Su Che slipped into the night, following Gongshu Yun's transmitted message to a painted pleasure barge.
This pleasure barge was immense. Its prow was carved into a dragon's head, with the rest below fashioned into the shape of a fish. Its hull had been painted with golden dragon scales, and a great apricot-yellow sail hung from the central mast.
An abstruse talisman was painted upon the sail, concealing its form and making people unconsciously overlook this lavish pleasure barge, creating tranquility amid the bustle.
Large ships stood before, behind, left, and right of the pleasure barge, separating it from the surrounding vessels and leaving a stretch of quiet water. A lean, white-browed swordsman stood atop the barge's dragon-head prow.
"Gongshu Yun of the South Sea."
The lean swordsman bowed in his direction.
"Zuo Lengchan of Songyang."
Su Che returned the salute.
Courtesy before force. It seemed that if he wished to see Princess Ning'an, he would have to go through another round of twists and turns.
"Gongshu is ignorant and poorly informed. I had never heard that the Central Land possessed such a figure as Brother Zuo."
Under the deliberate suppression of Mysterious Capital Palace, the Central Land could not quite be called a dead zone for cultivation, but it absolutely could not compare to other places. Those at the Reverted Elixir stage already counted as the backbone.
If one could achieve Void Step, one would be a towering giant capable of suppressing an entire region.
Naturally, Void Step cultivators differed from one another. Void Step cultivators such as Grand Preceptor Yuwen of the Northern Dynasties and the freshly minted Grand Preceptor Su in the south could not be mentioned in the same breath as the Void Step cultivators as numerous as carts and measures in the Eastern Sea and