With his destination decided, Zhenyuanzi no longer proceeded at the leisurely pace he had maintained while studying the land veins and regulating the earth qi.
With a slight shift of his thoughts, Earth-Yellow Divine Light flashed around him. His body seemed to merge with the boundless earth beneath his feet as he unleashed the supreme divine ability, Shrink Ground to Inches.
In the hands of the Ancestor of Earth Immortals, this divine ability was entirely different from ordinary escape arts, or even the Soaring Golden Light Technique of Great Luo Golden Immortals.
Rather than tearing through space with overwhelming magical power, he drew upon his absolute understanding and control of the primordial land veins to invoke their strength. At the level of Dao principles, the endless mountains and rivers before him contracted and folded on their own. With each firm step, countless peaks and waterways swept backward beneath his feet like fleeting streaks of light.
His speed far surpassed even the fastest flight of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, approaching short-range spatial translocation. Yet because the technique was rooted in earth law, his passage stirred neither ripples of magical power nor spatial fluctuations. Silent and unobtrusive, it displayed his supreme mastery of the Dao of earth.
From the Seaside of the East Sea, where the Three Immortal Islands had once drifted through those now-empty waters, to the Netherworld Blood Sea deep in Nine Nether beneath the foundations of the Primordial Continent, the distance spanned untold billions of miles. Between them lay endless towering mountain ranges, vast inland seas and marshes, and even perilous regions of chaos whose laws had yet to stabilize fully since the world's recent opening.
An ordinary mighty cultivator would have needed years upon years to traverse that distance, even flying continuously without regard for the expenditure