"Any Enemy Who Disturbs the Mortal Domain Shall Meet Death, Not Life."

"This is Exploration Team Seventeen of the Mortal Domain Commerce Pavilion. Come in—"

Zhang Taiping stood on the deck, his expression shifting. He looked down at the Message Talisman in his hand. It gave off no light. At some point, his connection had been cut, and not a word he had said had gone through.

He had not reached the other side at all.

Ahead of him,

dozens of Flying Boats had turned and were racing toward him. They were coming with hostile intent!

This was no special restricted area.

There was only one explanation for the severed connection: the other side had done it.

Without the slightest hesitation,

"Hard over! Run!"

Zhang Taiping roared at his men as they rushed toward the cabin.

They were enemies.

Thousands of Flying Boats. If a force that vast reached the New Continent without the Mortal Domain knowing, the devastation would be catastrophic!

He had to get word back!

Was it the Feng Qiya Continent, the Dark Eerie Continent, or some unknown force?

Could it be the Feng Qiya Continent again?

Damn it!

The Feng Qiya Continent was like a flea that would not stop jumping. No matter how many times it was swatted, it never stayed still!

In the blink of an eye,

more than three thousand Flying Boats continued racing toward the New Continent, while the twenty-odd boats that had broken away from the fleet stayed close behind Zhang Taiping's.

One ahead, the others behind,

they began a desperate flight across the sea.

The Mortal Domain's Flying Boats had a speed boost from the Heavenly Dao Blessing Effect of the Vehicle Workshop: doubled speed at doubled consumption. By rights, they should have shaken their pursuers quickly.

But

the twenty-odd Flying Boats behind them kept pace. They were nearly as fast.

They