To the south of the Nanxiao Domain Continent, the coastal area by the sea was the Chengyue Sea Realm.
As one of the masters of the Dragon Palace Market, the Chengyue Sea Realm bustled with economic prosperity, seeing countless boats and ships coming and going every day, alongside innumerable cultivators trading all kinds of unique heavenly treasures from the distant seas and continent there. One could say that the entire Chengyue Sea Realm was bursting with a thriving vitality.
Yet, things were different now.
First, the phantom of the South Heaven Gate appeared above the Chengyue Sea Realm, followed immediately by one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers arrayed in battle formation, thunder drums shaking the heavens and earth, churning the vast ocean and whipping up ten thousand miles of startling billows. Above those overlapping layers of dark clouds that pressed down like mountain peaks, Heavenly Soldiers formed ranks, Spirit Hounds galloped, and Cloud Eagles soared through the empty air, hoisting trapping nets aloft.
Those banners of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion and the Shenxiao Thunder Mansion blotted out the sun as far as the eye could see, accompanied by magical treasures like the Dragon-Binding Rope and the Dragon-Trapping Stake that the Heavenly Court specifically designed against the dragon race. This already foretold that catastrophe was about to befall the Chengyue Sea Realm.
Merchant vessels that were originally doing business all over the Chengyue Sea Realm, as well as Rogue Cultivators, scattered and fled in all directions. Even the local cultivation Aristocratic Clans of the Chengyue Sea Realm hurriedly instructed their clansmen to close their doors and stay indoors, terrified of being implicated in the disaster.
Now, the position of those Heavenly Soldiers was right above the Chengyue Sea Dragon Palace. As the thunder drums parted the rolling waves of water and