The boundless Endless Sea stretched in every direction.
A ripple rose from beneath the surface, then parted to either side.
Ji Yuan emerged from the water, a few droplets still clinging to his blue robes.
As the spiritual energy around him stirred, the droplets turned to mist and vanished into the sea breeze.
He stepped onto the void and glanced around.
Only then did his Divine Sense spread in every direction.
One hundred miles, three hundred miles—a thousand miles.
A moment later,
Ji Yuan withdrew his Divine Sense, his brow furrowing slightly.
There was not a single person within a thousand miles.
He could not even find traces of the mortal fishermen who spent their lives working the coastal waters, let alone cultivators.
Only a few Third-Tier sea snakes hunted schools of fish lazily beneath the surface. There was no sign of a Fourth-Order Sea Beast, much less an immortal island or a mountain rich in spiritual energy.
He stood where he was and looked around.
The sky was a hazy gray, the sea a dull, dark expanse. The horizons in all four directions looked almost identical: a blurred strip of gray-blue where sea met sky.
Ji Yuan fell silent for a long while.
He had no idea where he was.
After escaping from beneath Immortal Gourd Island, he had flown southeast for a while on the Star-Treading Wheel.
Once he was sure King Poisonscale and Great Shaman Bloodfang could not catch up, he had put the wheel away, thinking he might as well practice his newly acquired Droplet Returns to the Sea along the way.
With one use, he became a drop of water and fell into the sea. When he reappeared, he was hundreds of miles away.
He used it again and traveled several hundred miles more.
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