Big Vortex
Every fiend beast and seagull hurtled the second they sensed the ginormous inkfiend ape approaching.
“She really has fallen for me,” griped Xiaoshuai, peeved with the inkfiend ape constantly looking over to flirt with him.
“Tell her you want to break up after we arrive, then,” stated the dragon vine.
“I’m not that heartless. That’s no different to playing with her feelings. Only scumbags do that!” righteously argued Xiaoshuai.
“Why didn’t you hesitate to reject the level six demon toad, then?” questioned Mu Yu.
“I told you they’re different. This one is going to follow me to the end of the world even if I reject her!”
“She won’t be able to chase you once we return to the continent,” consoled the dragon vine.
“So I can’t ever go to the ocean again?”
“What would you even go to the ocean for again?” Mu Yu queried.
“… True,” replied Xiaoshuai, aggressively sucking a mouthful of spirit milk.
“On second thought, I recommend being a gentleman and keeping your word. Given how handsome you are, Xiaoshuai Junior should resemble you,” joked Mu Yu.
“I refuse!”
Despite the inkfiend ape’s speed, it still hadn’t reached the island after travelling constantly for over a day already. Upon coming to a sudden stop, Mu Yu had a bad feeling about the waters being as still as water in a pond. The dense mist drift across the water surface didn’t help him feel any better.
“What’s wrong?” Mu Yu asked upon hearing the inkfiend ape hiss.
“She said Sacred Island is up ahead, but it’s too scared to continue,” translated Xiaoshuai.
“Even though it’s a level seven fiend beast?”
“Where is the island, then?”
“Momo says that if you row over on a boat, the current will gradually change. However, we’ve been instructed not to fight the current.”
“Wow, ‘Momo’, now. You two sure have gotten close, huh?” teased the dragon vine.
“That’s what she said her name is, dimwit.”
Mu Yu turned Wood Spirit into a boat and leapt onto it from the inkfiend ape’s shoulder. The inkfiend ape waved them goodbye, hissing at the same time. Mu Yu guessed she was telling XIaoshuai, who looked unusually down, that she’d be waiting for him to come back.
It took an hour of rowing before there was as much as a small, audible wave and moving current. Mu Yu stopped rowing once the current picked up enough for them to just drift. Perhaps “fly” was a more apt verb since they went really fast.
Their boat started to rock and go in circles as a one hundred metre radius vortex drew them in. Rather than worrying about his “boat”, he was more worried about being plunged into water, inhibiting his ability to defend himself against enemies, even though Momo told them it was supposed to be natural. Wood Spirit fastened Mu Yu in as they rapidly circled down.
Half an hour after descending, a wave rocked their boat and returned them to a bed of water. They noticed the vortex rotating in the opposite direction. They were back to the surface, except the water was black.
There in the distance was an island sitting dozens of metres above the surface of the water. The water from the ocean somehow flowed up to the island unlike anywhere else. Red and white lights flashed at intervals, sometimes shining their light away from the ocean. When those lights weren’t active, the various magical items left on the island from the war would stand out.
Mu Yu pulled over at a black reef some distance away from the island, learning from Ghost Gate’s previous reckless mistake. He figured out the flashes of light coming from the island occurred every six seconds, and the qi sweeping out from the island was what he’d expect from a Body Synthesis Realm cultivator. Whenever the red lights swept around, the island would appear blurry.
“Those must be the red lights that blew Elder Chi Long’s companions to mush. I bet Ghost Gate’s group is already collecting souls on the island.”
Boom! The explosion came from the island and succeeded a flash of red light.
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