Chu Siniu finished speaking.
The Chu Family often traveled by boat, and the ferry guards recognized almost all its direct descendants. Six beams of golden light immediately descended from the ship, landing precisely on Chu Siniu and his five companions.
Guided by the golden light, the six boarded without obstruction and disappeared from Zhang Yuan's sight.
Zhang Yuan watched silently, making no move to stop them.
His divine sense covered the surroundings at all times. A single sweep laid bare every little scheme harbored by Chu Siniu, Chu Zhankuo, and the other two. They could hide nothing from him.
He had yet to act because he wanted to see where this ferry came from.
A ferry capable of roaming the Heavenly Chasm, amid chaos astral winds and divine fire, was no ordinary vessel. Its quality was probably at the level of pre-heaven artifact treasures.
Despite the heap of Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures in his possession, even the lowest-quality Pre-Heaven True Treasure would be a sect-protecting weapon kept as a final trump card in the hands of ordinary cultivators or factions.
Casually using a pre-heaven artifact treasure to ferry travelers, while charging only a single spirit stone-how was that any different from charity?
Clearly, the faction behind this ferry was anything but ordinary in the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm. At the very least, a minor household like the Chu Family could never hope to put itself in the same league.
The golden light isn't a divine ability, nor does it possess Outer Dao magic power. Although it shares some similarities with the sha ingestion gang devoration path and the beyond-the-world qi refining path, it's fundamentally different. It's a method from another dao tradition I've never encountered.
There were countless dao traditions throughout heaven and earth. The various miscellaneous daos of the Azure