Deputy Garrison Envoy 6k

The next day.

Dusk still lingered as the two emerged from the lakeside courtyard.

Reaching the lake's edge, they leaped into the air. The instant they left the True Understanding Pavilion's grand formation, a pure-white flying boat appeared in the sky. The two stepped aboard in succession, and in the next instant, the flying boat departed the True Understanding Pavilion, heading out of the city.

Although most marketplaces and spirit cities had aerial bans, rules had always existed only to bind the weak.

To the strong, the existence of rules was merely a matter of whether they needed them.

The flying boat ignored the city's aerial restrictions and sped across the heavens. Though Longevity Sect law-enforcement disciples were encountered along the way, the moment they saw the elder's insignia of the True Understanding Pavilion branded upon the flying boat, they immediately turned a blind eye.

When the flying boat approached, the cultivators stationed at the city gate even took the initiative to open the defensive checkpoint, allowing it to leave Yao Guang City without obstruction.

After leaving Yao Guang City, the flying boat traveled nearly two thousand li south before finally vanishing into the clouds.

When the two appeared again, they had already reached Cangshui County, nearly ten thousand li southwest of Yao Guang City.

The so-called Cangshui was not a river visible in the world, but an underground water vein.

In the past, this place had been occupied by a family affiliated with the Longevity Sect. Yet during the Longevity Sect's internal strife, when the Righteous Path Alliance had surged forward like a broken bamboo and pressed toward the Northern Territory mountain gate, that family had chosen to betray the Longevity Sect.

Naturally, they could not escape the subsequent reckoning, and Cangshui County was smoothly brought under the Longevity