Because Xu Jin required a significant amount of Star Fallen Iron to upgrade the Candou Platform from Third Tier to Fourth Tier.
The next moment, with a thought from Xu Jin, he sank into the Candou Platform’s Jade, and instantly, the upgrade information appeared.
[Eligible for Upgrade: Requires a thousand strands of Starlight, thirty-six Fourth Tier Star Jade pieces, a thousand catties of Iron Essence, a hundred catties of Copper Essence, a thousand catties of silver, a hundred taels of gold, one catty of Star Fallen Iron, and one Millennium Turtle Shell]
Xu Jin had long been aware of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures needed to upgrade the Candou Platform to Fourth Tier, but he hadn’t been too proactive in preparing them.
Mainly because the required items were too many, and at the current stage, they were simply beyond what Xu Jin could gather.
Compared to the materials needed for a Third Tier upgrade, the new requirements were more than ten times greater.
Previously what was needed was Refined Iron, now it was Iron Essence.
Despite the difference between Refined Iron and Iron Essence being just an inversion of two characters, their values differed by more than tenfold, and they were also materials controlled for military use.
However, this time, there was an unexpected joy.
The Fourth Tier Star Jade pieces, each worth a thousand taels of gold, were found here—sixteen of them.
If luck held, it was possible to collect all of the Fourth Tier Star Jade pieces needed in the Fire Radiant Star Domain.
Gathering one type at a time.
Afterward, Xu Jin waved his hand, taking the sixteen pieces of Fourth Tier Green Jade into the Candou Platform, along with more than one hundred Second and Third Tier Star Jade pieces.
However, when the Second and Third Tier Star Jade pieces were taken into the Candou Platform, they turned into powder.
Above the Candou Platform, however, more than a dozen strands of Starlight appeared.
For each ten pieces of Second-tier Star Jade, the Candou Platform directly gained one strand of Third Tier Starlight, and one piece of Third Tier Star Jade could increase the platform’s Starlight by one strand.
This was one of the Candou Platform’s new functions Xu Jin had recently discovered.
"Alright, you better hurry up and leave, I will come to find you later."
"You wouldn’t tell the Royal Court or your father about your capture, would you?" Xu Jin said.
"Of course not, absolutely not, I’m not stupid!"
Hearing this, Xu Jin nodded his head.
This captive was good, not too smart for a captive, and certainly not too dumb!
After sweeping through the treasure trove of the Fire Separation Tribe Clan Leader, Xu Jin sent the captive, Young Clan Chief Chi Xiang, away.
As for the treasury of the Fire Separation Tribe, unsurprisingly, there were no gains.
Xu Jin already knew the reason.
The Royal Court had previously ordered the Clan Leaders to distribute all the Jades in the treasury to the elites for enhancement of their Cultivation Level, to prepare for the assault by the Chen Country warriors in three months.
Leaving the Fire Separation Tribe, Xu Jin set off toward the Fire Element Tribe, which was not far from the Fire Separation Tribe.
"Everyone, be on your toes. My Prince has sent an urgent message, saying the Dachen invader is rapidly approaching our Fire Element Tribe! Follow my commands, set up the ambush, and if that bastard dares to show his face, wipe him out."
Inside the Fire Element Tribe, Chi Dian, the Royal Court’s top general who had arrived at the Fire Element Tribe early, was making the final pre-war arrangements.
This battle, they must capture the Dachen prodigy!
The elites of two tribes had been slaughtered, and the losses of the Red Scale Clan were already heavy enough.
Two quarters of an hour later, Chi Dian and his elite warriors combed through the Fire Element Tribe, occasionally leaping atop lookout towers to search for traces of the enemy, their brows furrowed in concern.
The Royal Court had already sent two urgent messages.
They warned that the Dachen invader had come close or even entered the Fire Element Tribe, urging vigilance.
But the problem was, Chi Dian and his elite scouts had scoured the Fire Element Tribe, inside and out, without so much as a glimpse of the enemy.
Unknown to Chi Dian, Xu Jin was currently in a forest within the Fire Element Tribe, silently recovering his depleted Star Power.
As for the enemies assembled here, he had already discovered them.
Indeed a gathering of experts.
There was one at the Eighth Layer of Refining Star, four at the Seventh Layer, not to mention dozens of Red Scale elites in the Middle Period of Refining Star.
Quite a luxurious lineup.
If Xu Jin were to charge in headfirst,
He very well might go in but not come out.
Since there was a trap, it was best not to walk into it.
Fifteen minutes later, Xu Jin, having fully recovered his Star Power, quickly headed for the next tribe of the Red Scale Clan—the Fire Armor Tribe!