Was the Shimen Li Clan powerful?
Ice Phoenix Island had also established itself overseas.
Was Li Longchuan capable?
He had exposed the long-running scam on the Near-Sea Archipelago and used the incident to expand Ice Phoenix Island's influence as much as possible.
Yet Chen Zhitao had merely been passing through. With a casual order, he had undone most of Ice Phoenix Island's influence.
It wasn't that he was much more capable than Li Longchuan. It was that the authority Sea Fishing Tower had granted him far surpassed Li Longchuan's across the Near-Sea Archipelago.
Chen Zhitao, a cultivator in the Divine Presence Realm, was still only a disciple of Sea Fishing Tower's younger generation.
Were the Five Immortals Sect's techniques mysterious?
It had one Outer Tower cultivator, four Inner Palace cultivators, and a Sea Beast that guarded the sect. It wasn't weak.
But Granny Bizhu had manipulated it as easily as if it were in the palm of her hand.
And Granny Bizhu was merely one of Sea Fishing Tower's twenty-four elders with real power, and only a lower-ranking elder at that.
The reason she could control the Five Immortals Sect wasn't her own strength, but her status as an elder with real power in Sea Fishing Tower.
No matter how attentive and earnest Jiang Wang had been on this journey, how much could he have seen? Only the tip of the iceberg.
Yet even that tip was already so immense!
To be sure, he had resolved to save Zhu Biqiong, and nothing could shake that resolve.
But worrying, feeling uneasy, fearing that he might drag his friends down with him—all of those were normal emotions.
No matter how steadfast Jiang Wang's Dao Heart was, he couldn't escape them completely.
But in Chongxuan Sheng's eyes, this was unforgivable.
Because he understood