Twenty-odd days later, Qin Fengming and Yang She finally departed from the sea region inhabited by the Yellow Eel Beasts.
Although they encountered several waves of Yellow Eel Beast herds blocking their path along the way, those herds were not particularly numerous, numbering only tens of thousands. With the two men and a mid Spirit Severing stage puppet unleashing their full strength, they passed through each time without danger.
Looking back at the vast, surging sea, Yang She's face displayed a tangled mixture of emotions. When they had entered this sea region, there had been eight of them traveling together. When they departed, only four remained—and two of those were female cultivators who had become enemies.
Even cultivators with minds as steadfast as stone still found that deeply unsettling.
"Fellow Daoist Yang, regarding those two female cultivators from the Blue Star Sect, do you have any ideas?" Qin Fengming asked calmly, his expression revealing nothing unusual.
Qin Fengming knew a little about the Blue Star Sect. He knew that Scorpion Stone Island, to which Yang She belonged, lay within the Blue Star Sect's sphere of influence. Having formed a grudge with two peak Integration stage cultivators from the Blue Star Sect, Qin Fengming felt it was quite possible that they would join forces with the sect's cultivators to wipe out Scorpion Stone Island.
Although Qin Fengming had asked this partly out of consideration for Yang She, he was more interested in knowing whether Yang She had any means of killing the two female cultivators—or any information about them that he could provide.
"Fellow Daoist Qin, you needn't worry about those two sluts. Although cultivators of the Dark Sea Region are fond of fighting, without sufficient cause, they rarely rely on their sect's power to scheme against an entire faction. Besides,