The plane climbed above the clouds and flew on in silence.
Waves rolled across the Sea of Clouds.
Chen Shu gazed out the window, quietly lost in Thought.
This was a rare supersonic passenger plane. A Formation muffled the noise outside and from the fuselage, which was why it was so quiet. Even so, the flight from the Jade Capital to Duqin would take nearly ten hours.
The flight path would also pass over Yuanzhou.
Beyond Yuanzhou lay the national border, followed by western Central Continent. After crossing a vast stretch of small countries, they would reach Duqin.
Central Continent shared borders with both Western Continent and Eastern Continent, and at its closest point to Northern Continent, only a strait separated them.
There was no Southern Continent.
After all, what did east, south, west, north, and center really mean? Everyone lived on the same Planet. But ancient Central Huaxia Civilization had controlled the discourse, and Central Continent's landmass was indeed the largest and most regularly shaped. So it called itself Central Continent, and everyone else followed suit.
Though Duqin lay in Western Continent, perhaps because it was close to western Central Continent, most of its people were also East Asian. Western Central Continent was the birthplace of Huaxia. Only after the Sacred Ancestor unified the realm did he relocate it to its present position, for various reasons.
Ancient Duqin had enjoyed its own days of glory.
Its golden age had come a few centuries into the Common Era.
Back then, Duqin was called Tasha, the name its capital still bore today. Neighboring the unified nation founded by the Sacred Ancestor, it had learned a great deal of advanced knowledge, technology, and institutions in its early years. Once the Sacred Ancestor's great relocation was complete, Tasha used what it had learned