After saying goodbye to Tianyi, Chen Fan turned to look at the Mortal Domain Members still busy down below. He admired his two bases once more, then cheerfully boarded his Flying Boat and headed toward Nameless Mountain Cave One.
By now,
the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot, once his personal ride, had all but left the stage.
Mainly because it could not fly.
It was not as flexible as a Flying Boat.
Times were changing. Even something like the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot had to start preparing for retirement. These days, its symbolic significance in the Mortal Domain outweighed its practical use. Over the next fortnight or so,
Chen Fan stayed in the Mortal Domain, busy overseeing its various improvements. For instance... the Earth Gold Wiring. Now that the Mortal Domain had two Cruise Missile Bases, he had assumed the original wiring would not be enough.
To his surprise,
the earth gold could carry far more than he had imagined. It could easily supply enough energy to charge both Cruise Missile Storage Bases, with capacity to spare. That saved him quite a bit of trouble.
After taking care of all the miscellaneous little tasks,
half a month after the rainy season ended,
Chen Fan stood on the Flying Boat's deck and looked down at Wang Kui and the others seeing him off. "This trip will probably take several months. I'll set up Signal Towers along the way to keep communications running."
"While I'm away, Wang Kui, you'll oversee the Mortal Domain's affairs."
"Contact me promptly if anything comes up that you aren't sure about."
"Everyone else, keep carrying out your assigned tasks according to plan."
"Understood!"
Crippled Monkey and the others standing on the wasteland nodded. Everyone had their own duties, and Crippled Monkey's were extremely simple. They could roughly be divided into