Mid-September in Lu Dong Province, the weather was still scorching hot.
Shi Gang was a small county-level city, but it had the largest fishing port in northern Huaxia.
Jiang Xiao was fairly familiar with this place.
One of his college roommates had once called this place home. During those carefree years, that roommate had even invited Jiang Xiao to his hometown for a swim.
Jiang Xiao had come, or more precisely, Lure Jiang Xiao had come.
But he was not here to swim, nor had he seen any beautiful young women in cool clothing. That was because Shi Gang had already become one of the front lines where the Huaxia Army defended the land.
The Star Advent Army's Seventh Regiment—the Dance Soul Legion—had been stationed in Lu Dong Province. After receiving orders from above, Xia Yan and Han Jiangxue led a group of Yin Yang Soul Masters, White Faced Dancers, and Paper Ink Book Spirits to join the main force in defending this place.
A county-level city like this could practically be called a fishing village, yet it had become an important military stronghold.
Humanity had almost completely lost control of the ocean.
Humans were land creatures, after all. Even with advanced modern technology, and even though some Star Warriors possessed Underwater Star Techniques, none of humanity's ships, cannons, or Star Skills could compare with the creatures of the sea.
No matter how sophisticated the equipment or how powerful the warships, they seemed clumsy beyond measure to ocean life.
The battlefront had inevitably been pushed to the boundary between land and sea.
And this was only Huaxia—a nation capable of rapidly gathering its forces and defending a region with all its might.
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