-Primordial Yang Calendar, year 9004: the Chang'an Plan officially began.
Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, Mu Yunyan, Gao Jianhan, and the old Daoist Cang Lou ventured into the Hengduan Mountain Range, beginning their journey to the Central Region.
-Primordial Yang Calendar, year 9032: while crossing the Sparkfire Mountain Range, the party was discovered by the Fire Phoenix Clan. Liu Yu activated the Instant Thousand-Mile Talisman, taking Zhuo Mengzhen with him across the Hengduan Mountain Range and into the Annam Protectorate.
As for the other three, their fates remained unknown.
-Primordial Yang Calendar, year 9040: the Battle of Lingwu City ended. Liu Yu accepted Zhang Yi as his personal disciple and officially left the Annam Protectorate, beginning his contact with the Central Region's cultivation world.
Only after thirty-six years did Liu Yu finally reach the human-controlled Central Region.
After a gap of more than a hundred thousand years, the Central Region once again welcomed visitors from Southern Heaven.
"Whoosh, whoosh."
Pure magic power surged within Liu Yu, and in just a few breaths, he caught up with Zhang Ziping and the other two, who had set off ahead of him.
Five streaks of escape light cut across the sky, heading away from Ling Province.
Before leaving, he looked back once more through the gap in the Thousand Mountains Spirit-Locking Formation, gazing deeply at the distant, indistinct outline of Lingwu City.
Though he could not see it clearly, Liu Yu had already painted a picture in his mind.
Sections of collapsed city wall, wisps of black smoke rising from within the city, and Zhang Household cultivators racing against time to make repairs.
Yet no matter how hard they worked, they could not erase the traces of the earlier battle in such a short time.
The lingering marks of spells were etched into