Cloud Sea Spirit Abyss, Yunyu Spirit Island.
The blazing sun shone overhead, white light flickering across the sea's surface, tinged with salt white.
Nearly the entire lower half of the island consisted of exposed reefs. Clearly, the sea had receded considerably.
This was precisely a defining feature of the entire Great Abyss Realm.
It was said that the coastline had once been like that of the Great Yu Realm. Yet for some unknown reason, one day, more than half the seawater had been drained away.
The sea had receded countless times, making these shores look less like shores and more like one abyss after another.
Yet at this moment, the surging waves had risen considerably, submerging much of the vegetation growing on the reefs.
Many monster beasts churned within the waves as well, as though ready to burst from the sea at any moment. Even the skies were blanketed with avian monster beasts.
Among these monster beasts, crane-types were especially numerous: Red-Crested Golden Cranes, Three-Legged Cloud Cranes, and many ordinary varieties of crane.
Of course, among the cranes, the ones with the strongest cultivation and presence were still the Cloud Crane Clan.
"Hmph, these Human Race cultivators are truly greed without end!" On the island, four elderly men and women in plain Daoist robes gazed into the distance.
Their eyes brimmed with fury.
These four were precisely the four Demon Saints of the Great Abyss Realm.
The Demon Saints naturally had never gotten along in ordinary times. Yet in recent years, as the Human Race flourished and the Demon Race's living space shrank ever further, these Demon Saints had gradually united.
The one advancing now was a Demon Emperor of the Cloud Crane Clan. Once that Demon Emperor broke through, the Demon Race would gain another Demon Saint.
"Indeed. The