Son-in-law Heaven Emperor Xiao Yi

Beast Emperor Sea.

Howling gales and monstrous waves surged wildly, as if the hand of a celestial deity reared up, casting a shadow over the sun. Towering waves, from great heights, crashed down fiercely.

With a thunderous roar, they smashed into the vast ocean.

Releasing bursts of deafening bellowing.

The sound of the storm reached thousands of miles.

At this moment...

Amidst the tempest, a colossal flying boat cut through the wind and waves, its entire structure glinting with silver light. Its surface was coated in a layer of silver liquid that flowed like mercury.

Within this fluctuating luster of silver, dazzling sparkles flickered, like a silver light beam tearing the heavens, traversing above the Azure Sea.

Inside the flying boat.

Ye Heng, Jin Feiyan, and Ruan Yunyi looked solemnly at the figure before them, Xiao Yi.

Jin Feiyan tentatively asked, "Master, do you want us to undertake our training in the Beast Emperor Sea? But we completed the special training at the Beast Emperor Sea months ago!"

Xiao Yi was the honorary vice-warden of the Beast Emperor Sea.

He had signed an agreement with Huang Baitao to send disciples from the Xiaoshanhe Institute to the Beast Emperor Sea each month to complete various training tasks.

Ye Heng and the others were the first batch to complete the tasks.

In their eyes...

Such training was child's play!

Xiao Yi swept a glance over the three, and aside from Ruan Yunyi's simple-minded grin, both Ye Heng and Jin Feiyan seemed indifferent to the upcoming training, saying lightly, "Don't be too full of yourselves. If you fail to complete the training task, I will not be lenient!"

He had already warned them that should they fail the training task, they would be expelled from the sect.

The three glanced at each other.

Ruan Yunyi scratched his head, his face earnest, "Don't worry, Master. I won't disappoint you!"

Ye Heng and Jin Feiyan exchanged looks, still not taking the matter too seriously.

The flying boat was incredibly fast.

In just half a day, they arrived at Beast Emperor City.

Immense Beast Emperor City sprawled over the Azure Sea like a massive beast. Even the gigantic waves crashing against the towering city walls seemed puny in comparison.

They sailed into the harbor.

As soon as Xiao Yi and his companions disembarked the flying boat, they were greeted by two figures descending before them—the father-daughter duo of Huang Baitao and Huang Yuwei.

"Ha ha ha, Xiao Yi, it's been over a year since we last met. You finally remembered your old brother!" Huang Baitao laughed heartily as he stepped forward, giving Xiao Yi a big bear hug, his broad palm patting Xiao Yi's back heavily.

Xiao Yi grinned and replied, "What are you talking about, Huang? I've never forgotten about you! Look, I even brought several jars of fine wine just for you this time."

As he spoke,

Xiao Yi waved his hand, and more than a dozen wine jars, exuding a rich fragrance, landed before them.

Huang Baitao's eyes lit up, and he laughed heartily, "Good, good, good! I'll have someone prepare a feast later, and we brothers can have a proper gathering!"

Xiao Yi nodded, his attention drawn by a pair of eyes fixed on him.

Instinctively glancing over,

Huang Yuwei quickly averted her gaze.

Xiao Yi, realizing this, smiled and said, "Yuwei, don't tell me you don't recognize me anymore?"

Huang Yuwei gently bit her lip and lifted her eyes to Xiao Yi, "No, it's not that. It's just been a while since we've seen each other, and I wasn't sure what to say!"

The glistening sheen in the young girl's eyes seemed to mask the longing hidden in her heart.

Xiao Yi sighed inwardly. How could he not know of Huang Yuwei's feelings for him? But Fang Qingzhu already occupied his heart, leaving no room for anyone else; thus, when Huang Yuwei had hinted at her feelings last time, he had chosen to play the fool.

Seeing the atmosphere turn a bit subdued, Huang Baitao sighed in his heart for his daughter and then swiftly changed the subject, "Xiao, in your message, you only mentioned coming to Beast Emperor City. What exactly brings you here?"

Huang Yuwei also blinked, looking up curiously at Xiao Yi.

They too had received news of Xiao Yi's solo trip to the Nantian Dynasty and his ordeal in Yunmeng Marsh. From what they could guess, Xiao Yi must have just returned from the Nantian Dynasty.

"Why have we suddenly come to Beast Emperor City?"

Xiao Yi pointed to the three people behind him and laughed, "These three youngsters are also at a critical moment in their cultivation. Hunching over in closed-door training is not the answer, so I thought I'd take them on a trip to the Chaotic Sea!"

The Chaotic Sea had by now fallen completely within the sphere of influence of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Many disciples from Xiaoshanhe Institute were also sent directly to the Chaotic Sea for training.

Huang Baitao nodded, just about to speak, when he saw a silver figure flying from the sky. It was a fifth-order magical beast, the Windbreaker Seagull.

The Windbreaker Seagull was not strong in combat, but its speed was extremely fast.

Especially its flying speed over the sea, it could even surpass the average Dharma Manifestation Realm experts.

In both Beast Emperor Sea and Chaotic Sea.

This Windbreaker Seagull was often used for delivering messages.

"Is this a message from the Chaotic Sea?" Huang Yuwei watched the Windbreaker Seagull land before Huang Baitao, its throat puffing as it spat out a scroll into Huang Baitao's hands and explained.

Xiao Yi nodded, but did not take the initiative to look at the content of the scroll.

However...

He quickly noticed that Huang Baitao's face turned deathly pale after reading the contents of the scroll, without the slightest hint of color.

Xiao Yi frowned and said, "What happened?"

"Missing..."

Huang Baitao gulped down a mouthful of saliva, his expression tinged with solemnity, "The message from the Chaotic Sea says that this month, all five hundred disciples who were sent from Xiaoshanhe Institute for training in the Chaotic Sea, have gone missing."

Hiss!

Everyone present couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

Five hundred people had gone missing collectively?

Every one of these candidates chosen for the training was a genius with exceptional talent and impressive combat skills.

Even though the Chaotic Sea was extremely dangerous, the participation of over five hundred people in the training together, plus the fact that Xiaoshanhe Institute had arranged for experts to protect them in secret...

Ordinarily.

No matter how difficult the training task might be, five hundred people wouldn't just go missing at the same time!

Among the crowd.

Jin Feiyan suddenly widened her eyes and covered her mouth, uttering an alarmed cry, "That's not good!"

"Hm?"

Everyone turned to look at Jin Feiyan.

Xiao Yi frowned and said, "Fei Yan, do you know something?"

Jin Feiyan's head shook like a tambourine.

But her eyes were already brimming with tears.

Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes and demanded, "What exactly do you know? Tell me quickly!"

"I, I..."

Jin Feiyan hesitated time and again, but under Xiao Yi's piercing gaze that seemed capable of seeing through one's heart, she could no longer hold back and spoke up, "Master, I don't know how they disappeared. It's just that... Bingxin was among those selected for this training session!"

Buzz!

Xiao Yi's face suddenly changed.

He couldn't help but recall the first time he met Lin Bingxin, as well as all the moments they had spent together afterwards.

Not to mention that she was Elder Yan's disciple.

Back in Nanhuang City, she had also given him no small amount of help.

Just her affections for him alone were enough reason to not allow anyone to harm her.

With this thought.

Xiao Yi took a deep breath, his eyes narrowed to slits reflected a determined look, and he murmured to himself, "Bingxin, wait for me, I'm coming to find you..."