The sea breeze drifted in, carrying humid air tinged with salt. It also stirred ripples across the Azure Sea, making fragments of starlight rise and fall with the sea surface.
The moment Wang Xuan emerged from the water, he saw a metallic fishing hook interwoven with rule patterns carve an arc through the air and come straight for him, precise and swift.
With a hiss, the night sky was pierced through. The sharp hook reached him in an instant, gleaming coldly as it went straight for the crown of his head.
The unexpected encounter left him stunned. He had only just arrived on this side of the Mysterious Sea, and someone had already set their sights on him, treating him like a fish to be caught?
He had fished for fish, cats, bamboo shoots, and even several successive outsiders. Was fate trying to set him straight and get its revenge on him?
He flicked his right index finger. With a clang, sparks flew in all directions, and lingering Dao rhythms rippled through the void. The gleaming divine gold hook was sent flying.
But another four or five hooks came flying together. They were fighting over the catch, competing for the strange objects in the sea, all trying to hook him with all their might.
Wang Xuan immediately leaped from the sea. With a flash, he arrived several hundred meters away, evading those five hooks and the six that followed, standing beneath the night sky.
This stretch of sea was full of vitality, and there were quite a few anglers. Once someone let a fish slip away and a strange object escaped, there would inevitably be people nearby trying to reel it back in.
Beneath the sea were countless species: dazzling corals, divine clams that emerged beneath the moonlit night, sea