Xu Qingtong bade farewell to the Witch Clan's two Elders and flew toward Cloudsky Peak in his Flying Boat.
He felt an indescribable lightness in his heart: a sense of achievement, the satisfaction of fulfilling a wish, and, more than anything, the pride of honoring a promise.
Without his realizing it, his mindset changed, becoming open and expansive, as though all the vastness of heaven and earth lay within his heart!
Inside his Dantian, above his five Golden Cores, the Dao Heart Seed that had not appeared for so long suddenly lit up.
Xu Qingtong stopped deliberately steering the Flying Boat and let it fly freely. He focused all his attention on the Dao Heart Seed, closing his eyes in contemplation and carefully sensing this change in his mindset.
The Flying Boat drifted slowly through the sky, passing Cloudsky Peak and reaching the Biluozong, but Xu Qingtong remained utterly unaware.
Only after it had flown past the Biluozong, entered the desert to its west, exhausted its Spirit Stones, and landed did Xu Qingtong awaken as though from a dream.
He stepped off the Flying Boat and surveyed his surroundings. There was nothing but yellow sand and gravel plains, without a single blade of green grass in sight. It looked utterly desolate.
"Where is this?" Xu Qingtong frowned in thought, then suddenly recalled that this should be the desert west of the Biluozong!
He had not known that, while he was contemplating his mindset, the Flying Boat had actually wandered unsteered into this forbidden zone of life where no one set foot!
Xu Qingtong carefully sensed his surroundings. Aside from abundant earth-attribute spiritual qi, there was scarcely any spiritual qi of the other attributes!
No wonder not a blade of grass grows here, and no Demon Beasts roam this place! Xu