Ji Xinghuo’s world twisted before his eyes, his body feeling the pulling force from outside the leap channel. The sensation was fleeting, and when he returned to normal space, he found himself in the lobby of a public array.
"Check your identity card and pay the fee."
The face of the Pseudo Dragon outside the array squeezed out a reluctant smile, but his eyes were filled with arrogance and contempt.
Ji Xinghuo flashed the ministerial identity card he had acquired just a few days prior.
The Pseudo Dragon’s expression changed instantly, becoming enthusiastic as he bowed and said, "My lord, please follow this way."
Such arrogance followed by fawning didn’t surprise Ji Xinghuo in the least.
The True Dragon Dynasty was a realm completely founded on racial and strength supremacy, class differences and racial prejudice were the norm, and racism was politically correct here. Everyone was accustod to this, seeing it as a given.
From the highest-ranking True Dragon to so of the lowest-level Deserted People, Ji Xinghuo had experienced it all, deeply realizing the stark difference in treatnt.
If he were still impersonating a True Dragon, the caretaker would not dare check the identity card.
He might even refuse to pay the fee.
Therefore, he originally disguised himself as a True Dragon when he leaped to Cangdu, but it was no longer necessary now.
Ji Xinghuo paid the leap fee and, riding a Branch Horn Cloud Deer, he left the hall.
Outside was a city built against the mountains.
"You Hui City!"
The Branch Horn Cloud Deer walked the streets as Ji Xinghuo observed the surrounding buildings, heavily influenced by Alien Race styles. Most structures were carved into the mountainside or dug into the ground, only revealing hints of their edges.
The city had a population of millions, the streets stretching from the mountainsides to the foothills and far beyond.
The surrounding crowd bustled with many Alien Races.
Apart from the mainstream humans, the most nurous were the "Hui Clan".
This was a common race in the Star Realm, mostly snake-bodied with humanoid upper halves. Their upper bodies were human-like, while their lower bodies ended in snake tails, existing in many branches.
Distinguished by scale color, there was Black Hui, Green Hui, White Hui, Patterned Hui, Red Hui, etc.; by size, there were Giant Hui, Python Hui, and Sand Hui; also differing by the number of arms, four-ard, six-ard, as well as dual-tailed, multi-headed, and Triangular Hui, etc.
This race was vastly nurous.
The differences within the Hui Clan were significant, so gifted and technologically advanced, establishing their own nations, others backward and ignorant, only slightly better than monsters and beasts.
The Hui Clan had also produced many powerful beings, including quite a few Shepherd Star Saints.
But in the True Dragon Dynasty, the Hui Clan was considered a lower race.
Their status was almost like that of the Deserted People.
Despite the city being called "You Hui City" and over thirty percent of its inhabitants being the Hui Clan, it was still ruled by humans.
Ji Xinghuo rode the Branch Horn Cloud Deer to the center of You Hui City, where he soon saw a giant Star Gate.
This Star Gate was larger than the Earth Star Gate, its black hole-like diater exceeding a hundred ters, surrounded by alloy passages built like a honeycomb, encompassing the Star Gate, and constantly filled with people coming and going.
Passing through the Star Gate would take him to Black Ring Star, the destination of this trip.
You Hui City was within the Yuan Magnetic Territory, over eight thousand kiloters from Titanium Ring City, making it a relatively well-known city in the territory, thus it had a public array.
As Ji Xinghuo approached the Star Gate, he turned his head toward the direction of Taiwai City.
Through his sensation, a shadow instantaneously leaped from hundreds of kiloters away and appeared in an empty room on the street side, guided by his own position.
Then it teleported again, falling into his pocket.
It was Qing Hong!
During the leap from the public array, even though Qing Hong was shrinking, it would still be detected, and Ji Xinghuo didn’t want to expose it, so he had Qing Hong start earlier, leaping ti and again, pinpointing his location, and ultimately converging.
A few days before going to Titanium Ring City to et Titanium Cobalt Lan, Ji Xinghuo had Qing Hong leave, teleporting outside to move freely.
Qing Hong was quite dissatisfied with this.
Today, going to Black Ring Star, he definitely had to bring it along.
"Travelling to Black Ring Star requires the paynt of 50,000 True Dragon Coins or an Ether Crystal." When Ji Xinghuo arrived at the entrance to the Star Gate, he saw a sign next to the door that posted this reminder, sothing he had heard from Cheng Sheng beforehand.
Ji Xinghuo paid the True Dragon Coins, took out his identity card to register his information, and was then allowed to enter the Star Gate channel.
The flow of people entering and exiting the Star Gate was not crowded, ensuring efficiency.
Ji Xinghuo observed that most were between Third Rank to Fifth Rank in strength. The hazard level of Black Ring Star in the Yuan Magnetic Territory wasn’t considered high, but its range was extensive, from First Rank to Sixth Rank mutants finding suitable hunting grounds.
However, entering Black Ring Star required a fee, and for mutants below Fifth Rank, 50,000 True Dragon Coins or an Ether Crystal wasn’t a small amount.
Thus, the overall profitability was low and the payback period long.
Usually, adventurers entering Black Ring Star were ready to hunt there long-term, minimizing the cost of entry.
Ji Xinghuo certainly didn’t care about such a sum.
What he valued was the quantity and density of creatures on Black Ring Star, to see if he could efficiently harvest Spiritual Origin Ability.
Soon, it was Ji Xinghuo’s turn; he stepped through the Star Gate. After a whirl of topsy-turvy spinning, he felt light-footed, floating mid-air. Looking around, he was in a sealed space several hundred ters in diater.
The alloy walls had transparent windows through which he could see the outside.
One side was dark and profound.
"Space!"
Ji Xinghuo floated out from the Star Gate channel, gazing into the infinite darkness of space. Although he had heard about it before, seeing it with his own eyes was still a novelty.
He turned to look the other way.
Suddenly, a huge Star Gate appeared before his eyes, the faint blue tinged with green of a planetary surface curved, its atmosphere blurred, the most startling feature being a planetary ring stretching into space, like a black ribbon being pulled from the Star Gate!
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