The ferryboat soon docked on the opposite bank. Qin Hao mingled with the crowd and followed its flow, continuing north.
Occasionally, Qin Hao would stop at a market town to rest and eat.
It was not that Qin Hao did not want to travel at full speed. Rather, every stretch of the journey brought him within sight of True Martial Realm experts from the Five Poisons Cult, the Soul-Severing Sect, the Soul-Slaughtering Sect, and Heavenly Demon Valley.
They were all patrolling, searching for traces of Qin Hao!
The Great Scarlet Reach was vast, considerably larger in area than the Southern Reach.
In the north of the Great Scarlet Reach, the border with the Blood Refinement Domain alone stretched for hundreds of thousands of li!
With such an enormous border, even the major sects of the Great Scarlet Reach working together to seal it off could not station Saint Martial Grandmasters everywhere.
Besides, Qin Hao had merely chosen a perfectly ordinary route north...
Finding one person in that boundless land was no different from fishing a needle out of the ocean.
While Qin Hao continued north in fits and starts, tens of thousands of li away, farther east in the Great Scarlet Reach...
High in the sky, Jiao Hong, the Soul-Severing Sect Master, wore luxurious brocade robes. His face was gloomy as he stared coldly at an elderly man before him.
The elderly man looked as though he already had one foot in the grave, his whole body exuding an air of decay and decline. Yet domain power also suffused his body as he stood in midair, facing Jiao Hong from a distance.
"Hmph, Old Ghost Lü, I have no time to waste words with you here. If you have any grievances against my Soul-Severing Sect, you can take them to