As the White Boat flew over the station, just as Daoist Zheng had said, they could see boundary markers standing on the wilderness, facing each other in pairs.
These pillars stood some thirty meters high, all polished from jade of a single uniform color, with luminous stones embedded within. There was roughly one pair every five kilometers.
Beside some of the boundary markers stood Mooring Boat Terraces and flying vessels, while great slabs of radiant jade glass rose above them. Cultivators were clearly stationed there; these should have been the places responsible for patrols and Radiant Transmission.
From Daoist Zheng's reports, over the past two years, with external pressure easing, the continent had devoted more of its efforts to the people's livelihood. The boundary markers leading toward Jade Capital had now been completed, and traffic between the two places was gradually resuming. The next step would be to construct the underground rapid route from Jade Capital to Qingyang.
With these boundary markers showing the way, the White Boat no longer needed to heed the disturbances of the Turbid Tide outside. Even at night, the luminous stones inside and atop the pillars would shine, and the vessel's speed immediately increased.
Just one day later, the White Boat arrived above the former Fangtai Sect station.
Other than the station itself, this place had once been surrounded by military forts scattered across the desolate plains. Now, centered on the former Fangtai Sect station and the Celestial Mechanism Institute station, another, even larger settlement had expanded outward.
From the letter Yun Chen had sent him, Zhang Yu knew that three separate provinces had now been established on the continent. Two of them were Solitary Province and Secret Province, formed after Frost Continent had been conquered.
These two territories had originally split off from Azure