The vast Sea of No Hope roiled with surging waves and towering jade-green breakers. A faint streak of escaping light shot swiftly across the boundless sea.
Within the escaping light stood a young man in a pale blue robe, his hands behind his back and his expression calm and unruffled.
It had been ten years since Qin Fengming entered the Sea of No Hope.
Although he knew of a Teleportation Array capable of spanning an immense distance, and was not short of the dozen or so high-grade Spirit Stones it required, he had not used it. There was no other reason than that time was precisely what he had in greatest abundance.
Traveling through the Sea of No Hope took far more time than using a Teleportation Array, but it also brought him considerable benefits. His state of mind and mentality had both received a certain degree of tempering.
The greatest benefit was that he could pass through the Marketplaces of some great clans in the sea and gather rare treasures unavailable on the continent.
His journey had been extremely peaceful overall, and he had encountered no major danger or obstruction.
Only in his seventh year after entering the Sea of No Hope, at an auction, had he quarreled with a mid Integration stage sea cultivator over a refining material of immense use to Qin Fengming, becoming enemies over their bids.
After leaving the Marketplace, that sea cultivator had actually gathered another fellow Integration stage cultivator and intercepted Qin Fengming on a deserted island.
Facing two sea cultivators of the same rank, Qin Fengming had merely sacrificed the Blazing Sun Cold Light Sword and the Thunder Soul Pagoda before easily slaughtering the two Integration stage Demon Cultivators after they revealed their true forms.
After being refined anew, the Blazing Sun