Return Ruins Sea Trench

Beneath the Return Ruins Sea Trench, an Ancient Ruin appeared in the world like a meteorite hurled into a calm lake, raising heaven-toppling waves throughout the deep seas of the Southern Saint Domain.

The ancient pillar of light that shot up from the depths of the sea trench pierced through the crushing pressure of ten thousand fathoms of seawater, illuminating the sea for tens of thousands of miles around until it was bright as day. Within the pillar of light, countless broken palaces and pavilions could be vaguely seen rising and sinking in the void, wrapped in a half-transparent glazed light barrier, as if an ancient divine city frozen by time had finally broken free of its seal of myriad ages at this moment.

The spiritual energy tide triggered by the ruins' emergence transformed into ring after ring of seven-colored halos visible to the naked eye, sweeping out in all directions.

Wherever they passed, deep-sea volcanoes that had lain dormant for tens of thousands of years erupted in a single morning, undersea hidden currents changed course and flowed backward, and herds of sea beasts shivered in the frantic spiritual energy storm—or else had their eyes provoked blood-red by the waves and fell into a berserk rampage.

For a time, the entire sea of the Southern Saint Domain boiled over.

Deep within the Golden Tiger Shark Race's "Shark Bone Hall," warning bells rang; inside the Black Armor Dragon Whale Race's "Ten Thousand Whale Nest," enormous dragon whales broke through the water one after another, carrying palaces on their backs; in the Abyssal Giant Demon Octopus Race's "Ink Abyss Cave," countless tentacles as thick as mountains stirred the pitch-black, ink-like deep sea... The great sea-beast races of the Demon Race, like sharks that had scented blood, each transferred their elite forces, driving