"Closer, closer..."
"They've entered the encirclement!"
While the Flying Immortal Sect disciples aboard the Ice Dragon were explaining things to Fang Qianyuan, a Human Rank Spirit Tamer sat cross-legged on the lead ship's deck in the other fleet. Dressed as a Daoist in a loose gray robe, with a wooden hairpin in his hair, he emanated a strange rhythm as his aura rose and fell.
Whatever special power this rhythm possessed, it could actually resonate with the surrounding Heaven and Earth Essence, just like an Earth Rank cultivator's power.
It even spread into the water, carrying a peculiar influence.
Countless fish churned in the seawater, all of them Gray Knife Fish about a foot long and a palm thick, their bodies densely covered in silvery-gray scales.
The fishermen of the Eastern Sea knew this species well. It was a common catch, and many mortals ate it.
Yet even an experienced fisherman who came here and saw the surface of the water would have been dumbstruck. Rather than rejoice wildly at the prospect of a bountiful catch, he would have begun to worry, perhaps even turning around immediately to flee for his life.
So many Gray Knife Fish gathering together was exceedingly rare. Worse, they were highly likely to attract the sea-dwelling demon beasts that preyed upon them!
While the gray-robed Daoist cast his spell, several fierce-looking crewmen elsewhere also began to move.
They were all Spirit Tamers at Human Rank Seven Turns or higher, each possessing some ability to control fish. Carefully, they took strange glass tubes from their packs and stuffed them into the mouths of the Gray Knife Fish they had prepared through lifeform manifestation.
The glass tubes were several fingers thick, filled with a strange dark-red liquid resembling blood plasma that glowed within the glass.
The tubes