The safest way to travel from the East Sea to Yu Province in the Central Lands was to take a Continent-Crossing Treasure Ship.
For only three hundred Dharma coins, one could enjoy a smooth journey all the way to the ferry port on the East Sea's shore, opposite the Dragon Spring Sword Sect.
Yet the journey spanned tens of thousands of miles.
Sea bandits ran rampant across the waters, Rogue Cultivators gathered in droves, and quite a few small sects that specialized in robbing homes and looting travelers hid among the islands.
With the Sea Clan wreaking havoc as well, dangers lurked at every turn.
For cultivators of low cultivation, attempting to cross this sea alone without the protection of a Continent-Crossing Treasure Ship was practically courting certain death.
Even those who considered their cultivation respectable had to proceed with utmost caution, laying every step as carefully as a military formation.
Aside from great powers of this realm such as the Righteous Nine Sects and the Unorthodox Nine Schools, which possessed treasure ships exclusive to their sects, most other cultivators could only take these commercial ferries.
Those great sects already occupied blessed lands and Heavenly Grottos, controlling over eighty percent of this realm's spirit mine resources.
The East Sea ferry business looked cheap on the surface, with low ticket prices, but the real profits lay in the guest rooms, food, shops, gambling houses, and dens that swallowed gold whole.
Some Rogue Cultivators toiled bitterly for decades outside, saving up a meager fortune, only to have every last coin picked clean after one trip aboard ship.
Even so, the great sects could not be bothered with such business.
Those who operated these ferries were mostly mid-sized sects or subordinate sects of the Nine Sects.
Though the great sects did not involve