The next three weeks of the journey proceeded quite smoothly, aside from the occasional encounters with Demonic Beasts, but those are a norm of travel, and were solved by the guards on board.
Traveling at a high speed again now that it did not have to maneuver, the Beast of Burden stopped in three cities along the way.
Each of the cities acted as a regional center of cultivators' civilization for a small group of worlds around it, facilitating trade and other activities between smaller cities and Sects. And each of those cities was distinct, with its own governing faction, as well as local power dynamics of the regional powers.
