Deep in the East Sea, the water was an inky blue, with hidden currents surging beneath it.
After Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches joined forces to break the restrictions on the Three Immortal Islands and set up the Witch Clan Formation, those waters returned to calm, as though nothing had happened.
Yet beneath the sea, a pair of eyes had been secretly watching it all.
They belonged to the East Sea Dragon King, Ao Yuan.
Ao Yuan wore the Flat Sky Crown and dragon robes, his bearing imposing.
He was the master of the East Sea Dragon Palace, ruling over countless aquatic beings in the East Sea. His cultivation had reached the Daluo Golden Immortal Peak, only a single step from Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.
After Ancestral Dragon divided the Four Seas into domains, Ao Yuan had guarded the East Sea, exercising authority over it on Ancestral Dragon's behalf.
He was meticulous in thought and steady in action, and Ancestral Dragon trusted him deeply.
Several days earlier, while in the Dragon Palace, Ao Yuan had sensed an unusual disturbance from the depths of the East Sea. It was the surge of spiritual energy from a great formation shattering, so powerful that he could sense it clearly even across tens of thousands of li of sea.
He immediately led several personal guards to investigate in person.
When he reached those waters, he happened to witness the final moment of Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches breaking the Three Powers Formation.
The sight of the powers of heaven, earth, and humanity erupting together and the formation shattering with a thunderous crash still left him shaken.
Every one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches was a Primordial Origin Golden Immortal. Di Jiang's power of space, Zhu Jiuyin's power of time, Zhu