In the depths of the sea, a ghostly hand blotted out the sky, devouring the life force of all things. In an instant, endless yellow sand manifested, completely engulfing the ancestral grounds of Jellyfish Palace.
With a hum, the yellow sand churned and continuously collided with the power of the Heavenly River. As that ghostly hand descended, the entire Heavenly Water Boundary-Splitting Formation shuddered, its operation visibly slowing. Most terrifyingly, that strange power actually passed through the formation and affected the interior of Jellyfish Palace's ancestral grounds.
"Gray Fin, you..."
Within a formation node, while desperately circulating his mana to maintain the formation, a Dao Foundation demon suddenly noticed something amiss and sharply turned toward his companion, a mottled fish demon.
Hearing this, the mottled fish demon turned back in astonishment, not knowing what had happened.
But gradually, following his companion's gaze, the mottled fish demon looked toward its own lower body. At this very moment, its flesh was mutating, continuously turning into yellow sand, yet before this, it had known nothing at all.
"Ah!" Realizing something was wrong, the mottled fish demon hurriedly activated its spells, trying to stop the change. But it was useless; instead, it only worsened the mutation.
Before everyone's eyes, accompanied by a miserable scream, its body directly turned into a heap of yellow sand. And similar incidents continued to occur.
"What exactly is that thing?!"
Raising their heads to look at the scene above, all the Jellyfish Palace cultivators could not help but feel a trace of fear in their hearts.
At this moment, yellow sand filled the skies. From their perspective, heaven and earth had been obscured by the sand, plunged into utter gloom. Within that darkness, a gaping, blood-filled maw had opened wide, its sharp fangs interlocking in grotesque savagery.
"Damn it,