Interception

The sea outside Hanhai City was no calmer than within the city. This stretch of water, known as the Raging Waves Sea, was affected year-round by the Southern Saint Domain's unique Tidal Law. Even beneath a cloudless sky, waves dozens of feet high could often rise upon the surface.

It was just past noon. The sea wind, wrapped in salty, damp vapor, howled in from where the sea met the sky in the distance, churning the ink-blue waters into a storm of surging waves. Reefs appeared and disappeared amid the spray, their surfaces covered in honeycomb-like holes formed by thousands of years of seawater erosion. Waves smashed against the rocks, bursting into white foam that filled the air with a deafening roar.

Rumble~

At this moment, several luxurious Seahorse Carriages drawn by low-level seahorse demon beasts were traveling across the waves. Beneath each seahorse's hooves, a layer of pale-blue rippled-water barrier gathered, steadily supporting the carriage shafts three feet above the sea. No matter how violently the waves surged in, the carriage bodies remained as smooth and steady as if moving over flat ground.

Around the front, back, left, and right of the convoy were several guard disciples riding seahorses. They wore the God Water Sect's uniform azure robes, with curved-blade water-element artifacts at their waists, and were constantly scanning in all directions on alert.

Inside the most extravagant Seahorse Carriage at the very center, Gan Hai lounged crookedly on a soft couch covered in Deep Sea Silver Shark hide, his left arm wrapped around the Nine-Tailed Fox beauty he had just won at the auction for two hundred million spirit stones.

The woman of the Nine-Tailed Fox race leaned quietly in his arms, her nine snow-white fox tails spread over the edge of the couch. Her peach-blossom eyes held