But in the next instant, Yan Yukong suddenly broke into a broad grin.
Atop that white cloud appeared an ancient wooden carriage with two wheels, drawn by two bronze oxen. Its body was small, only large enough to seat two people, and it did not even have a roof, just a parasol for shelter.
An old man sat upright in the carriage.
He wore a high cap and broad sash, with a youthful face and crane-white hair, his figure lean and scholarly.
The distance was too great for Fang Yun to make out the old man's features, but the moment he saw the ancient wooden carriage, he guessed the man's identity.
That carriage was the States Carriage.
That man was the head of the Kong Family, Kong Changxun.
When Sage Kong had traveled through the various states, he had ridden in this carriage. Even after his Saint Enfeoffment, he had never discarded it, riding it through the Myriad Worlds. When Sage Kong suffered sagefall, the States Carriage became a Second Saint literary treasure and stood guard over the Kong Family.
During the Battle of Two Worlds Mountain, the Demon Barbarians had launched a sudden attack before the human race was ready. With disaster hanging by a thread, the head of the Kong Family had ridden the States Carriage out of Two Worlds Mountain and circled the Demon Barbarian camp, leaving two rings of historical wheel ruts that severed the void and sundered time.
Only after a full fourteen days had the Demon Barbarian sages completely erased those two historical wheel ruts and broken out of their camp. By then, the human race was fully prepared.
The carriage had no offensive power, but it possessed all manner of wondrous abilities and was one of the fastest treasures in the Myriad Worlds.