Waves surged across the sea, and fierce winds howled.
A great ship came riding the wind and cleaving the waves, like an island floating upon the sea.
This enormous treasure ship, over a hundred zhang long and several dozen zhang wide, was the Rolling Thunder, the vessel of the mighty West Sea overlord known as the Sea King.
At that moment, several streaks of flight light raced above the treasure ship. Several Foundation Establishment cultivators had used magic treasures and escape artifacts to catch up with the cruising Rolling Thunder. They landed aboard and exchanged a few words with the pirate underlings on watch. Before long, someone emerged to escort the visitors inside.
Wine fragrance drifted through the lavish inner cabin, strings and flutes filled the air, and singing girls danced gracefully.
A tall, powerfully built man sat like an iron tower upon the throne at the head of the cabin. He stood roughly a zhang and a half tall, with long horns on his forehead and gills in his cheeks-a mixed-blood Demon King with both sea demon and human ancestry.
An attendant approached him and quietly conveyed something through voice transmission. Only then did the man turn his gaze toward the visitors and give a slight nod.
Someone immediately took the hint, halted the music and dancing, and dismissed the beauties, leaving the visitors to pay their respects.
"I am Feng Jide, Garrison Commissioner of Horsehead Island in the Misty Wave Kingdom. I have long admired your illustrious name, Sea King, and have come especially to pay my respects. I have prepared a few modest gifts and wish you well."
The visitor was none other than Feng Jide, the Feng Household's Garrison Commissioner on Horsehead Island in the Misty Wave Kingdom.
He waved a hand, and his followers respectfully