November 25. About 35 degrees. Hot and humid, with lots of bugs I'd never seen before.
We'd been playing hide-and-seek with the guard troops in the dense forest for days. At last, we'd managed to evade them.
If I hadn't kept the Corpse King and Blazing Corpse King in check, they would've lost patience long ago and charged into battle with the guards.
Damn guards. They were way too suspicious.
The guards searched for us with gadgets like life detectors or infrared scanners. Fortunately, our whole group consisted of zombies, so we were outside the detectors' range. As for the two planetary wills, it was even more debatable whether they counted as life forms at all. (Don't let them see this line. They'll beat me up if they get mad.)
From eavesdropping on the guards' conversations, I'd gotten a rough idea of this advanced spirit stone planet.
Spirit stones were hidden beneath most of the planet's surface; only a small portion had none. The primeval forest where we were now was one such place, so the Zhutian Civilization had left this "useless land" alone.
The spirit stones on this planet weren't limited to "advanced spirit stones." There was a higher-quality grade called "supreme spirit stones." Apparently, they hadn't always been called that. An old scholar had stumbled upon the name while translating an ancient text.
Supreme spirit stones were a strategic reserve for the Zhutian Civilization, used to power "blue"-class and "purple"-class warships—or, more aptly, planet-destroyers.
Every time the Zhutian Civilization deployed a blue-class or purple-class warship, it consumed a vast amount of supreme spirit stones. They couldn't be replenished; every stone used was one less. That was why the Zhutian Civilization rarely used those two classes of warships.
As energy sources, advanced and supreme spirit stones might share the