The Long Journey to Immortality

The other questions were easy to answer, but Han Lu hesitated for a moment before answering the questions about the purpose of the visit and the ethnicity.

"I came here mainly to buy goods."

"As for race..."

Feng Rubing helped Han Lu answer, "Let's write it as Huan Feng."

Upon hearing this answer, Snow Fox reacted quickly and immediately understood why Han Lu was struggling with this issue.

After the jade token was registered, Snow Fox handed it to Han Lu, saying, "Fellow Daoist Huanfeng, please keep this jade token safe."

After finishing their official business, Snow Fox casually asked, "How long do you two plan to stay in the Great Yu Dynasty?"

Han Lu replied, "I'll stay for another half a day at most."

The snow fox paused for a moment, then comforted itself, "At least next time we meet, I won't have to make another trip."

"Since you two are only staying for a short time, you must have urgent business to attend to. I will not disturb you any longer."

After saying this, Xuehu bowed to Han Lu and Feng Rubing to bid them farewell and left.

After the snow fox left, Feng Rubing patted Han Lu on the shoulder and said, "Pack up, pack up, get ready to leave."

[Author's Note] This is roughly the end of Volume 3.

Chapter 358 Entering the Wilderness

Han Lu mainly spent her time in meditation in this inn suite, so there were naturally few of the daily necessities she had brought with her in the room.

With a few casual gestures, Han Lu put several daily necessities and furniture she had purchased from the ancient cultivation secret realm to improve her quality of life into her storage bag, thus completing the final preparations before her trip.

Han Lu patted the storage bag at her waist, looked around the room, and put the last item, the Dharma seat that was still hanging outside, into the storage bag.

"Sis, I'm all packed, let's go."

"Don't rush," Feng Rubing reminded her, "Have you bought any food?"

"Food?!" Han Lu suddenly realized that this scene was similar to the scene before she and Wenren Ou made preparations for their trip.

“Yes,” Feng Rubing said, “This trip will take at least two and a half months, and you will have nowhere to resupply along the way.”

"You, who are only at the Foundation Establishment stage, need to eat one meal every seven days. If you don't bring enough food, won't you have to eat monsters and drink blood after seven days?"

Han Lu said, "That's not the case. I still have a lot of fasting pills in my storage bag. Even if this trip takes two or three years, it will be more than enough for me."

Feng Rubing was slightly displeased by these words, so she could only say bluntly, "Sister, which hotel here has the best food? I want to eat something delicious before I leave."

Although Feng Rubing had already reached an extremely high level of cultivation, she no longer needed to eat.

But having finally made it to the Great Yu Dynasty, she naturally wanted to savor the delicious food and enjoy the kind of pleasure she couldn't find in her monotonous, barbaric life.

After hearing this, Han Lu finally understood the real reason why Feng Rubing reminded her to prepare food.

She gave an awkward laugh and touched the wisp of wine-red hair hanging down her head. "I was stupid. Come on, sis, I know which hotel here has the best chef. Today it's my treat, I'll treat you to a big meal."

So, Han Lu, a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, led Feng Rubing, a true spirit with a cultivation level comparable to the late stage of Nascent Soul, straight to the most upscale and luxurious hotel in this small town for a meal.

For a mere one spirit stone worth of gold as payment, a full twenty-eight delicious dishes were laid out on the large round table in Han Lu and Feng Rubing's private room.

With the delicious food served, Feng Rubing naturally wouldn't bother with manners in front of her younger sister, Han Lu.

Holding a pair of chopsticks in her hand, picking and choosing among the various dishes, Feng Rubing's hearty eating manner did not resemble that of a highly cultivated true spirit at all.

During a meal, people naturally talk about life.

Feng Rubing teased Han Lu about the unique long red hair on her head and the two peaks that had unexpectedly grown due to her Foundation Establishment.

Han Lu, following her own nature, continued to inquire about the love story between Feng Rubing and Feng You out of curiosity.

If one's cultivation reaches the level of Feng Rubing, even if one eats an entire table, one will not feel the slightest discomfort.

The hotel chefs' superb culinary skills also make it worthwhile to devour all the delicious food on the table.

Therefore, when Han Lu and Feng Rubing left the hotel, only empty plates remained on the table.

After leaving the hotel, Feng Rubing deliberately made a detour to a bookstore and bought a few cookbooks to take with her.

Holding several cookbooks, Feng Rubing explained to Han Lu why she bought them: "I'll take them back and let the younger members of the clan who love cooking learn from them, so that we can enrich the clan's cuisine."

Immediately after leaving the bookstore, Feng Rubing wandered around the market for a while, and finally used her Ice Phoenix Divine Power to refrigerate a lot of fresh ingredients and seasonings before putting them all into her storage bag.

Make bricks without straw.

In the wilderness where resources are scarce, only by preparing these common seasonings and ingredients from the Great Yu Dynasty in advance can the dishes on those recipes have a chance to turn from words into reality.

Along the way, Han Lu simply followed Feng Rubing with a smile, occasionally offering a few small suggestions or recommending a few ingredients or spices that Feng Rubing had overlooked, so that she could pack them up and buy them.

In addition, Feng Rubing also purchased a lot of miscellaneous items, saying they were gifts and souvenirs for her clansmen.

As the clouds on the horizon gradually turned crimson and the sun was about to set, Feng Rubing seemed to remember the reason for coming to Manxi Province to meet Han Lu. She walked out of the small town with light and unhurried steps.

"It's best to keep a low profile in the Great Yu Dynasty. Let's use magic to travel first."

After speaking, Feng Rubing, like a human cultivator, waved her hand to summon clouds and used a cloud-riding technique.

Compared to Wenren Mu, Feng Rubing was not very proficient in this technique, which was extremely useless for flying true spirits. However, she could still summon more clouds by relying on her innate supernatural powers and enormous spiritual power.

A moment later, nearly twenty clouds descended from the sky, gathering into a cluster, ready for Feng Rubing to command.

"Come on up."

Feng Rubing stepped onto the clouds and extended her right hand to Han Lu.

Although Han Lu, as a cultivator, could easily leap up and ascend to the clouds, she still held Feng Rubing's hand and accepted her affectionate gesture.

Once the two were settled on the clouds, Feng Rubing used her magic again to ride the clouds, quickly ascending and flying eastward at high speed.

Imagining the wilderness the cultivators spoke of getting closer and closer to her, Han Lu couldn't help but ask Feng Rubing for more information about the wilderness.

However, Feng Rubing didn't seem to want to talk about this topic much, and kept using derogatory terms such as "shabby place", "boring" and "barren" to dismiss Han Lu.

This attitude, on the contrary, made Han Lu look forward to the wilderness she was about to encounter.

"Sister, do you have a map? A map of the Wilderness?"

Feng Rubing pointed to her head and said, "Yes, I've memorized it all."

A Nascent Soul cultivator's memory is hundreds or thousands of times better than a Foundation Establishment cultivator's. Feng Rubing wouldn't lead Han Lu astray like the "directionally challenged older sister" in the story.

Jia Yun flew very fast. Even though Feng Rubing deliberately controlled it and took a slight detour to avoid a border post that was still in operation, it was still late at night when Jia Yun led Han Lu and Feng Rubing to the desolate land that was several times larger than the Great Yu Dynasty.

"It doesn't seem to fit the name 'Wilderness' at all," Han Lu murmured to herself, gazing at the lush green grass beneath the clouds.

After flying for a while, Feng Rubing finally withdrew her cloud-riding magic.

Feng Rubing crossed her arms over her chest and said, "Sister, transform into your true form as a phoenix and let your older sister see what a three-winged true phoenix looks like."

Han Lu nodded and silently began to circulate the "True Phoenix Manual".

A three-feathered phoenix, predominantly white with red accents and a five-colored tail, appeared in the moonlight and stood before Feng Rubing.

Seeing Han Lu successfully integrate the three True Phoenix bloodlines and accomplish what she herself could not, Feng Rubing felt somewhat complicated.

Recalling the scene where she had tried to harmonize but ultimately failed, she felt a little bitter. She murmured "Very good, very good" several times before transforming back into her true form as an ice phoenix.

Chapter 359 The New Wilderness of the Post-True Spirit Era

"Sister," Han Lu, transformed into a phoenix, spoke in a language unlike any human's, "how will we travel later? Shall we fly together?"

Feng Rubing laughed, "Fly together? That would probably take us a year to reach the Central Plains."

Although both are phoenixes, Han Lu's cultivation level is only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and she is less than a hundred years old, so she is still in the juvenile stage of a phoenix.

Its flight speed was far slower than that of Feng Rubing, the "veteran".

Saying it would take a year is already an optimistic estimate. If Han Lu really had to fly as fast as she could, it would probably take her a year and a half to barely make it to the territory of the Seven Mountains Alliance.

"What should we do then?" Although she had already guessed the possible outcome, Han Lu was not in a position to bring up this idea, which was somewhat insulting to her "elders".

Feng Rubing flapped her wings, took off from the ground, and hovered ten meters in the air. She turned around and showed Han Lu her broad back. "What else can we do? You can only lie on my back and I'll carry you."

If Han Lu were to sit on his back in human form, as if riding a horse, Feng Rubing would still feel somewhat embarrassed.

However, if Han Lu were to hitch a ride in the form of a phoenix, Feng Rubing would not feel any psychological discomfort.

Just as Han Lu had imagined, she shamelessly said "Thank you, sister" and obediently flapped her wings, took flight, and landed on Feng Rubing's back.

The combination of the small bird "stacked" on the back of the large bird is quite strange.

As Han Lu lay on Feng Rubing's back, wondering whether she should hold on tightly to the feathers on Feng Rubing's back when they encountered strong winds during flight, an invisible force suddenly pressed her firmly against Feng Rubing's back.

Immediately afterwards, another faint light curtain lit up from ten meters around Feng Rubing, separating the inner and outer spaces.

After making these preparations, Feng Rubing let out a phoenix cry and called out to Han Lu, "Hold on tight."

The sound of the phoenix's cry still echoed in Han Lu's ears when Feng Rubing suddenly flapped its wings and took off at a speed five or six times faster than when it was riding the clouds.

Lying on Feng Rubing's back, watching the surrounding clouds quickly drift away, Han Lu secretly felt fortunate.

"Fortunately, my sister used magic, otherwise, that one takeoff would have blown me away and made me fall."

"Flying at such a high speed, it would still take a month and a half to cross the wilderness. Just how big is that wilderness?"

……

Lying on Feng Rubing's back, lost in thought, Han Lu even took a short nap.

The next morning, the sun rose.

Looking further west, there was no trace of human presence to be seen.

The place that had "trapped" Han Lu for more than four months in Da Yu Chao has been left far behind by her.

Noticing that Han Lu had woken up, Feng Rubing slowed down her flight speed and lowered her altitude slightly before speaking.

"Welcome to the Wilderness."

"Wasn't that place considered wild and desolate last night?" Han Lu asked casually.

Feng Rubing replied, "Of course not. That place is just the middle area between the wilderness and the Great Yu Dynasty. Not many demon beasts or spirit beasts would choose to live there."

"About two hours ago, while you were asleep, I led you across the deepest outpost of the Great Yu Dynasty in the wilderness."

"Only after crossing that place can you truly enter the wilderness."