Above the Ninth Heavens, winds and clouds churned, while only two figures who had left home continued on their journey.
"Mm, the map shows that ahead lies a Thunder Sea. Once we cross it, we'll reach the edge of the Central Continent. We're almost there."
At that moment, Dugu Feng held a scroll and spoke softly.
"Mm."
Ye Lin nodded faintly in reply. They were finally about to arrive.
They might have traveled with such ease along the way, but one of them was a top prodigy famed throughout the Demon Domain, while the other had been Northern Continent's number one prodigy a thousand years ago.
Had it been anyone else, they likely would have struggled to pass even the first trial—Black Venerable's checkpoint.
A journey that was effortless to them was no different from hell for others.
If they had needed to endure every kind of hardship and narrowly escape death nine times out of ten just to reach the Central Continent, then forget it—the prodigies who came after them could forget about ever reaching the Central Continent in this lifetime.
A trial was merely a trial, nothing more.
"We're here. Within the Thunder Sea, the thunderbolts of heaven and earth run rampant. Every bolt possesses the power to injure a True Immortal, and at the center of the Thunder Sea, a moment's carelessness could even cause a True Immortal to fall."
Looking at the Thunder Sea in the distance, filled with lightning, Dugu Feng hugged his wooden sword and quietly read the explanation on the scroll.
The distant sea surface was filled with countless bolts of lightning. They stretched beyond the eye's reach, forming an ocean made entirely of thunder and lightning.
The ocean extended from the sea's surface deep into the heavens. The apocalyptic scene within made