The one causing trouble along the Exotic Wood Coast this time was an ancient beast known as the Sea Demon Worm.
Although this beast was only at Void Refinement Late-stage, it was exceptionally gifted in divine sense and was born with a supernatural ability to control ancient beasts of the same realm.
Thus, the Sea King Race had nearly captured this type of ancient beast to extinction. After controlling them, they relied on their abilities to form armies of sea beasts.
It was precisely because of this beast's background that Sky Cloud believed the Jiao Chi Race was behind this matter. After all, the Jiao Chi and Sea King Races had been allies since ancient times.
Of course, that did not mean the Jiao Chi Race was deliberately targeting the three clans of the Exotic Wood Coast. Judging by the methods used, this was most likely the personal action of one of their cultivators, much like how Wu Qinghan and the others accepted missions to earn clan contributions.
Therefore, Sky Cloud had not made a major move. They had merely issued a mission and allowed the clan's cultivators to settle the matter.
Moreover, although the three clans, including the Huarong Clan, had no integration stage cultivator overseeing them, and most of their Void Refinement cultivators were far away in Sky Cloud territory, they still had no shortage of newly advanced and older-generation Void Refinement cultivators holding the fort.
Logically speaking, a mere Sea Demon Worm should not have been able to cause too much trouble, even if it controlled a large number of Void Refinement and Nascent Soul stage sea beasts.
Yet this Sea Demon Worm happened to possess exceptionally high intelligence. It had immediately destroyed every Teleportation Array connecting the Exotic Wood Coast to Sky Cloud. Furthermore, it never