169: Chapter 169 The Expedition

The next day, Six Ridges Giant City, teleportation plaza.

A massive teleportation array stood in the center of the plaza, its base constructed from Silver Void Stone and engraved with complex, profound spatial runes.

The runes flickered with white light, and accompanied by a tremor in the ground, a thick pillar of light shot into the sky, tearing through the clouds and leading to an unknown distance.

Around the array, Disciples of the Moonshadow Sect dressed in cyan-white long skirts stood solemnly. Their auras were composed and heavy, their gazes scanning the surroundings.

The perimeter of the plaza was already packed with a dense crowd. Cultivators in various attires were present, all gazing at the massive teleportation array with awe and curiosity.

"My god! Is this the teleportation array that can lead to the Yunmeng Great Marsh? It's so big! Just looking at it makes me feel like my Divine Soul is about to be sucked in..."

"I heard it can traverse millions of li in an instant! This method is truly heaven-defying!"

"This is great, those of us from other cultivation kingdoms finally don't have to trek our way back!" a Cultivator who clearly came from afar said excitedly.

"Look! Another batch is going up!"

As the light flashed, the figures of dozens of Cultivators on the array vanished without a trace.

Beside the plaza, in a window-side private seat at the Drunken Immortal Restaurant.

Yue Qianqian was munching on a golden, crispy spirit fruit with gusto while looking through the window in the direction of the teleportation array. On the table in front of her were a few exquisitely packaged snacks.

"Hmm... This thousand-layer honey pastry is really good, I'll bring some back for Revered Master to have a taste."

She nodded with satisfaction and casually picked up another spirit fruit, taking a bite with a "crunch," "Mmm~"

Juice overflowed, Yue Qianqian's almond eyes narrowed, her face full of happiness.

Just then, an exclamation came from the crowd!

"Look at the sky! What is that?!"

They saw that from the direction of the Moonshadow Sect, a massive fleet was breaking through the clouds, heading towards Six Ridges Giant City.

Twenty massive warships, entirely deep sea-blue in color, were arranged in a neat wild goose formation, guarding a streamlined silver flagship in the center.

On the bow of every blue warship stood a deep blue tower, with palpitating electric arcs leaping from the spire. The surface of the hull was covered with a layer of constantly flowing emerald water-wave light barrier.

And on the bow of the silver flagship, a spire that looked as if it were carved from crystal stood tall, with a soft orb of light condensing at its tip, emitting a glow like cold moonlight.

The core of the entire flagship seemed to be shrouded in an invisible, distorted force field, making it unclear to the eye, like flowers in a mirror or the moon in the water.

The fleet passed by slowly, casting a huge shadow over Six Ridges Giant City, bringing an unparalleled sense of oppression!

"Hiss— The Moonshadow Sect's flying ships! This... this is more than ten times stronger than those cloud whale ships from before!"

"Oh my mother... This might! That blue warship, I feel like if one crashed down, it could flatten our entire Sect!"

"Where are they going? Looking at the direction... is that the northwest?"

"Where else? The Cangmu Kingdom, obviously! I heard that when the Erosion Tide was raging, people from the Cangmu Kingdom came to provoke them; the Moonshadow Sect is going to destroy that kingdom!"

A well-informed Cultivator lowered his voice and said with awe.

In another restaurant in the east of the city.

Di Hongshen looked at the fleet that blotted out the sky, especially the silver flagship, and slowly nodded: "An eighth-grade Sect, it is not surprising that they have such foundation."

Di Wenlong, beside him, rubbed the back of his head, his brows locked tightly, and muttered in a low voice: "Strange, why do I always feel like my head is buzzing lately, as if someone hit me with a club..."

He looked up at the fleet and suddenly remembered something, "Third Granduncle, destroying a kingdom... I don't seem to have heard of the Moonshadow Sect submitting a declaration of national war to the Yuji Platform?"

Di Hongshen glanced at him, his tone indifferent: "Rules are always meant to restrict the weak."

The words revealed the naked survival Law of the cultivation world.

The gazes of Gan Wenzhu and Fu Tiansong were firmly drawn to the cold, isolated moon-white figure beside Ling Hao at the bow of the flagship. The more they looked, the more confused they became, and that sense of familiarity grew stronger and stronger.

"Urgh!"

Both of them groaned simultaneously, their faces instantly turning deathly pale! A sharp pain pierced their Sea of Consciousness without warning, as if countless needles were churning their Divine Soul, making their heads ache as if they were splitting.

Both were instantly covered in cold sweat, the thoughts that had just risen were completely interrupted by this sharp pain. They clutched their heads in pain, their bodies trembling slightly.

Not far away, that middle-aged Cultivator from the Chi Family of the Hu Kingdom locked his gaze firmly on a beautiful silhouette on the deck of the silver flagship's bow! His pupils constricted, and an expression of astonishment appeared on his face: "She... how could she..."

By the window of the Drunken Immortal Restaurant, Yue Qianqian seemed uninterested in the spectacular scene of the fleet before her, merely glancing at it casually.

Her attention was more focused on the figure in black-as-ink robes at the bow of the flagship.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..."

She was munching on the spirit fruit while shaking her head, her expression extremely strange.

"This Sect Master Ling... he really is suave and dashing... no, that's not it, it's just...!"

She counted on her fingers as if tallying something: "The entire Sect is full of beautiful women, and he's the only man... I heard he also has nearly a thousand Dao Companions? This isn't even a matter of keeping a harem anymore, it's simply... it's simply..."

She racked her brains, but couldn't find a suitable word to describe this "feat," and in the end, she could only bite down hard on the spirit fruit and mumbled:

"...It's simply indescribable! I have never seen such a... such a person in all my life!"

She wasn't disgusted, she just found it inconceivable.

Immediately, an even more headache-inducing question popped up: "Your Majesty... how could she develop feelings for this kind of man?"

She thought of Su Fengyi's icy demeanor, which had been frozen for ten thousand years, treating all men in the world as nothing. Yue Qianqian couldn't reconcile this with the "Revered Master of a thousand Dao Companions" before her.

"Sigh, forget it, forget it," Yue Qianqian shook her head, deciding to give up on thinking.

"I'm only responsible for gathering information, how could I know what is in Your Majesty's heart? Maybe Your Majesty is just curious? Yes, it must be curiosity!"

She tried hard to convince herself, then picked up another piece of pastry and stuffed it into her mouth.

After packing the snacks and paying the bill, Yue Qianqian arrived near the teleportation array. Just as she was about to step forward, she saw a Moonshadow Sect Disciple guarding the array respectfully bowing to a woman:

"Greetings, True Saint Linglong."

That woman was barefoot with delicate jade feet, wearing exquisite golden bells tied around her ankles; a cinnabar tear mole at the corner of her right eye added a touch of lazy charm.

Yu Linglong withdrew her gaze from the horizon, nodded slightly, and turned her gaze to the approaching Yue Qianqian.

Their gazes met in the air. In an instant, both clearly sensed the rounded, flawless aura on the other, faintly merging with heaven and earth.

That was the realm of "Heaven and Human Unity" belonging to the Body Integration Stage!

Yue Qianqian's footsteps paused, a proper smile appearing on her face.

Yu Linglong also returned a lazy and polite smile, nodding slightly.