"Fellow Daoist Luo, with your strength, you could cross the wilderness alone without worry. Why must you insist on following us?"
Above the desolate mountain forests,
a fleet formed of three enormous flying ships was cleaving through the clouds high in the sky, stirring up layer upon layer of air currents as it flew toward Barbaric City.
On the deck of the leading flying ship,
Wu Tianhao spoke with a wry smile to the figure standing beside him.
He could not help reacting this way,
for the purpose of this journey
was to escort supplies transported from the Tiannan Domain Cultivation World to Barbaric City, the forward outpost in the Southern Yue Land.
Due to the collapse of the front lines,
Barbaric City, once a bridgehead in the rear of the Southern Yue Land, had also begun to grow unstable.
From time to time, Demonic Cultivators crossed the endless wilderness to raid these strategic locations in the rear.
Among them, transport fleets like theirs, carrying supplies, were the primary targets of those Demonic Cultivators who had slipped into the rear.
Even though Wu Tianhao's cultivation had now reached the Out of Body Stage Sixth Layer Peak,
placing him among the middle-to-upper ranks in the war between the two regions,
escorting these provisions still left Wu Tianhao on edge throughout the journey.
Sometimes, even the slightest rustle in the wind
could trigger an immediate reaction from him.
And against this backdrop,
this disciple of the Divine Calculation Sect, who called himself Luo Jiuzhang, had suddenly appeared on the deck of the lead ship in the flying fleet, saying that he wished to hitch a ride.
Naturally, Wu Tianhao had not wanted to take aboard someone of such unknown origins.
Yet even after Wu Tianhao explicitly refused him, the other man acted