A pillar of light suddenly descended over the calm sea.
Before Ji Yuan could fall into the water, he called softly.
"Lightning-Chaser!"
He vanished in an instant. When he reappeared, he was already dozens of li away, but he did not stop. After checking his bearings, he continued east, activating Lightning-Chaser again.
If the Ghost Envoy had not lied and really had sent him to the Far Eastern Lands,
then west led back to the mainland, while east took him farther away.
Ji Yuan figured that, being little different from a wanted man, he would only be safe far out at sea.
But the claim that this was the Far Eastern Lands came solely from the Ghost Envoy. Ji Yuan could not be sure.
So he spread his Divine Sense to its limit and searched the area for quite some time. At last, on a reef-strewn seabed, he found a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator fighting a sea beast.
"Lightning-Chaser!"
A streak of lightning shot through the water and killed the Second-Tier Mid Stage sea beast in an instant.
Ji Yuan appeared out of thin air in his water-blue robe. Looking down at the long-faced man trembling before him, he asked through a voice transmission, "Where is this?"
"S-senior, this is about... about a thousand li south of Eastcang Island."
The long-faced man's voice shook as he answered.
"Eastcang Island?"
Ji Yuan had never heard of the island. "Is this the Far Eastern Lands?"
"It is."
The long-faced man had no idea why this senior would ask such a question.
But since the senior had asked, all he could do was answer honestly.
This time, though, no further question came for a long while.
Only after another long stretch did he dare raise his head.
There was no senior in