"This city is much smaller than Seahorse City, just like Abyss Town."
Riko switched on the searchlight on her explorer's hat and was about to look up when Purple Pearl stopped her. "My teacher flew into the sky earlier to observe the entirety of Sea God Island.
At first, she didn't do that because she was worried about attracting the attention of the island's powerful people. But now that the Sea God has fallen, there's naturally no need to worry about that anymore.
So you don't need to send any signals either."
"That's true."
Riko nodded, turned off the searchlight, and headed toward the small city in the distance.
Unlike Seahorse City, this city had no gates. Or rather, its gates were the row of closely packed houses on the outskirts, with only gaps around forty centimeters wide between them.
"Seahorse City has walls because it's closest to the southeast, right?" Rabbit Girl suddenly asked Purple Pearl beside her. "I heard that Spirit Hall attacked Sea God Island once before? Perhaps cities on this backward, remote island originally had no walls."
"Mm-hm."
Purple Pearl nodded slightly. "More or less. I heard they were nearly wiped out last time because of the Sea God's power."
"To be honest, Spirit Hall was the invader in this matter." Rabbit Girl narrowed her eyes and smilingly tested Purple Pearl.
Although she trusted Zhou Qing's judgment, she had also heard from the Spirit Hall soul masters that Purple Pearl was the disciple of Spirit Hall's Pope.
There was a possibility that she might betray them in the future!
They had to stay alert.
Purple Pearl sighed. "It wasn't really an invasion. According to Zhou Qing, it should have been setting things right... Though what they did certainly wasn't as good as the Red Assembly.
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