered strange among the many alien species, as they were a rare silicon-based life form.
Strictly speaking, the Crystal Elite Clan was non-carbon-based life.
Relative to humans, the lifespan of the Crystal Elite clan was almost infinite; by Earth’s calendar, their history spanned a million years and had been in the Star Realm for over seventy thousand years!
Even across the entire True Dragon Star Domain and Orion Arm, the Crystal Elite Clan was one of the oldest species, considered a living fossil of civilization.
Naturally, the strength of the Crystal Elite Clan was very formidable.
This was also why they dared to keep Eternal Day City open to alien races.
On the Bloody Plateau, there were two largest cities: one was in the southwest at the Red Emperor Blood Mountain, the Slaughter Flame Tribe and the other was Eternal Day City in the center of the plateau. The Slaughter Flame Tribe was the nominal leader of the Highlanders, whereas the Crystal Elite Clan was the protector of the over twenty alien species on the plateau.
"Since I’m already here,"
"since it’s not far, why not take a tour of Eternal Day City to broaden my horizons?"
Ji Xinghuo was very interested in the Crystal Elite Clan.
On Earth, among the many known Star Realm alien races and alien species, the Crystal Elite Clan was, besides the True Dragons and Winged People, the most talked about and the most mysterious.
This was a silicon-based life form; a life form that had existed only in science fiction before the Star Gate opened!
He rested for the night.
The next day, Ji Xinghuo’s physical fitness and Star Power had recovered, and Qing Hong was also spirited, carrying him as he ran west.
The central part of the Bloody Plateau had a higher elevation than the east, with more rugged mountains, continuous and with extreme topographical variations. Often, they had to travel up and down long distances on a stretch of road, and to save time, Ji Xinghuo frequently carried Qing Hong on his body, simply flying past.