Above the island, the two sides were still locked in a standoff.
Leading the Divine Thunder Sect was a graceful Daoist nun in robes. Her pretty face was filled with baleful intent as she glared fixedly ahead.
Facing them, the Azure Thunder Gate was led by a white-browed old Daoist who looked every bit the Immortal master. He held a sapphire-blue dharma pearl in his palm and sneered. "Madam Xiao, everyone in half the Turbulent Sea knows your master is dead, and the Divine Thunder Sect has only you left."
"Today, no one can save you!"
"The Divine Thunder Sect was founded by disciples cast out from my Azure Thunder Gate in the first place. We let you run free for all these years. Today, it is time to trace things back to their source!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the people behind him immediately shouted their agreement.
Madam Xiao's lovely face flushed crimson with rage, her chest heaving wildly. "Shameless! Your Azure Thunder Gate is the one that split off from my Divine Thunder Sect!"
"It is only because my Divine Thunder Sect has declined that you have managed to gain a few advantages."
"You traitors who betrayed your master and forsook your ancestors—now that you have gained a little power, you want to destroy my Divine Thunder Sect? Do you really think my Gui Water Divine Thunder Grand Formation is made of mud?"
With that, Madam Xiao immediately formed a hand seal.
In an instant, the roar of surging waters erupted from the Vault Sky. Rays of formation light entwined and interwove, eventually forming an ocean that stretched ten thousand acres!
The seawater flowed through the sky, real yet unreal, its waves endlessly churning. Upon closer inspection, every current was a leaping bolt of lightning. The rolling