High in the heavens, a sea of clouds filled the sky.
Chen Fei looked around with some curiosity, not because the sea of clouds was anything unusual, but because the five of them were enveloped in a white cloud, blending into the vast cloudscape.
The Cloud Gathering Stone belonged to Guo Huasheng. It could gather white clouds out of thin air around their bodies to conceal them.
Had ordinary people witnessed this scene, they would likely have mistaken the five for immortals descending to the mortal world. After all, riding clouds and mist had always been how common mortals imagined the immortal gods.
With the Cloud Gathering Stone concealing them and the Breath Concealing Ring masking every trace of their auras, even third-tier sea monsters scouting below would have found nothing amiss.
To penetrate deep behind the sea monsters' lines, traveling along the seabed was certainly out of the question. That was their true home ground.
Leaving aside the third-tier sea monsters, there were countless first- and second-tier ones. Although those weaker monsters posed no threat whatsoever to the five, they could easily expose their whereabouts.
The deeper they ventured behind enemy lines, the greater the danger of being exposed.
Their objective lay more than two hundred li away, a distance Chen Fei and the others could cover in little time at their current speed. But thirty li beyond Haiyu City, the number of sea monsters began to surge.
Even high in the sky, concealed by the Cloud Gathering Stone, Chen Fei and the others still slowed down.
Before they left the city, Xu Wucheng had specifically instructed them that their main task was to investigate the situation. As for the destruction required by the mission, although he had not said it outright, the others all understood that they would