After Shen Qingci explained via voice transmission, Zhou Qingqing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, she still kept about ten zhang away from the flying boat.
Although the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat had no offensive methods, its sheer speed meant that a collision could instantly severely injure or even crush an enemy to death.
Zhou Qingqing thought that if she were hit, she would definitely be reduced to a pile of bones.
Her tone became much more polite.
Zhou Qingqing no longer had the frivolous attitude from when she first met Shen Qingci.
“This flying boat is called the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat. In essence, it is an immortal artifact creation, so it cannot be stored inside a storage artifact. At least with my current strength, I cannot do it.”
“Zhou Qingqing hereby congratulates Lord Shen on obtaining a great treasure. If you are interested, why not come to my Zhou family grounds as a guest?”
Shen Qingci waved his hand and declined politely:
“I must first thank Fellow Daoist Zhou for your kind intentions. However, time is of the essence right now. People from the City Lord’s Mansion could arrive here at any moment. I must hurry and leave this place.”
Seeing Shen Qingci refuse, a flash of disappointment appeared on Zhou Qingqing’s face before quickly returning to normal.
What Shen Qingci said was correct.
The commotion caused when the cave residence entrance opened earlier was not small.
Moreover, the people from the City Lord’s Mansion were not fools.
Two Golden Core cultivators had entered Drunken Moon Lake one after another, and shortly after, a heaven-and-earth phenomenon occurred.
It would be hard not to make people imagine all sorts of things.
After bidding farewell to Zhou Qingqing, Shen Qingci piloted the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat and escaped into the void.
Without the assistance of an immortal artifact creation like the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat or special artifacts, only cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage and above could escape into the void.
Although it allowed one to quickly avoid enemy pursuit, cultivators below Deity Transformation often only chose to traverse the void when they had no other choice.
First, because a Nascent Soul cultivator’s physical body was still mortal.
Entering the void directly without protection would cause the body to be instantly shredded into pulp by spatial turbulence.
Once a cultivator chose to escape into the void, it meant they had to abandon their physical body and then rely on their Nascent Soul that had escaped to reshape a new shell.
With the protection of the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat, Shen Qingci moved freely inside the bow cockpit.
Through the cockpit window, he observed the scenery in the void outside.
It was a space of nothingness.
It was not white when called white, nor black when called black.
No adjective could describe what the void looked like, because the void was only a stretch of chaos.
Just as Shen Qingci was correcting the coordinates while consulting the operation manual, a piercing alarm sounded inside the cabin.
A thousand li ahead of the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat, a massive whale-shaped creature’s corpse was blocking the navigation path.
The whale corpse was as huge as a mountain. Compared to it, the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat was like a small pebble.
“What is that!”
Without time to think, Shen Qingci desperately poured his spiritual power to activate the defense formation, completely disregarding his true essence consumption.
A dazzling golden light barrier enveloped the entire flying boat, making the originally silver-white Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat look as if it were cast from gold at this moment.
There was no longer any way to turn.
The golden light barrier violently collided toward the whale corpse, piercing straight through the whale corpse’s body like a sharp sword!
Shen Qingci fell to the floor of the cockpit in a sorry state.
The sack containing the He Shu avatar also slammed into the tightly closed cabin door at the rear of the cockpit.
Climbing up from the ground, Shen Qingci patted the nonexistent dust off his clothes and used the detection formation to observe the whale corpse that was rapidly moving away from the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat.
“What a huge whale. At the very least, it is the corpse of a Void Refinement level demon beast.”
A small hole had been pierced horizontally through the whale corpse.
It was left behind by the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat’s collision earlier.
Compared to the whale’s entire body size, it appeared minuscule and imperceptible.
“Good thing the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat is a Deity Transformation-grade immortal artifact creation and not Nascent Soul grade. Otherwise, with the force of that collision just now, it would have already fallen apart.”
Somewhat relieved that the golden light barrier had only weakened a bit and had not produced any cracks, Shen Qingci began checking the spirit stone consumption.
However, he did not know until he checked, and the check gave him a fright.
That collision just now had consumed more than ten percent of the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat’s originally stored true essence.
“Converted, that collision just now to defend against it consumed roughly eighty thousand high-grade spirit stones.”
“Hiss——”
Shen Qingci drew in a sharp breath of cold air. What a terrifying consumption.
He had originally thought that the two million plus spirit stones He Shu had left behind were too many.
But after experiencing that dangerous moment just now, he felt that two million was still too little.
“No wonder even Deity Transformation cultivators, who can traverse the void with their physical bodies without being affected by spatial turbulence, are unwilling to travel through the void. It turns out the void is this dangerous.”
From this point, it could be seen that the true combat strength of Zhang Sanshan, the Deity Transformation medical cultivator who had once treated He Shu, was also not to be underestimated.
At the very least, he was at the first-rate level among Deity Transformation cultivators.
It was not yet time to leave the void.
Shen Qingci calculated the current journey in his heart.
After continuing to travel in a straight line for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he shattered the void and returned to reality.
The Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat slowly hovered in midair.
The internal formations also entered low-power operation mode.
The surroundings were a mountain forest.
Comparing it with the map of the area around Inclined Moon Immortal City in his mind, Shen Qingci confirmed that he was now near the Changji Mountain Range, roughly a hundred thousand li away from Inclined Moon Immortal City.
This distance was already very safe. There was no need to waste true essence traveling through the void.
Under his control, the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat cruised at subsonic speed.
It flew openly like this above the mountain range. Along the way, quite a few demon beasts noticed the flying boat overhead.
During this time, even a Nascent Soul giant python felt that its dignity had been violated.
It wanted to properly teach the thing in the sky that did not know the rules a lesson.
However, as soon as the Nascent Soul giant python approached the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat, it was shocked by the fierce Deity Transformation-level pressure.
Like an earthworm, it twisted its hundred-zhang-long body and fled in panic.
This great one has dominated this mountain for over a hundred years.
I wanted to properly teach an ignorant fool a lesson, but in the end I kicked an iron plate.
Inside the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat, Shen Qingci had just finished casting a spell to communicate with He Qingyuan and exchange intelligence.
There was no other way.
Shen Qingci had to consider the problem of storing the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat.
He definitely had to return to Cloud Mist Immortal City, but bringing the flying boat back would be far too conspicuous.
Therefore, he could only temporarily store the Ten Thousand Worlds Flying Boat at He Qingyuan’s place.