Who understands? He traveled through time with a high-spec spatial ability.

Although they said they were on a journey, they hadn't actually traveled for very long. Now that she was the Crown Princess, many eyes were watching her wherever she went.

It wouldn't be right for her to simply disappear from the palace. The morning mist hadn't yet dissipated when Qiao Jingjing, with the help of Tantai Zhou, rode a fast horse away from the imperial city.

The fortune bird led the way from her shoulder, occasionally letting out a clear chirping.

"Master, according to the cloud map, we should travel northwest for three days." Fa Cai landed on her shoulder, its wings displaying a map made of tiny, shimmering dots of light.

Qiao Jingjing nodded and touched the jade key hanging at her waist. Ever since Master Yiyuan gave it to her, this key had been emitting a faint warmth from time to time, as if it were guiding something.

Unsure of the exact distance and worried about missing important clues, they could only teleport in short bursts to shorten the time.

On the first evening, a man and a bird arrived at a dense black pine forest. From the depths of the forest came the eerie howls of wolves.

"Fa Cai, are you sure we're on the right route?" Qiao Jingjing reined in her horse, cautiously looking around. "This place doesn't look right."

Fa Cai flapped its wings: "The map says we have to go through this forest... Wait!" it suddenly cried out in alarm, "Master, be careful!"

Before the words were finished, a dozen pairs of eerie green eyes lit up from the bushes. A pack of enormous gray wolves slowly emerged, the alpha wolf the size of a calf, its fangs still dripping with blood.

Qiao Jingjing quickly retrieved her bow and arrows from her spatial storage, only to discover that the wolves could dodge every single one of her arrows. Even more terrifying, the wounded wolves would heal in the blink of an eye.

“These aren’t ordinary wolves!” she exclaimed. “They’ve been enchanted!”

The wolves gradually closed in, surrounding her. Just then, at the critical moment, the jade pendant at her waist suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light. Upon seeing the light, the wolves immediately howled and retreated, eventually all prostrating themselves on the ground as if in reverence.

Qiao Jingjing watched this scene in surprise, gently touching the jade: "It seems you are even more amazing than I imagined."

After passing through the black pine forest, they arrived at a swampy area. This place was perpetually shrouded in mist, with extremely low visibility. Fa Cai flew in for a short while before returning in a panic: "Master, the mist here devours spiritual energy! I almost couldn't find my way back!"

Qiao Jingjing tried to use her divine sense to investigate, and sure enough, she found that her divine sense was swallowed up as soon as it came into contact with the mist. She took out several luminous pearls to provide light, but found that the light was also absorbed by the mist.

Three days had passed since Qiao Jingjing left the capital. According to the cloud map, she should have arrived at the location of Cloud Mist Peak, but all she saw was a vast wilderness.

As she stepped into what appeared to be an ordinary dense forest, a thick fog suddenly rose around her, obscuring the light. Fa Cai flapped its wings anxiously, saying, "Master, this fog is strange! My senses are being blocked!"

Qiao Jingjing tried to probe with her divine sense, but found that her spiritual sense was like a stone thrown into the sea, receiving no response. To make matters worse, she found herself going around in circles, while the arrangement of the trees was changing silently.

"An illusion array?" Her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately bit her fingertip, using her blood to draw a barrier-breaking talisman on her palm.

However, as soon as the talisman light appeared, the mist suddenly surged and transformed into countless tiny black insects that pounced on her!

"Spirit-devouring worms!" She quickly erected a spiritual energy barrier, but the worms were able to devour the spiritual energy, and the barrier dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the critical moment, she suddenly remembered the Frost Jade Essence in her space, quickly took it out, and a burst of cold air instantly froze the swarm of insects into ice, which then fell to the ground.

As the fog dissipated, she finally saw the path ahead, only to discover a bottomless cliff stretching across the forest, from which came faint, ghostly howls.

Fa Cai tried to fly over the cliff to explore the way, but just as he reached mid-air, a foul wind suddenly swept up from the bottom of the cliff, and a huge bone claw burst out from the air, almost tearing him apart!

"We can't get over this cliff!" Fa Cai landed back on her shoulder, still shaken.

Qiao Jingjing wanted to activate the spatial rift to get a bird's-eye view of the cliff face from above, ideally to get a clearer view directly to the bottom of the cliff, but the spatial rift mysteriously malfunctioned.

She stared at the churning black mist at the bottom of the cliff and sneered, "Playing tricks!" She took out the dragon scale dagger that Tantai Zhou had given her, cut her palm, and used her blood as a guide to carve a summoning circle on the edge of the cliff.

"Roar—" A dragon's roar resounded through the sky, and a phantom black dragon rose from the formation, coiling around her. She leaped, stepping on the dragon's shadow as she soared through the air!

The black mist at the bottom of the cliff surged wildly, and countless ghostly hands reached out, trying to drag her into the abyss. The black dragon roared, its dragon might dispelling the evil spirits. Qiao Jingjing gritted her teeth and controlled the black dragon to weave through the ghostly hands.

Just as it was about to fly to the other side, the black dragon suddenly shook. It turned out that the evil spirits at the bottom of the cliff had attacked together, weakening the black dragon's power.

Qiao Jingjing hurriedly increased the amount of spiritual power injected into the summoning array, and the black dragon, having received the power, regained its footing.

Finally, she successfully landed on the other side. Fa Cai cheered, "Master, that was amazing!"

However, before they could even catch their breath, the opposite bank was engulfed in flames, the intense heat distorting the air itself.

Fa Cai exclaimed in horror, "This is Samadhi True Fire! It can't be extinguished by ordinary means!" Qiao Jingjing frowned, suddenly remembering the spiritual spring in her space.

She quickly took out the spirit spring bottle and poured out the spirit spring water. The spirit spring water turned into water vapor upon contact with the fire, gradually suppressing the flames. After the fire subsided, Qiao Jingjing carefully led Facai through the sea of ​​fire.

A narrow path appeared before us, and at the end of the path, clouds and mist swirled, with a mountain peak appearing and disappearing in the mist.

Fa Cai exclaimed excitedly, "Master, that should be Cloud Mist Peak!"

Qiao Jingjing wasn't excited. Although it had taken some effort, it had gone too smoothly overall, and she had a bad feeling about it.

Sure enough, as soon as Fa Cai finished speaking, his instinct for danger kicked in, and his feathers stood on end. He said in a serious voice, "Master, the situation is probably not good."

"I guessed it. Can you sense the location of danger?"