"We're here!"
"This is Mending Heaven Pavilion's Southguard Pass branch. It also gives us a foothold and a place to replenish supplies in the Outer Battlefield."
As they spoke, the two stopped before a battered metal spacecraft, little more than its main structure remaining.
At a glance, the craft had a strikingly futuristic look, rather like something built by an alien civilization.
It now lay on its side.
Its main structure stood roughly twenty or thirty stories high, and its length rivaled that of Narcissus Street on the city's west side. Martial Warriors carrying bags and bundles came and went through several entrances on the first level.
Most of them had fairly ordinary auras, around the Seventh-Rank Transformation Realm or Sixth-Rank True Force.
Su Xinghe relaxed a little.
With his Grandmaster-level combat strength, he probably wasn't cannon fodder in the Outer Battlefield just yet.
A faint, concealed fluctuation descended, and he looked up.
The upper levels held rows of combat platforms and several enormous passageways.
After another bout of weightlessness, the two landed on a platform at the very top.
"Hello, Steward Xu!"
A young woman's sweet, clear voice rang out beside them.
A young woman in a long white dress stood at the platform entrance. Perhaps she had sensed the spiritual pressure of a peak Martial Saint; a trace of nervousness showed on her face.
"Where is Elder Liu?"
Xu Ling swept the area with a faint pulse of spiritual power and asked in a deep voice.
The girl in white lowered her head and bowed respectfully to them.
"Steward Xu, our ancestor went to the Twenty-Ninth Region and hasn't returned yet. I'm in charge of receiving visitors here today."
Xu Ling frowned slightly.
"Has the matter at Site 03 still not been resolved?"
The girl in white