Rumble!
A heaven-shaking explosion erupted, the earth quaked and mountains swayed. Beginning at the eastern-western divide, the scene of heaven and earth overturning swept across the entire Southern Border.
A colossal stone pillar slowly rose from the ground, soaring beyond the clouds into the Nine Heavens.
This was a signal—the trigger signaling the start of the decisive battle.
From merely the opening aftershocks, a vast number of martial artists were unable to endure it. Their bodies collapsed amid the trembling air, and they died on the spot.
The turmoil in the Southern Border did not affect only the local region. All Fifty Provinces under heaven reacted at once.
Across the islands overseas, the waves rose ten times higher than usual, crashing into foam that filled both sky and earth.
The once-solid sea dikes were destroyed, and one island nation after another was washed away and shattered.
Sea Martial Artists darted about in terror, slashing open the waves with their blades and using movement techniques to evade water droplets that struck like arrows.
They fled for their lives, and from time to time, someone was knocked from midair and swept wholly into the waves, ground to pieces.
Martial artists, martial masters, even those in the Early Strong Martial realm—none could resist the might of heaven and earth, all of them left in a miserable state.
Those master-level Sea Martial Artists hovered high in the sky, watching calamity after calamity descend with grave expressions.
From what was happening before their eyes, they sensed something. The wind had risen in the Southern Border, yet it had affected the overseas lands millions of miles away.
"Difficult. This is difficult!"
Dili Qianli, one of the powerful Sea Martial Artists, looked up at the sternly arrayed masters. He knew the maritime environment was far too fragile;