The Great Desolate was vast, boundless, and limitless.
The myriad realms of the heavens within it glimmered with faint light like stars in the night sky.
A Grand Carriage pulled by nine Fire Cloud Crimson Flame Tigers was speeding through the Great Desolate.
Although each Fire Cloud Crimson Flame Tiger was over ten meters tall, within this boundless Great Desolate, they still seemed as insignificant as ants.
On the Grand Carriage.
A man in white robes lay back in a chair, legs crossed, head tilted, eyes closed, as if in deep slumber.
Beside him.
A man clad in black scale immortal armor held a Fire Cloud Whip in one hand, driving the Grand Carriage, while his other hand tightly gripped a greatsword.
The one sleeping was none other than Gu Qingfeng.
And the one driving the Grand Carriage was naturally Horse King.
To say Horse King wasn't large would be an understatement—not only was he not small, but clad in immortal armor, he looked quite imposing.
But that was only in appearance.
At this moment.
Horse King's complexion was poor, to be precise, downright awful. His expression was as tense as could be, trembling with fear as if traversing through hell, utterly terrified.
Indeed.
Horse King was deeply afraid in his heart.
Although his cultivation time wasn't short, spanning over a thousand years in total.
However.
In this lifetime, he had never left the Dual-Polarity Heavenly Domain. This was the first time.
Of course.
That wasn't important. What mattered was that this was also the first time he was driving a Grand Carriage alone through the Great Desolate.
This feeling was truly dreadful.
One must know, this was the Great Desolate.
The mysterious Great Desolate, the unknown Great Desolate, the Great Desolate filled with danger.
It housed terrifying desolate beasts, devouring Great Desolate storms, and the universally feared chaotic currents of space.
As for terrifying desolate beasts, forget about a One-Yao Great Luo Golden Immortal like him—even a Nine-Yao Perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal would be as fragile as an ant.
As for Great Desolate storms and chaotic currents of space, there was no need to even mention them. If one didn't encounter them, it was fine, but once encountered, no matter how high one's cultivation, it would be useless.
Setting aside the terrifying desolate beasts, the all-devouring Great Desolate storms, and the chaotic currents of space.
Even if they ran into those bandit Immortals who robbed homes and looted, or demons and ghosts.
He himself couldn't withstand them.
Originally, Horse King hadn't been so afraid. After all, he was traveling with Gu Qingfeng, and having witnessed Gu Qingfeng's power, he wasn't too worried. But not long after leaving the Dual-Polarity Heavenly Domain, Gu Qingfeng had fallen asleep and had been slumbering for over half a month without waking.
Horse King had wanted to wake Gu Qingfeng several times but ultimately hadn't dared to speak up.
It wasn't that he didn't want to, but he didn't dare disturb him.
His only hope now was for Gu Qingfeng to wake up quickly. As long as Gu Qingfeng awoke, he would have someone to rely on and wouldn't be so terrified.
Even just talking and chatting would be fine.
Driving the Grand Carriage alone through the Great Desolate, with no sky above and no earth below, no villages ahead or shops behind, looking out into the distance—not a single hair in sight, just himself driving the Grand Carriage all alone.
The feeling was truly eerie and unsettling, a torturous ordeal.
"Where have we gotten to?"
Suddenly.
A voice sounded.
Horse King's heart jolted. He turned to look and was astonished to find that the slumbering Gu Qingfeng had already awakened. This thrilled Horse King immensely; his eyes even reddened, lips pursed, the muscles at the corners of his mouth still twitching uncontrollably.
Thump!
Horse King slumped onto the Grand Carriage as if a great burden had been lifted, shouting, "Great Lord! You've finally woken up!"
"What's wrong with you, kid?"
Gu Qingfeng stood up, stretching his back fiercely, his bones crackling with a series of crisp sounds.
"Great Lord!
If you hadn't woken up soon, this humble one would have been unable to hold on."
"What's there to hold on about? Nothing's happened, has it?"
Although Gu Qingfeng's divine sense had entered the Original Sin Nightmare of the Illusory Land, it was only his divine sense. If something happened outside, he would have sensed it immediately.
"Nothing's happened because we've been lucky! What if we had run into something? What was this humble one supposed to do then?!
This humble one was scared to death!"
Horse King cried—he truly cried, tears and snot flowing.
"I say, Old Horse, is it really that bad? You're a man, after all. How can your courage be so small? Wasted on such a big frame. Look at your pathetic appearance. Get up now, don't embarrass me."
Perhaps having stayed too long in the Illusory Land, after his divine sense returned to his physical body, Gu Qingfeng opened a jar of wine and downed it in one go. Finding it unsatisfying, he opened two more jars of fine wine, drinking five jars in total before stopping. He looked around and asked, "Where have we gotten to?"
"We left the Dual-Polarity Heavenly Domain not long ago and have now entered the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain."
"Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain?
That can't be right. I remember we had already left the Dual-Polarity Heavenly Domain and entered the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain before I fell asleep, didn't we?
I must have slept for at least ten days to half a month. How are we still in the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain?"
"Great Lord, the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain is much larger than the Dual-Polarity Heavenly Domain."
Gu Qingfeng took out a star chart, projected his divine sense to examine it, and found that the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain was indeed quite large, equivalent to over ten Dual-Polarity Heavenly Domains. At the Fire Cloud Grand Carriage's current speed, even without eating or drinking, running non-stop would take several years just to leave the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain.
And that was just leaving the Mist Spirit Heavenly Domain. How far the Thousand Machines Heavenly Domain—where Gu Qingfeng was headed—was from here remained unknown. From the star chart, over ten Heavenly Domains lay in between, and each one was not small.
If they drove the Fire Cloud Grand Carriage to the Thousand Machines Heavenly Domain, they might not even get there in eighty to a hundred years.
Although Gu Qingfeng was heading to the Thousand Machines Heavenly Domain this time to find Great Master, he wasn't in a hurry.
Being anxious was useless.
If fate willed it, they would meet no matter what.
If fate didn't, even if they arrived at the Thousand Machines Heavenly Domain now, they might not necessarily see Great Master.
Of course.
Although he wasn't in a hurry, he also didn't want to spend eighty to a hundred years on the road.
Putting away the star chart, Gu Qingfeng pondered. If he used spatial teleportation, he might reach the Thousand Machines Heavenly Domain in a short time.
However.
Using spatial teleportation in the Great Desolate was fraught with too many uncertain factors, easily causing spatial fluctuations. Once they encountered a chaotic current of space, things would get serious.
Back when Gu Qingfeng was clashing with the Great Dao, he had recklessly used spatial teleportation and encountered chaotic currents of space—more than once. Although he had been swept into unknown spaces, fortunately, his luck was good, and he had managed to break free each time.
Legend had it that if one encountered a chaotic current of space and had bad luck, one could be swept into an abandoned, desolate space. Then, crying out to heaven would bring no response, crying out to earth would bring no answer, and escaping would become extremely difficult. One might even fall into a reincarnation space and inexplicably undergo reincarnation.
Exaggerated?
Not at all.
These things had truly happened.