(Before I knew it, another Lunar New Year's Day had arrived. Happy New Year to all the fellow readers whom Xuzhen had accompanied through one year after another! May all your wishes come true, and may everything go smoothly!)
A year later, deep within a towering mountain, Qin Fengming's figure appeared inside a Teleportation Array as multicolored light shimmered.
This Teleportation Array had been established by a merchant alliance. Each transmission cost a great deal, but the distance covered was not short. It could save Qin Fengming two months of travel.
At that moment, two cultivators were guarding the mountain's interior.
When they saw Qin Fengming appear on the Teleportation Array, the two cultivators waved their hands and opened a passage through the restriction, allowing him to leave.
By then, Saintly Venerable Shiyou was no longer traveling with Qin Fengming. After the two of them found the Ascension passage and tested it, confirming that it was indeed usable, they parted ways.
Saintly Venerable Shiyou naturally wanted to return to the Upper Realm as quickly as possible, recover his strength, and then rebuild Myriad Phenomena Palace.
Qin Fengming, however, needed to return to the Human Realm. Naturally, they would no longer be traveling the same road. In fact, both of them understood that they could not possibly enter the spatial passage together.
After leaving the Scorching Sand Mountain Range, Qin Fengming had once intended to search for information regarding the female cultivator who had been looking for the Crimson Mist Mountain Range. However, aside from appearing in Crimson Sky City, that female cultivator had left behind no trace of information whatsoever.
Even after searching through many Marketplaces along the way, and even finding remnants of Dark Silence Hall's forces, Qin Fengming could not find the slightest record of her.
It was