Over the past year, stopping and starting as she took Su'er sightseeing, Zhong Yumo had traveled another seventeen thousand li eastward.
That was already a very slow pace.
Had she maintained a pace of six hundred li a day, a year would have been enough for Zhong Yumo to cover more than two hundred thousand li.
Despite having traveled over seventeen thousand li, she was still within Galloping Sky's borders.
This country's territory was far more extensive than she had imagined.
Here in the Far Western Lands of the Azure Crossing Continent, it could be considered a vast and mighty nation.
Yet after spending so much time in the Galloping Sky Nation, Zhong Yumo had come to understand that although the country was enormous, nearly five-sixths of its territory consisted of land that was difficult to use, such as deserts and ice fields.
Moreover, its terrain was flat and extremely susceptible to extreme weather, such as prolonged droughts. This had kept the Galloping Sky Nation's rule from ever being particularly stable over the past several thousand years. On average, its rulers changed roughly once every century.
The Han Dynasty had held its seat on the throne somewhat longer than she had expected.
It had ruled the Galloping Sky Nation for nearly two hundred years.
The current King of the Galloping Sky Nation was named Han Yuan. Over the past year, Zhong Yumo had passed through more than a dozen cities of varying sizes, and their inhabitants all offered a remarkably consistent assessment of their King.
An incompetent ruler.
But as Zhong Yumo drew closer to the Galloping Sky Nation's capital, the surrounding environment became increasingly suitable for habitation, and the common people's opinion of Han Yuan improved a notch.
Meanwhile, Su'er, seated in front of her, had regarded everything they