The world suddenly turned ethereal.
Within the Four Symbols Secret Realm, in the depths of the souls of the trial-takers, Red-White Robes, and everyone else, there rippled the crisp sound of a water droplet falling.
"Drip!"
It rang out from nowhere, washing over their souls.
As it made their pores tingle and bloom, it also seemed to have borrowed away some kind of power.
At this moment, everyone lifted their eyes. The world before them had shed all its colors, becoming nothing but pure black, gray, and white.
A wisp of cold mist summoned spirit-smoke; ink and wash painted a sky of scarlet-blue.
In midair within the Four Symbols Secret Realm, hazy water mist condensed. In but an instant, thirty zhang of raging waves surged out of nowhere, furiously rearing sky-high! "Boom!"
After the thunderous blast, the tidal wave rooted itself in the void. Like the thickest shield beneath heaven, it pushed out from behind Cen Qiaofu into the sky before him, blocking all damage.
"Long time no see, Ai Cangsheng. I'm back."
Water Ghost held his face with his left hand and a spear in his right, a smile curling at his lips as he strode atop the waves.
His long hair danced in the wind, his robes billowing. Borrowing the momentum of sea taming, he lashed out first with his spear, viciously smashing it toward the point of black radiance shooting through the air.
"Bang!"
The Evil Sin Bow arrow that even Cen Qiaofu could not split apart before his death exploded at once.
The Evil Sin energy that shattered and scattered through the air was caught completely by the sky-covering curtain of water, without a single trace leaking through.
The sea accepted a hundred rivers; water contained all things.
The ink-black seawater was utterly unaffected by the