The Flax Robe Sect's intercontinental ship was constructed like a louchuan, largely identical to all of the small and medium-sized ships that Chen Ping'an had traveled on in the past. However, after it ascended into the heavens, it began to reveal that there was more to itself than met the eye. 0

A series of ethereal and illusory armorclad warriors appeared around the giant intercontinental ship, wading through the clouds as if they were dragging the ship along. As a result, the ship accelerated drastically, and its top speed was far superior to that of the Ceremony Mountain intercontinental ship that had also been traveling toward the Northern Complete Reed Continent.0

Chen Ping'an had already removed Sword Immortal and his Sword Nurturing Gourd before putting them on the table, and whenever he wasn't practicing his fist techniques, he would pull out bamboo slips and massage them as he looked out at the scenery from the observation deck. 0

At the moment, he was holding a yellow bamboo slip that read "There can only be clarity when there are no worries, so sever worries when they arise." The words "clarity" and "sever" were particularly appealing to him.0

Even though Cui Dongshan had given him a folded fan before his departure, he couldn't bring himself to use it. Whenever he thought of using the fan, the image of Lu Tai fanning himself while laying on a wicker chair during their travels would surface in his mind, and he felt like he would be putting the fan to shame. He couldn't imagine how awkward it would look for him to fan himself as Lu Tai had done.0

Once the intercontinental ship left the Jewel Small World, it would temporarily dock at the ferry station at the Palace of Eternal Spring, north of the Great Li Empire's capital. The Palace of Eternal Spring was a top-tier immortal abode of the Great Li Empire, occupied solely by female cultivators. 0

The empress had been cultivating there in seclusion ever since her fall from grace, and everyone in the Great Li Empire's officialdom had thought that this would be a permanent fall for her, but to their surprise, she turned out to be the ultimate winner. One of her sons had been crowned as the new emperor, while her other son had been made the feudal lord of Old Dragon City and given the right to govern the temporary capital.0

Following the passing of the late emperor, she had been "imprisoned," but somehow, the best-possible...0