Outside Azure Sea Lake.
The vast Azure Sea Lake stretched to where water met sky, boundless and without an end in sight.
Countless acres of shimmering waves blended into a single hue, mist drifting over the endless waters.
This lake was vast enough to nurture billions of living beings.
Countless cultivation dynasties lay scattered among the waterways branching out from Azure Sea Lake.
Almost every dynasty enshrined a tablet to the Dragon Palace and revered Azure Sea Lake, dispatching envoys every year with tribute and annual gifts to honor the lake's lord.
Along the Azure Sea Lake water system stood several immense marshes and lakes, each capable of sheltering tens of millions. Human Race cultivators built cities there, while the Demon Race founded kingdoms and multiplied.
Myriad living beings had cultivated beside these waters for generations. Azure Sea Lake was the homeland to which their roots were bound.
Even across all of Southern Shu, Azure Sea Lake ranked among the greatest powers.
With an entire vast water system under its control, the depth and abundance of its foundations were easy to imagine.
Compared with Southern Shu's other powers, such as Qingqiu, Southern Mountain, and Flame Mountain, Azure Sea Lake was even more prosperous.
At that moment, high in the heavens above Azure Sea Lake.
Yakshas already patrolled the skies over Azure Sea Lake, inspecting travelers and forbidding outsiders from passing through at will.
Today's upheaval in the Azure Sea Dragon Palace had stirred the billions of living beings within the lake, and security across its waters had tightened to the utmost.
Ordinarily, only Fifth Tier demons patrolled above this great lake, but now the faint auras of Sixth Tier demons could be sensed overhead.
Even the aura of a Seventh Tier demon flickered in and out of perception not far