Five minutes later.
Pop!
With a soft sound.
The Divine Fire Dragon exploded into a vast spray of light.
The Flower Nacre Leader transformed into a streak of brilliant light and Flash Teleported once more.
When the seawater reappeared, she discovered in utter amazement that the brightness of the boundless waters around her had risen to an unprecedented level.
Brighter than light itself!
Most strangely, when the leader looked up toward a spot several hundred meters above, she seemed to see something different.
There seemed to be... no seawater there! This sight.
Truly overturned everything she knew.
My heavens! How could there be a place without seawater? The leader stared blankly for a long while before a flash of inspiration struck her, and she suddenly recalled an ancient legend passed down through her clan.
That was—above the ocean was supposedly the legendary "Void Land."
There.
There was no seawater!
Only emptiness!
Over a hundred meters away.
With a thought from the Divine Fire Dragon, the restraints silently released, and the gray Chains of the Ten Directions Flame God Prison immediately vanished.
Yet the Flower Nacre Leader seemed completely unaware. She made no move to resist and only continued gazing up at the sky.
The Divine Fire Dragon lightly waved a claw.
Several streaks of Crimson Radiance flashed past, then burst with a pop before the leader, forming a line of Flower Language: "You may float up and take a look at the sky."
The leader froze for a moment, then glanced back at the Divine Fire Dragon. In the end, she swayed the flower-like lower half of her body and swiftly shot toward the surface.
Splash!
Water sprayed everywhere.
A smooth, bare section of her body emerged from the sea.
At that instant.
The leader felt an indescribable sense of