The next day,
Sunlight streamed through the Soul Guidance Train's wide, spotless windows, falling gently across the carriage.
Wei Heng and his companions sat aboard a luxurious train specially arranged for them by the Star Luo Empire, enjoying a rare stretch of leisure.
The carriage was elegant and comfortable, with soft seats, climate control, and a bar stocked with drinks. Every detail showed how highly the Star Luo Empire valued the Federation delegation.
Beyond the windows, the distinctive landscape of the Star Luo Continent slowly unfolded.
Compared with the Douluo Continent's steel forests and omnipresent glow of Soul Guidance Technology, the Star Luo Continent felt wild, vast, and full of life, despite its many modern cities.
In place of the endless urban sprawl so familiar in the Federation, boundless primeval forests stretched beyond the windows—a rare sight back home.
Ancient trees towered overhead, their layered canopies letting only dappled sunlight reach the forest floor. The air was startlingly clear, and distant mountains and wisps of mist rising among the trees came into view from time to time.
It made sense. Only a few thousand years had passed since the Star Luo Empire had arrived and begun colonizing this land. Soul Guidance Technology and large-scale development simply had not been around here nearly as long as on the Douluo Continent.
Wei Heng first noticed that technological gap in the train's speed. Limited by the Star Luo Continent's rail infrastructure, the Soul Guidance Train traveled considerably slower than those on the Douluo Continent.
At least that gave the passengers more time to enjoy the scenery.
The train occasionally passed through cities on the Star Luo Continent.
A close look through the windows revealed that these cities lagged noticeably behind those of the Douluo Continent in modernization.
There were fewer skyscrapers, and the