On land, there was a saying that a horse could run itself to death trying to reach a mountain in sight. Gazing toward land from the sea was worse still.
Although the vortex exit was close enough, it still took them most of the day to cross the vast stretch of sea and reach the harbor of Eastwind Island.
By then, clouds like blazing fire hung at the edge of the sky. The sun sank westward, staining the horizon into a crimson sea of gold.
Their instantaneous passage through space and time had carried them a million li, cutting a journey of three to five months down to just over ten days. Everyone climbed up into the ship's tower to look around. The local sights, and even the heaven and earth essence they sensed, were already vastly different from those of the waters near the mainland.
Fang Qianyuan also took a moment to sense his surroundings and discovered that the power flowing everywhere between heaven and earth here was rich, abundant water essence.
The other types of five-element essence were not absent, but they were suppressed to a degree that could only be described as meager.
If each element accounted for twenty percent in a place where the five elements were perfectly balanced, then here, the water element alone accounted for roughly sixty percent. The other elements each made up around ten percent, while a power directly restrained by water, such as the fire element, did not even reach that much.
A place like this was almost entirely the domain of aquatic demon beasts and spirit creatures.
Quite a few vessels of all sizes lay moored in the harbor, from tiny sampans resembling dugout canoes to exquisitely crafted magical-artifact flying shuttles and enormous treasure ships as large as buildings.
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