Fang Shu rode the Red True Flying Centipede. After flying several hundred li, he took out Peach Blossom Mistcloud instead and rode the clouds above the Vast Sea Desert, sparing himself excessive expenditure of spiritual power.
He flew like this for two or three months before a blue-gray expanse of water finally appeared in his sight.
This body of water was the Dead Sea, stretching between the Vast Sea Desert and Zucchini Continent. It was also a passage that Vast Sea cultivators had to cross in order to leave the Vast Sea. At the sight of it, Fang Shu could not help but let out a breath of relief. He thought to himself:
"Good. I wasn't thrown too far away. Otherwise, judging by Vast Sea Immortal City's route, it would have been entirely possible for me to spend a year or half flying my way out."
Moreover, as Fang Shu looked over the vast Dead Sea, his gaze fell upon the stone altar beneath his feet.
This stone altar was the gateway to the minor mystic realm.
Because it was tied to the mystic realm, it could not be stored in a storage pouch and could only be carried at one's side.
Furthermore, once an object like this left the nourishment of a spirit vein, the mystic realm within would naturally wither away.
Had Fang Shu not already planted a spirit vein within the mystic realm, the minor mystic realm would likely have completely collapsed and vanished during these past two or three months. Yet even so, without a spirit vein to sustain it, Fang Shu found it difficult to open the minor mystic realm for the time being.
And as time passed, the connection between the minor mystic realm and this stone altar would gradually break.
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