The Wind-Chasing Pirates and the Canghai Pirates, the two most powerful pirate groups currently active in the Lizhi Near Sea, began slowly closing on each other.
Hou Niao gazed ahead, his heart as calm as ever.
This day would have come sooner or later. Such was the law of survival at sea: until they settled who stood above whom, who was stronger, and who was cock of the walk, there would never be any peace!
It would determine which of the two pirate groups would give ground and bow its head when their interests clashed at sea in the future.
Thus, the cargo belonging to the Prince of Martial Accomplishment's Household was merely a pretext. Neither the value of the goods nor the household's prestige was the point.
The point was that by seizing the private cargo of a senior Shanmen cultivator, the Wind-Chasing Pirates had invited the Canghai Pirates, with their Shanmen Quanzhen backing, to settle their standing at sea!
The Tiger Tooth Pirates had been beaten into submission. Now it was time to rearrange the seats and see who ranked first and who ranked second.
Of the three great pirate powers on the Lizhi Sea, the Tiger Tooth Pirates had the Wu Sect behind them. But the sect was caught in the whirlpool surrounding the Anhe Daoist Sect and could not extricate itself for the time being, leaving it too preoccupied to help them. The Canghai Pirates had already been taken over by Shanmen, while the Wind-Chasing Pirates were backed by the renowned Southeast Daoist Sect, the most powerful bloc of Daoist forces on the Brocade Continent. Several countries among them were no weaker than the Wu Sect. This was a true behemoth.
When facing a demonic sect like Shanmen Quanzhen, the Wind-Chasing Pirates were nowhere near as