"Judging by the positions of these black dots, the West Sea Kingdom should be this way..."
Wang Ba sat cross-legged inside Dafu's foul-smelling belly and spread the map flat before him.
Qin Lingxiao was also in high spirits. Disregarding appearances, she knelt beside the map and pointed in one direction.
"I think we might need to veer a little this way."
Beside them, the Burrowing Sea Otter craned its head over curiously, looked around the map, and sniffed all over it.
But it soon lost interest and went off to sniff around the surrounding corners on its own.
Every so often, it dug some undigested shellfish out of a corner, then immediately pulled a stone from its fur and hammered away.
Before long, it was eating with immense satisfaction.
Its eyes curved into two arcs.
It looked utterly adorable.
But neither Wang Ba nor Qin Lingxiao had any attention to spare for it at that moment. Instead, they earnestly discussed which direction to take next.
The map they had obtained from the Zhongsheng Continent cultivator's temporary cave abode was, after all, rather crude.
They could only compare its black dots with the current Sea Barrier to find a rough direction to travel in.
But a palm's breadth on the map could easily translate into a discrepancy of thousands or tens of thousands of li in reality.
The two thus differed slightly on their direction of travel.
Although either route would most likely get them back to the West Sea Kingdom, why take a detour if they could return sooner?
But both were cultivators, and both trusted their own judgment deeply, so they failed to reach a definite conclusion for some time.
Just then, their surroundings suddenly shook.
The two were immediately tossed high into the air against their will, then