Found the Monkey!
[You passed by the Three Great Sacred Lands.]
[The entire eastern coastline of the continent had retreated a thousand li, all of it swallowed by seawater.]
[Thus, the mountain gates of the Three Great Sacred Lands now lay beneath the sea.]
[Near the island chain where Xiaoyao Holy Land had once stood, you saw Dongfang Shuo sitting atop a piece of broken wood floating on the sea.]
[Stormy waves churned across the ocean, while startling bolts of lightning struck from the sky from time to time.]
[Dongfang Shuo's hair hung loose and disheveled, his lips pale. He meditated on that broken plank as though waiting for death to descend.]
[You arrived over the sea, walking upon its surface.]
[Dongfang Shuo opened his clouded eyes. Seemingly unable to believe what he was seeing, he rubbed them.]
["Is that... Chen Yi?"]
[You stopped before Dongfang Shuo and raised a hand, suppressing the waves around you and calming this patch of sea somewhat.]
["It's me."]
["You... came back to save the Human World?"]
["If I could return, I would. Unfortunately, I'm only a projection now, and I can't remain for long."]
["Sigh..."]
["The Masters of Jiugong Island..."]
["When the great calamity came, they fought to the death without retreating in order to preserve their legacy. In the end, they could not withstand nature's overwhelming might."]
["Are all the Martial Kings and Martial Saints of the Three Great Sacred Lands gone?"]
["Even those who survived the first wave of disaster fell in the battle against the falling Star Domain."]
[This was a true, earth-shattering calamity.]
[The most fatal threat had been the fall of the Star Domain.]
[So many stars crashing into the ground with such force were enough to destroy all life.]
[Yet you saw that quite a few people were still struggling