"Screee!"
A sea eagle shrieked and soared on beating wings.
Amid the gale, a ship sailed out of the harbor, its sails billowing.
A group of people busied themselves arranging ropes and clearing away sundries.
Nearby, more ships of various sizes were making preparations, ready to follow.
This was the Headquarters of the White Sand Commerce Guild. Upon receiving his orders, Feng Qing had gathered his people within a mere quarter of an hour and prepared to mobilize everyone.
Not just the Boli Kingdom, but throughout the western North Sea-Thunder Tide Island and Flowing River Island in the Long Sea area, as well as Red Conch Island, the Coin Kingdom, the Xuanliluo Kingdom, the Azure Shell Kingdom in other directions...
Regions and factions alike flocked to follow.
Soon afterward, other sects and factions in the North Sea, including the Four Symbols Gate, the Golden Urn Gate, the Hundred Patterns Gate, the Seven Immortals Gate, the Wind Tide Commerce Guild, and the Wind Signal Commerce Guild, received word in succession.
One expert after another in the Qi Refining Realm, Foundation Establishment realm, and even the Core Formation Realm sprang into action at the news.
These factions numbered nearly a hundred in all. Each had begun through ties to Li Ling as friends, relatives, or old acquaintances, then gradually grown over years of development.
Cultivators in the North Sea called them the Incense Path Hundred Alliances. They were all local powers that supported the Incense Market and the commercial order it led, and obeyed the Incense Accumulation Sect's commands.
Over the past five hundred years, the North Sea had suffered several major disasters in succession.
Blood sharks running rampant, sea wolves roaming unchecked, the talisman currency crisis, the Demon Calamity at the Immortal Abode, the invasion of Nether Heaven...
Each time, Li