Ye Tian and Xiao Zheng flew along the trajectory of the black pillars of light extending from the Western Continent. The Heavenly Sea was immensely vast, larger even than the combined area of the four continents—east, south, west, and north.
Back then, Ye Tian had crossed the entire Heavenly Sea with Luosen aboard a flying artifact, and it had taken a very long time.
Now that he had entered the Heavenly Sea again, Ye Tian discovered that it too had changed beyond recognition.
The surface of the Heavenly Sea had already been completely covered by the rune formations extending from those black pillars of light.
The Spirit Sealing Great Formation was also plundering the vitality within the Heavenly Sea. At a glance, the entire ocean had clearly become deathly still. Its azure waters had turned blackish-gray, like ink.
It was even harder to sense the existence of demon beasts beneath the sea. Even when there were demon beasts, they were all exceedingly weak.
After flying eastward through the Heavenly Sea for several days, the two began to see dozens of black pillars of light slanting in from the distant south and north.
Far off on the horizon, they converged with the black pillars extending from the Western Continent, forming an unimaginably vast semicircle that encompassed the entire Nine Heavens Continent.
At the center of that semicircle, where all the black pillars converged, an even larger and thicker pillar stood vertically, extending all the way down to the distant sea surface.
"That black pillar should be the core of the Spirit Sealing Great Formation. Where it connects to the sea is where the temple lies!" Xiao Zheng said gravely beside him upon seeing the sight from afar.
The two could not help accelerating as they flew toward that central black pillar.