Deep within the Myriad Ghosts Sea Region, above a stretch of Black Sea, the waters lay still without the slightest ripple. From time to time, gusts of bone-piercing yin wind swept through.
Cheng Zhenyu and Zheng Nan flew onward, their faces panicked. Cheng Zhenyu was pale, as though he had encountered something terrifying.
Several thousand zhang behind them floated a dark cloud roughly a zhang wide.
A shrill, utterly miserable Ghost Wail rang out. Their escape speed abruptly plummeted, and their eyes became somewhat vacant.
Sharp whistling sounds tore through the air as a vast swarm of black threads shot out from the dark cloud, arriving before them in an instant and about to pierce through their bodies.
Cheng Zhenyu slashed at the air with his right hand. Blue light flared, and a great mass of incomparably sharp blue Sword Qi swept forth, cutting toward the incoming black threads.
Zheng Nan brought out a Red Short Ruler about a foot long. With a light shake, countless crimson flames emerged, suddenly transforming into a giant fireball the size of a house. Carrying an unbearable, sky-blotting heatwave, it crashed toward the enemy.
The black threads collided with the blue Sword Qi, producing a string of metallic clangs. The blue Sword Qi shattered completely, and the black threads struck the giant fireball.
BOOM!
A giant fireball thirty zhang across blossomed high in the sky, warping the air.
With a flip of her jade hand, Zheng Nan produced a small, ancient-looking blue mirror. It was the Ocean Stabilizing Mirror, one of Townsea Sect's three Sect-Guarding Treasures.
The seawater depicted upon the mirror's surface churned violently, accompanied by a piercing roar of crashing waves. A sheet of Blue Rosy Cloud flew out and accurately enveloped the approaching dark cloud.
The dark cloud immediately stopped, remaining