Rumble...
Muffled thunder rolled as torrential rain hammered the Tower Ship's deck with a crackling patter.
The Tower Ship rode the wind and waves across Northern Darkness Lake. The white-haired captain, clad in golden armor, stood on the mast's yardarm with hands on hips and eyes blazing.
Nangong Ye and the others watched in every direction from various points aboard, searching for traces of the Unorthodox Dao's fiends.
After they had split up earlier, Qixia True Person had taken the pirate ship to the nearest opportunity site and found the coordinates Sister A Piao had mentioned.
But somehow, that old scoundrel Huaxian had learned where the opportunity would appear ahead of time. He had actually beaten them there and fled deeper into Northern Darkness Lake with it.
Fortunately, a newly formed divine gift opportunity was covered in vast quantities of turbulent spiritual charm, its power too great for any mortal creature to withstand. Any attempt to strip that away would inevitably release spiritual charm into the surroundings.
Thanks to this, Qixia True Person had caught a faint trace and pursued him relentlessly into the depths of Northern Darkness Lake. But this window for tracking him lasted only about a quarter of an hour. Once the opportunity was refined and absorbed into his body, catching him again would be difficult.
Seeing no sign of anyone between the darkened heavens and earth, Nangong Ye could not help feeling a little worried and asked:
"Master, how are things going on Xie Jinhuan's side?"
The Origin of Heaven and Earth was releasing spiritual charm, and its pressure was so overwhelming that even the shock waves of a clash between Sixth Realm cultivators would struggle to travel a hundred li.
The range of passive detection through divine sense was also greatly reduced, leaving the three