Li Su set off.
Under the old man's arrangements, he boarded a flying vessel bound directly for Flaming Mountain.
The journey would take roughly three days.
Flaming Mountain lay southwest of Li Province, over ten thousand li away. In other words, the flying vessel would travel a little more than three thousand li a day.
That speed was not actually slow.
Li Su could leap five hundred li at a time with the Azure Dragon Art. At that rate, three thousand li would only take six jumps. It seemed as though it would be better to simply give him the coordinates and let him hop there himself.
Reality, however, was not so simple.
Crossing an enormous distance of five hundred li consumed a tremendous amount.
Even with Li Su's terrifying mana bar, he could not make that many jumps in total. Moreover, lesser immortal arts had cooldowns and could not be used continuously. Overusing them would overheat the Azure Dragon Art's inscriptions and cause problems.
Take Li Su, for instance. Since he had already reached the point of mastery, he could cast it five times in rapid succession. After that, it would enter a lengthy waiting period and need at least several hours to cool down.
It was not impossible to force it, but overheated inscriptions would undoubtedly cause the Azure Dragon Art to malfunction. He might end up diving headfirst into a mountain, a rock, or a tree trunk five hundred li away.
What was more, after five uses, continuing to activate it would consume his own mana directly—three hundred thousand per use. With his current reserves, at most seven more uses would drain him dry.
Well, lesser immortal arts could store power.
That was another reason they surpassed ordinary spells. Not only were they immensely powerful, they could