"Young Master."
Standing behind Chen Fan, Crippled Monkey said quietly, "From what we've seen, the people are quite enthusiastic about this Mortal Domain Spring Examination."
"We should be able to select quite a few talented people."
"The Logistics Pavilion has been paying special attention to a few candidates. They have a strong chance of becoming Top Ranker."
"Mm."
Chen Fan nodded lightly without saying much. Building a reserve of talent was necessary.
The Eternal Night Continent was preparing for the first Mortal Domain Spring Examination. Both the Mortal Domain and the people attached great importance to it, but the other departments had not stopped working because of it. They were all busy with their own affairs.
For instance—
Over an ocean that stretched as far as the eye could see.
A Flying Boat was moving slowly through the sky.
Extremely slowly.
On the Flying Boat's deck, a man wearing the Mortal Domain Commerce Pavilion's uniform stared gravely at the Ghosthide Map in his hands. As a boat captain of the Commerce Pavilion, he was responsible for exploring beyond their territory.
He was now 6,000 kilometers from the New Continent.
Six thousand kilometers.
This was a stretch of sea the Mortal Domain had never explored. On the Ghosthide Map, the surrounding waters were blank, places no one had ever set foot in.
And now.
He had encountered a crisis.
Despite ample Eerie-Stone Reserves in the Flying Boat's Mustard-Seed Room, its speed had abruptly plummeted without warning, slowing to that of a Skeleton Horse. He had immediately tried to contact the Mortal Domain.
But.
The Message Talisman would not work.
Communications had been forcibly severed.
He had tried to leave the area, but whenever he moved beyond it, his speed would instantly plummet again until he could not move at all.
There