Having obtained information about the outside world, Yu Chen did not linger in the mountains. After packing his things, he followed the boundary of the seal, making his way bit by bit toward the southeast.
Since I can't reach the Central Plains from here, I'll go to the Eastern Sea or the Southern Sea.
That was Yu Chen's current plan. From the old man's memories, he knew that the Central Plains were now largely controlled by descendants of gods. Someone like Yu Chen, upon entering the Central Plains, would either be rejected or captured and made into a slave.
As for the Qi Refiners he wished to find, they either dwelled amid famous mountains and great rivers or lived in seclusion across the Four Seas, with the Eastern Sea being the foremost among them.
The reason Yu Chen had chosen to travel along the boundary of the seal was also because the border of the Central Plains' seal was the safest.
According to the elderly cultivator's memories, this seal was in fact also the border of the Central Plains. It could suppress spiritual energy fluctuations and prevent cultivators above a certain realm from staying for long. Following this boundary was a relatively safe route; it was unlikely that he would encounter any powerful exotic beasts or cultivators.
Yet the spiritual workings of heaven and earth were abundant at present. Even in this border region, where spiritual energy was suppressed, it was far better than the dungeon worlds Yu Chen had experienced. Moreover, the primal energy of heaven and earth contained a trace of spirituality, allowing many ferocious beasts with strange and bizarre abilities, as well as demon beasts that had developed intelligence, to live along the border between the Central Plains and the Southern Barbarian Lands.
Yu Chen did not