Time passed, second by second.
Gradually, the cultivators waiting quietly for prey at the outermost edge of the Deadly Silent Deep Shadow Sea—or in adjacent waters—began to show surprise or impatience.
Those who had been here before were especially puzzled.
They remembered clearly that while most Deep Shadow Demon Fish had little interest in entering the shallows, even the tiny fraction that did was enough to make those waters lively during a Deep Shadow Fish Tide. Some even swam out of the Deadly Silent Deep Shadow Sea altogether and roamed the nearby waters.
That was why, at this time in previous years, the local inhabitants and marine creatures alike would instinctively find somewhere safe to hide for a while.
It was like a plague of locusts sweeping through.
But that was precisely why
people like them, who would never dare approach the Deadly Silent Deep Shadow Sea under normal circumstances, had the courage to come and lure in those dangerous Deep Shadow Demon Fish.
After all, scattered Deep Shadow Demon Fish were far easier to deal with than a concentrated swarm.
This time, however, they had laid out plenty of bait, yet scarcely any Deep Shadow Demon Fish had taken it. There were some, but nothing like the old days, when so many appeared that they seemed ready to chase after... No, they really did chase people down to gnaw on them.
If you ran a little too slowly back then, you could be eaten alive by Deep Shadow Demon Fish from the tide, even if you had never entered the Deadly Silent Deep Shadow Sea and were merely trying to snatch a little profit at its edge.
In short, this Deep Shadow Fish Tide felt utterly unfamiliar to many cultivators. They had expected a raging storm, only to be