"Ten years ago, on the tenth day of the seventh month, a 'distinguished guest' came to me with a transport order. From Elder Ji of the Azure Wolf Sect, I transported a crate of demon beast 'hide and bones,' intended as reserve materials for an array technique, to a place south of Li Prefecture and north of the Sand Sea..."
Steward Wang flipped through the files, his expression somewhat reverent as he said, "...Great Desert City."
These file records were classified secrets of the Post Station. By rights, outsiders were not permitted to inspect them.
Only because circumstances had forced his hand had he reluctantly broken this taboo.
Still, he had done plenty of taboo-breaking things over the years. One more hardly mattered.
What truly made his expression grave was the name of this Immortal City.
"Great Desert City..."
Mo Hua asked, "What kind of place is that?"
Elder Ji explained, "It is a Fourth-Grade Immortal City at the border between Li Prefecture and the Great Wilderness, situated within the Sand Sea."
"Fourth-Grade..." Mo Hua's expression tightened slightly.
Within the Second-Grade State Boundary of Li Prefecture, with his Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation, he could swagger wherever he pleased. He could kill anyone he wanted; if he could not kill them, he could leave.
In a Third-Grade State Boundary, however, he had to act far more cautiously.
A Golden Core Early Stage cultivator was still manageable. But Golden Core mid- and late-stage cultivators were quite troublesome.
And in a Fourth-Grade State Boundary, where large numbers of Golden Core mid- and late-stage cultivators gathered, and True Persons of Feather Transformation might even appear, the danger was naturally greater.
After all, he was only at Foundation Establishment. The gulf between him and Feather Transformation was far too vast.
Once he became a