"Spiritual qi? The stuff cultivators need? It can actually take solid form? That's terrifying!"
The old sailor looked smug, even the whiskers around his mouth curling upward.
"Exactly. Rumor has it that this boundless Sea of Chaos holds one world after another."
"The larger worlds look like enormous bubbles rising over the sea."
"But those places are forbidden zones on the Chaos Sea. They're not somewhere we can enter."
As the old sailor spoke, a light seemed to shine in his eyes.
"Boss, are the legends true? Are there really small worlds beneath the Chaos Sea, one after another?"
The young man yearned for them.
"Of course they're false. They're called legends, aren't they? How could they be true?"
The old man chuckled and shot the young man an exasperated glare, sighing inwardly as he slipped into his memories.
"I once wanted to visit a small world for fun, so I jumped straight into the Chaos Sea. I nearly drowned."
"Yeah, we were the ones who fished him out. We thought his wife had made him wear the green hat and he'd taken it so hard he wanted to kill himself."
The surrounding sailors laughed when they heard the man they called Boss bring up that incident.
"All right, stop slacking off and get to work. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can go back."
The clear female voice rang out again. A beautiful woman emerged from the raised platform in the center and surveyed the surrounding sea with an air of great seriousness.
But everyone aboard knew this young lady had only come aboard to experience their way of life. She knew nothing about it.
Still, since this kind young lady had rented them the fishing boat, they were very grateful to her.
No one said anything now.