While Luo Chen was in secluded cultivation, diligently training, the outside world had become a storm of wind and clouds.
Wind and clouds rising—in the literal sense!
Above the Sunken Sea, the Void Burning Winds that had once appeared irregularly began erupting in vast, uncontrolled numbers.
Even three years after Blood Rogue's battle with Shark Emperor Liu Jun, the clouds above the Sunken Sea began to hang motionless, gradually taking on a gleaming golden hue.
Golden sky, black sea—it formed the Northern Sea's most magnificent sight!
Such a heavenly anomaly naturally drew countless cultivators to the shores of the Sunken Sea.
Yet with the Black Turbid Sea Water that corroded all things and the Void Burning Winds that swept away myriad living creatures standing in their way, all cultivators who wished to venture in and investigate were blocked outside.
Even those who could enter could at most reach the very limits of the outer region before being unable to advance any farther.
Under such circumstances, certain people who knew the inside story began to take action as well.
Ding Yi was one of them.
Cloud Touching Peak.
Ding Yi paced back and forth inside the cave residence, anxiety written across his face.
"Dao Lan has vanished, leaving me increasingly unclear about the situation over there. What did you find out on your end?"
The Cloud Touching Cave Master, seated opposite him, said gravely, "Through my connections, I learned that although the Golden Sky Black Sea anomaly has appeared over the Sunken Sea, the Spiritual Qi Inversion vortex has yet to emerge. In other words, the ruins have not truly opened."
Golden Sky Black Sea and Spiritual Qi Inversion were precisely the complete celestial phenomenon marking the opening of the ruins.
Ding Yi shook his head. "Perhaps it isn't that they