Yuan City Prefecture was quite far away, and there was no Ancient Teleportation Array there. Thus, Princess Changle's entourage set out from the Ancient Teleportation Array at Dragon Roaming Plain in Luoyi. After three teleportations, they changed course through the Ancient Teleportation Array in the Wan Prefecture capital, the closest prefectural city to Yuan City Prefecture.
Because they traveled under the princess's ceremonial banners, local officials and nobles came to receive and pay respects to them whenever they passed through a prefectural capital, slowing their journey considerably.
It took a full ten days before they left Wan Prefecture and headed for Yuan City Prefecture.
According to the itinerary, they would arrive at Yuan City Prefecture within twenty days.
Though Changle was the Princess Regent, this journey's ceremonial procession was not particularly extravagant.
There were only a thousand guards and three hundred attendants of various kinds, far fewer than the three thousand attendants normally accompanying a princess.
Given Changle's status as Princess Regent, no one would have had anything to say even if her procession had included five thousand attendants, much less three thousand.
This earned praise from nobles and officials all along the way.
By comparison, although Ye Zhen, Duke of North Sea Prefecture, was frugal and had only two hundred people accompanying him, guards included, no one paid much attention to it with Princess Changle setting such a shining example.
This was the result of Ye Zhen changing his plans.
If the ten Creation Realm Divine Beings Grand National Teacher Yu Zhen had taken with him, according to the news sent by First Prince Huan Ji Ao, were truly targeting Changle, then it would be useless no matter how many guards Ye Zhen and Changle brought along.
Even if those guards were all elites from the Barbarian Spirit Hall,