Set Sail
Qiao Xue and Mu Yu relished the twinkling stars across the deep ebony feathers of night as they caught up on the time they had been separated. Sadly, the heart-warming scene was ruined when Gui Dingtian and Lu Xiong decided to sit and lie around, worried the two would disappear.
“You two have issues? Are you going to watch even if Qiao Xue and I engage in intimate activities?” grouched Mu Yu.
Qiao Xue, face burning with embarrassment, kicked Mu Yu.
“We can close our eyes.”
“Big Earthworm, go play with those two. They’ll buy you some candy.”
“What are you going to do, then?” asked the dragon vine.
“Watch Mu Yu and Qiao Xue engage in intimate activties.”
Mu Yu viciously front kicked Xiaoshuai away.
The rest of the night edged on awkward and joyous for everyone because of the two elders.
“Ghost Gate is moving,” Qiao Xue suddenly notified when dawn broke, having kept tabs on Ghost Gate’s group, which was roughly five kilometres away from where they were, through manipulating the ocean’s water.
Mu Yu sat up and questioned, “They setting sail?”
“Yes. I’m controlling the water as subtly as I can to avoid them detecting my manipulation. They’ve set sail on a boat… Gui Hongyu is with them and is doing fine.”
Mu Yu clasped his forehead with one hand. “I couldn’t care less if she was with them or not, okay?”
Ghost Gate’s group destroyed the marking Mu Yu planted on her when they set out.
“Gui Yeming is more than we can handle without Ancestor White Ape. We, therefore, must be cautious. Ol’ Gui, let everyone else know to prepare. We’re moving,” instructed Lu Xiong.
“Is that fellow they refer to as ‘His Lordship’ this Gui Yeming guy you mentioned?” Mu Yu inquired.
“Correct,” answered Lu Xiong.
The others promptly packed and arrived on the scene. Long Xingyun gave the dragon vine a cunning grin and then averted his gaze.
“Climb onto my shell. Since Ancestor White Ape is not here, we will be doomed if Gui Yeming detects us,” instructed Gui Dingtian, throwing his shell into the ocean.
Everyone quickly boarded the shell that expanded dozens of metres once it hit the water and sunk in to provide a suitable sitting environment. Gui Dingtian had perfect control as a helmsman, ensuring there wasn’t any rocking.
The team dispatched to locate Sacred Island were those familiar with the ocean as the climate affected fiends the same way it impacted humans.
Besides Long Xingyuan, the other Spirit Severing Realm fiends were the three dragon carp brothers, a dragon tortoise, a female fiend and a hippopotamus, which was the only member who didn’t carry any dragon blood. The reason nobody made a fool out of the hippopotamus was because hippopotamuses were symbols of status within the fiend race.
Among the Body Synthesis Realm fiends, Gui Dingtian and Lu Xiong were the most advanced, followed by a crocodile dragon, meaning Long Yeli was the weakest among that group.
The three dragon carp brothers were part of Forest Black Tigerdragon’s faction. The dragon tortoise was part of Purple Lightning Winged Dragon’s Faction. The hippopotamus was part of Demon Spirit Dragon Python’s faction. The crocodile dragon was with Great Dragon Clan, one of the less influential factions.
Qiao Xue sat at the forefront to monitor Ghost Gate’s group, ensuring they maintained a distance of five kilometres from Ghost Gate to avoid detection. Long Xingyun scowled the entire time as he watched her chat with Mu Yu from behind.
In the contest for the throne in Green Dragon Archfiend’s imperial court, Long Xingyun already devoured others for their blood to purify it more than once, and he wasn’t the only one who had been doing it in order to expedite their evolution. Of course, Green Dragon Archfiend outlawed it, but it didn’t stop them from finding loopholes in the law. His descendants secretly hunted fiends with pure blood, yet were weak, despite the risk of dying due to conflicting blood types. At the end of the day, there was no way they could guarantee a fiend beast didn’t carry the blood type of more than one race.
Long Xingyun used the aforementioned approach to increase his purity level from eighty percent to ninety percent on his first attempt. On his second attempt, unfortunately, he learnt the hard way to be cautious. Nonetheless, the dragon vine’s blood would perfectly merge with his own.
Although Mu Yu sensed Long Xingyun’s hostility, he didn’t ask the dragon vine to stop wagging its tail in Long Xingyun’s face, reasoning there was no point hiding anymore.
“Stop! They have halted,” commanded Qiao Xue.
“They stopped?” queried Gui Dingtian, bringing the shell to a halt.
“I don’t know what purpose they stopped for. From what I can discern, they may be trying to read the direction of the wind.”
“Describe to me how they are checking the wind direction,” requested Gui Dingtian, opting to be prepared at all times and to memorise the route to Sacred Island.
“They tied five red items to a rope and are letting it drift on the water surface. Then, they grabbed a bell and gazed at the sun through a lantern – at least, I think it is – shrouded in black mist. I’m not sure if they are trying to determine the sun’s position. I have no guess as to why they are using a lantern…”
Even after hearing the procedure several times and acquiring more details, Gui Dingtian surrendered because it was hard to imagine the scene Qiao Xue tried to illustrate using words. It wasn’t easy for her to describe, either, since she wasn’t familiar with the oceans’ behaviour.
“If only I could see what they are doing,” lamented Gui Dingtian.
“See what Ghost Gate is doing?” Mu Yu repeated to himself, harnessing his creativity.
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