Born Toward Death, True Lord Assembly (Two-in-One; Seeking Monthly Votes, Seeking Monthly Votes)

Before the long, narrow Heavenly Horse Island, there was no shortage of small islands.

Like satellite islands standing guard around it, they were scattered sporadically across the sea.

As Heavenly Horse Island had constructed an enormous defensive line, some of those islands now had defenses as well.

These small islands had formations, and True Persons stationed there to guard them.

Cloudwatch Island was one of the larger islands among them.

Fishbright Island, meanwhile, was one of the smaller and more remote ones.

From here, one could even glimpse the outline of the Miasma Sea.

Of course, this Miasma Sea was not a sea of natural poisonous miasma. Rather, it was the Heavenly Miasma Qi jointly introduced by the four great Nascent Soul sects of Lu Kingdom and Qi Kingdom. Not only was this Heavenly Miasma Qi incomparably poisonous, it could also seep through the spiritual barriers of magic treasures. Once one entered it, whether demon beast or cultivator, one could only be buried within.

It was also the greatest barrier that had allowed the Heavenly Horse Archipelago to hold on all these years.

Otherwise, no matter how impregnable Heavenly Horse Pass was, the demon beasts could have simply gone around it and surrounded it from all sides. Heavenly Horse Pass might have fallen long ago.

And now, it was no longer only Heavenly Horse Island that required people to queue up and have their backgrounds checked.

Even Fishbright Island was the same. Otherwise, they could only remain on the outskirts of the sea region; there were simply too many cultivators retreating.

Along with countless mortals.

Of course, one should not think these cultivators were being particularly kind by bringing mortals along. While fleeing, throwing those mortals behind them to draw the demon beasts' attention was hardly uncommon.

Within the crowd,