When Niu Ba woke early that morning, he felt nothing unusual. The Illusion Technique Shen Qian had used had only concealed her appearance and movements, without causing any actual harm. That was also why Cheng Yu had not recalled Niu Ba the night before.
After feeding Niu Ba breakfast, Cheng Yu mounted him and entered the forest. On this main road leading out of the forest, Cheng Yu was finally no longer alone.
This forest connected not only to the Skywalk, but also to the cities near West Sea Prefecture and the Great Northern Waste Land beyond Heavenly Gate Pass.
He had heard that many minor races and Great Clans lived there. On the Eastern Continent, the Great Northern Waste Land was effectively an autonomous territory tacitly recognized by the Humankind Heavenly Dynasty. Most people who went there were official envoys of the Heavenly Dynasty or powerful cultivators.
The races living in the Great Northern Waste Land were indeed subordinate to Humankind, but that did not mean every member of those races had a favorable impression of humans. Some deranged cultivators of other races even captured humans traveling there to dissect them alive, hoping to discover why Humankind had become the dominant race of the world. They did not spare even their souls. Their methods were utterly brutal.
That was also why the proprietor of Traveling the World had not suggested this route to Cheng Yu. He did not think a low-level cultivator who could not afford a map would be an envoy of the Heavenly Dynasty or a powerful cultivator.
Otherwise, Cheng Yu could have headed north after leaving Heavenly Gate Pass, crossed the Great Northern Waste Land and the Waste River, and reached Beiyou Prefecture directly.
But without question, that would have been a blood-soaked road. Even leaving