Four hundred miles north of Chongmei Mountain, three small hills over twenty meters tall rose from the water, covered in lush grass and trees. From above, they resembled a cloverleaf.
On the lake at the center of the three hills, a Wave-Calming Boat floated steadily on the water. Its overall shape was conical, like a water droplet cut in half, pointed at the front and rounded at the rear.
The hull hovered a palm's height above the water. Only three shark-fin-like vertical plates at the rear sank beneath the surface. Like tough supports driven into rock, they held the entire Wave-Calming Boat above the water.
Rumble!
Amid a low rumble, an air bubble two to three meters across emerged from beneath the water.
The next moment, the bubble burst through the surface and popped. Chai Song, dressed in a gray-clad attendant's outfit, shot out and leaped onto the Wave-Calming Boat.
As magical power flooded through his body, a blast of air erupted from the boat's rear, and the three-meter vessel suddenly reared up.
Boom!
The Wave-Calming Boat shot out like a cannonball, trailing a white wake as it sped toward the waters beyond Three Leaf Island.
Behind it, large bubbles rose from the lake with gurgles, while thick fog poured up from the lakebed. In only a few breaths, all three small islands were shrouded within it.
Then, a great mass of dense fog shot after Chai Song along the water's surface like a poisonous snake springing from ambush.
Chai Song, who had turned back in panic, suddenly went pale.
But before he could think of a way to make the Wave-Calming Boat go faster—
Puff!
Dozens of human heads trailing tails of white smoke were spat from the White Mist. With a single charge, they closed half the distance