By noon, the sun shone brightly.

As Xu Qing walked the streets, he decided that he would definitely help out Zhang San sometime in the future. He had to pay back this favor with the dharmaboat. Although he wasn’t sure what the dharmaboat would look like after Zhang San was finished, he had the feeling that there was going to be a lot more than 200 spirit stones’ worth of work in it.

He also needed to properly thank Zhou Qingpeng for the gift of the ghostlonging horseshoe crabs.

As he thought about such things, he kept his eyes on his surroundings, and the people on the street. Nothing looked any different than it usually did. It seemed that... the death of the young merman hadn’t caused any big waves in the capital city. It was the same in the Violent Crimes Division. In fact, few people seemed aware of what had happened.

Xu Qing pondered that as he headed in the direction of the Hall of Sea Annals.

All disciples had to visit the Hall of Sea Annals before going out to sea for the first time. All sorts of precious information was kept therein. It contained years upon years of accounts detailing the strange and wonderful things Seven Blood Eyes disciples had encountered on the open sea. That included countless...