Chen Fan stood aboard his Flying Boat, looking at the unknown visitor with a broad smile. This was not his first encounter with people from another continent, but it was the first time he had been this welcoming.
"This way, please."
Across from him, the skeletal elderly man in a fur coat stood aboard his own Flying Boat. He had clearly anticipated this reception. Smiling, he extended a hand in a courteous gesture, inviting Mortal City's boats to lead the way.
Soon.
Dozens of Mortal City's Flying Boats sailed across the sea toward the New Continent, with the elderly man's Flying Boat following behind.
The New Continent.
Outpost One.
Seated at a tea table, Chen Fan personally poured a cup for the elderly man he had never met before, then said with a smile, "Here, have a taste. This is 'Morning Tea,' grown in Jiangbei on the Eternal Night Continent. It's a tea cultivated in the wastelands. Now that the wastelands have almost disappeared, this tea has become much rarer. Try it."
Inwardly, however, he was considering the elderly man's intentions.
The man had used the same approach as him.
On his first visit to the Feng Qiya Continent, he had fired a level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon into the sea.
This elderly man had come to the New Continent alone and presented him with a Purple Grade Exotic Treasure.
The two actions seemed worlds apart.
But their underlying logic was the same.
At a first meeting, open with a thunderbolt and overwhelm the other party.
There was one thing he had to admit.
Being given a Purple Grade Exotic Treasure at their first meeting really had intimidated him. In all honesty, no matter what faction he approached now, he would never start by giving away a Purple Grade Exotic