The waves surged up, transforming into an enormous water lotus.
More than thirty petals overlapped in layers. The outer petals were deep-sea blue, gradually fading to pale jade toward the center, where a blue glow swirled.
Zhao Qianyun stood atop it as though standing on a platform.
Before him were all the ships, boats, skiffs... and rafts participating in this Thousand-Sail Crossing Competition, more than a thousand in total.
"Hm?"
Zhao Qianyun was taken aback at first, then asked in puzzlement, "Why are there even rafts?"
Then his gaze shifted sideways, and he froze again.
Besides the rafts, there was actually something even more outrageous.
What was it?
The Calyx Flower Boat!
That enormous jade-white flower stood head and shoulders above the surrounding vessels, instantly drawing everyone's attention.
"It smells so good!"
"The one aboard must be Fairy Bei Yun, right?"
"What a blessing, to be able to roam the Azure Billows alongside Fairy Bei Yun!"
Inside the Calyx Flower Boat, Chu Qiu wore a strange expression. "I suddenly regret this a little."
Xu Changqing curled his lip. "Now you know it's embarrassing?"
Chu Qiu said with a somewhat pained expression, "Junior Brother was wrong!"
The surroundings were packed with ships and people.
One after another, they kept calling out the name "Fairy Bei Yun" toward them.
Streams of Spiritual Sense swept over them frantically, fortunately blocked by the formations and talismans.
At that moment, Xu Changqing noticed a ship approaching, carrying with it a bone-chilling coldness. "Someone's coming!"
Before long, a strange-looking vessel stopped beside them.
Its body was not made of wood, but seemed carved from ice.
It was entirely crystalline white and glimmered with a cold sheen, like a crescent moon turned upside down upon the water.
The hull was exceedingly thin, no more than three feet