Another Trip to Slaughter City

Bo Saixi personally saw Tang San off at the dock when his ship left the island.

He had entered the Eighth Trial, which he could complete away from the island, and was no longer bound by the previous six-month deadline for returning to the mainland. She gave him two Sea God Temple Communication Stones that could sense each other. They could transmit only brief messages, not bring someone straight back to the island from the north.

Xiao Wu stayed on the island to prepare to condense her eighth ring herself, while Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai still needed to find suitable Soul Beasts of their own. Tang San squeezed Xiao Wu's hand and said he would send word once he found a lead on his ancestor. She urged him instead to take two more strips of cloth for wrapping the hammer handle.

Bai Chenxiang sorted the letters from the mainland for him. She kept the ones addressed to the Tang Sect to forward herself, while Tang San took those addressed to the Clear Sky Sect. Beside them, Ma Hongjun pretended to complain that there was nothing good to eat in the north, so Tang San might as well come back early. Oscar saw that he was worried and pressed a small bag of provisions into Tang San's hand. It held a few Recovery Sausages that would keep for a short while. There were not many, and Tang San put them close to his body without a word of polite refusal.

"That last strip of yours can't even be washed anymore."

Yuan Yu passed by and said with a smile that he could back Tang San up this time: whoever got hurt had to write first, rather than come back and call it a tiny cut.

Xiao Wu glanced at him.