Just as Jelina was about to continue reporting their position, the entire magical vessel suddenly seemed to have been tossed into a blender, rolling wildly up, down, left, and right.
This sudden tumbling caught Chen Cheng and the others completely off guard.
At the instant the rolling began, She Li moved to strike the Crimson Ray Queen he had subdued, suspecting that she was behind it. However, he was still a step too slow.
The armor's helmet extended from her neck, wrapping around the Crimson Ray Queen's entire body. Then she phased into intangibility, evading She Li's attack.
"Thank you, His Imperial Majesty."
The Crimson Ray Queen even winked at the swaying Chen Cheng. Then her body became like insubstantial foam, vanishing bit by bit before his eyes.
After securing himself in place, She Li shouted, "I'll go after her."
Yet in the next instant, he too vanished from before Chen Cheng.
Jelina beside him vanished as well.
Chen Cheng immediately unleashed his Divine Domain, trying to seize the fading She Li and Jelina. Yet all he could touch were the last specks of light they left behind.
"No!"
Chen Cheng roared.
As his roar fell, the magical vessel suddenly came to a halt. Looking at the utterly wrecked lower deck, Chen Cheng clenched his fists and walked up from below.
However, the instant he stepped out of the lower deck, his heart sank like a boulder dropped into a pond, plunging deeper and deeper.
Because the Divine Domain he had spread out had not found Noah and the others.
When he reached the deck, despite the magical vessel having endured such violent shaking, everything was still there—except for those familiar figures.
Chen Cheng looked around. There were no storm waterspouts, no sea monsters, no Sea Clan—only a sea beneath