A month and a half later.
Cloudglow Lake, the largest lake in the Chaotic Spirit Domain, was known as the Little Spirit Sea. It stretched for a thousand miles and held not only a large third-tier spirit vein, but more than a dozen medium and large spirit veins as well.
Yet dense white mist shrouded this vast, sea-like lake year-round. Not even ordinary Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment cultivators could venture into it, let alone mortal folk.
Occasionally, immortal cultivators or spirit boats passed in and out of the white mist, but most wore Green Water Palace robes or bore the green water droplet emblem that represented it.
Wherever these Green Water Palace cultivators and spirit boats passed, the white mist parted on its own. Clearly, they all carried special magical artifacts that identified them.
On this day, a bone boat flew through the air from afar.
The boat bore no markings, but a young man aboard it, dressed in Green Water Palace robes, merely raised a hand. A translucent green command token flew out and sank straight into the railing at the bow, where it burst into dazzling blue light.
The moment the white mist ahead touched the green light, it rolled aside, opening a passage.
Without pausing, the bone boat flew straight inside.
"Fellow Daoist Wang, this white mist may look unremarkable, but it is actually the outermost restrictive seal of our sect's fourth-tier grand formation, the Ten Thousand Waves and Thousand Layers Water-Draw Array.
"The white mist isn't some ordinary illusion formation's trick to fool the eyes, either. It is extremely corrosive. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators like us would dissolve into a puddle of foul liquid if trapped inside for too long."
Standing at the bow of the bone boat to guide the way, Yan Lingxiang explained