Shan People Nation

The perfect beast-eared girl avatar on the spaceship console screen spoke in a soft, melodious voice.

"Master, based on all available analysis, the warriors recorded by the natives of this planet are Apprentice Rank. Transcendental is Planetary Rank, Saint is Stellar Rank, and Great Emperor is Universe Rank."

"According to intelligence reports, multiple Universe Rank powerhouses have appeared in this planet's history, so please remain vigilant, Master."

"Universe Rank? Great Emperor?" Su Ke looked at the intelligence data once more.

Destroying the heavens and extinguishing the earth?

Invincible under the heavens?

All living beings kneeling in worship?

Suppressing an entire era?

"Hmm... in a certain sense, that fits," Su Ke mused to himself. "A single Stellar Rank can claim invincibility on a weak planet, and a Universe Rank is far stronger than a Stellar Rank. In the outside world, it usually takes hundreds of thousands of inhabited planets in a galaxy to produce one, so the title of Great Emperor is well-deserved here."

However, no matter how powerful a Great Emperor is, they can only live for one hundred thousand years. Therefore, after the last Great Emperor who unified the world died, there was no one powerful enough to suppress the situation, and in just a few thousand years, the entire world fell into a state of chaotic warfare.

"This planet is much larger than an average planet. The Sea Dragon Continent alone likely exceeds the total land area of Earth from my previous life, and their physical fitness is generally good, with many strong individuals," Su Ke thought. "Yet, the current global population is less than 7 billion, likely due to the frequency of war."

Because various factions are constantly at war and slaughtering one another, the population has plummeted, leading to a vast land with few inhabitants.

"From the intelligence gathered so far, there are unwritten rules to the wars in this world. Only ordinary warriors and Transcendental participate; Saints generally do not get involved to avoid causing excessive destruction."

If a Stellar Rank powerhouse were to act deliberately, a single punch could completely destroy a city.

If everyone fought without restraint, the entire world would become a wasteland and a living hell in no time.

What concerned Su Ke even more were the descriptions of the Great Emperor in the intelligence reports.

A Great Emperor is born every one hundred thousand years?

Does that mean this planet produces a Great Emperor at a fixed interval of one hundred thousand years? It happens to be the exact lifespan limit of a Universe Rank; is that really such a coincidence?

Unfortunately, this was just a remote, ordinary village. While there were some records of Transcendental (Planetary Rank), anything above Saint was almost entirely hearsay, with very little useful information.

The Great Emperor was purely a legend passed down by word of mouth since ancient times.

But since it has been circulating across the entire continent, the truth is likely not far off.

Su Ke revealed a faint smile. "This planet certainly has secrets, but the intelligence I can get in this village is too limited. I'll wait until my people have learned the local native language before taking the next step."

It wasn't until the sun set and night fell that the team finished gathering intelligence on the entire village.

"The translation results for the language and script are in. Fortunately, this world has a fixed common language. Because there has been frequent communication between continents since ancient times, and a Great Emperor once unified the world, they achieved a unification of language and script. As long as one knows this one language, they can travel the world without obstacles," Su Ke nodded.

Once the local native language was learned, communication would be much easier.

Although translation software could be used, he couldn't exactly use it in front of the natives.

Su Ke began to study it as well. Although he didn't plan on going down there yet, he thought it best to be prepared in case the situation changed in the future.

Besides himself, he had all the other slaves learn it as well.

Upon reaching Planetary Rank, learning ability increases significantly, and the consciousness of a Stellar Rank is far higher than that of a Planetary Rank. Soon, the Stellar Rank members mastered the common language of Gulei Planet, followed by some of the Planetary Rank members.

Su Ke then ordered the team lurking in the village to head to a larger nearby city to gather more intelligence.

After the team left, the villagers, who had been in a dazed, hypnotic state for these past few days, quickly woke up. However, they had all forgotten everything that had happened, and even if some vaguely sensed something was wrong, they could never know what had transpired.

The arrival and departure of the team left behind no traces whatsoever.

Qingze Kingdom is one of the nations established by the Shan people and is considered a relatively powerful country within the Shan Alliance, with a population of over ten million.

The team that left the village moved at high speed. By flying, they arrived at a city in Qingze Kingdom in a short amount of time.

"Hmm?" The Shan guards wearing red armor on the city gate tower looked up and were shocked to see streaks of light appearing on the horizon. "It's the Transcendental lords!"

The Shan people, in terms of appearance, are tall with fair skin and pointed ears; they often appear as handsome men and beautiful women, similar to certain elves Su Ke had seen in his previous life.

Moreover, because there are so many different races on the planet and they have interbred for many years, it is quite normal for some humans to have unique appearances.

The leader, Kadibus, and most of the members of the team looked similar after using disguises, which was the reason they chose a Shan nation for their first landing—it was easy to blend in.

"Transcendental lords! And a whole group of them?" The captain of the level nine warriors, who had been staying in the room under the city gate tower, was also startled and quickly ran out.

He saw Kadibus and his group landing on the city gate tower, and his heart trembled.

"They really are Transcendental, so many of them, and they don't seem like ordinary Transcendental... could they be Saints?" The captain was terrified.

Saints, even in the imperial capital, are absolute, high-and-mighty figures! Even His Majesty the Emperor has to treat them with courtesy; how could they suddenly appear in a small place like theirs?

Although their city had a few Transcendental, the strongest was only a level four Transcendental.

"Greetings, lords." The captain knelt down respectfully. In this world, the hierarchy is extremely strict; for a weakling not to kneel upon seeing a superior is an act of provocation! It wouldn't be strange to be executed for it.

The surrounding soldiers also knelt down respectfully.

The ordinary residents and passersby near the city gate tower also knelt down respectfully, not daring to even lift their heads.

In the blink of an eye, the entire area around the city gate tower was filled with kneeling people.

"Hmm." Kadibus, the leader, gave a soft grunt, then led the group flying toward the city center.

That was the City Lord's Mansion, which was almost the most important place in the city.

To obtain useful intelligence, the fastest method was undoubtedly to find the local authorities.

Su Ke's second instruction to them was to disguise themselves as figures from a hidden faction, contact the local high-ranking officials, and gather more intelligence.

There were quite a few strong individuals in this world, so a few Stellar Rank experts suddenly appearing wouldn't attract too much attention as long as they didn't act too high-profile.

Of course... to be on the safe side, they chose a small city where the strongest individual was only at the fourth stage of the Planetary Rank.

They would proceed step by step, slowly making contact with this world.

As for Kadibus and the others, they moved quickly; before the city lord's mansion could even react, they had already appeared above it.