Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

Springtime in the 100th year of the Gregorian calendar.

After thirty years of planning and preparation, the Great Spirit Empire officially launched a century-long plan called "The Great Expansion of the Starfall Domain".

From the "Great Development of the Cathode Domain" to the "Great Expansion of the Meteorite Domain," these two ambitious projects, each spanning a century, led the development of an era.

If the first century of the Great Spirit Empire belonged to the ocean, then the Age of Exploration was ushered in by a wave of national pride in exploring the sea.

The second century of the Great Spirit Empire belonged to the sky. When tens of thousands of cloud boats soared through the sea of ​​clouds, the sky, which filled countless children with imagination, also unveiled its mysterious veil to the world.

Thanks to the efforts of generations, the sky is no longer a distant and unattainable place, but has truly entered people's lives.

The difference is that this time the exploration will be more arduous and longer.

One is a continent where humans have lived for generations and experienced countless developments; the other is a wild world that has only been around for a few hundred years and is shrouded in thick fog.

One is across the sea from the Tianqi Domain, reachable by crossing the South Sea and the Southern Sea; the other is located at the edge of the world, requiring traversing half of the Nine Domains to reach.

Even the Great Spirit Empire, the strongest nation in the Nine Realms, faces numerous difficulties in developing the Starfall Continent.

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Spring of the year 102 in the Gregorian calendar.

The Great Spirit Empire's air fleet traversed millions of miles to reach the Starfall Continent, located at the edge of the world.

Fifty long-range warships, twenty thousand elite soldiers equipped with new weapons, and five thousand mechanical puppets together formed the first pioneering team of the Starfall Domain.

Although the researchers of the Great Spirit Empire had already hypothesized about possible scenarios before the Starfall Domain pioneer team set off.

However, on their journey to the Starfall Continent, the pioneering team encountered countless difficulties.

A sudden storm, lightning striking from the clouds, an unexpected drop in temperature, and savage beasts encountered during flight...

One problem after another arose, seriously hindering the progress of the development team.

If the expeditionary force hadn't been large enough and possessed sufficient martial virtue, it's questionable whether they could have even reached the Starfall Continent.

Storms can be avoided, lightning can be withstood, temperature drops can be endured, and savage beasts can be destroyed...

The Great Spirit Empire's pioneering team, whose firepower was configured according to the standards of a war of annihilation, solved all the troubles along the way in their own unique way.

The top-of-the-line warships and powerful firepower solved most of the problems, but they had to retreat because of the distance between the two regions.

Even if you travel in a straight line and take the shortest route, it is still three million miles from Qing'an Prefecture to the Starfall Continent.

The long journey depleted the warship's energy reserves, forcing the exploration team to land midway to replenish their energy supplies.

Because the route passes through multiple large regions, dozens of races, and hundreds of national regimes.

The difficulty of personnel coordination increased dramatically, forcing the expansion team to deal with local governments.

Smaller countries couldn't even provide enough elemental stones to supply their fleets, forcing them to sail to other countries in search of them.

The repeated back and forth had consumed a significant amount of the development team's time, especially the energy replenishment alone.

It was two years later when the pioneering team finally arrived at the Starfall Continent.

Fortunately, their efforts were not in vain. After two years, they were rewarded. The pioneering team finally succeeded in landing on the Starfall Continent and established the first city suitable for human habitation on the edge of the continent.

Its name is Wangxing City.

The pioneering team's experience also provided a reference for later voyages, prompting the Great Spirit Empire to launch a new plan.

Connecting multiple continents, establish energy outposts belonging to the Great Spirit Empire at locations along the route.

In the long years that followed, new cities sprang up on the edge of the Starfall Continent, with Stargazing City as the center.

Hundreds of supply points have been built along the route to the Starfall Continent, allowing passing cloud ships to land and replenish their energy.

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In the year 170 of the Gregorian calendar, the middle section of the Tianxing route.

Four thousand meters above the sky, a light purple, thousand-meter-long flying boat is shuttling through the sea of ​​clouds.

The main body of the flying boat is made of amethyst, which is abundant in Jiangzhou, and its surface is engraved with more than ten complex formations.

A five-story wooden pavilion stands in the very center of the flying boat, making its overall layout somewhat similar to a ship at sea.

Every now and then you can see someone pushing open the window from the attic and gazing at the rolling sea of ​​clouds outside.

At the very top of the pavilion was a pale purple flag with the words "Qingyun" written on it. The flag was about three meters in size and fluttered in the wind at the very top of the pavilion.

Below the attic was a wide plaza where people moved freely, seemingly unaffected by the changing weather, as if they were walking on a smooth road rather than living four thousand meters in the air.

This was because a thin purple film shrouded the airship.

This formation was created by a high-level formation master of the Five Elements Holy Sect; its high price corresponds to its high-quality effect.

The interconnected formations on the airship maintain its stability at all times, providing passengers with a pleasant flying experience.

Even in a storm, it can remain stable and will not be tossed about by changes in the external climate.

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"Uncle Qin, we've been flying in the sky for over three months now, and we still haven't reached the Starfall Continent?"

On the fifth floor of the pavilion, a young man in a fox fur coat stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the clouds with a hint of resentment in his eyes.

The young master's surname is Qing and his given name is Han. His ancestors can be traced back to the former King Xiang, Chang Ning, and his wife, Qing Xi.

When Jun Changning was still the King of Xiang of the Great Qi Dynasty, and Qingxi was still the Queen Consort of the King of Xiang, their descendants all took Jun as their surname.

Even after Qingxi broke through to become a terrestrial immortal, this point remained unchanged.

Qingxi respects her former junior classmate, later husband, and lifelong partner.

The two were very much in love and never considered the "important matters" in the eyes of their younger generation.

It wasn't until King Xiang, Jun Changning, passed away that the glory of the Great Qi Dynasty was completely gone, and the Jun clan was constantly disliked openly and secretly in the Great Ling Empire. Only then did their descendants gradually change their surname.

Their direct descendants all changed their surname to "Qing" to symbolize their identity.

The Azure Cloud Sword Immortal – a descendant of Qingxi.

Today, in the Great Spirit Empire, the "Qing" surname has become a renowned aristocratic family, with its business empire spanning the entire Nine Domains.

Qinghan is the direct descendant of the main branch of the Qing family in this generation, and is the fourth son in the family.

This journey with the caravan is to represent the main branch of the Qing family and to handle business matters on the Starfall Continent.

As a young man just starting out, Qinghan was inevitably a bit too eager to do things.

Having flown for more than three months, Qinghan had grown tired of the scenery in the sky and now only wanted to reach her destination as soon as possible.

"Young master, please don't be impatient. This flying ship will travel at a leisurely pace, stopping frequently along the way, passing through several continents and resting in more than a dozen large cities. It's inevitable that it will be a bit slow. It will take about two more months to reach Wangxing City!"

The anxious behavior made the steward, known as Uncle Qin, scratch his head. He didn't know how to respond for a moment, so he could only repeat what he had already said three or four times to soothe his young master's agitated emotions.