(The update was late, sixteen thousand words. P.S. There's another chapter tonight.)
Jiang Shangzhen's true body was wandering the Savage World when he happened upon a group of cultivators from Vast Heaven and Earth traveling far from home.
As for Jiang Shangzhen's out-of-body Yin God, he was helping Senior Qing Mi find his way through a difficult situation.
If running into Feng Xuetao had been unexpected, meeting this group of young talents halfway there—each more gifted than the last—was an even greater surprise.
Jiang Shangzhen had actually intended to head to the nearest Qingji Ferry and find Zheng Juzhong. But "nearest" still meant a journey across an entire continent's mountains and rivers.
Cao Ci, Fu Jin, Yuan Pang, Chun Qing, Xu Bai, Yu Juanfu, Gu Can, Zhao Yaoguang, and a young monk practicing a vow of silence.
Han Qiaose was nominally the group's Dao protector, though she had had nothing to do along the way. As soon as she heard what Jiang Shangzhen told her, she rushed to Qingji Ferry to find her senior brother. Her innate escape art was faster than a message-bearing flying sword.
The young people had arrived at Qingji together. Liu Youzhou and Huai Qian stayed at Qingji Ferry, while the rest continued their travels. Liu Youzhou, famed as Sudhana, had produced two Flowing Rosy Cloud Boats—the vessels widely acknowledged as the fastest in Vast Heaven and Earth. As he put it, what if one broke down during the journey? Better safe than sorry. He had another Flowing Rosy Cloud Boat anyway.
He had also handed out several sets of Military Strategist armor and stacks of golden talismans. He was like some landlord's foolish son down in the mortal world, with more money than he knew how to spend, passing banknotes around to his hangers-on.
Now,