Several days later.
Song Yan sat cross-legged before the Teleportation Formation, his brow furrowed and a look of regret on his face.
"What a pity."
Although he had prepared for both possibilities, the faster method had suddenly become unusable, and he could not help feeling rather unlucky.
He had spent quite some time here, trying to find why the formation had failed and see whether he could repair it.
Unfortunately, Little Song had not studied formations in much depth, so he had no leads.
"Forget it, forget it."
Song Yan stood up. "Perhaps the other end of the Teleportation Formation happened to be destroyed in the past few days-"
"It seems this is Heavenly Will."
He turned his wrist, and an object appeared in his palm: the Great Void Sword-Nourishing Chapter.
He intended to use the Jade Seal right away to teleport back to the Chu Kingdom, then decide what to do next.
Yet just as he had given up completely, something suddenly changed in the formation.
Without warning, the Teleportation Formation began to glow faintly, its patterns lighting up one after another with a lustrous white sheen.
That lustrous white resembled moonlight, growing brighter and brighter.
"Huh?" Song Yan paused in surprise.
What-what was going on?
Far away, out in the Eastern Sea.
Floating Jade Island.
The sea breeze swept across a stretch of brown cliffs. On an open patch below, seven or eight men were sweating like rain.
Some felled trees, while others quarried stone. Nearby stood two small sheds for stacking Spiritwood and ore respectively.
One man leaned on his large stone hammer and spotted a figure approaching along a distant path.
Once he saw who it was, he grinned. "Eh? Isn't that the Zhou Family Lad from Otter Mountain Village?"
At his words, the others stopped