Lin Xuan knew nothing of what had happened at Tianwu Mountain. Several days later, he was already a million li away.
Lin Xuan was in no hurry to return to the Cloud Hidden Sect. First, there was still plenty of time before the Purple Heart Earth Fire erupted. Second, his recent string of fortuitous encounters had left many matters piled up in his hands that needed to be dealt with, and the Cloud Hidden Sect was rather too far from here, so Lin Xuan planned to find another quiet place instead.
By quiet, naturally, he meant a place where few people would disturb him.
Thus, after looking over the map, Lin Xuan actually headed west the whole way. The place where he was now was already the far western region of Tianshuang Prefecture. If he kept going in that direction, human habitation would become even scarcer.
Lin Xuan entered the territory of Yu Kingdom.
Tianshuang Prefecture was vast in area, much larger than the East Sea, and was divided into several hundred small mortal kingdoms. This Yu Kingdom was more or less one of the westernmost among them. Farther ahead lay barren land; it was said that even high-level immortal cultivators found it difficult to cross.
Among mortal nations, Yu Kingdom counted as one of the smaller ones, but that was only relatively speaking. Its population likewise numbered in the tens of billions. One had to know that the place it occupied was truly a land wide and sparsely peopled; from this, one could imagine its area.
Yu Kingdom did not have many Spirit Mountains or Spirit Veins, and their quality likewise could not compare with other places in Tianshuang Prefecture. As a result, the strength of this country's immortal cultivation world was also rather weak. Those famous great sects