A Transitional Chapter (A short chapter, currently writing a big one, will push to a major plot point in one go later)

Beyond the Zhaolin Realm.

The Huaixu Realm, above the Heavenly Sea of the Zhongheng Dao Continent, at the Heavenly Sea Dragon Court.

The former Heavenly Sea Holy Domain, ancestral homeland of the Dragon Clan of the Ten Continents, was now shrouded in an unprecedented calamity.

Scarlet demonic qi swept through every inch of the Dragon Court like a plague. Amid cries of pain and furious roars, dragon after dragon—each one a being who could proudly call himself a "Heavenly Sea Dragon" in the outside world, and who stood at the very top of the Dragon Clan's pecking order—was being tainted by corruption.

Their scales and armor bulged. Their flesh swelled. Their dragon pupils clouded over. All manner of mutations and distortions appeared in these beings, who should have been the most perfect of all. Their mouths sprouted spiral teeth, bone spurs split through their flesh, and savagery and malice flooded their hearts. Then they were utterly... transformed into Blood Sea Demonic Dragons.

These were Blood Sea Spawn born from dragons. They were so powerful that ordinary beings had no hope of resisting them.

The corruption came from the Blood Sea Demonic Sect and the Heavenly Demons.

It was almost impossible to resist, and nearly impossible to detect. By the time it erupted, it had already reached its final stage, leaving no way to guard against it.

With Heavenly Demons possessing them, the Blood Sea Demonic Dragons' power surged. They began crossing through Taixu and time itself, racing everywhere at an inconceivable speed. They descended across the Zhongheng Dao Continent, and even headed toward other continents.

The arrival of these loathsome demonic dragons, joining the battle, instantly turned an already precarious situation into a complete disaster.

High above, the mountain gate formations of one Martial Dao sect after another flickered like