Ao Huang and Mountain Bearer exchanged a glance, snorted coldly, then each looked away.
"Come with me to pay our respects to my friends," Fang Yun said solemnly.
As he spoke, Fang Yun walked between Ao Huang and Mountain Bearer, resting one hand on Ao Huang's head and the other on Mountain Bearer's shoulder. Literary Qi surged around him, and in the eyes of others, the man, turtle, and dragon instantly became a young man and two children a little over ten.
Then, using the approximate location Fang Yun had marked, Mountain Bearer activated his innate ability. Starlight gathered around him, and they instantly arrived in the sky three li outside distant Flower County.
Walking the Blue Clouds appeared beneath Fang Yun's feet.
Ao Huang stared at Mountain Bearer in astonishment. The starry void was completely different from the interior of a world. Even a Half-Sage could not truly transpose through space without the Sacred Academy's assistance. It was not that Half-Sages lacked the power, but that the will of the Saint Origin Continent forbade it.
Out in the starry void, Half-Sages could use their own power to move at the speed of light, an ability called "moving with light and dust." If they possessed a special Literary World or Sacred Book, they could perform Spatial Transposition, far exceeding the speed of light.
But on the Saint Origin Continent, Half-Sages could only reach extraordinary speeds in an instant. They could not leap ten thousand li at a time like Mountain Bearer, moving at the speed of light.
Neither the Human Race's Half-Sages nor the Dragon Race could do it. To handle such a heavy feat as lightly as Mountain Bearer did, they would have to draw on outside power.
Ao Huang blinked, as though he had guessed something.
Seeing his