Similar to the Holytide Region, the Southisle Region bordered the sea. In the wilderness there, Floating Fiend raced along, this time disguised as a nonhuman. He had been traveling in disguise for two days.3

At first, he had intended to go along the seafloor until he reached the outer sea. It seemed to him that if the search for Xu Qing was going on in the east of Revered Ancient, then the outer sea would be a safe place to hide out. The outer sea was a dangerous place; it wasn’t somewhere to enter blithely. But it seemed like the perfect place to stay out of sight.0

Unfortunately, when he realized that there was some sort of invisible sealing magic separating the inner and outer seas, he eventually had to give up on that plan. That sealing magic came from the orders issued by humankind and the Firemoon Darkheaven people. By using godly might to manipulate natural laws, they sealed all exit routes. Getting too close to that magic would make it difficult to keep his disguise up. After studying it very closely, his heart sank.0

Ultimately, he turned and went in the opposite direction.0

His next plan had been to just hide out on the seafloor. But during the two days that had passed, he sensed the streams of divine will scouring the seafloor increasing constantly. There were more of them and they were more densely packed as time went on. It was as if all the godly entities in the sea were joining the search.0

Even the water itself gave Floating Fiend a very strange...2