On the boundless ocean, beneath a cloudless sky where water and heaven blended into one, an enormous ship rarely seen anywhere on the Douluo Continent rode the wind and cleaved the waves, charging across the sea.
The ocean was a place no nation on the present-day Douluo Continent had explored extensively, for countless sea soul beasts lived within it.
Compared with land soul beasts, sea soul beasts were far more numerous, and their ages were much greater as well. After all, aside from a tiny number of sea soul masters, no one hunted them.
And those sea soul masters generally stayed away from the deep sea. The density and strength of the soul beasts there were not something a handful of sea soul masters could withstand.
It was also because of these sea soul beasts that the Douluo Continent's exploration of the ocean remained woefully inadequate. It did not even have a remotely respectable navy.
A complete naval system would not be gradually established until the era of the Sun Moon Federation, both to guard against the empires on the other two continents and to unify the entire Douluo Plane.
That era was still a long way off. Perhaps even the first rudiments had yet to appear.
Moreover, for ten thousand years, the Douluo Continent had mostly been divided between two opposing nations or three rival powers. With its internal affairs still unresolved, it naturally had even less reason to explore beyond its borders.
The reason the Original Three Douluo Empires had known nothing about the Sun Moon Continent before the continents collided was precisely their lack of a respectable navy. Without exploring the ocean, they naturally could not know much about the outside world.
One could only say that, despite having done virtually no ocean exploration, the Star Luo