"Reporting to you, Senior, Fellow Daoist Yuan and I came to this sea today in search of a precious medicinal ingredient. We never expected to encounter these fish demons from Azure Dragon Pool. We failed to escape in time and were entangled by them. Had you not appeared when you did, the two of us would never have survived," Du Tian said.
"They wanted to kill you merely because you happened to encounter them? Why was that?" Shen Luo asked, surprise on his face.
"Does Fellow Daoist Shen not know the current situation in the East Sea?" Yuan Qiu interjected in surprise.
"I have been in Chang'an City lately and have not come to the East Sea. Has something major happened here?" Shen Luo asked.
"So that is how it is. The situation in the East Sea began over a month ago, when the Myriad Waters Sect hunted down a Blue-Striped Flood Dragon..." Yuan Qiu said with an ingratiating smile.
"The Myriad Waters Sect..." Shen Luo's expression shifted.
He had visited the East Sea many times and was fairly familiar with the situation here. He knew that the Myriad Waters Sect was a major sect within the East Sea. Aside from the East Sea Dragon Palace and Daughter Village, it was the largest Human Race sect force. Several True Immortals resided within the sect. Though it could not compare to great sects such as the Great Tang Government Office and Mount Putuo, the gap was not great.
Daughter Village was a reclusive sect and ordinarily did not interfere in matters within the East Sea region. The East Sea Dragon Palace paid even less attention to Human Race cultivators, so the Myriad Waters Sect had vaguely become the foremost Human Race sect in the East Sea.
"A True Immortal elder of