Unexpected Changes

Chapter 850: Unexpected Changes

Day after day, beneath Longevity Immortal Mountain, the grand formation of the Ninth True Inheritance Palace stood towering, cut off from the world.

Such an anomaly concerned a Longevity True Disciple, so naturally it drew no small amount of outside attention. All manner of rumors spread—some claimed Chu Mu was refining a supreme treasure, others said he was researching war machines for the conflict in the Outer Sea, and there were even rumors that the Ninth True Inheritance was in secluded cultivation to form his Nascent Soul...

Yet after barely more than a year, the towering formation around the True Inheritance Palace silently dispersed.

Those absurd rumors thus collapsed of their own accord.

Day after day, year after year.

Those absurd rumors that had collapsed on their own were slowly worn away by time, buried beneath the succession of changes that followed.

The fifth year.

Outer Sea.

The seawater was black as ink and bottomless. Sea winds swept over it, while the air itself seemed incomparably thick, saturated with a nauseating stench of blood.

Waves surged from the abyss-like waters. Then, as though an invisible and terrifying force had descended, it forcibly cleaved apart a vast expanse of seawater.

A massive head slowly emerged from between the parted waters.

The head was battered and broken, covered in scars. Several savage claw marks were deeply branded into its right cheek, plunging more than a foot into its flesh.

Its eyes were tightly shut, but at that moment, they trembled faintly, as though some terrifying existence was about to awaken.

After only several breaths, those faintly trembling eyes abruptly flew open.

Its eyes were like bells and drums, black as an abyss. Like the ink-dark sea itself, they were unfathomable, inspiring fear at a glance.

The instant the