CHAPTER 2482  THE SOUTHERN REGION OF THE EMPIRE

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The wind swept past Lin Mu, as his hair swayed with it. He stood at the helm of a flying ship and watched an endless expanse of trees passed under it. Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Crown Princess Shang asked.

"Indeed." Lin Mu replied. "This forest does have its own charm… The Cup Crown Forest, I believe?" Because of the speed, it was a bit difficult to see but if one was standing still they would see that each of the trees were shaped in a unique way. The crown of trees was depressed in the middle while elevated on the sides, making it look like an inverted dome.

And if one looked at a singular tree they would see that it was shaped a bit like a cup.

This was because this was a forest of a type of trees called as the Cup Crown trees, and were native to this region. Though other than their special shape, they didn't have any particular importance. Their fruits didn't provide much Qi and their wood was also not as tough as most other woods.

Thus while they had an aesthetic value, they didn't have much of a materialistic value.

"That's right." Crown Prince Feng Shun confirmed from behind the wheel. "We're officially in the Southern region and soon we should be reaching the Tri-cone Savanna." He added.

"Hmm… We've come quite far." Lin Mu muttered to himself.

They had left the very next day after they had discovered the location mentioned in the encrypted message. It had already been several days since then and they had basically been flying nonstop.

For the journey, the Crown Prince had gone all in and took out the fastest Flying Ship in the Imperial Court's fleet. It was even faster than his own ship and was something that was highly valued even in other worlds.

In fact, it was good enough that traveling to other worlds on it was fully possible. And while it might not be as fast as Little Shrubby, it was still quite fast. Lin Mu and the others could've had chosen to gone on Little Shrubby and was also his first option, but Commander Dui suggested that they take the safer choice and bring a battalion of soldiers with them.

The Emperor also insisted on it, and as such they had no choice but to bring the ship which could accommodate them all.

Still, the speed of travel was a lot faster than it would be normally and Lin Mu also got to see more of the Empire since they didn't skip it with teleportation arrays. The start of the journey was pretty similar to the one Lin Mu had taken when heading to the Evergreen Pillars Forest. They first went to the Minor Mite Mountains but instead of heading straight south from there, they went around the western path and passed by the Osmanthus Lake.

Lin Mu finally got to see the lake that had water that smelled of Osmanthus flowers.

It was rather pleasing to one's senses and had a lot of people visiting it all the time. Though not all regions of the Osmanthus lake were safe, and only the northern shore of the lake was actually settled by people. There was a town located here that catered to the visitors.

But all the other regions of the lake were dangerous due to the presence of hundreds of different kinds of Insect beasts. These beasts were attached by the sweet smell of the lake, which came from a unique species of Aquatic Osmanthus Flowers. These flowers stayed submerged for most of the day and only surfaced during the night.

As such, it was usually fine in the day, but in the night one could hear the buzzing and chittering of insects that were attracted by the Aquatic Osmanthus Flowers.

Of course, since Lin Mu and the others were using the Imperial Flying ship, they had nothing to fear and they simply cut a path straight through the lake and got to see everything along the way. From there, they soon reached the edge of the Evergreen Pillars Forest and the Morning Glory Clan.

No stops were taken and they continued onwards to the Five Rivers Gorge which was a very important location for the empire as this was where five of the major rivers of the entire continent met.

And in the intersection point of these five rivers stood a majestic city called as the Five Rivers City. This city was the Third largest city in the entire empire and was an important administrative region.

The city was built around a mountain that towered from the middle of the rivers, and five bridges hung from them, extending all the way to shore on the other side of the rivers. There were hundreds of floating jetties on the water attached to the city where ships were docked.

Many more ships were further ahead, either waiting for their chance to dock or fishing in the water. After all, with so many rivers meeting, the number of fishes and other aquatic beasts in the water was quite high.

This was another reason why the city was so prosperous.

In fact, if the teleportation arrays were still working, they would have actually appeared here and then continued the journey on ship. Lin Mu found the city to have a rather upbeat vibe to it compared to the Capital City.

Lin Mu would have loved to take a look around in the city, but had to shelve it for sometime in the future. After the Five Rivers city came another lake called as the Great Southern Lake. It was formed from the waters of the five rivers joining and pooling up.

Though rather than a lake, it would be more appropriate to call it a sea with its sheer size since it took a whole day and half of flying before they reached the other side which was where the Cup Crown Forest started.

And a few hours later, Lin Mu could finally see the vast yellow savanna in his sights.