Vast Sea City and the Rules of Sea Soul Masters

The journey from Spirit City to Vast Sea City took the group twelve days.

The first half followed the Official Road. As they neared the coast in the second half, the air grew salty and damp. The horses grew uneasy when they first heard the waves, so Tang San and the others left their mounts at a station outside the city and entered on foot.

The city walls were built from gray-white stone, their surfaces pitted by years of sea wind. Shops along the streets sold dried fish, rope, sails, and Sea Spirit Beast materials. The Soul Masters passing by wore light clothing, often with guards on their wrists and ankles that helped them move underwater.

Ma Hongjun stopped at the first seafood stall.

"A crab that big could feed us for two meals, right?"

The stallholder looked him over. "That's a three-hundred-year Pincer Crab. We sell them alive to Soul Masters for the arena. It's not for eating."

"What if it's dead?"

"Beat it first, then we'll talk."

Bai Chenxiang walked past with the luggage. "We haven't even seen Sea God Island, and you've already set your sights on the arena's crabs."

The fatty followed the group, looking back reluctantly.

Tang San went first to a shop selling maritime Soul Tools. With the Gold Soul Coins Xue Ye had given him, he bought a Dragon Abyss Boat. Folded away, it was only as long as his palm; infused with Soul Power, it could hold more than ten people. The shopkeeper warned him repeatedly that it was suitable only for shallow seas and ordinary waves. Its thin hull would not survive a single collision with a ten-thousand-year Sea Spirit Beast.

"One more way out if the main ship is damaged is enough," Tang San said.

They then bought waterproof medicine