On the thirtieth day of the tenth month, in year 5520 of the Yuangguang Calendar, cold winds howled, chilling everyone to the bone. This year's bitter winter seemed to have arrived a little early!
Hundreds of ships stood outside Yunsha Market, with small boats of every description weaving among them, providing services to the sailors aboard! The docks were a hive of activity, packed with people carrying loads and unloading ships. Some were even cultivators! Certain goods were so heavy that only cultivators could carry them! On a lucky day, they could earn several spirit stones; even on an unlucky one, they would not starve!
Suddenly, a dark shape in the distance caught the attention of a cultivator on the lighthouse. "What's that?"
Out on the distant sea, a massive demonic beast nearly twenty feet long was swimming toward the island. Two people stood on its back, each dressed in finely made Daoist robes, their sleeves fluttering, their bearing graceful and elegant!
"Boss, look. Doesn't that look like Senior Wang Qing from Linghua Island?"
He directed the question at the cultivator meditating beside him.
The cultivator immediately stood, channeled power into his eyes, and gazed into the distance. "Oh, it really is Senior Wang Qing! That creature beneath him should be his spirit beast!"
Then he added enviously, "That's a Spirit Attraction Stage spirit beast! It's tremendously powerful! Didn't Senior Wang Qing kill Lin Qingyu of Fengyu Island at sea the year before last? Rumor has it that Senior Wang Qing never even lifted a finger. It was this spirit beast beneath him that did the killing! When Fengyu Island learned that Lin Qingyu had been killed, they didn't dare let out so much as a fart!"
"Linghua Island certainly cuts an imposing figure!"
"I heard Zhao Yi has been