"We will be making our way to the Summerfield Kingdom," Yang Qing said as he projected the location route into Ellie's mind.
"I can't believe I've already used up three hours already."
Yang Qing's brows were lightly furrowed as he examined the map he had laid out on Ellie's back.
"Luckily I should be able to clear a few of them in Summerfield kingdom," Yang Qing muttered as he drew a few more circles around his quadrant.
"Hopefully I'll be able to finish the evaluations in good time."
Yang Qing looked at the map for a few more seconds before he closed it with a satisfied smile appearing on his face as he did so.
In the midst of his journey, he took out his communication talisman and made a few calls to different people.
From the calls, he seemed to be arranging timelines and schedules in coordination with the other parties at the end of his calls.
By the time he was done with all of his calls, they had already left the territory of Deer mountain kingdom and its air space.
A look of relief appeared on both him and Ellie as the latter even made a few joyful upturns in her flying before she resumed the journey on the flight path leading to Summerfield kingdom.
Yang Qing used the brief time left over to reach the Summerfield kingdom, to cultivate. Even though he was generally lazy, that only applied when it came to his work but when it came to cultivation, he was extremely studious. His experience on the job had only firmed his belief that other than a powerful background, your individual capabilities also dictated how comfortable and freer a life you lead.
The father of the Zou siblings was an example of this fact. He was born into a prestigious rank 2 family and received the respect and awe of many. However, when he failed his assessment all that went away, along with his life, while someone from the branch rose to the skies in one fell swoop from a nobody to the head of a rank 2 family in a single leap due to his abilities.
While such a scenario would not happen at the Order, Yang Qing still had lofty ambitions and goals to consider especially his newfound dream of being Lei Weiyuan's boss. For that he needed strength first then promotions would follow.
Yang Qing snickered a bit at the thought of bossing around Lei Weiyuan.
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Thirty minutes later Yang Qing opened his eyes and exhaled misty green air from his mouth. He stopped his cultivation as he turned his gaze to his surroundings.
Below him, he could see flourishing lands filled with the air of different plants and the aromas of their flowers mixing together to achieve a unique scent which despite the astronomical number mixed in it, was still gentle and subtle to the nose.
"Summerfield kingdom would be a good place to rest during my leave," Yang Qing thought as he admired the picturesque scene before him.
By the time they had arrived in Summerfield kingdom, it was already midday. The sun was already high up but there was a gentle breeze that seemed to be working in tandem with the heat.
Almost every place they flew over was a large plain filled with a small lake and herbaceous plants growing around it as they gently swayed to the gentle breeze and glistened to the warm sun rays.
Such a scene would make one inadvertently enter a state of calmness and relaxation.
Yang Qing genially took the sights in. Some of the plants growing in the places they flew over were wild undergrowth but in other areas, they looked to be specially cultivated manmade fields.
There were farmers in there meticulously caring for those plants. However, unlike ordinary farmers that you'd find in a mundane place, most farmers that fell under Yang Qing's palace sense were cultivators.
Most were in the foundation establishment stage, while a minority few were even in the core formation stage. Even one farm had about 20 early-stage core formation experts taking care of it.
Such an arrangement was to be expected since the plants those farmers were caring for, were spiritual plants.
The plants on the plains closer to the border were mostly earth-rank herbs whose quality improved the deeper they moved in.
The area that had 20 core formation experts had high-grade sky-rank herbs growing in them. During his scan, Yang Qing recognized a few of them like; Mellody dawn dogbane, Ice flow vinegar, and silver lace flower to name a few.
"The kingdom has improved its herb cultivation arts by miles if it can grow that tree to minimum maturity."
Yang Qing whistled in praise when his gaze landed on a white tree that was growing alone within a 20-acre perimeter in one of the areas he had been scanning. There was nothing else in its vicinity except for a shallow blue-colored river meandering around it.
However, the scene Yang Qing was seeing and what others would see when they passed over the area would be completely different. The reason for this was the dozens of arrays planted within the 20-acre field, with one of those arrays being an illusion and befuddlement array.
The illusion part of the array made it seem like the area was a barren mountain while the befuddlement part of the array had a few hidden soul-attacking arts embedded into it. Some of them would cause minor headaches and vertigo. However, it seemed they would only be triggered if one used their spiritual sense to investigate the mountain.
In addition to the illusion and befuddlement array, there were killing arrays, defensive arrays, and alarm trigger arrays. These were all meant for the protection of the white tree.
A peak core formation stage expert would die leaving no corpse behind if they were to stumble in there.
Those protective arrays were meticulously arranged to complement each other when someone stumbled in there. There were even redundancies put in place in case one of those arrays failed.
While individually, those arrays could not be considered much in Yang Qing's eyes since they were high-rank Orange-grade formations, their compounded might was something else. The collective attack of all the arrays working in tandem rivaled that of a low-rank blue-grade cultivation art.
Yang Qing couldn't help but admire the ingenuity of the formation master who created that blueprint. There was even a top-grade sky-rank artifact that had a budding spirituality that was used as the anchor for the arrays.
There seemed to be a symbiotic arrangement between the two sides. The artifact powered the array while the array nurtured the budding spirit inside the artifact.
The more Yang Qing scanned the arrangement, the more shocked he became. The skills of the formation master had to be atleast in the blue grade and based on his usage of the artifact, that formation master also had matching skills in weapons refinement.
"Is it an outsider or someone from within the Summerfield kingdom?" Yang Qing wondered as he had Ellie slow down a bit as they passed through the area.
He was an avid dabbler in formation arrays, which was mainly because he still had the grand ambition of cracking the time array in his carriage so he could sleep more or fiddle with the observation arrays in his courtroom so his every move wouldn't be monitored.
It was from that experience that he could appreciate what a work of art the array lineup below him was.
