An endless world of boundless ice and snow stretched as far as the eye could see.
A flying boat streaked across the sky, with Li Ping standing quietly at its prow.
His gaze rested on the monotonous scenery below, but his mind silently turned over his conversation with Ma Fangshan, the Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Not long before, Ma Fangshan had told them about the general situation of humanity in the Far North.
While the two considered what they had heard, he had fervently invited them to stay in the Sky Valley Market Ward, even offering to relinquish his position as its master.
They would become the rulers of the Sky Valley Market Ward's hundreds of thousands of mortals and over a hundred cultivators in a single leap.
The offer seemed full of temptation, but neither Li Ping nor Xiao Yunzhi was enamored of power. Naturally, they refused outright.
Once he voiced their refusal, however, Li Ping could distinctly sense Ma Fangshan heaving a sigh of relief.
Clearly, the sudden appearance of two experts with higher cultivation than his own in the market ward had left him deeply uneasy.
Next, Li Ping asked him about the geography of the Far North and the approximate locations of humanity's eight main cities.
Then he and Xiao Yunzhi left the Sky Valley Market Ward, despite Ma Fangshan's repeated attempts to persuade them to stay.
They were now heading toward the main city to which the Sky Valley Market Ward owed allegiance: Snowflight City, ruled by the cultivation sect known as the Snowflight Sect.
According to Ma Fangshan, Snowflight City lay well over a hundred thousand li from the Sky Valley Market Ward. Far as that seemed, it was actually the nearest main city.
This made Li Ping marvel all the more at the vastness