The night was dark, and the wind was high.
Waves crashed against the shore.
The amphibious landing ship—correction, the Cloud Kun, now reduced to the size of a small sampan—silently carried Shen Le up to the shore. The moment Shen Le stepped onto the soil, he waved to those behind him, immediately sank down, drew upon the earth's energy, and plunged headfirst into the nearest mountain range.
Only after finding a pitch-black place thick with branches and leaves, utterly devoid of human traces, and sitting down cross-legged to sort through his earlier experience did he realize something was wrong:
"That makes no sense. I came here through the earth veins, so how did I end up choking on seawater? I went to the Wa Kingdom before without any trouble—how could the strait have stopped me?"
He slowly spread out his spiritual power, communicating with the mountains, with the earth veins, and with the entire land. After scanning back and forth seven or eight times, he finally remembered where the problem lay:
When he had gone to the Wa Kingdom before, he had not used earth-vein teleportation. He had used spatial teleportation. The Copper Fragment had helped him locate the destination, and then he had activated that spatial teleportation Talisman to jump straight there!
A Talisman capable of jumping directly from his main world to a Secret Realm would have no problem taking him from Zhuxi Town to the Wa Kingdom, provided the coordinates were accurate!
"So I called Cloud Kun over for nothing?"
Shen Le immediately felt a little guilty. Cloud Kun's itinerary and assignments were packed to the brim!
After finishing one job, it would come back for an SPA treatment, have its hull scraped and repainted, then immediately set off on the next trip, with barely any gap