As Yú Xīndá finished speaking, she tossed the wine gourd in her hand into the air. In an instant, it transformed into a vessel the size of a boat.
Yú Xīndá nimbly leaped to the front of the gourd, then turned to Li Zhōujūn and said, "What are you waiting for? Get on!"
"Sure." Li Zhōujūn smiled and landed at the rear of the wine gourd.
"I didn't expect to find such a promising youngster on the way. Luckily, this old lady came prepared, or I wouldn't have had any wine to drink on the road." As she muttered, Yú Xīndá pulled a small wine bottle from her robes.
Seeing this, Li Zhōujūn gave Yú Xīndá a strange look. She's a female drunkard.
"What's with that look? Are you worried that if this elder drinks too much, I'll fly you into a stinking ditch? Don't worry. My gourd has an artifact spirit that has developed intelligence. It's perfectly sober and will naturally pilot the gourd, taking us safely to Taicang Holy Academy." Yú Xīndá patted the wine gourd with her small hand and spoke with a proud expression.
"Uh, all right." Li Zhōujūn nodded.
"Hold on tight. Off we go!" Yú Xīndá waved her small hand, and the wine gourd beneath them instantly transformed into a streak of light and shot away.
Not long afterward.
Li Zhōujūn discovered that, guided by Yú Xīndá's wine gourd, he was passing through a thick barrier.
Yú Xīndá hiccupped drunkenly, patted her chest, and said proudly with her flushed little face, "Good thing—hic—you ran into this elder. Otherwise, with your One Tribulation Heavenly God cultivation, you could only descend at the weak points of the Hong Meng Continent's barrier—hic—those places are all lacking in spiritual energy. Hic—Without traveling for eight hundred or a thousand