- Chapter 140 2 (1/2)
Three Routes
Thirteen days had passed since the great battle had ended. Ning City was currently crowded with people. Most of the people who came to visit were from Sinister Sparrow Sect, Fire Cloud Sect and other sects who had previously requested a Nascent Formation pill.
Those sects that did not send reinforcement to Ning City feared that they had offended Black Devil Ning and might lose their chance of getting the precious pill, so they had come to visit with lavish gifts one after another.
Ning Fan did not bother meeting these people this time. As for the gifts, they were all accepted by Nan Gong.
Regarding the Nascent Formation pill, he would not go back on his words since he had already promised them.
What followed after that was a three-month long seclusion. In these three months and under the nourishment of innumerable medicinal pills, Ning Fan was fully recovered. However, his complexion was still as pale as a delicate scholar due to him severely lacking blood essence in his body.
For another next three months, an unbelievable phenomenon was seen above the skies of Ning City. It looked like a scene where a Fourth Revolution Pill was successfully formed.
Seven months had passed since the war, and Ning Fan’s desire to leave Yue Country became stronger.
Ning Fan, Gui Qiaozi and Jing Zhuo gathered in Ning City’s meeting hall for a conference. They were joined by Nan Gong and other high ranking officials of Ning City. The topic of discussion was about Ning Fan’s journey towards the Endless Sea and his core formation!
Nan Gong had been gathering information for the past seven months under the order of Ning Fan. There were three confirmed routes towards the Endless Sea.
The Endless Sea was situated at the far eastern side of the Rain World. The sphere of influence over there was measured by every floating island. There were thousands of islands over there, and each of those islands was occupied by either sects or cultivation clans.
One of the most famous ones was the “Ten Sects and Three Islands”. The ten sects were the strongest sects in the Endless Sea and were founded by humans. Whereas the three islands were a place of gathering for rogue cultivators. Each island was as big as a country. The Lost World Palace was just situated in one of those islands.
The first of the three routes was to depart from the east of Wu Country and cross over 10 Cultivation Countries, reaching the Ocean Country then ride on a ship… The distance of this route amounted to millions of li. This would take Ning Fan years to reach the Endless Sea if he travelled without using any form of transportation.
The second route was slightly faster than the first, departing through the south through the Chen Country, and crossing five cultivation countries until he reached Yu Country. Yu Country had a special Gold Core hawk beast that could fly as fast as a Nascent Soul cultivator, however one had to pay a high price to ride it. The maximum time required for this route was three years to reach the Endless Sea, which was at least two years faster compared to the first.
Ning Fan had never once nodded for the first two routes. It was already consideredquick if he were to reach the Endless Sea in three years, but he was short of time… he needed a quicker alternative…
Under the reminder of Old Ancestor Jing Zhuo, the third route was confirmed by Ning Fan.
The journey was to head north, entering the Song Country, passing through four Cultivation Countries, and finally, entering a mid-ranked Cultivation Country—Jin Country.
The cultivators in Jin Country were not strong. The strongest cultivator was only a Nascent Soul. But there was a division of Rain Palace established within the country, and an immemorial teleportation formation.
Each activation of the immemorial teleportation formation required a vast amount of immortal jade. It could teleport a person for a distance ofmillions of li. It was rumored that the formation was initially an Immortal Void Realm Teleportation Formation, however it was broken and wasn’t worth researching anymore.
The teleportation formation was a good money-making method. Hence, a division of the Rain Palace was set up to monopolize the formation.
The formation was modified and was then separated into a dozen small formations by the Rain World’s Formation Grandmasters. It could teleport cultivators to a dozen locations, and one of them was the Ocean Country, the entry point to the Endless Sea.
The payment for the teleportation formation was around 100,000 immortal jades and above per person. Such a price was deemed astronomical. Cultivators who were below Nascent Soul realm wouldn’t be able to afford it.