Early the next morning.

Su Qi and Xia Shengxuan boarded a large ship transporting beast meat, accompanied by his twenty-three believers, or more accurately now, his die-hard followers.

If they survive, Su Qi might consider lifting the penance effect on them. Working for free for so long and risking their lives once might barely balance the accounts.

In the plan.

Su Qi's arrangement for them was merely to serve as tools and intercept the fleeing Evolution Divine Teachings followers outside the city. They wouldn't need to face the Apostle Level directly, so, barring any special mishaps, their chance of survival was quite high.

This large ship was headed directly to one of the Holy Cities and would drop them off while passing through the Thirteenth District.

The lack of additional arrangements for the ship transport was mainly due to two concerns.

Firstly, the ship was too conspicuous and easily exposed the target. Even if it stayed outside the Wilderness, it could still be detected by the Transcendents going in and out of the Thirteenth District.

Secondly, the ships were primarily manufactured by super tech companies in the Holy City, and other districts didn't have the capability to build them. Each ship's frequency band was imprinted with a unique identifier, and once detected by the Thirteenth District, not responding could lead to an attack, while responding could reveal the possible involvement of the Ninth District.

Onboard the ship.

Although it was not Su Qi's first time aboard, he was still deeply impressed by it.

Back in school, while studying mechanical subjects, he had the opportunity to board a ship to learn about basic control systems, firepower systems, and more.

It's undeniable that the Technological Path and the Mechanical Path are top paths that withstood the first wave of Fierce Beast invasions. Highly intelligent, they allowed even mortals to possess abilities comparable to the Extraordinary, once seen as the strongest path to save the human world, with no exaggeration.

One advantage of the Mechanical Path that other path Transcendents couldn't match was—

The probability of being eroded by the polluted traits during the fight against Fierce Beasts was minimal. Even if the operators were eroded and lost their rationality, they wouldn't do anything harmful to humans.

If a person went mad, they couldn't operate the machines.

Other path Transcendents were different. Once polluted in battle, they would likely become a weapon against their own side.

Before awakening, Su Qi had listed it as the path he most wanted to awaken to.

After all, what boy could easily resist the shock and beauty brought by a giant mechanical beast?

He suddenly remembered a classmate who had awakened to the Mechanical Path, who seemed to have been sponsored by some force and sent to further study in the Holy City.

This also showed that the Ninth District still had a long way to go.

Xia Shengxuan, seeing Su Qi observing so intently, remembered that this guy was prepared to set foot in the Otherworld.

So, he asked, "Let me ask you a question. Logically, the headquarters of the Evolution Divine Teachings should be hiding in some Otherworld. After operating for so many years and possibly having gotten rid of the Heavenly Dao's suppression, why are they still worried about being found by the Supreme Court?"

Su Qi was first taken aback, then began to ponder.

Compared to the Supreme Court, due to the polluted traits, the Evolution Divine Teachings would have fewer top-level experts. However, the power demonstrated by these polluted traits meant the difference wouldn't be that significant.

That additional advantage of escaping the Heavenly Dao's suppression…

Su Qi's gaze wandered and eventually focused on the ship, and then he suddenly understood, "Elder Xia means that the Mechanical Path can greatly avoid the Heavenly Dao's suppression, and the Supreme Court controls a large number of Mechanical Path Transcendents?"

"Smart." Xia Shengxuan nodded with a smile.

"But how many Mechanical Path Transcendents the Supreme Court controls is hard to say."

"What I know is that there are at least super ships capable of killing Destruction Level targets. Our ship is a product several generations behind."

Hiss—

Hearing this, Su Qi couldn't help but gasp.

He knew how much hardship an Extraordinary had to endure to cultivate to the Destruction Level.

If there really were such a super-weapon, wouldn't that mean…?

No.

"It must be extremely difficult to manufacture such a super ship," Su Qi asked.

"Yes, I've heard that many materials can't be found in our world, and the technical difficulty is too high to achieve mass production. Many core components must be handcrafted by High Level Mechanical Path Transcendents."

"Even the operation isn't something ordinary people can handle."

Xia Shengxuan spoke eloquently, hinting, "If you have thoughts about the Otherworld, it's best to make some friends with the Mechanical Path."

Su Qi quietly noted it down.

But he didn't put it in the forefront.

Because he already relied on stacking various augmented abilities to defeat higher-level foes, at most, he would reduce the gap slightly.

Besides, at this stage, entering the Otherworld was just to reset the big data user profiling, and he wouldn't go too deep.

As for truly exploring the Otherworld, wouldn't that have to wait until he's piloting the GW-16 Val Destan, holding a Neutron Bomb, with a Nuclear Splitting Orbital Cannon overhead?

In this regard, the Heavenly Realm People were still formidable.

Then.

Su Qi took out a piece of the All Heavens Reflecting True Crystal, which he needed to try every day as a base routine.

It was a bit unexpected.

Nothing happened.

But it seemed somewhat reasonable.

After all, they were currently in the sky.

Hmm, fitting the mystical logic.

Just like that, a piece of the All Heavens Reflecting True Crystal went to waste, and Su Qi still felt a slight twinge of pain.

He glanced at the rear cabin.

From the profit distributed among others, he could probably earn about fifty pieces of the All Heavens Reflecting True Crystal from this transport of beast meat.

Although the large ship could carry a huge amount of beast meat, the mainstream transport method was still on the ground.

This was due to the high potential cost of ship transport, aside from the cost of the ship itself, the accompanying guards had to be at least top-notch Overlord Level Transcendents.

The risks in the sky weren't lower than on the ground.

If they encountered an unexpected situation the accompanying guards couldn't handle, it would mean losing a ship, along with all the Overlord Level Transcendents and a huge amount of beast meat.

Su Qi focused on the clouds above the ship.

Indeed, the height at which regular ships flew wasn't too high because the higher they went, the greater the unknown mysterious dangers.

Even in some cloud layers, there might be Fierce Beasts roving about.

Without an Apostle Level Transcendent escorting the ship, crashing into those cloud layers would make it a delivered feast.

The ground transportation routes, while posing more risks in number, had risks that were still manageable because of how the routes were opened up.

Sitting in the ship.

Su Qi couldn't help but feel a trance.

His thoughts seemed to scatter.

The sky, the land, the sea, all seemed besieged, with humans trapped like prisoners.

He wondered whether anyone had explored interstellar routes again.

If humans could be found on other planets.

And if there, they didn't suffer the same calamities.

Would humanity have the opportunity to completely escape this cage…?

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