Conflict

The Flying Boat was not particularly fast, covering roughly four hundred li in an hour—slower than a Qi Refining Realm cultivator flying. Its advantage was that during flight, it consumed only spirit stones and not a cultivator's spiritual power.

Whether it was a late-stage Spirit Aperture Realm cultivator using Sword Flight or a Qi Refining Realm cultivator flying through the air, both consumed considerable spiritual power and could not sustain long-distance travel. Expending vast amounts of spiritual power merely to fly was extremely unwise. First, spiritual power was hard-earned through cultivation; second, if one's spiritual power ran low and they encountered an attack, it was easy to be driven into a dead end. Thus, even Qi Refining Realm cultivators would rather travel by horse if they had no flying conveyance.

Jiang Ping'an reached Mirror Lake Mountain after piloting the Flying Boat for the time it took to drink a cup of tea.

Inside Cave Mansion A on Mirror Lake Mountain, Night Pearls cast a bright yet gentle glow across the hall. Dongfang Jintang sat before a jade-green table, drinking Spirit Wine.

She had been somewhat restless lately. Sometimes, deep in the night, she could not help thinking of Jiang Ping'an, and images of herself beneath him, yielding to his pleasure, would rise unbidden in her mind.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of silver bells.

"It's Jiang Ping'an!" She had a powerful premonition that Jiang Ping'an had come to see her.

She immediately set down the wine jug, rose swiftly, and went outside.

Stepping out through the cave abode gates, she focused her gaze and saw that the person standing outside the formation was indeed Jiang Ping'an. Joy welled up in her heart, and a smile could not help appearing on her cold, beautiful face.

However, in the next instant, her