The night was deep and dark, with a blood moon hanging high overhead.
Scarlet light poured across the land, as if blood had stained heaven and earth.
The crimson moonlight pierced the barrier and spilled in torrents across the sea.
Shimmering ripples turned a chilling red.
The vast expanse of misty waves surrounding the Crystal Palace looked like a surging sea of blood.
Suddenly, a dragon's roar shook heaven and earth. The sea, calm as a mirror moments before, instantly heaved into layer upon layer of waves.
Towering waves shattered the moon's reflection. Crimson spray burst a hundred feet into the air as dragons flew out from the palace, with wind and rain trailing at their sides. Heavy, swollen clouds spread across the sky, and as the gale howled, the waves below grew ever more violent.
A raging sea gave rise to towering breakers. In the surging waves, figures—some burly, some graceful—appeared and vanished.
Their delicate merfolk gauze fanned out in the water like lotus blossoms, translucent as the fins of aquatic creatures.
A song as beautiful as the music of heaven rang out. Amid the merfolk's uniquely bewitching voices, the waves climbed higher and grew more savage... riding the wind as if they would rush into the clouds.
Crash!
High above, the instant numerous dragons pierced the barrier and burst into the outside world, the towering waves crashed against it, carrying countless merfolk up into the lofty skies of the Primordial Wilderness.
Outside, crimson still carpeted the land.
Dragons of every color, merfolk of exquisite beauty, and aquatic beings who had ridden the waves out with them all stood in midair. Around them, the sea roared and surged, while mighty currents of water vapor swirled ceaselessly.
An endless torrent of Di Liu Jiang seemed to pour from the sky,