Brocade Orchid Spirit Domain, North Sea Dao Institute

The Brocade Orchid Spirit Domain lay in the barbaric wilderness of northwestern Da Kun Continent. It had been opened up for less than eight thousand years, and humanity's territory spanned no more than six million li.

Though the land here was flat and fertile, its borders were entirely surrounded by wilderness, constantly threatened by demon beasts, foreign races, and other dangers. As a result, the Spirit Domain was sparsely populated, and its people multiplied far more difficultly than those in humanity's core Spirit Domains.

The Brocade Orchid Spirit Domain centered around the Wave Sea, with most human settlements distributed along its coasts. Its total population exceeded one hundred million.

The Wave Sea was an inland sea nearly three million li in area. Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was rich in its depths, but violent storms frequently appeared upon its surface for no reason. Even the Return to Void Realm half-immortal who had opened this domain personally investigated the matter back then, yet he ultimately failed to uncover the secret behind the Wave Sea's sudden storms and equally sudden calms.

At the center of the Wave Sea stood a small island-continent called North Monarch Island. Its circumference stretched tens of thousands of li, and its spiritual energy was the richest in the entire domain.

By the sea on the island stood a huge and prosperous city known as Tranquil Sea City.

Tranquil Sea City covered an area of two hundred li and was extraordinarily bustling within. It was the foremost great city of the Brocade Orchid Spirit Domain.

The city was so prosperous partly because it possessed the Wave Sea's largest port, where thousands of treasure-hunting ships docked year-round. Every year, countless cultivators sailed out to sea to seek treasures and hunt, often returning fully laden.

However, the most important reason