"Void Marsh"

"Young Master."

Crippled Monkey, standing behind Chen Fan, said in a low voice, "For now, the people are still quite enthusiastic about this Mortal Domain Spring Examination."

"We should be able to select quite a few talents."

"The Logistics Pavilion has given special attention to several people. Those few have a strong chance of taking the top spots."

"Mm."

Chen Fan gave a slight nod and said nothing more. A reserve of talent was necessary.

On the Eternal Night Continent, preparations for the first Mortal Domain Spring Examination were underway. Both the Mortal Domain and the common people attached immense importance to it, but the other departments had not stopped working because of this. They were all busy with their own affairs.

For example—

Above a boundless ocean that stretched as far as the eye could see.

A Flying Boat was slowly cruising through the sky.

It moved extremely slowly.

On the deck of the Flying Boat, a man dressed in the uniform of the Mortal Domain Commerce Pavilion was staring gravely at the Ghosthide Map in his hand. As the captain of a Commerce Pavilion vessel, he bore the task of external exploration...

Six thousand kilometers out.

This was a sea region the Mortal Domain had never explored. On the Ghosthide Map, the surrounding waters were blank, an untrodden place.

And now.

He had encountered a crisis.

Despite the ample reserves of Eerie Stones in the Flying Boat's Mustard-Seed Room, its speed had suddenly plummeted without warning, dropping to no faster than a Skeleton Horse. He immediately tried to contact the Mortal Domain.

But.

The Message Talisman could not be used.

Communications had been forcibly severed.

He tried to leave this localized area, but the moment he did, the Flying Boat's speed would instantly drop again until it came