The Eastern Wastes Region was vast. From the boundary wall of the Central Lands to the far end of the Eastern Wastes, it stretched over forty thousand li... The Corpse Plague Sect stood right in its heartland, where the territories of the Righteous Path and Demonic Path met.
From here, eight hundred li would bring them into Righteous Path territory. Another three thousand li or so would take them to Zhou Kai's destination, Cavefire Monastery.
At the Red-Earth Yu Warship's speed, they could theoretically arrive in a day, but Zhou Kai was in no particular hurry this time.
He decided to follow the shelters, settlements, and supernatural factions scattered between the two locations, killing his way through them.
This would extend the journey to over a month, which offered Zhou Kai plenty of benefits... He would have enough time to recover his strength, pass on the [Firebearer] Identity, and gather more experience points, Identity tokens, and miracle creations.
The Righteous Path and Demonic Path factions of the Eastern Wastes Region would also have enough time to react to Zhou Kai's appearance.
Zhou Kai looked forward to the day both sides marked him for death, set aside their differences, and joined forces against him.
That would be wonderful. It would just be a tiny bit challenging.
A single decisive battle would earn him hundreds of millions of experience points and establish his position as the Eastern Wastes Overlord, preparing him for the arrival of the other four contestants.
From Yin Yuling, Zhou Kai had also learned much about the apocalyptic Great Calamity. The [Centuryal Disaster Cycle], for instance, meant that the disaster afflicting the Five Regions changed every hundred years.
This time it was the Great Black Sky. No one knew what came next, but records from the closing years of