"Patter, patter, patter..."
The sky resembled a faded ink-wash painting. Bean-sized raindrops, like black pearls from a snapped string, crashed down fiercely, stinging people's cheeks.
Black rainwater flowed into the ruins left after the battle, rapidly gathering in every depression and crater.
Once the water pooled into puddles, the blackness on the surface quickly faded.
Ripples shattered in rings across the rain-struck puddles, reflecting the dumbfounded, disordered figures across Void Island.
With a rumble.
Amid thunder and rain, wild winds and torrential downpours swept relentlessly through the air, carrying away the indifferent silence that blanketed the island.
"Call me Water Ghost..."
"Water Ghost..."
"..."
When those words surged through all directions and truly reached everyone's ears.
Another thunderclap exploded over Void Island, abruptly stirring up a monstrous uproar.
"Water Ghost?!"
"Yu Lingdi is Water Ghost?"
"He's the real traitor? Elder Yan is innocent?"
"I-I'm confused, I'm really confused! Yu Lingdi, Yu Mo, Water Ghost... who exactly is he?"
In an instant, the battle over Fallen Abyss underwent a heaven-shaking reversal, one no one had anticipated: the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy had self-destructed and taken Rao Yaoyao with him...
Yan Wuse had appeared as the traitor, while the Subdimensional Door had swallowed nothing but emptiness...
Then Yu Lingdi had rushed out of Fallen Abyss, shouting that he would avenge "my Rao Rao Yaoyao"...
Which of these events was not shocking? While everyone lamented Fairy Rao's death, they had secretly laughed at Yu Lingdi for being the brooding sort, a hopeless romantic who had long pined for Fairy Rao without ever receiving an answer.
Yet just when they still could not accept Elder Yan's betrayal, Yu Lingdi's identity changed again in the blink of an eye!
He put on the Golden Beast Mask and drew out the Sea-Taming Divine Trident.
With one