"Quick, everyone, abandon the defensive line and retreat to higher ground!"
Seeing the towering waves rolling toward them, Cangxuan shouted urgently, his voice carrying along the defensive line.
The martial artists needed no urging. Although they lacked the strength of the true man realm and could not see that earth-shaking battle, they could feel the surging energy and had already begun retreating.
Now that they heard the order, they ran for their lives.
Out at sea, the towering waves came crashing forward with the force to topple mountains and overturn oceans. The thousand-zhang waves shook heaven and earth. Before they even arrived, driving wind and rain poured down, and the rolling surf thundered.
But the waves came too quickly. The warriors had barely retreated any distance before the surge blotted out the sky and swept toward them.
"Quick, board the Sky Arks!"
Many martial artists desperately flew toward the Sky Arks, but only dan jin martial artists could fly aboard. There were too few Sky Arks to hold so many warriors, and they could not withstand the onslaught of wind and rain. They pitched and swayed in the storm, threatening to fall at any moment.
"Damn it, we're too late!"
Cangxuan and the other two shot forward, desperately saving people, but even they could rescue only so many.
The thousand-zhang waves crashed toward them with mountain-toppling force. Their terrifying impact left everyone in despair. Even Cangxuan and his companions had to rise higher. If those waves struck them, even True Persons like them probably could not withstand it.
Just then, another earth-shaking dragon roar rang through heaven and earth.
The enormous waves abruptly stopped, as though frozen in place.
"This is..."
The fleeing martial artists stopped when they saw this, their faces filled with shock. Those terrifying waves had actually