East Pole Palace

After leaving Wind Sea, Yuan Ming did not continue onward. Instead, he found a small island reef nearby where the winds and waves were relatively calm, only seven or eight zhang across.

On the small island, he summoned all his companions and recuperated properly for nearly half a month. Only after everyone had more or less recovered did he set out once again.

In light of their previous hardships and the potentially even more dangerous circumstances ahead, Yuan Ming once again placed the others inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and crossed the sea alone.

Yet when he reached the third sea region, despite making ample preparations beforehand and remaining on guard throughout, he still nearly fell victim to the trap when he first encountered those legendary demonic evils.

The demonic evils he had assumed would be savage and ugly were, unexpectedly, strange creatures of considerable size, with human upper bodies and fish tails below.

Every one of them had pale skin, beautiful features, blue eyes, and golden hair. At times, they lounged upon island reefs; at others, they leaped into the sea to frolic and play. Especially when they were in the water, with the lower halves of their bodies submerged beneath the waves, they looked no different from beauties capable of toppling kingdoms and cities, their entire beings radiating an indescribable seductive power.

Yuan Ming had naturally heard long ago of the sinister nature of these demons and did not dare provoke them rashly.

Just as he intended to conceal himself and quietly slip past the mermaids, a smaller one with golden scales spotted him.

The moment she opened her mouth, a heavenly song drifted out. It did not linger by one's ears, but seemed to ring directly through one's sea of consciousness. Thus, even sealing one's hearing was useless.