Hearing this, we were all curious.
Why could a ghost grow scales and transform into a sea beast?
"Uncle Yu, why did such a change happen?"
Zhang Yuchen nodded as well and looked at Uncle Yu.
Uncle Yu answered calmly:
"Sea aura! Because the sea and the land are different.
Once ghosts enter the ocean, it is difficult for them to drift back—or rather, they simply cannot drift back to land.
The vast ocean is like a giant magnet.
Ghosts cannot cross the boundless sea. They can only drift with the currents atop vessels and other carriers.
Those ghost ships are occupied by ghosts.
Yet after being affected by sea aura for years, their bodies gradually change.
In the end, they become walking corpses, drifting across the sea.
The employer who hired us back then initially wanted us to escort a shipment across a stretch of sea where ghost ships were known to appear.
And we really did encounter a terrifying ghost ship. It was haunted by forty-three evil spirits, every one of them exceptionally vicious and devoid of intelligence.
They were far more powerful than the malicious ghosts and fierce souls on land..."
Along the way, Uncle Yu told us about some of the experiences he and Master had when they traveled the South China Sea with Grandmaster back in the day.
They sounded thrilling and dangerous, yet terrifying as well.
And from those scattered snippets, I once again felt just how frightening Grandmaster had been.
His Thunder Method could intimidate giant eel sea beasts capable of raising tsunamis. Alone, he could clear a terrifying ghost ship.
He could even trample evil masters from every nation beneath his feet and roam freely across Southeast Asia.
It was truly a regret that I had never witnessed Grandmaster's glory in those