Carrying Coffins to Guard the Gate, Fishing for Dragons at the End of the World

At Clear Heart Cottage, Chongxuan Sheng continued recounting the history of the Sea Fishing Tower.

"Most of the sects still standing in the Near-Sea Archipelago were newly established after the battle when cultivators from across the land sailed out to sea. Before that, nearly all the sects on the sea had fallen to the Sea Race's attacks. There was only one exception..."

Chongxuan Sheng thought for a moment, then added, "No, to be precise, there should be two."

"Which two?" Jiang Wang asked.

"One was Yang Valley, and the other was the Sea Fishing Tower."

"Yang Valley?"

Jiang Wang already knew about the Sea Fishing Tower, but the name Yang Valley was one that made it impossible not to draw certain associations.

In mythology, the place where the sun rose was called "Yang Valley."

The mighty power that had once unified the Eastern Domain had also taken "Yang" as its kingdom's name.

To the northwest, its territory extended as far as the Endless Quicksand. To the southwest, it ended before Sword Peak Mountain in the Xia Kingdom. It pushed west into the Central Regions, vying with the Jing Kingdom for supremacy. In those days, the Yang Kingdom stood at the height of its power. Calling it the land of the rising sun was no exaggeration.

Strictly speaking, the Near-Sea Archipelago had once been part of the Yang Kingdom's territory.

"The reason I've changed how I describe this sect is that, as a sect, it was indeed established after the battle when cultivators from across the land sailed out to sea. But its history of guarding the Sea Frontier goes back far longer than that."

Chongxuan Sheng spoke with great seriousness. "Its predecessor was a force in the Yang Kingdom's army that guarded the sea. Its history of defending the Sea