Over the boundless sea, a black streak of light swept past without stirring a single wave.
It flew with astonishing speed, yet made barely a sound.
That spoke to the treasure's prowess in flight, and to the exquisite control of the person piloting the shuttle.
Still, towering waves crashed down around it from time to time, their echoes rising like the roars of beasts.
A streak of white light reached the door of the flying shuttle's innermost chamber and silently awaited its master's summons.
As she waited, however, Bai Mei Ling instinctively kept her distance from the room. An incomparably sharp Sword Intent filled it, as though it could pierce anything. Even with its master suppressing it, she did not dare rush inside.
After a long while, the Sword Intent finally ebbed away.
A low voice came from within.
"What is it?"
Bai Mei Ling perked up and flew in.
Facing the cross-legged Luo Chen, she reported, "Master, large numbers of Sea Demons have appeared in the East Sea. They're whipping up wind and waves, acting quite brazenly."
Luo Chen frowned, apparently caught off guard.
A vast stretch of sea had once lain between Central Province and the Eastern Wasteland. Though little land broke its surface, people had called it the East Sea.
As far as Luo Chen knew, the East Sea held demonic beasts, but not many.
Spread across its immense expanse, they were scarcer still.
That had much to do with the Heaven Origin Dao Sect's former might!
Year after year, it had hunted down nearly every demonic beast in the waters near Central Province.
Only a little over thirty years had passed since the Central Province Collapse and the Dao Sect's crippling blow. Given how long demonic beasts took to mature, how could so many Sea Demons