"The ancient cultivator's exact origins are unknown, but one thing is universally acknowledged: he perished in meditation roughly a thousand years ago."
"Why that particular time? Has Fellow Daoist Luo never heard the saying that the Sunken Sea was born a thousand years ago?"
"Though the Sunken Sea was dangerous before, that danger came only from the sea region's natural geography. It was nowhere near its current reputation as a place where all things sank and even demon spirits dared not enter. This transformation stemmed from the measures the ancient cultivator arranged before his death in meditation, turning the Sunken Sea upside down."
"The ruins did not open at fixed times, but after many years of observation by the Primal Devil Sect's experts, a pattern gradually emerged."
"Before the ruins opened, celestial phenomena would appear above the Sunken Sea. They would not vanish until the ruins closed completely. The process could last as little as one or two years, or as long as forty or fifty."
"According to the Primal Devil Sect cultivators' conjectures, those ruins should be the ancient cultivator's portable palace. A Spirit Absorption Great Array had been arranged within it. When it opened autonomously without anyone controlling it, the immense disturbance of spirit absorption would create conspicuous celestial phenomena."
"You ask what sort of palace and what sort of great array could cause such a commotion? Haha, Ding did not know either. But many people guessed that the ruins' master had been a great master of the Formation Dao in life. One piece of evidence was that after Great Power of the Li Family from the Azure Sea Alliance emerged alive from the ruins, he advanced to the Spirit Transformation Stage through the laws of the Formation Dao."
"According to the Primal Devil Sect cultivators' calculations, the