The Malacca Ruins.
This was where Malacca City had once stood. The reason this place was called ruins instead of a ghost domain was that not a single corpse remained here. Even some of the buildings were gone. Where they had once stood, only countless foundation stones remained, bearing witness to the city's former glory.
From a distance, it really did look like a ruin that had just been excavated from the earth.
Meanwhile, the shipping lanes through the nearby strait were almost deserted.
The busiest route in Southeast Asia had become one that no one dared to take. Most ships would rather make a long detour than pass through a place like this.
Everyone knew that besides the whirlpools and tornadoes that appeared from time to time, the three remaining Fire God Cannons seemed to have gone haywire. Sometimes they did nothing at all; other times, they would automatically lock onto anything passing nearby and attack even the most insignificant targets.
After observing them for several days, people had also realized that the Fire God Cannons' attacks were completely random. Most ships were unwilling to use this route, afraid that one careless mistake might provoke the cannons and turn their vessels into offerings to their fire.
At that moment, Liu Zhi's Temporal Vengeance appeared here.
Liu Zhi hadn't come alone. He had planned to intercept Eagle Country's transport fleet along the way, but he hadn't expected his movements to be so conspicuous. He'd been spotted as soon as he put out to sea.
Just by watching him head in a certain direction, people had worked out where he was going.
The Eagle Country transport fleet would have been foolish to keep going at this point.
They hurriedly retreated to a nearby harbor. At the same time, several warships tasked