A month later, deep in the Moon Sea Region, outside the fourth-tier mid-grade Mystic Yin Island.
Black waves rose like mountains beneath an ink-dark sky.
A layer of thick gray mist shrouded the sea. Piercing wails occasionally drifted from within, as though countless vengeful souls were rising and sinking in it.
Just then, a third-tier treasure ship broke through the mist, a Condensed Jade banner hanging from its hull.
At the bow, Chi Xuntian's azure robes fluttered, his black hair swept behind his head by the sea breeze.
He drew a deep breath of the mist.
Here at last.
Mystic Yin Island lay right before him.
The entire island resembled a skeleton steeped in ink, its craggy mountains like ghostly claws, every building upon it pitch-black.
Mystic Yin Island's Island-Protecting Grand Array had already been partially activated. Gray-black profound yin energy shrouded the waters ahead of the treasure ship, with ghostly sobbing faintly audible.
"Halt!"
A harsh, hoarse shout exploded from within the island's array!
Boom-
Five streaks of black escape light burst through the yin energy and hovered above the sea.
At their head was a black-robed elder with a sinister face and an icy aura.
Mystic Yin Island's Vice Island Master-Daoist Tongyou.
He possessed Dharma Nascent Soul cultivation, and his mastery of the Profound Yin Soul-Seizing Great Art had reached an extremely high realm. His fearsome reputation was well known throughout the Moon Sea Region.
Behind him stood four Pseudo-Nascent Soul and Peak Golden Core cultivators, each exuding a chilling aura.
Standing at the bow, Chi Xuntian cupped his hands, neither servile nor overbearing. "Chi Xuntian, Deputy Sect Master of the Condensed Jade Sect. By order of our sect's First Grand Supreme, Hidden Spirit True Lord, I have come expressly to warn Mystic Yin Island."
Daoist Tongyou's