Elsewhere.
Southwest of Floating Jade Island, beneath the sea.
Zhang Chao and Li Cheng carried Zhou Jue and Idle-Fishing Boy respectively on their backs, swimming back and forth through these waters.
The two Octopus Demons were far more agile underwater than on shore. A gentle sweep of their eight tentacles sent them darting a great distance.
Zhou Jue sat on Li Cheng's back, holding a luminous pearl.
For cultivators who had never practiced a Pupil Technique, visibility was very limited in an environment as dark as the seabed.
Yet they searched again and again without finding anything.
It was utterly ordinary, no different from any other stretch of water around Floating Jade Island.
After spending so long in the sea, Idle-Fishing Boy felt a little tightness in its chest and shortness of breath.
It was not a sea demon, after all, and remaining underwater too long still caused it some discomfort.
So it patted Zhang Chao's round octopus head with a small hand and pointed upward.
"Why don't we head back to the surface for now?"
Zhang Chao grunted in agreement, curling his eight tentacles to carry it up toward the surface.
On the way back, Idle-Fishing Boy suddenly extended its little hand and pointed somewhere beneath Floating Jade Island.
"Where does that lead?"
Everyone looked in the direction it indicated.
A pitch-black fissure lay beneath a low belt of reefs.
The opening was small, about two or three people wide.
Zhou Jue glanced at it and said, "It's just a sea cave. Floating Jade Island has plenty of places like that. They're generally formed by the constant scouring of underwater currents."
Of course it did not lead anywhere.
He was a born-and-bred native of Floating Jade Island. As a child, he had gone into the sea with the village's