At sunset!
The sky had gradually darkened, and the sun's radiance was slowly receding beyond the horizon.
As the steel ship slowly docked, Xu Chang and the others finally successfully set foot on Lake Heart Island in the middle of the Firefly Sea, which is also the true base of the Ghost Ridge Palace.
Upon disembarking, Xu Chang did not see the human skin lanterns, piles of bones, swarms of poisonous insects, or corpse oil lamps illuminating the Demon Cave that he had imagined.
What he saw instead was a bustling cityscape.
Exquisite palace houses, pavilions, temples, and pagodas were distributed in a scattered yet orderly fashion, and along the streets, many merchants were setting up stalls and shouting for business, with numerous Ghost Ridge Palace disciples bustling around, the sounds of bargaining rising and falling.
