The wind at sea was growing stronger.
Wang Mengde stood at the bow, his robes snapping loudly in the gale.
The skiff spirit boat rose and fell with the waves beneath his feet, sometimes surging atop a crest, sometimes plunging into a trough.
The sky grew ever gloomier, the clouds hanging so low that they seemed within reach.
Yet Wang Mengde showed no intention of returning.
Such wind and waves posed no danger at all to a fifth-layer Qi Refinement cultivator.
The only things capable of threatening a fifth-layer Qi Refinement cultivator were other cultivators and a very few high-grade demon fish.
But high-grade demon fish were even rarer than cultivators.
In these waters, nearly all high-grade demon fish had been eaten clean by the high-level cultivators of the Evergreen Sect.
Those of somewhat higher rank were also regularly hunted down by demon-hunting fleets.
The school of Azure Jade Ghost Carp Wang Mengde and the others had encountered four and a half years ago already counted as an exceptionally ferocious demon-fish school in the waters around Rosy Cloud Island.
Such circumstances were exceedingly rare.
Wang Mengde stood at the bow with his legs slightly apart, as if nailed to the deck. No matter how the spirit boat pitched and swayed with the waves, his body remained as steady as a rock.
While controlling the spirit boat, Wang Mengde cast the Spirit Eye Technique and surveyed the surroundings.
With the Spirit Eye Technique at its pinnacle and fully unleashed, everything within thirty thousand meters in the air was visible down to the finest detail.
It could penetrate more than four thousand meters of seawater, bringing even the sights of the ocean floor clearly into view.
About two li to his left swam a huge school of yellowfin tuna.
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