Nan Feng: Sorry, I Haven't Teleported in Decades, So My Aim Was a Little Off

Qian Renxue was so embarrassed she wished she could crawl into a crack in the ground. Blushing furiously, she argued loudly, "Grandfather! I... I just think he's a very interesting person!"

"And besides, he's the first friend I've ever had. Not only did he comfort me, but he was even punished by Mother because he helped me. Just now, I was only... only feeling a little embarrassed and guilty! It's absolutely not the kind of liking you're thinking of!"

Qian Daoliu's expression grew increasingly strange.

If he had been some simple-minded old man, he might truly have believed her excuse of "a child speaking without restraint."

But who was Qian Daoliu? He had lived for over a hundred years and held great power over Spirit Hall. Had he not seen enough men and women, enough lovesick fools?

This was clearly the most innocent and bewildered stirrings of first love!

He had never expected that his proud and haughty precious granddaughter would actually develop such feelings for a scheming little brat like that!

Although that boy was indeed outrageously gifted, still...

Qian Daoliu sighed helplessly to himself.

Forget it. He would let her be.

The child was still young. It was nothing more than a faint, innocent sentiment.

Children's feelings came quickly and faded just as quickly. After a few years apart, perhaps she would forget all about it.

Elsewhere.

After making the necessary preparations, Bibi Dong quietly left Spirit City with Nan Feng.

They did not ride in a comfortable carriage, instead choosing the most primitive means of travel: walking.

For Bibi Dong, a Spirit Douluo, a slow-moving vehicle like a carriage was nothing but dead weight.

Besides, traveling by carriage made them too conspicuous and would easily leave behind wheel tracks and traces of their route.

Bibi Dong did not need to think with anything more than her toes to know that Qian Xunji would definitely send people to secretly track and monitor her.

She had no desire to be watched by that man's people while traveling, like some caged canary put on display.

Not long after leaving Spirit City, Bibi Dong led Nan Feng off the main road and plunged straight into a dense, primordial spirit beast forest.

Spirit City stood at the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo, the Two Great Empires.

Behind it lay Star Dou Forest, the largest gathering ground for spirit beasts on the entire continent, while countless undeveloped spirit beast forests of all sizes surrounded the area.

For ordinary civilians and merchant caravans without any Soul Power to protect themselves, this perilous environment was undoubtedly a deadly Life Forbidden Zone.

As a result, the vast lands surrounding Spirit City were actually extremely desolate.

Other than Spirit City itself, there were no other human cities or large settlements within several hundred miles.

This was not only because it lay on the border between the Two Great Empires, but more importantly because the region was simply too dangerous.

No one knew whether, while traveling, a hungry Thousand-Year Soul Beast—or even a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast—might suddenly leap out from the roadside bushes.

The only people active in this region were groups of mercenaries and recklessly bold Soul Masters.

The fact that Spirit City had been built in such a dangerous place was itself a geographical advantage.

Because of the natural barrier and perilous surroundings, no matter how wary the Two Great Empires were of Spirit City's growing power, they could not deploy large conventional armies to effectively besiege it.

Of course, as the highest holy land in the hearts of Soul Masters across the continent, Spirit City could not truly remain isolated from the world.

Spirit Hall had spent vast sums to construct two broad, level main roads here, roads that rivaled the highest standards of those leading to the imperial capitals of the Two Great Empires.

These two main roads led respectively to the nearest major border cities within the two empires, and Soul Masters across the continent reverently called them the "Pilgrimage Road."

Bibi Dong had come out this time to avoid attention, so naturally she could not take such pilgrimage roads that practically announced, "I'm here."

With Nan Feng in tow, she specifically chose dangerous little paths rarely traveled by people and frequented by spirit beasts.

Not long after entering the depths of the forest, Bibi Dong was still considering how to use the complex terrain to shake off any possible Spirit Hall trackers behind them.

Nan Feng, who had been strolling leisurely behind her the whole time, suddenly stopped, yawned, and called out for her to halt.

"Alright, stop circling around. There's no need to make this so troublesome."

Bibi Dong turned back in confusion. "Why?"

"Hold on tight." Nan Feng did not explain. He stepped forward and grabbed Bibi Dong by the wrist.

The next second, a terrifying fluctuation that made one's heart tremble erupted from Nan Feng's body!

A layer of deep silver-gray radiance instantly enveloped them both!

The space around them seemed to turn into boiling water, violently twisting and folding!

Rampaging spatial power surged wildly!

"Buzz—!"

With a faint tremor of space, Bibi Dong's vision blurred, and the primordial forest and towering ancient trees around them instantly vanished without a trace.

An intense sense of weightlessness and dizziness washed over her. When Bibi Dong's feet touched solid ground again and her vision cleared—

She discovered in shock that they were already standing atop a completely unfamiliar, towering cliff!

As far as the eye could see, the majestic outline of Spirit City was gone. In its place stood the walls of a massive fortified city!

Nan Feng closed his eyes and carefully sensed the lingering fluctuations of spatial coordinates around them. Then he scratched his head awkwardly. "Uh... I think my aim was a little off."

"I've never been here before, so there weren't any fixed spatial beacons to guide me. For this kind of blind, ultra-long-distance spatial transfer, I really can't quite control the landing point."

Nan Feng turned toward Bibi Dong, who was still completely dumbfounded, and asked, "Have you been here before? Do you know roughly where this is?"

Bibi Dong stiffly turned her head and stared at the enormous flag fluttering in the wind atop the distant city walls. The corner of her eye twitched violently.

The sheer terror of Nan Feng's ability to casually fold and traverse space as if it were paper had already made her scalp tingle.

"Th-That... that's the royal flag of the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom!"

Bibi Dong took a deep breath. Looking at Nan Feng, even her voice trembled. "Damn it! With one casual move, you took me across half the Heaven Dou Empire?!"

This was far too absurd!

One had to know that between Spirit City and the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom in the heartland of the Heaven Dou Empire lay countless mountains and rivers, a journey of at least several thousand miles!

Yet this guy had gotten them here in the time it took to snap his fingers?!

"Only half the Heaven Dou Empire?"

Nan Feng followed her gaze toward the distant flag and curled his lips dismissively. "What are you making such a fuss over?"

"What does this even count for? If seventy percent of my Soul Power weren't currently sealed by the Godly Trial Seal and unusable, then with my mastery of space at my peak, that move just now could have taken you from Spirit City straight to Sea God Island across the ocean in an instant!"

Nan Feng stretched and sighed. "Sigh, I haven't moved around in the normal environment of Douluo Continent for decades. I was always stuck in a place with chaotic space like the Capital of Slaughter, so I've nearly forgotten how to sense the continent's spatial coordinates. Otherwise, I definitely could have taken you straight to Heaven Dou City with that jump!"

Bibi Dong looked strangely at the little brat before her, who was not even as tall as her leg.

"Are... are you even human?"

A method like this, casually wandering through dimensional space as though it were one's own backyard, had completely surpassed the realm of human Soul Masters, hadn't it?

Nan Feng tilted his head and seriously considered the question.

"Judging by my current foundation and realm..."

Nan Feng rubbed his chin. "My overall combat strength should currently be at the absolute peak of a Demigod."

"Of course, since I haven't yet obtained a Divine Seat or shed my mortal body."

Nan Feng winked at her. "Then I definitely still count as human!"