Research into dimensional passages and hearthstones was unlikely to yield results anytime soon.
But if Zong Shen wanted to conquer the continent and establish truly magnificent achievements in the future, he had to rediscover dimensional passages and hearthstones. Using them as a foundation, he could comprehensively improve travel efficiency and reduce the barriers to communication between different regions.
After all, the advancement of any civilization was inseparable from the use of advanced transportation and methods of travel.
Take Earth's civilization as an example: from walking and human labor to oxen and horses, then to trains, high-speed rail, and airplanes in later generations.
As modes of transportation continued to evolve, the barriers created by geographic distance grew ever smaller.
People could travel thousands of kilometers in a single day.
For Earth, such speeds were more than enough to meet the demands of globalization.
Of course, the Endless Continent's land area was not something Earth could compare to.
Accordingly, far more efficient means of travel were needed here.
The current Great City-level teleportation arrays could only barely ensure that different regions were not completely cut off from one another.
But in reality, traveling from one end of a kingdom to the other still required nearly hundreds of teleportations.
The Goblin Merchant Boswell needed several years for every trading journey.
They had to use teleportation arrays to reach caravan outposts in various places, then switch to all kinds of transport, including Goblin Airships, descending into the Great Cities and Bang Cities of each region to conduct trade.
The traveling merchants sold the goods carried with their caravans while purchasing local specialties and transporting them to the next city for sale.
The larger the Endless Continent was, the more insignificant any individual influence became.
Moreover, vast lands themselves were the best soil for nurturing