Unsheathed

Before Chen Ping'an knew it, the intercontinental ship had already arrived over the tall mountains and deep waters of the Yellow Court Nation.

Chen Ping'an walked to the bow of the ship to enjoy the scenery, and those steering the intercontinental ship were also very understanding, purposely reducing the altitude so that they sometimes came within touching distance of the tall mountain peaks or flew together with the birds.

The Yellow Court Nation was a territory that had once belonged to the Ancient Shu Nation, so many official immortals from the mountains would work together with the local forces to wantonly dig the rivers and change their paths, exposing the river banks and allowing them to search for the so-called Dragon Palace Mystical Realm. They would follow the clues in the various local chronicles and rumors, and they simply needed to pay some money to the local immortal forces and the imperial court of the Yellow Court Nation. Of course, vagrant cultivators frequently came here to test their luck and look for missed treasures as well.

Xuan Guzi, the blind old Daoist priest, had also thought about coming here to test his luck with his two disciples before. However, fortune was a mystical and intangible matter, and it would be extremely difficult to reap any rewards unless one were a wealthy cultivator who could get into contact with the correct people and spend a huge sum of money to cast a very wide net.

The intercontinental ship's destination was the Palace of Eternal Spring located to the north of the Great Li Empire's capital. The ship would pass the Dragon Spring Prefecture's Ox Horn Mountain on the way, and Chen Ping'an planned to disembark there. According to the route that he had planned, he wanted to first visit the residence that had previously belonged to the female ghost in the wedding dress to check in on Gu Can's father.

Chen Ping'an would then travel along the Embroidered Flower River and pass Red Candle Town, Go Table Mountain, and the Iron Talisman River. This was a familiar route, and Chen Ping'an would perform sitting meditation on his sword as he rapidly flew back to Downtrodden Mountain. Riding his horse would be too slow, and he would miss the intercontinental ship traveling to the Northern Complete Reed Continent.

The intercontinental ship couldn't land anywhere it wanted for the sake of one customer, so Chen Ping'an had already communicated with those in charge of the ship, asking them to leave his horse at Ox Horn Mountain. Chen Ping'an also asked them to notify the workers at Ox Horn Mountain's ferry station to send his horse back to Downtrodden Mountain.

A troubled expression appeared on the ship steward's face. Flying over the territory of the Great Li Empire was already terrifying enough, after all, and he was afraid that some passenger might accidentally spit phlegm overboard and strike an immortal force of the empire. If that were to happen, the immortals of the Great Li Empire would directly use their immortal treasures to smash the intercontinental ship to smithereens, turning all of them into mincemeat.

Moreover, as the second-last stop of the intercontinental ship's route, Ox Horn Mountain's ferry station was specially guarded and managed by the heavy cavalry of the Great Li Empire. That being the case, they naturally didn't have the courage to interact with those martial artists beyond loading and unloading cargo.

Hearing this, Chen Ping'an offered some further explanation, saying that he had a fairly good relationship with Ox Horn Mountain. His mountain was also a neighbor of the ferry station, so transporting a horse to Downtrodden Mountain wouldn't cause any trouble.

There was an aggrieved look on the old steward's face, and he neither accepted nor rejected Chen Ping'an's request. Afterward, the Sea Observation Tier steward only agreed to help Chen Ping'an after the latter secretly gave him a few snowflake coins.