Countless ink-black clouds churned across Midheaven, obscuring the stars and moon until not a trace of light remained.
The sea, too, was a mass of dark water, indistinguishable in color from the sky, surging and rolling, its terrifying waves scattering foam for a thousand miles and rearing ten thousand fathoms high.
Its depths could not be measured, its breadth could not be seen...
The fish and beasts passing along either side of the ship
were all ship-swallowing whales, white flood dragons and crimson horned dragons, primordial turtles and spirit alligators, long serpents and giant softshell turtles, and the like.
Their forms towered like mountains, immense beyond measure, charging and colliding amid the deep waters, now sinking, now rising.
When they roared together, their force could swallow a ship, their thunderous voices carrying across dozens of miles of sea!
Their strange and monstrous shapes were beyond counting...
It was already late at night.
Even with a simple soundproofing restriction on the door, the roars of the giant sea beasts still reached his ears faintly.
Yao Yu paid them no mind. Long accustomed to them, he simply held a rather thick book of supernatural tales, reading in utter absorption.
Although this was his first time handling business for his clan, traveling to Jade Spring Immortal Market to visit a senior so that the relationship between the two sides would not grow distant,
he had taken great sea vessels like this more than a dozen times already, so it was nothing novel.
Such ocean-crossing treasure vessels were themselves Immortal Dao talisman artifacts, extraordinarily sturdy, or they could never withstand the battering winds and waves. Their hulls were also usually coated with an expensive fragrance that repelled most giant sea beasts of dim intelligence.
This fragrance, created by the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace,