"It's land!"
As he spoke, Qu Linshang suddenly pointed ahead. This was the moment his emotions had fluctuated most in quite some time.
"Master! Have we really reached the Great Fen Immortal Land?!" Yu Ningsui shot to her feet and hurriedly flew to the mouth of the gourd to look out.
With the temperament of a young girl, she did whatever her heart desired.
Focusing her gaze, she saw that a patch of lush green had indeed appeared a hundred li away.
But in the next instant, while they were thrilled, my pupils abruptly contracted. On the land, several spirit cultivators seemed to be rising into the air atop flying cranes and hawks.
Birds of prey ought to be a few cuts above the gourd. After all, they could carry people on their own and needed no one to control them full-time.
"They seem to be land-based spirit cultivators. The Mountain Lord mentioned before that there were many markets stationed along the route, making their living by hunting in the spirit sea. They probably aren't coming for us." Qu Linshang sounded as though he were talking to himself, but as a leader unwilling to step into the limelight, he was somewhat lacking in confidence, afraid that trouble might arise.
"The coastline stretches for tens of thousands of li. From so far away, they definitely can't be looking for us," Yu Ningsui agreed.
A hundred li was not much distance when both sides were closing in. Before long, they came into contact—and unlike what master and disciple had imagined, these leaders riding birds of prey really were headed straight for us.
"Brother Xia, they really are coming for us!" Yu Ningsui involuntarily grabbed my sleeve.
"Let's see what they want." I sat as still as an old monk in meditation, without