Chapter 156

If they could cover four or five hundred li in an hour when flying on their own, then in the hour Xuan Zi had carried them, they had crossed well over a thousand li.

The night along the western border of the Star Luo Empire was as thick as ink that could not be dissolved. In the wilderness, one could not see one's hand before one's face. This was the darkest hour of the night. Before long, the eastern horizon should begin to glow pale.

A streak of white light cut across the sky, its tail flame carving a long rift through the night as though it were about to tear the entire heavens apart.

The white light descended toward the ground, gradually slowing, then abruptly expanded the instant it landed, unfolding like a massive platform more than several dozen meters in diameter.

More than a dozen dark figures were borne down gently by that white light.

"Blergh—"

The sounds of vomiting rose one after another.

The white light receded, and the dozen or so people staggered about. Some crouched while holding tree trunks, some bent over with hands on their knees, and some simply sat down hard on the ground. More than half of them were dry-heaving.

Xuan Zi's flight had been far too fierce. The inertial impact from that sudden stop had left most of them feeling as if their stomachs were churning inside out.

"Look at how pathetic you all are." Xuan Zi's voice drifted over from nearby, old and lazy, carrying undisguised contempt.

He wore those grease-stained clothes and held his large Wine Gourd as he poured liquor into his mouth. His messy hair had been blown even messier by the night wind, but the expression on his face clearly said, I knew this would happen.