In the sky between Snowflight City and Silver Moon City.
A streak of dark silver escape light raced through the air. A closer look revealed that it was actually a flying boat several dozen feet long.
At its bow stood a figure in a pale blue spell robe, his bearing composed.
It was none other than Li Ping, who had left Snowflight City not long ago.
After leaving Snowflight City, he had not headed straight south across the desert and the Grasslands to return to the Western Wasteland. Instead, he had traveled north toward Silver Moon City.
Naturally, this was not to pay tribute to God Wei.
Earth was round, but the cultivation world was not. Driving his carriage south to reach the north would never work here.
In truth, his main reason for heading north was to retrieve treasures.
What treasures?
The third-tier materials Daoist Gaoji had promised him!
According to Daoist Gaoji, the third-tier spirit materials hidden in his treasury were more than enough to craft a third-tier lower-grade puppet.
Once Li Ping returned to the Western Wasteland, he would choose an appropriate time to switch to cultivating the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Canon.
Switching between primary cultivation methods of different attributes was little different from dispersing his cultivation and starting over. He might experience a period of weakness.
Having a third-tier puppet to protect him during that time would provide a solid safeguard for his life, so he had to craft one in advance.
Daoist Gaoji's treasury lay beneath a glacier less than thirty thousand kilometers from Silver Moon City.
Li Ping felt that these spirit materials were worth the trouble of making the trip.
Standing at the bow and looking down over the world of ice and snow, Li Ping suddenly stirred and slapped the spirit