[The Taihua Sect's treasure ship set sail once more, heading straight for the Southern Border Demon Sect.]
[The companions were still the same three: Ying Yuan, Hong Tianyan, and Hua Chanyu.]
[All three had passed the First Nine Heavenly Tribulation, while Hua Chanyu, as the head of the Thirteen Veins, had cultivation that had already touched the threshold of the Second Nine Heavenly Tribulation.]
[Besides them, thirteen sect members who had passed heavenly tribulations accompanied them.]
[The remaining sixteen hundred were all elite disciples above the Dragon Court Realm—this journey to the Southern Border had brought forth the sect's very finest.]
[Three great ships raised their sails, and the banners of the Outer Dao Nine Sects passed unimpeded over the East Sea.]
[Upon reaching the territory of the Myriad Beasts Sect, quite a few disciples could not help tensing up.]
[The Taihua Sect and the Myriad Beasts Sect bordered one another, and the former had been suppressed time and again over the past four hundred years. The Myriad Beasts Sect was powerful, and the shadows of the past still hung over everyone's hearts.]
[You stood alone at the prow, gazing toward the Myriad Beasts Sect, whose eight surrounding islands formed a giant prison.]
[All eight islands were lush and verdant. Beastly roars rang out endlessly between them, while several powerful auras faintly surged.]
[The three great ships slowly docked before the Myriad Beasts Sect's mountain gate.]
[To reach the Southern Border, one had to pass through the Myriad Beasts Sect's territory. Taking a detour would cost both time and effort, hardly worth it. Besides, you had long wanted to meet the legendary Beast Emperor.]
[The Taihua Sect disciples all thought they might first be served a closed door.]
[Yet not long after you arrived,]
[an earth-shaking dragon's roar suddenly erupted