"Cough cough!" Zhu Li coughed twice, looking away. "My injuries haven't healed yet, and I need to rest and recuperate here. I can't travel far..."
"..."
Shen Yunhao covered his head.
Sister, couldn't you come up with a more heartfelt excuse?
Perhaps knowing that she couldn't hide her little scheme from Shen Yunhao, Zhu Li changed her tone and said, "Didn't you say you're not a child anymore? What, I've already found a way for you, all you have to do is come and get it, and you can't even do something this simple?"
Shen Yunhao, naturally unmoved by her provocation, sighed and said, "The Beast Dynasty is located at the southernmost tip of Yunzhou, a full ten thousand miles away from the Tianyu Dynasty. If I were to travel there by carriage, it would probably take more than two months for me to make the round trip..."
"I'm fine traveling alone, but the thought of not seeing Sister Li'er for two months makes my heart ache..."
Upon hearing this, the little white dragon rolled his eyes at him: "I think you clearly just want to ride your sister..."
"..."
One sentence left Shen Yunhao speechless again.
What a wonderful older sister!
"It's thousands of miles away. If you want to take a carriage there, the horses' legs will probably break before they get there... You might as well go to Hanxuan City, the capital of the Tianyu Dynasty. There is a Qilin Mountain to the south of it. Not only is the Huayin Palace sect located there, but the Nine Provinces Tower established by the Taixuan Dao Sect is also there!"
"Tai Xuan Dao Sect? Nine Provinces Tower?"
This time, Shen Yunhao was genuinely surprised.
He had already learned from Zhu Li that the Tai Xuan Dao Sect was ranked first among the seven righteous sects and was the number one righteous sect!
Unexpectedly, this behemoth not only took root in the Central Continent, but also had its influence in the Cloud Continent.
"That's right, but the Nine Provinces Tower is not what you think it is, a branch of the Tai Xuan Dao Sect. At most, it is just a transportation base station, distributed in all six continents of the righteous path."
Zhu Li patiently explained, "Have you ever considered that the Tianji Continent is incredibly vast? Yunzhou alone spans 50,000 li! Not to mention the even larger Zhongzhou..."
“Those high-level cultivators can naturally travel by wind, but how can low-level cultivators travel? If you want to go to the Central Continent, let alone a carriage, even if you travel by boat from the Longhai Sea, it will take at least half a year to reach the Central Continent…”
"Therefore, the Tai Xuan Dao Sect, as the leader of the righteous path, established this Nine Provinces Tower! What operates on it is a large-scale flying magic treasure... the Spirit Sky Flying Boat!"
"This boat is driven by cultivators of the Tai Xuan Dao Sect. It can carry 10,000 people at a time and travels at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary carriages. This distance of 10,000 miles can be reached in just three to five days!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Yunhao was dumbfounded.
Good heavens, what a flying boat!
This is clearly a fantastical aircraft, a super plane that can carry tens of thousands of people at once!
"Controlling such a massive flying ship must require a considerable amount of spiritual energy... If I'm not mistaken, riding this Spirit Sky Flying Ship requires paying the Tai Xuan Dao Sect a certain amount of spirit stones as a reward?"
Spirit stones... are the common currency in the cultivation world.
The spirit stones circulating in the Tianji Continent are mainly produced from the spiritual mountains and veins, and these spiritual mountains and veins are also the foundation of many sects...
A typical sacred mountain can produce around 10,000 spirit stones a year.
Besides Mount Ling, some smaller sects that do not occupy Mount Ling can also produce spirit stones through spirit-gathering arrays to sustain their sect's needs, but the output is small and not comparable to that of Mount Ling.
“Of course. Since the Tai Xuan Dao Sect has spent a huge amount of money to maintain the operation of so many Lingxiao Flying Boats, how could they let people ride for free?” Zhu Li nodded and said, “Depending on the distance traveled, the reward for riding a Lingxiao Flying Boat ranges from ten to more than a hundred coins.”
Hearing this, Shen Yunhao scratched his head.
After saying all that, I suddenly realized something... he doesn't seem to have any money.
Although he was the young master of the Shen family and received a lot of pocket money every day, it was just mortal silver, not spirit stones, and could not be used in the cultivation world at all.
Forget ten or a hundred, he doesn't even seem to have half a coin to his name right now...
"What, did your sword fairy wife from the Moon Palace not leave you any travel expenses so that you can go up the mountain to find her in the future?"
Seeing this, Zhu Li chuckled lightly, but her heart suddenly pounded.
As a princess of the sea tribe, she had been living a life of luxury since childhood and had almost never lacked money... However, no matter how glorious she was in the past, it could not change the fact that she was now penniless.
The spirit stones she carried were all used up when she activated the teleportation array, leaving her completely penniless...
Who would have thought that she, a princess of the sea tribe, would one day be so poor that she couldn't afford a taxi?
That's why she deliberately brought up Ning Yuyao.
On the one hand, as a disciple of the Guanghan Palace, Ning Yuyao, with her talent, couldn't possibly be poor...
On the other hand, if Ning Yuyao really didn't leave any money for Shen Yunhao, it would make Xiaobailong's situation a little better.
Look!
Your wife didn't give you any money, so it's normal that I, a sister you met later in life, can't give you any either...
Upon hearing this, Shen Yunhao's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yao'er... when she left me the Returning Origin Breathing Technique, she also gave me a cloth bag. There were indeed two stones inside, but I forgot to open it to check. Could they be spirit stones?"
Zhu Li, however, curled her lip.
"Two pieces? That's far too stingy. She's a disciple of the Guanghan Palace, after all. How can she be so stingy? Yun Hao... this kind of girl is no good. You should just divorce her."
"..."
You actually dare to say that, a disciple of the Guanghan Palace...
Proposing to annul the engagement at that time was already risking their lives; writing a letter of divorce now is undoubtedly humiliating the reputation of the Moon Palace.
However, according to Sister Li'er, the travel expenses would amount to several dozen spirit stones, and the two spirit stones in that small bag were really... pitiful.
"By the way, Sister Li'er, I heard you mention that there's a kind of magical artifact that can be used to store objects. Could it be that Yao'er left me with this kind of artifact? And there are more than just one or two spirit stones inside..."
"This..." Zhu Li thought for a moment, then hesitated and said, "It's probably not very likely. At that time, you hadn't even condensed your Qi Palace yet, and storage magic treasures can only be used after you've reached the Soul Condensation Realm and have a deeper understanding of spiritual energy..."
"Besides, since you haven't opened the bag, how can you tell there are only one or two stones inside?"
"Of course, you can tell by looking at the exterior."
"That makes sense. If it were a storage magic item, it would be impossible to tell what's inside just by looking at it, so it's most likely just an ordinary bag..."
"..."
So, does that mean Ning Yuyao really only kept two spirit stones for herself?
Could it be that he knew he got hungry easily and saved the money to buy himself snacks?
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