Several more days passed.
Shen Changchuan became a streak of escaping light and left the mortal nation called the Chen Kingdom.
Clouds swept swiftly beneath his feet.
His magical power kept the fierce winds around him at bay.
As Shen Changchuan flew onward, he gazed toward the distant horizon ahead, his brow slightly furrowed.
I approached this the wrong way.
Deep in thought, he murmured under his breath.
His reaction
naturally meant this trip had not gone particularly well.
The reason was something he had overlooked-the living conditions in Southern Yue left no room for ordinary hunters, fishermen, and the like to survive!
The reason was simple.
Most of Southern Yue remained undeveloped.
The nations established by gathered mortal humans had developed and occupied only a tiny portion of the land.
Even within these developed nations, in the regions of their territories where mortals could live and multiply, danger still lurked everywhere in the wilderness!
For example,
the mountain forests invariably concealed low-tier wild beasts, venomous insects, and even poisonous, miasma-filled woods that could easily swallow up low-tier cultivators.
The rivers, lakes, and seas also harbored vicious creatures such as low-tier water ghosts and demonic spirits.
These low-tier fiends reproduced rapidly, and killing them yielded little in the way of valuable materials. With the mountain forests, rivers, lakes, and seas covering such vast areas, even high-tier cultivators could not possibly exterminate them all in a short time.
Ultimately, they could only leave them be.
After all, once these various low-tier fiends left the familiar environments they relied on to survive, such as the mountain forests, even a few farmers with iron pitchforks could stab them to death. They hardly mattered.
Thus, throughout the wilderness of Southern Yue's mortal nations, both mountain forests and waterways teemed with danger.
Under such circumstances,