Two months later, after several changes of course and more than a million li of continuous flight, Liu Changxu safely reached Many-Treasure City on Fire Dragon Island.
The journey had been far from easy. He had suffered more than a dozen attacks by sea monsters along the way.
To reach his destination as soon as possible, however, Liu Changxu had avoided them whenever he could and fought only when escape was impossible.
He had killed three lower-grade third-tier sea monsters and one third-tier middle-grade sea monster.
He had also been pursued for tens of thousands of li by a third-tier supreme-grade Tiger-Head Sea Eagle. Only with the help of Little Blue, his Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon, and the Golden Flood Dragon Sunset Bow in his hands had he barely escaped with his life.
This left him deeply resentful of the sect's sudden change to his assignment. Officially, the sect had sent him to Many-Treasure City to strengthen its defenses and safeguard Fire Dragon Island.
But as a True Disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, he did not believe things were so simple. There might well be reasons behind the decision that he knew nothing about!
He privately suspected that the matter likely involved a struggle between his Grand Master's lineage and the other factions.
After advancing to the Golden Core realm, he had begun to become entangled in the sect's internal power struggles. The various factions were bound to trip one another up, both openly and in secret.
Especially during the Human-Demon War, sending an opposing faction's elite disciples to dangerous battlefields had become a common tactic.
As for whoever had masterminded his assignment to a dangerous frontline battlefield, the convoy's two Nascent Soul cultivators were probably involved.
As Senior Sister Qin had subtly warned him, his performance this time had