Su Che had settled down to cultivate. He had no desire to linger over the bustling sights of Floating Cloud Ferry in Tidewatch City and boarded the Plain Maiden Way's Star Raft.
Floating Cloud Ferry was a landing place for Cloud Arks and Star Rafts. Built high above the ground, among the drifting clouds, it had earned its name.
Tidewatch City's Floating Cloud Ferry had separate landings for cargo and passengers, each on a mountainside. Travelers and merchants streamed through without pause, but with a carriage from the Plain Maiden Way clearing the path, Su Che soon arrived beneath the Star Raft.
Ordinary Star Rafts differed somewhat in design from Cloud Arks, but they were considerably smaller.
As Si Xiang explained, a Star Raft had to break through the Ninefold Heavenly Firmament. That was grueling work, impossible without a Void Step cultivator aboard.
Make the raft any larger, and even a Void Step cultivator would not suffice. It would take an Immortal True Person, or someone stronger.
No one could hope to hire a figure of that caliber as a chauffeur.
That was why most Star Rafts in this world were small and had a Void Step cultivator aboard.
Su Che went straight into a quiet chamber, while Si Xiang stayed beside him throughout.
Only after asking did he learn that, to escort him to the Seventy-Two Kingdoms, the Plain Maiden Way had assigned three more Void Step experts to the Star Raft.
If they had not feared that an Immortal True Person's presence would draw attention from other factions, the Plain Maiden Way would have sent one instead.
This time, as the Star Raft parted the Ninefold Heavenly Firmament, Su Che had none of the interest in watching and contemplating the sight that he had felt when he first