After dinner, the four beasts, including Liu Changqing and Liu Changlan, rose, bade farewell, and left.
Once they had departed, Liu Changxu's expression sharpened. He immediately used a divine ability, splitting off more than a hundred clones in an instant. Like nimble figures of light, they sped in every direction across Penglai Island to investigate the surrounding seas.
With everything arranged, a gentle smile returned to Liu Changxu's face, and he entered Jade Pool Hall with his wives.
As they stepped into Jade Pool Hall, gentle ripples stirred the waters of the Jade Pool. Wisps of spiritual energy rose from its depths and spread through the air, making the entire pool seem dreamlike and illusory. Like an immortal pool of legend, it exuded an intoxicating aura.
Liu Changxu was the first to loosen his robes. He leaped lightly into the pool like a nimble fish, sending up rings of sparkling spray.
Seeing this, Zhao Qi'er, Xiao Zier, and the other women shed their clothes and jumped into the water as well. The moment they entered, they seemed to return to a world free of care, bathing and playing merrily in the pool. Before long, impassioned melodies rang out over the Jade Pool.
While Liu Changxu and his wives enjoyed themselves in the Jade Pool, the avatars he had dispatched were already conducting a thorough search of the vast sea as instructed, and began sending the information they gathered back to his main body.
At first, the reports from these avatars were not alarming, nor had they detected any large groups of sea monsters. Liu Changxu, who was making love and playing with his wives, paid them little attention and continued enjoying this rare moment of leisure.
As time passed, however, the avatars began sending back reports that boded ill for