After the meeting ended, Liu Changxu and the others followed Cao Hui aboard a small flying boat, only fifteen zhang long, that radiated a faint, dark glow.
But once Liu Changxu and the others entered the flying boat, they discovered that its interior was vast beyond measure, spanning a thousand li.
Never mind their few dozen people-it could hold even a hundred million.
Liu Changxu soon recalled that this flying boat must be the Shadow Ark, the Azure Cloud Sect's sect-guarding treasure.
The Shadow Ark was a fifth-tier middle-grade flying spirit treasure. Its greatest strength was not its extraordinary speed, but its ability to fly concealed. Combined with its vast interior, this gave it an exceptionally special role in the Azure Cloud Sect.
For this operation, for instance, only the Shadow Ark could deliver the Azure Cloud Sect's cultivators to Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, the heartland of the Azure Cloud Mountain Demon Race, without anyone being the wiser.
After they boarded, Cao Hui led the cultivators to a massive castle in the center of the flying boat's interior, then ordered them to disperse, find their own lodgings, and await his command.
Liu Changxu picked an unoccupied residence at random and settled in, quietly awaiting the order to attack.
Meanwhile, the Shadow Ark had already taken flight, becoming a black speck as it headed toward Ten Thousand Demons Ridge before swiftly disappearing from sight.
After just two days and two nights of flight, the Shadow Ark brought the Azure Cloud Sect's cultivators to the vicinity of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, eighty million li away.
At the sect master's command, Liu Changxu flew out of the Shadow Ark with the other cultivators and emerged into the outside world.
What greeted their eyes were towering mountain ridges, rising and falling in layer upon