The western coastal shore of the Truth-Seeking Continent was renowned for its grandeur, peril, and strangeness. Its long, winding coastline resembled a natural defensive barrier.
One of the greatest reasons for this coastline was that the Truth-Seeking Continent was narrow from east to west but long from north to south, without any enormous east-west rivers carrying vast quantities of silt to form alluvial plains.
The coastline had long been battered by tides, hurricanes, and the like. Over time, this had formed hard, jagged cliff faces in all manner of bizarre shapes. Naturally, many pristine white and crystalline beaches were also scattered among them.
Unfortunately, in the Profound Martial World, these beaches were worthless. No one had the leisure or refined taste to wear a bikini and sunbathe on the shore.
Still, humankind had always been known for its powerful adaptability.
Even in such harsh conditions, human villages and aristocratic clans still settled down and survived. They risked their lives gathering Jadeclaw Conches and Black Jade Spirit Abalones from the wave-lashed cliffs, or sailed swift boats during the fishing season to hunt Spirit Sword Marlins with harpoons, exchanging them for the resources necessary to live and cultivate.
Specialized merchant caravans purchased these precious ingredients and then transported them to commandery cities or national capitals for the wealthy to enjoy.
It was now the ocean current season, and the villages and aristocratic clans that depended on the sea for survival had all become busy.
For a time, the rolling sea was visibly filled with many more fishing boats. The fishermen went out more frequently as well, and from far away, one could see patches of white sails billowing in the wind across the water.
For a Ninth-Rank Aristocratic Clan, catching and killing a third-tier Spirit Sword Marlin counted as an enormous haul,