The Nine Heavens Chasing the Moon Boat flew swiftly. After several hours of continuous flight, Liu Changxu and the others reached an unnamed island less than five hundred li from the high-grade undersea spirit gold vein.
The island was only a dozen or so li across. Apart from a small hill in its center, it consisted mostly of golden beaches, and the scenery was beautiful.
However, the island's spirit vein was only middle-grade first-tier. Aside from some tall first-tier spirit coconut trees growing on the hill, there were no other spirit plants!
After the Nine Heavens Chasing the Moon Boat landed on the beach and everyone disembarked, Liu Changxu formed a hand seal. The enormous vessel shrank to the size of his palm, and he put it into his Storage Ring.
Seeing their master put away the Flying Boat, Little Blue, the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon, and Xiao Yun, the Azure Cloud Eagle, rapidly shrank their massive bodies as well. Soon, both were palm-sized and perched on Liu Changxu's shoulders, eagerly fawning over him.
Liu Changxu smiled at the two spirit beasts, then took two large chunks of third-tier middle-grade Golden-Tusked Walrus meat from his Storage Ring and tossed them onto the beach.
Before the meat could hit the ground, both beasts opened their enormous mouths and swallowed the chunks.
Those two chunks were clearly not enough to satisfy their appetites. Only after Liu Changxu took out several more pieces did the two beasts finally relent!
While Liu Changxu was busy feeding the beasts, Su Jinxiu, Zhang Yuxin, and Qin Yulian took an interest in the island's beautiful scenery.
The relentless fighting and killing over the past days, along with the tragedy that had just unfolded in Blue Coral City, had left the three kindhearted women exhausted in body and mind,