After a long while.
Zhu Yu came back to his senses. The cool sea breeze, carrying a salty fishy tang, brushed across his face. He glanced at the villagers busily hauling fish cargo and the pirates standing guard, then leaped into the air and landed lightly atop the wooden ship's mast like a wild goose.
This powerful control made the pirates on the beach, holding wooden clubs and rusty iron blades as they supervised the fishermen hauling cargo, howl their praise.
"Hoho—"
"As expected of the captain who conquered Haimaru Village, you're incredible."
"Our captain is a great pirate with a bounty of five taels of silver! In the future, you are destined to become a renowned powerhouse of the Endless Sea—"
"Yaha, following such a powerful man, we need to work hard too!—"
"But our talents are like rotten wood; we can never compare to you, sir. We only hope you will not despise us as burdens—"
The raggedly dressed pirates were fired up, gazing at the majestic man standing on the ship's mast like a griffin. The reverence in their eyes was practically spilling over.
One exaggerated compliment after another poured from their mouths as if they cost nothing.
Atop the mast.
Hearing this, Zhu Yu's mouth twitched. He pretended not to hear them and gazed into the distance at the rolling sea, a faint smile appearing in his eyes.
"What an interesting Foreign Spirit Ruins—"
According to the memories of the body he had occupied, Tang Jin.
This Foreign Spirit Ruins had no true continent. It was entirely made up of islands, because even the largest continent was merely a drop in the ocean within the Endless Sea.
And within the Endless Sea lay countless treasures.
There were strange sea beasts with powerful flesh, hundreds or even