Shangzhou.
A flying vessel, neither too large nor too small, streaked through the sky in a trail of light, racing all the way toward the Glacial Snowfield in the far north.
On the deck, Su Shi'er sat cross-legged, gripping a spirit crystal in each hand and seizing every moment to absorb the abundant spiritual energy within them.
Although the nine provinces of Azure Star had merged into one, causing the lands formerly separated by the Endless Sea to nearly border one another,
even so, traveling from Muyun Prefecture to Shangzhou required crossing Central Continent in between—a distance of a full hundred thousand li.
Even at his peak, Su Shi'er could not have flown such a distance in one breath.
Much less now, when he had just endured a calamitous battle and his injuries had yet to heal.
As for using a Teleportation Array, that would ordinarily have been possible.
But every landmass among the nine provinces apart from Leizhou had once been occupied by the Devil Race.
Coupled with the unification of the nine provinces and the upheaval of the Earth's Earth Qi,
at least ninety percent of the Teleportation Arrays across Azure Star had already been destroyed by the forces of nature.
The only Teleportation Arrays that had remained intact beneath such force were Ancient Teleportation Arrays, crafted in ancient times from special spiritual materials.
And... the Teleportation Arrays in Leizhou, where cultivators were most active and where arrays usually provided protection.
It could be said that a considerable portion of the surviving Teleportation Arrays were located in Leizhou.
Repairing Teleportation Arrays throughout the various regions was itself one of the tasks undertaken by the various forces of Azure Star's Cultivation World that intended to relocate.
Moreover, to teleport to a fixed destination using a Teleportation Array, both corresponding