The sea surface.
A cold wind swept past.
Waves rippled.
"Bzzzz~"
Accompanied by the hum of the Engine.
A medium-sized Driftwood Boat slowly departed the pier, heading toward a Heaven Leaf Lotus island ahead.
Under normal circumstances.
This type of passenger vessel usually carried over a hundred passengers or dozens of tons of cargo, traveling between the various lotus islands of the Huiyang War Zone.
Yet today, there were only a little over twenty people in its cabin.
Everyone present wore black robes embroidered with silver thread along the edges.
The so-called "Mystic Master robes."
Mystic Adepts and those below them simply had no right to enter the cabin.
This group was, remarkably, the core upper echelon of the Huiyang War Zone.
It included:
Five Deputy General Commanders, each overseeing one lotus island;
More than twenty Commanders and deputy commanders, each commanding one of twelve legions; in the eyes of outsiders.
Every one of them was a major figure in this war zone, someone ordinary people could only look up to.
At this moment.
These normally awe-inspiring figures all wore expressions of utmost humility as they cautiously stole glances at a figure standing before the porthole.
This man was Cheng Han, Grand General Overseer of the Eastern Li War Zone.
His tour of the war zones under his jurisdiction was intended to carry out a major round of rectification.
And the Huiyang War Zone was the first stop.
"Everyone, have a seat!"
Cheng Han gazed at the vast sea and spoke without turning around.
"Yes!"
"Understood!"
The five Deputy General Commanders responded at once like obedient students.
After that.
Everyone took their seats.
Interestingly, the seating order displayed an exceptionally strict hierarchy.
No one dared sit in the first row;
The second and third rows were occupied by several Deputy