Qing Chen rested his fingertips on the vajra-rock armrest, tapping it now and then.
Though he had been away from the sea for over a hundred years, he was not entirely ignorant of the balance of power among the Upper Eight Cave Spirit Islands.
The top three seats were as steady as bedrock-the Vajra Zen Sect, Penglai Spirit Island, and the Blissful Union Tower.
The remaining seats belonged to the Guixu Sea Tower, the Thousand Puppet Sect, the Shushan Sword Sect, Jiaogu Island, and finally Mystic Yin Island, which had recently fallen to last place.
The broad balance among the Upper Eight Cave Spirit Islands consisted of Penglai Spirit Island and the Blissful Union Tower joining forces to check the Vajra Zen Sect, that Buddhist colossus.
As for Mystic Yin Island... a cold gleam flashed through Qing Chen's eyes.
One of the Moon Sea Region's foremost powers, it had originally been on par with the Shushan Sword Sect and had always clung tightly to the Blissful Union Tower's coattails.
Its island lord, Old Freak Jiyin, was at the nascent soul early stage peak. The Profound Yin Soul-Seizing Great Art he cultivated was vicious and insidious, and his fearsome name could stop children crying in the Moon Sea Region.
His Lifebound Magic Treasure, the Jiyin Hook, was said to have been ritually refined from fourth-tier mid-grade deep-sea meteoric iron mixed with a million living souls. It ranked among the finest high-grade Magic Treasures. Rumor further held that the old fiend had mastered quite a few traces of Profound Yin rules, making his combat prowess nothing to underestimate.
*Had Xuanji lost her mind, daring to team up with someone like that to enter the Reincarnation Dead Sea? His combat prowess was no less than that of the Hundred Poisons True Lord who