Spring and Autumn Alternation, Four Seasons Flow.
Time flew. In the blink of an eye, eighteen years had passed.
The East Sea.
The wind howled and the waves raged. Beneath the sea, turbulent currents surged, and countless enormous creatures seemed to flicker into view.
Upon the sea, a merchant ship rocked from side to side, like a paper boat being prodded by a mischievous child. It seemed it could be wrecked and everyone aboard killed at any moment.
The people aboard this ship had powerful backgrounds. They had been dispatched eastward to seek immortals by the Great Zhou's Carefree King.
The Carefree King was the younger brother of the current Great Zhou emperor. He had been deeply favored since childhood and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the Dao.
He also loved befriending people of the martial world, and as a result, he was often criticized by both court and country, with censors even submitting impeachments against him.
In an ordinary ancient dynasty, he might well have been saddled with the hat of "plotting rebellion."
Fortunately, the relationship between the current Great Zhou emperor and the Carefree King was extraordinary. Moreover, the Carefree King had always acted absurdly, and this was a world where Sword Immortals and Sword Heroes still existed. Thus, befriending ordinary martial artists was not viewed as such a serious matter.
The Carefree King had heard somewhere that immortals and mortals were separated in the Central Plain, while the boundless East Sea was home to many immortals. Therefore, he had sent a shipload of people to seek immortals.
For the sake of a safe journey, he had even sent along all the martial-world experts he had won over with vast sums of money.
Crash!
The sinister wind howled, and filthy waves soared into the sky.
Suddenly, a cable shot