What was happening on the surface of the sea completely defied the laws of nature. As for the cause of this situation...
Thanks to a growing, increasingly sharp intuition in recent years, Xiao Jiu sensed that beneath the calm sea, there was no such thing as "calmness" at all.
Instead, two forces clashed against each other, evenly matched—at least forming a stalemate at this moment, which created a terrifying tension and caused the boundless ocean to present such a bizarre spectacle.
The East Sea felt like a volcanic crater ready to erupt at any moment, liable to detonate with a roar at any subsequent second.
Precisely because she could sense it, Xiao Jiu felt a throbbing pain in her cerebral cortex, her face turned pale, and she found it thoroughly unbearable. Ye Chi reacted in time, floated forward, and slashed empty air with her sword, blocking the overwhelming, incoming pressure that Xiao Jiu's divine will had inadvertently drawn toward them.
At this very moment, a critical juncture arrived: the equilibrium acting upon the sea surface could no longer be sustained. The seawater churned violently, rising and falling like adjacent mountain ranges. The waves stood vertical and sharp one second, then plunged deep into abysses the next. That surging momentum exceeded the limits of natural water currents, and even the sea floor could not bear it, fracturing with a roar and undulating endlessly, as if it were the end of the world.
The churning waters shook the sky, splitting the tribulation clouds above. The empty hole expanded rapidly, reaching a hundred miles, then a thousand miles in an instant, showing no signs of stopping its expansion.
In the time it takes to blink a few times, the brilliant starry night sky was left completely unobstructed.
Beneath the starlight, the Thunder Roc—still