Just as she was inspecting the seventh mustard-seed space, Xu Chunniang suddenly sensed an unusual disturbance.
She stopped moving and turned toward the sea, slightly startled.
The calm seawater had inexplicably begun to surge, as though the tide was about to rise.
Xu Chunniang recalled the past few hours she had spent by the shore.
Other than the two cultivators who had entered the sea and stirred up towering waves, the waters had remained calm for most of that time.
But why were there signs of a rising tide now...
The Hall Guardian had once said that with each passing day, the island would shrink by half.
And at this moment, it was midnight.
Midnight was both the final hour of one day and the earliest hour of the next, the moment where old and new days met.
The sea was about to rise, submerging at least half the island's land!
The thought flashed through Xu Chunniang's mind. She did not remain where she was, swiftly emerging from the trees and using the Nine Steps of Freedom to race toward the heart of the island at maximum speed.
After she left, the seawater silently followed, swallowing the land inch by inch.
Wherever the seawater passed, trees silently dissolved until they vanished into nothingness, leaving behind only a vast expanse of sea.
To push her speed to its limit, Xu Chunniang no longer concealed herself. After running for a short distance, she quickly drew the attention of others.
"Traveling like that makes it easy to fall into an ambush. That person is simply courting death!"
"Still... she is very fast, enough to leave most cultivators far behind. Or perhaps she is deliberately using this method to draw the attacks of others."
As the two spoke, one of them noticed something was