The Muya Continent.
The Rhine Clan's migration was slower than Jason had anticipated. They originally planned to depart from the teleportation array in the central part of the Kaluosha Continent and take about a hundred years to enter the territory of the Muya Continent.
However, due to the need to pick up Veronica and others along the way, and the recent unrest in the strait between the Kaluosha Continent and Muya Continent, it took them a full 150 years to finally enter the Muya Continent.
Three Metallic Airship docked beside the city, and members of the Rhine Clan, who had been cooped up on the airships for nearly a century, flocked into the city.
The city is named "Three Leaves City" because its layout resembles three leaves.
Jason and Delisha, led by Freya, entered the Fiend Castle.
Jason had originally intended to bring Bessalie along, but she felt she needed to avoid appearing in front of crowds, so she voluntarily stayed on the Metallic Airship. Jason had been accompanying Veronica and the others all these years, and now that he had important business to attend to, a little more time wouldn't make a difference.
"We want to buy general information about the status of various prefectures on the Blood Peak Continent and the Muya Continent," Freya said.
Jason and Delisha hadn't had time to obtain the Fiend Badge, so naturally they couldn't buy inside information about the Fiend Castle.
This time, their mission was to gather intelligence and plan their route in advance.
Previously, I was overconfident and took things one step at a time while on the Kaluosha Continent, which resulted in me encountering several troublesome enemies.
Especially when crossing the strait between the two continents, they encountered a band of robbers led by someone who appeared to be Seven Star Fiend. In the end, Jason was only allowed to pass after he took out Beirut's token.
Fortunately, they suffered no losses along the way, but they all felt that things were not going well if they continued like this, so they came to buy some information and plan their route in detail.
Delisha pointed to one of them. "So it turns out a Asura recently died in the Inverted Bottle Strait, no wonder it's so chaotic."
Jason looked over and saw that the description was about the current state of the Inverted Bottle Strait between the Kaluosha Continent and Muya Continent, which was the strait that Jason and his group had crossed before.
The Inverted Bottle Strait gets its name from its underwater seabed, which resembles an inverted bottle. The strait contains many islands similar to Miluo Island, but unlike Mosi Island, it lacks a powerful leader like Moth Bagshaw, leading to frequent conflicts between the islands.
In recent decades, a powerful island lord of Asura level died, which caused the chaos. Because only a few decades have passed, the Demon Freya and others who were traveling with Jason were unaware of this, so they stumbled into the mess without really knowing what was going on.
"Luckily we had Lord Beirut's token, otherwise we would have had a hard time escaping unscathed." Jason was a little scared.
Delisha nodded, "I was terrified at the time. Luckily, I changed lanes in time when things got dangerous and didn't enter the most chaotic areas. Otherwise, even Lord Beirut's token might not have been able to deter them."
Freya glanced at the two people beside her and rolled her eyes. "You scared us to death! If you hadn't taken out your tokens, I wouldn't have known you were actually the confidants of the Lord of Indigo Prefecture! If you have such powerful backers, you should have taken them out earlier when you encountered the robbers."
Jason chuckled twice and spent 20 million Inkstone to buy the intelligence. It was mostly general intelligence from various prefectures recently, without any information about specific individuals, so it wasn't expensive.
A private room was reserved at a restaurant in the city, where some of the Rhine Clan's senior members gathered for a meal.
Monica and Maisiji sat at another table. Maisiji had already gone to the Netherworld when Monica was born, and was only seeing her now. He was very fond of his granddaughter, and Veronica followed them over.
Jason's table was full of strong individuals: Delisha, Bessalie, Tarosse, and Freya. There were relatively few people at the table, and the others in the private room didn't dare to join in.
Tarosse broke through to the Highgod on the way. After a brief sparring session with a few people, he felt that he should have the strength of a mid-level Six-Star Fiend. Once his realm is stabilized and his Divine Artifact artifact is fully nurtured, he should be able to advance further.
Freya, still carefree, joked, "Lord Jason, with your strength, I thought you had three wives and four concubines, and a whole bunch of children and grandchildren. I didn't expect you to only have one wife and one daughter!"
"Do you think I'm like you? I'm a descendant of the Bladewing Fiend, not a succubus! By the way, it's our family gathering, what are you, a succubus, doing here!" Jason with a look of disdain.
Jason had gotten to know this succubus, who loved to joke, quite well along the way. She was also Six-Star Fiend, though one of the weaker ones, but Final Return a formidable opponent.
"I've already applied to Delisha. Once your family settles down, I'll be granted the status of a foreign elder!" With that, Freya raised her glass. "Come on, let's celebrate!"
The group raised their glasses, clinked them together, and then drank them down in one gulp.
Taking the opportunity, Jason glanced at Delisha and saw her nod. Jason didn't care; after such a long period of observation, Freya's identity should be fine. She also said she was returning to her hometown on the Blood Peak Continent, and if she really wanted to settle down with the Rhine Clan, that would be a good thing.
Tarosse continued, "I obtained the status of a foreign elder of the Rhine Clan before Freya, so let's all drink to that!"
Everyone raised their glasses again.
Tarosse is different from Dylan. Dylan swore allegiance to Jason directly, while Tarosse only owed Jason a favor because of the Highgod Artifact Jason gave him. Now that he has officially joined the Rhine Clan, he is repaying this favor on the one hand, and on the other hand, since they all come from the same plane and do not belong to any family, Tarosse is willing to join the Rhine Clan.
The group downed their drinks in one gulp, and Freya, along with Delisha and Tarosse, who were on good terms with her, joked around.
Bessalie is a bit quiet, like Jason, and you can't get a word in edgewise.
"Is the route decided?" Bessalie asked.
"It's confirmed. We have time. Safety first, let's take it slow."
Bessalie glanced at Jason: "Let me remind you, after all these years, what happened in Skyfall City should have been exposed by now. Staying anywhere outside of Indigo Prefecture isn't safe."
Jason glanced at Freya, then recalled the Demon he had recruited along the way, and felt that none of them had joined the team in a deliberately contrived way.
"We've laid so much groundwork to cover our tracks, they shouldn't be able to catch up so quickly. First of all, it would take them hundreds of years to find out we came to the Infernal Realm, and the five teleportation arrays in the Infernal Realm are randomized."
"Just in case." Perhaps influenced by her experience of fleeing alone after her father's death, Bessalie was even more cautious than Jason.
"Then let's speed things up a bit."
Jason considered for a moment, then asked, "Actually, I've been wanting to ask this: if Lord Beirut isn't interested in your Heavenly Waterfall Pearl, where will you go?"
"That depends on whether you, Lord Jason, are willing to take me in." Bessalie had clearly considered this possibility long ago.
"Of course I'd like to have another powerful member like you in the family, but I might need another ten thousand years to grow before I can truly face a powerhouse of the level of the Lord of the Manor." Jason deliberately added a few extra years to the timeframe.
"Or, I could go and see what the other lords are up to; maybe one of them will take a liking to me," Bessalie said with a hint of flirtation.
Delisha then took Bessalie's arm. "Stay with our Rhine Clan. Don't worry, no matter how persistent the Bone Dragon Prefecture Lord is, he won't abandon his territory to come and hunt you down personally. If it's just Seven Star Fiend, we can still hold him off."
Delisha is relatively optimistic about this.
Bessalie smiled and said, "I'll hide in the capital of Indigo Prefecture for a while until I'm strong enough to protect myself. Besides, I've made some breakthroughs in the last few years."
"Yeah?"
Bessalie explained, "Because I just used a Heavenly Waterfall Pearl. To be honest, I had never used Heavenly Waterfall Pearl before because of my father's warnings, and I relied on my own cultivation to reach the Six-Star Fiend; it wasn't until I came to the Infernal Realm that I felt I probably couldn't overcome this bottleneck on my own, so I used the Heavenly Waterfall Pearl."
Delisha exclaimed in surprise, "So, you'll probably be Seven Star Fiend in a while?"
"It should be fine. My current bottleneck was the fusion of two Profound Mysteries, which I've successfully begun with the help of the Heavenly Waterfall Pearl. After overcoming this bottleneck, there should be a lot of room for improvement."
"Seeing this makes me regret not majoring in Water Element," Delisha complained.
The Heavenly Waterfall Pearl doesn't significantly improve one's understanding of the laws of nature, and it only applies to Water Element; a person can only use it once in their lifetime. However, for Deity-level being stuck at a bottleneck for hundreds of millions of years, it is still a lifeline when drowning.
Jason thought to himself, "I need to step up my game too."