Whoosh!
A flying vessel adorned with azure flood-dragon patterns burst through the clouds and arrived near the waters of Ten Thousand Blade Gorge.
Azure light flowed across the vessel-shaped Dharma Treasure, like a blue wind curling around it. It was incomparably swift, crossing several thousand li of sea in just a few breaths.
"Those fiends really knew how to pick a place, hiding right beneath True Person Tongye's nose." Ren Baili compared the beast-hide map in his hand and snorted coldly. "But no matter how cunning he is, he won't escape this time."
"Could Ao Jian and the others have secretly colluded with True Person Tongye..." Zhou Hao thought of the Shang Clan leader of Shangma Island whom they had killed earlier.
That had been an island power too, yet it had secretly colluded with pirates.
True Person Tongye might be a Myriad Phenomena True Person, but who knew what he was like in private?
After all, according to the map drawn by Meiji, the Niehai Gorge Pirates' lair was far too close to the Copper Coconut Archipelago.
"No." Ren Baili shook his head without hesitation.
"I met True Person Tongye back when I was in the sect. Even among the Myriad Phenomena disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect, he was one of the leading figures. Not to mention becoming a Void Return Earth Immortal in the future, achieving the Primordial Spirit stage is absolutely no problem for him. Why would someone like that keep company with a pack of fiends and needlessly lower his standing?"
As Zhou Hao used the Evasion Secret Technique Free and Easy Wandering and guided the flying vessel through the sky, he asked curiously, "Is the Spirit Sword Sect, like the Jade Dragon Sect that Jade Dragon City belongs to, one of the East Sea