In an unnamed stretch of sea, Jiang Chen dissolved into a wisp of energy and slipped silently through the void.
"Have I shaken off my pursuers?"
Spreading his senses, Jiang Chen looked back at the calm sea and paused for the moment. Some time had passed since he had escaped the Star Sea Blessed Land.
Just as Jiang Chen prepared to leave again, Purple Lightning hummed, and a sense of mortal danger suddenly welled up within him.
Sensing the change, Jiang Chen moved almost instinctively to turn into sword light and flee. But at that very moment, an invisible, mighty force descended. In an instant, heaven and earth changed color. Dark clouds shrouded the sky, hurricanes howled, and towering waves rose from the once-calm sea, turning the region into a realm of raging chaos.
Though Jiang Chen's sword light repeatedly cleaved through the waves and severed the hurricanes, he could never truly escape that stretch of sea. "Is this a manifestation of a celestial phenomenon?"
His sword light shifted as he watched the waterspouts warp the Great Void and surge toward the heavens. Jiang Chen knew that a True Lord must have intervened.
To think Raging Tide True Lord actually came in person. He must truly value the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son. Could he know the secret the Sacred Son carries? That is certainly possible.
As the thought arose, Jiang Chen reached out to the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace without the slightest hesitation.
Having mastered an incomplete version of the Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation, he was confident that his ordinary strength was enough to fight a great True Person of the Purple Mansion realm. Against a genuine Celestial Phenomenon True Lord, however, he was still far from strong enough. Perhaps only after mastering his third core transformation, uniting all thirty-six transformations, and