Late at night.
Bright moonlight poured leisurely down from the resplendent starry vault above, draping the heaving sea with a veil of silver-white gauze.
The faint shadow of the merchant ship rocked far off in the depths of the night. Amid the fine sounds of waves breaking against reefs, an inconspicuous wooden boat had already slipped silently to shore, leaving a long compressed groove across the soft sand.
Taking advantage of the night, Xia Nan and the five members of Iron Rock Shield quietly arrived on Wildberry Cliff Island.
To minimize the chance of their plan being discovered ahead of time, they not only scheduled their action for the dead of night, but had also taken the disguised merchant ship they came with and circled the island widely in advance, arriving at the northwest side of Wildberry Cliff.
The terrain here was clearly much higher than on the island's southeast side, and the shore was riddled with dangerous undercurrents and razor-sharp reefs.
