Qianyang City

"Exactly..."

Breeze Daoist's face was full of grief, while Yuanjue beside him continuously recited prayers for the dead.

Aaron sighed. His first reaction was—The Foundation Establishment marriage market is this cutthroat? Has it come to killing off romantic rivals?

Yes...

No matter how flowery the outsiders' accounts were, his first thought was that Su Cao had murdered his romantic rival. Hua Sanniang might even have secretly helped her adulterous lover!

But he had neither kinship nor friendship with Wu Sanqi; they had merely nodded to one another in passing.

After learning the truth, he had no desire to seek justice for the man. At most, he would be more wary of that pair of dogs in the future.

Breeze Daoist and Yuanjue had likely guessed some of it as well, but neither said anything.

That was the way cultivators survived!

A year later.

The flying vessel convoy finally left the boundless desert and entered the borders of Great Qian. However, it took an enormous detour, traveling through sparsely populated lands.

After all, the borderlands were Black Demon Sect territory. They were a top-tier power within Great Qian, with Nascent Soul old monsters among them!

Though the two sides had already declared a truce, running into them would still be troublesome.

The Vast Righteous Sect's flying vessel route was deliberately designed to make a wide detour around the Black Demon Sect's sphere of influence.

For that very reason, this stretch of the journey required a full two years of flight before they could reach Qianyang City!

After resting in Qianyang City for a year, the fleet would make its return voyage. The trip there and back would take a full five years!

Still, for immortal cultivators, that was an acceptable amount of time.

Ever since that third-rank sand beast had