Level 4 Hybrid Sanctuary and Rewards

With money, influence, connections, and a willingness to share with everyone, such a faction was not without people who disliked or envied it. But no one dared show it easily. Instead, most people's thoughts and plans were to follow along and get a share of the profits.

As Wu Pifu's Dog Egg headed toward its destination, a massive fleet followed behind it. Aside from the more than seventy ownerless Level 3 transport ships Xu Shilan had personally purchased, there were over a hundred and fifty other vessels. Although most were small Level 2 or Level 3 ships, the total number of people following them had reached five thousand.

Whether they were there to try their luck or were advance units dispatched by various merchant groups, after news of the Level 10 mythic ship spread and sparked a great exploration period among the four forces of the two major camps, Wu Pifu and the other two had forcefully set off another, entirely different wave. The great exploration that should have been inevitable was actually suppressed, and all four major forces remained on the sidelines.

With Wu Pifu "clearing the way," the fleet sailed extremely quickly. There was no need to take detours, and riding the ocean currents made them even faster. In just seven or eight days, they arrived at an island Xu Shilan had selected.

This island was considered the largest one between the pirate camp and the order camp. Records placed it at roughly one hundred and twenty square kilometers. It certainly could not compare to the largest island in this world, the one occupied by the Aisha Empire, but in this ocean-covered world, it still counted as a medium-to-large island.

Moreover, the island had a naturally excellent harbor, with several scattered islets on either side of the port.