From time to time, swordsman-level cultivators in Wanxia County would venture into the Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range, blazing new trails. Unfortunately, compared to the regenerative abilities of the many plants within the range, these newly opened paths would be covered up again in just over a dozen days. If not for the abundance of exposed rocks in the mountains, the fallen leaves on the ground would be enough to form swamps filled with endless dangers.

Time passed swiftly as he traveled.

Along the way, he encountered many dangers, but all were preemptively avoided by Ethan Brooks thanks to his keen reflexes, so he never actually clashed with the fierce beasts living in the Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range.

“Reporting time, my current speed, and estimated time of arrival.”

“The host has been in the Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range for 14 hours, with an average speed of 12.51 kilometers per hour. There are 32.54 kilometers remaining to the destination, estimated arrival in two hours.”

Ethan Brooks glanced at the sky...

On the horizon, the clouds were already glowing with sunset colors.

Nightfall was approaching.

Before darkness fell, he had to find a safe place to rest. Otherwise, once night came and the many fierce beasts became active, not to mention the powerful ones—even the insects, ants, and venomous snakes in the jungle could cost him his life.

“Luckily, I took wilderness survival courses in college, so I’m not completely inexperienced.”

Ethan Brooks muttered to himself.

At that moment, his expression suddenly changed as he sharply noticed numerous traces of unnatural damage to the trees in this not-so-dense forest.

Moreover, those marks were clearly caused by something forcefully crashing into them.

“Could it be...”

The moment that thought flashed through his mind, Ethan Brooks had already corrected his direction and ran straight toward where the crash marks led.

In just a moment, a patch of trees scorched by fire appeared in his field of vision. At the very center of the charred remains, a two-meter-tall steel object, seemingly burned by flames for some time, stood out before his eyes.

“My escape pod?”

Ethan Brooks looked somewhat strange as he quickly approached the escape pod.

The gravity of this planet was simply too great. When the escape pod crashed, it hit the ground hard, and most likely, a small explosion occurred. Under the burning flames, his original body inside the pod had already been reduced to ashes, with only some faint traces remaining.

The feeling of staring at his own corpse was very strange for Ethan Brooks.

“This place is nearly two hundred kilometers from the nearest inhabited village, and even with No. 2’s protection, my soul could only last 177 seconds—less than three minutes. In that brief time, I just managed to seize this body... I have to say, that was truly lucky.”

Looking at the almost completely destroyed escape pod, Ethan Brooks pondered for a moment, then immediately began to look around.

“This time, my mission was a supply run. On that battleship, there was a large amount of military equipment to be delivered to the front lines. This equipment included not only standard laser guns, laser cannons, railguns, neutron bombs... but also a full eighteen mechas. The battleship itself was a standard ‘planetary-class’ warship, with enough firepower to destroy a small planet...”

If the battleship could be repaired, no so-called level-six or level-seven dangerous creature, no level-nine swordsman or great swordsman, not even the entire second-rate sect Xuanling Sect, would stand a chance against that “planetary-class” battleship.

With a single blast from the main cannon, not just Xuanling Sect—even the entire Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range could be reduced to ashes.

“No. 2, based on the angle of the battleship’s crash, calculate the crash site using my current position as a reference!”

“Beep! Calculating crash site. Using the host’s current position as a reference, the battleship’s crash site is 96.24 to 112.44 kilometers to the south.”

“One hundred kilometers!”

This distance instantly cooled the agitation in Ethan Brooks’s heart.

The deeper you go into the Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range, the more dangerous it becomes.

A hundred kilometers in is still the outer region of the mountains, where level-four dangerous creatures—equivalent to level-six fierce beasts—may appear, and sometimes even level-seven fierce beasts. But if you go a hundred kilometers deeper...

Forget level-seven fierce beasts—even level-eight, level-nine, level-ten, and even lord-level beasts equivalent to human swordmasters could appear.

“One hundred kilometers!”

With the cultivation of a level-five swordsman...

Dangerous!

Far too dangerous!

At least the cultivation of a level-seven swordsman is required to qualify for venturing four hundred kilometers deep into the Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range.

“If nothing unexpected happens, it will take me twelve years to advance to level-seven swordsman!”

Twelve years!

I can’t wait that long!

In that time, Xuanling Sect would likely have already regarded them as a major threat and wiped them out completely.

Any choice comes with consequences.

“One hundred kilometers! I have to be careful!”

Making a calm decision, Ethan Brooks ignored the coming night and set off again.

The night in the Never-Setting Sun Mountain Range was destined to be anything but peaceful.