Chapter 134: Entering the Purple Cloud Country
Flying through the borders of the country wasn’t hard, especially when he had transformed into light.
But Tyler also knew he had a major weakness in this form. Although it was only against Grandmasters and above, it was still a weakness.
One could easily track him if one had good eyes. After all, he was just a large, concentrated form of light.
Not to mention, Grandmaster’s Spiritual Sense could see everything within a few kilometers.
So, Tyler truly didn’t want to encounter any grandmaster. That’s also why he didn’t stop to look at the Church of Humanity.
The funny thing about this organization was that its first motto was defending humanity.
But every single headquarters was located in Santo, Norigo, and Miko Region.
Tyler destroyed the headquarters located in the Norigo Region. Although he could’ve destroyed the headquarters in Santo Region as well.
But for that, he would’ve had to go through the Astral City, which was already a hassle at that time, and running away would have been much harder.
Since he couldn’t actually go through the forest, he had to go around it, making the journey longer and harder.
So, their claim of being humanity’s shield was just a joke.
Every higher-level cultivator knew about it, but most of the cultivators were still low-level cultivators.
Because they were very civilized, the Church of Humanity managed to fool low-level cultivators and secure its reputation.
Underneath that reputation, they had always been capturing different races for their illegal business and resources.
Tyler hated this organization, but he knew they had already stretched their claws into almost every single country on the continent.
So, he couldn’t fight them right now.
Tyler flew directly to the borders of the Red Hog Country. The White Mustang Country was located next to the Red Hog Country.
He had to cross the entire White Mustang Country to reach his destination.
Fortunately, he was flying high above while dodging any threatening figures.
He also couldn’t move at the speed of light. Without Spiritual Sense, he couldn’t see what was around him.
So, he had to constantly turn his head back to check his surroundings while also moving extremely slowly, at around one percent of the speed of light.
Due to this, he was moving much more slowly. But even a simple ten percent of the speed of light was almost thirty thousand kilometers per hour.
This kind of speed was enough to cross the Red Hog Country in less than a second.
So, even though he was moving slowly, due to the size of this country, it took him nearly fifteen meters to cross both countries.
As he crossed the White Mustang Country, he suddenly stopped and flew towards higher space.
Three seconds later, a figure appeared in mid-air and looked around. He was a tall man wearing a white robe.
After he found nothing, he went back to the Purple Cloud Country.
Seeing this, Tyler wiped away the sweat from his forehead.
"It’s a good thing I reacted quickly. Thank you, Jenny!"
"Humph! I am waiting for your promotion."
Jenny’s voice rang from inside him.
Tyler didn’t mind her tone. If Jenny hadn’t sent him a warning, he would’ve been caught by this cultivator.
Although with his speed he was sure of leaving this place, he didn’t want to expose himself.
Especially since his goal was to reach the Soul Sublimation Realm.
"It seems like I need to go down and look for other opportunities. They are properly keeping this place secure."
"Jenny, remind me when there is no one around!"
As he muttered, his body turned into light and flew towards the middle of the Purple Cloud Country.
As he approached the middle, his light body began to descend but did not cross the thousand-meter distance.
"Okay, you can stop now!"
As soon as he heard that, Tyler instantly transformed his entire body into human form.
But despite that, he didn’t fall.
Using his life aura, he was able to keep himself afloat.
He disguised himself and turned himself into a tall man with purple hair and red pupils.
Although this looked quite dashing, his goal was to find a way to get close to the powerful people.
The best way was to show his talent.
Thud!
As he landed on the ground, he looked around, finding himself surrounded by a large grassland.
Unlike the Star Forest in Red Hog Country, Purple Cloud Country had a large grassland and several smaller forests all over the country.
This made the Purple Cloud Country more evenly populated throughout the country.
"Hmm! Which direction should I go?"
Thinking about it, Tyler decided to go East. After all, that’s where the Mid-Grade Spirit Vein was located.
This place was tens of thousands of kilometers away from that place. So, it would take him at least four hours to walk such a distance.
But it would only take him one day if he ran at his full speed.
After all, unlike the Red Hog Country, this place didn’t have a big forest, so he could just take the straight road.
Along the way, he passed three cities, but he didn’t enter them. When he was about to cross the fourth city, he suddenly stopped.
Although he hadn’t awakened Spiritual Sense, his senses were quite strong.
"There is a special barrier beyond this place. I didn’t detect it while traveling as light, but now I can feel it."
He muttered as he decided not to pass through this barrier; instead, he rushed towards the city.
Although these cities were surrounded by walls and kept different positions, they were all connected by roads.
When he ran towards the road, he saw several people. Because of the current warring state, Tyler didn’t want to alert authorities.
So, he waited until a certain section of the road was clear before running onto the road.
The road was quite smoothly paved, and the surroundings even had a long line of trees.
’This country feels more developed than Red Hog Country. Then again, Miko Region is quite developed in my country.’
’This road feels newly made. If I am not wrong, they must’ve made this to keep an eye on enemies.’
’Since they can’t force the cultivators to stay in one place, every single country in the world has open borders.’
’Although there can be few checking posts in the border and even rules in powerful countries, people are normally free to cross borders.’
The war between three countries had started ten years ago, and it hadn’t shown any signs of slowing down.
That made a lot of sense.
The cultivator who reaches the Soul Sublimation Realm using a Mid-Grade Spirit Vein would be stronger than those with a Low-Grade Spirit Vein.
So, no country wanted to give up such a powerful Spirit Vein.
This world had four types of powerhouses: Country, Family, Organization, and Race.
The country was simple to explain. Everything within the country belonged to one power.
Even different races within a single country belonged to the country. That’s why many proud races made their own countries.
Family was the most complicated.
There were billions of families in the world, but only those with incredible power and wealth could be counted as powerhouses.
An organization was a collection of different people who came under the banner of the same goal.
A race is a group of people with the same origin. Monsters, Fishmen, humans, Dragons, Elves, Dwarves, and even Giants were all part of different races.
Although families and organizations mostly do things for profit, countries and races do things to improve their overall strength.
For example, the Church of Humanity would participate in the war just to get the bodies of the fishmen.
But the soldiers from the country would participate to protect their country.
In the war between three countries, the citizens of Purple Cloud Country participate to protect their Mid-Grade Spirit Vein.
The other two countries participate to take that Spirit Vein.
There was no single organization that could stop these wars.
The only race capable of doing that was the Dragon Race, and they have been doing this for years.
Eventually, other races realized that as long as they didn’t make the war devastating for an entire continent, even the dragon race wouldn’t stop them.
This made them more prone to prolonging the wars.
That’s why the war between these three countries had lasted a decade and why Dragon Race hadn’t interfered.
As Tyler got closer to the city, he noticed several watchtowers.
His pupils shrank rapidly, but he quickly regained his posture.
He knew there was nobody within the range of five kilometers when he entered the road.
If the guards could see further away than that, he would just use the Light Transformation Technique to run away.
But as he passed through the main gate, no guards came forward to stop him.
But the atmosphere outside and inside the city was completely different.
There was a sense of tension and blood in the air. Tyler could smell the blood everywhere.
’Sixty? Maybe seventy percent of the population has participated in the war.’