Across the boundless wilderness, an ordinary carriage rolled leisurely over the earth.
Pulling it was a scrawny horse with a mottled coat.
Its hooves seemed to rise and fall slowly, yet every heavy step sent the withered grass on either side streaking backward in a blur.
Inside the carriage.
Jiang Yuechu sat by the window, watching the scenery flash past through a lifted corner of the coarse cloth curtain.
She knew that the Nine Immortal Provinces were beyond comparison with a remote backwater like the Cloud-Dream Realm.
Still, this was her first time seeing the ability to shrink the earth to inches through legwork alone, and she could not help taking another look.
Seeing her fascination, the purple-robed woman exchanged a glance with the man in black, then spoke first to break the silence.
"Never seen legs like these before?"
The purple-robed woman spoke amiably, a smile on her lips. "This is no ordinary demon. Turn the years back a little, and this old horse once pulled a carriage for a Star Lord. If we went strictly by the Heavenly Court's rules, this horse holds a genuine immortal office of the Principal Eighth Rank."
After hearing that, Jiang Yuechu calmly withdrew her gaze.
She turned to look at the bony rump ahead, a sudden speechlessness welling up inside her.
Principal Eighth Rank.
In other words, given her current status as a Ninth-Rank Sky-Patrolling Guard...
If they went by the rules, would she have to get out, bow to this beast, and respectfully address it as Lord Horse?
"Let us introduce ourselves." The purple-robed woman straightened her sleeves and said solemnly, "I am Long Zhi, a Seventh-Rank Sky-Patrolling Guard of the Cloud Province Directorate. This is Chen Zheng, an Eighth-Rank Sky-Patrolling Guard."
Then Long Zhi looked at the slender Jiang Yuechu