Chapter 478: Chapter 443: Shuihua City

The two of them stepped out of the house.

Li Qian looked around. The scene that greeted him was exactly what he had expected.

This Shuihua City was clearly a small city.

All around were low-rise buildings, the tallest being only six or seven stories high.

All of them were built from a kind of cyan marble.

These buildings clearly still followed the construction principles of a Dimension Plane.

The focus was on simplicity and practicality.

And because they were all built from cyan marble, they looked simple and ancient, yet with a touch of elegance.

Compared to the Floating Ridge Outpost, this Shuihua City was clearly much livelier.

After leaving the restricted zone where the Dimensional Rift was located, the number of Adventurers on the streets began to gradually increase.

And from the auras these Adventurers exuded, it was clear they were quite powerful.

But on second thought, this was normal.

After all, if they weren’t strong enough, they wouldn’t have been able to obtain Intermediate, or even Advanced, Adventurer’s Badges, and thus couldn’t have entered this Third-Layer Elemental Plane.

Walking on the streets of Shuihua City, Duan Kong continued his introduction, "Shuihua City is one of the smaller cities built by our Jiangnan Beast Taming University in the Third-Layer Elemental Plane."

Li Qian nodded in understanding.

Even among small cities, there were differences in scale.

This was related to the local environment.

The safer the environment, the larger the city could potentially grow.

From what Duan Kong had just said, Li Qian could infer that the environment around Shuihua City was likely considered quite dangerous, even among the Third-Layer Elemental Planes controlled by Jiangnan Beast Taming University.

As it turned out, Li Qian’s guess was not wrong.

Because Duan Kong’s next words confirmed it. "Shuihua City is different from other cities in the Third-Layer Elemental Plane. It’s an island city."

"This island is called Shuihua Island, and it’s surrounded by the Black Ocean!"

"The Black Ocean?" Li Qian shot Duan Kong an inquisitive glance.

Duan Kong didn’t keep him in suspense and directly explained the truth. "The ocean surrounding Shuihua Island has water as black as ink, hence the name ’Black Ocean’."

"The Black Ocean is exceptionally dangerous inside, teeming with all sorts of Water Element and Dark Element Extraordinary Creatures."

"Even Emperor Level and Saint Spirit Level ones are not uncommon."

Hearing this, Li Qian couldn’t help but remark, "Then it must not have been easy for Shuihua City to establish a foothold here."

"Indeed, it wasn’t easy."

Duan Kong agreed, "Our Jiangnan Beast Taming University paid a hefty price to develop this Shuihua City."

"Of course, the costs and rewards were equivalent."

"The Pet Beast resources and Extraordinary Materials near Shuihua City are also extremely abundant, which has given us a good return on our investment."

After arriving in Shuihua City, Li Qian and Duan Kong still did not visit the Guardian Envoy here.

They walked and talked, and before long, they arrived at the Flying Ship Base on the eastern side of the city.

Due to Duan Kong’s special status, they didn’t go through the normal procedure of buying tickets. Instead, they used his privileges to get a free ride in the VIP cabin.

The VIP cabin was at the very top of the Flying Ship, enclosed by a high-strength glass dome, offering an excellent view of almost all the surrounding scenery.

"From here, it’s about a five-hour trip to Fangyuan City on the Dongji Continent, and about eight hours to Black Feather City."

Duan Kong began to lay out the return route. "Fangyuan City has a Dimensional Rift leading to the Second-Layer Elemental Plane, while Black Feather City has one that leads directly to a Shallow Elemental Plane. We’ll go directly to Black Feather City to save some time."

"Mm," Li Qian nodded. He naturally had no objections to Duan Kong’s arrangements.

There weren’t many passengers in the VIP cabin. Including Li Qian and Duan Kong, there were only about ten people in total.

After they had been seated for a while, Duan Kong spoke up with a reminder, "Pay attention. It’s about to get dark."

The moment Duan Kong’s voice fell, the already dim sky suddenly turned completely black.

This scene was identical to what he had seen in Luoying City.

It was an unreasonable kind of darkness, as if someone had suddenly flipped a switch and turned off the lights.

Having experienced this a few times already, Li Qian wasn’t surprised at all.

Besides, even during the day, the sky was dim and visibility wasn’t very high, so the Flying Ship had kept its lights on the entire time.

Now that the sky was completely dark, it just meant a few more light sources were turned on.

Just like that, the Flying Ship cast its light in all directions and traveled toward its destination at an extremely high speed.

"Under normal circumstances, this Flying Ship wouldn’t have departed today. Flying at night is a very dangerous business." Duan Kong, sitting next to Li Qian, said this casually, as if it were a common, everyday matter.

But his words left Li Qian completely bewildered.

"If flying at night is so dangerous, then why did we take off?" Unable to contain his confusion, he asked.

"I requested it," Duan Kong said nonchalantly.

"While flying at night is indeed quite dangerous, with me as an escort, it’s a different matter entirely."

Li Qian: "..."

’Looks like he managed to slip in a flex again.’

Duan Kong said that flying at night was a very dangerous affair. As it turned out, he wasn’t wrong.

Because after they had been flying for about two hours, an unusual disturbance appeared ahead of the Flying Ship.

"WHOOOOOO..."

Ahead, in the pitch-black night sky, a series of strange, mournful wails suddenly rang out. The sound, like a lamenting sob, sent shivers down the spines of everyone in the Flying Ship.

"So it’s this thing. A bit of a nuisance. Old Bones, you go and drive it away!"

Hearing the sound, Duan Kong’s expression changed slightly. Without hesitation, he leaped up. At that precise moment, a gap opened in the VIP cabin’s glass dome.

He jumped right out through the opening.

After leaping out of the VIP cabin, Duan Kong acted decisively, directly summoning his Undead Bone Dragon.

The appearance of the Undead Bone Dragon instantly caused a commotion.

"An Ancient Undead Dragon!"

"With such a powerful aura, that must be the Saint of the Void from Jiangnan Beast Taming University."

"With Lord Saint of the Void here, no wonder this Flying Ship dared to fly at night."

"..."

Li Qian overheard some of these discussions and couldn’t help but think: ’It seems Teacher Duan Kong is quite famous in the Dimension Planes corresponding to Jiangnan Beast Taming University.’

As Li Qian was lost in thought, the summoned Ancient Undead Dragon had already flown off in a certain direction.

"RUMBLE..."

"SPLASH..."

Not long after the Undead Bone Dragon flew out, a series of explosions and the sound of heavy objects falling into water rang out from the air directly ahead.

Fortunately, the commotion didn’t last long. In less than ten minutes, Duan Kong leaped back in through the open gap in the glass dome.

It seemed the matter had been resolved.

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