"I don't know if that's what he calls himself," the bartender behind the counter said without looking up. "Anyway, he's an incredibly powerful expert with a Dragon-Shaped Cannon on his back."
The Endless Sea was a Transcendent Sea. Even ordinary people like bartenders knew quite a bit about transcendent powerhouses.
The "top experts" ordinary people spoke of were high-star S-rank powerhouses.
Combined with Explore the Sea's distinctive appearance, Lin Yuan was ninety percent certain the person the bartender meant was Sea Cannon.
That fellow had ambushed and killed Lucky One in the Golden Sea, seized the Eternal Compass, and vanished.
So he had fled to the peripheral waters.
Presumably, he was now doing everything he could to master the Eternal Compass. He might even have taken another step forward and reached Seven-Star.
No, not might. He's definitely reached Seven-Star, or even higher.
Lin Yuan thought to himself.
To preserve humanity's overall strength, the higher-ups keep a fairly tight rein on high-level powerhouses fighting and killing one another.
Killing someone to steal their treasures is a very serious offense.
That's why Sea Cannon ran off to hide in these peripheral waters.
Since he dares to show himself again now, he must have absorbed his gains and made progress.
There were no laws on the Endless Sea. Sea Cannon had needed to hide because he had killed another Six-Star powerhouse, seriously damaging the Humanity Faction's overall strength.
But if Sea Cannon himself had advanced to Seven-Star or higher, increasing the Humanity Faction's overall strength, then humanity's top powerhouses would let him off as long as he was willing to pay the appropriate price.
Likewise, if Lin Yuan openly attacked and killed Sea Cannon in human waters, he would have to pay a price too.
It was just that, as a promising talent