"Actually, besides flying there, there is another way. Not only would it save time, it would also avoid most of the risks," Tan Yaozheng suddenly said.
Zhang Yuan asked, "What way?"
Tan Yaozheng folded her arms across her chest and said nothing.
Zhang Yuan understood instantly.
After so much contact with High Cultivators, he had come to understand these True Lords and Divine Masters. Their temperaments were much the same: first they dangled a hook in their words, then sat back and waited for a Lower Cultivator to beg. Only when they were pleased would they speak.
Zhang Yuan gave a dry cough and asked sincerely, "Senior Tan, what wise advice do you have?"
If flattery did not work, he would try sincerity.
"Hardly wise advice. I'm merely pointing you toward a path."
Tan Yaozheng said evenly:
"Eight hundred thousand li east of Heaven-Reaching City, beside the East Sea of Southern Heaven, there are a grotto-heaven and a blessed land. The grotto-heaven is called Azure Talisman Grotto-Heaven, and the blessed land is named Spirit Emperor Blessed Land. The Spirit Emperor Blessed Land has ships that travel around the northern shore and the various kingdoms of the Dust-Dyed Realm. Though they cannot take you directly to the East Sea Dragon Clan, they can reach a certain place in the Dust-Dyed Realm's East Sea. That would be considerably better than making your own way there."
Grotto-heavens and blessed lands...
Zhang Yuan frowned.
By now, those words alone triggered something of a stress response in him, bringing to mind the grotto-heavens and blessed lands of ancient Earth Immortals.
But the Azure Talisman Grotto-Heaven and Spirit Emperor Blessed Land were in the Southern Heaven Realm, so they presumably had little connection to the ancient Earth Immortals of the Dust-Dyed Realm. Besides, the incidents involving