Along the way, they passed one nebula grave mound after another, but none showed any signs of having been damaged.
By all rights, after Azure Bird's earlier actions, quite a few of the nebula grave mounds here should have been torn apart. Yet in reality, none had been.
Lu Ye guessed that the nebula grave mounds that had been torn apart might slowly heal themselves.
Another two months later, the Star Boat finally sailed out of the area shrouded by Thousand Hills Tomb. Lu Ye studied the Star Map, his spirits quietly lifting.
According to the Star Map's guidance, he only needed to cross a Turbulent Blast Zone next to reach the Jade Snail Star System.
This showed just how remote the Jade Snail Star System was. Lu Ye did not yet know what lay in the other directions, but from the direction he had returned by, the closest star system to the Jade Snail Star System was Unfixed. Yet three regions lay between the two great star systems. One was the place previously occupied by the Insect Race. Even traveling by Star Boat, Lu Ye had spent more than three months crossing it. After that came Thousand Hills Tomb, followed by the Turbulent Blast Zone.
Crossing Thousand Hills Tomb had also taken three months, but the Turbulent Blast Zone covered a far greater area. Lu Ye estimated that it would take no less than half a year.
Only after crossing the Turbulent Blast Zone would he reach the edge of the Jade Snail Star System. To return to Nine Provinces, he would still have a long and arduous journey ahead.
Unlike the relative safety of Thousand Hills Tomb, the Turbulent Blast Zone was fraught with danger everywhere. Even a Sunlight Realm cultivator who carelessly got swept into it would