The Four Seas Alliance's headquarters lay deep within the Storm Sea Eye.
It was a black palace floating amid endless lightning and gale winds, forged entirely from ten-thousand-year black iron, its surface inscribed with dense, obscure formation runes.
All around the palace, seawater hung upside down, forming enormous vortex barriers.
Ordinary cultivators would not merely be unable to enter—even approaching within a thousand li would see them torn to pieces.
At this moment, the great hall was dimly lit.
Seven figures sat separately upon seven high-backed thrones.
The thrones took all manner of forms—some entwined by flood dragons, some borne aloft by giant whales, some condensed from storms—all reflections of strange phenomena from the seas beyond.
Each figure was shrouded in a hazy glow, their auras obscure and profound, deep as abyssal seas.
These seven were the Seven Alliance Leaders of the Four Seas Alliance.
They were also seven mighty experts of the Divine Mansion Realm.
"Those women agreed?"
The figure seated third from the left, shrouded in faint water mist, was the first to speak. Her voice was gentle, yet it carried an echo like the rolling tide.
She was the Sixth Alliance Leader of the Four Seas Alliance—Canglan Lord.
She was also the Sect Master of the Canglan Immortal Sect.
Back when Great Zhou had yet to end the era in which sects ruled the land, the Canglan Immortal Sect had been one of the continent's ten great immortal sects.
Later, when Great Zhou was founded and hunted the ten great immortal sects to extinction, the Canglan Immortal Sect had been forced to flee overseas.
"Of course. They had no choice but to agree."
"Excellent. Though they lost, they know Jade Prefecture like the back of their hands, and are even more familiar with the many transformations of