If Chen Nianzhi and Daoist Purple Mystery had not both descended to the lower realm to deal with the Devil Master, the Central Wutu Divine Spirit's path to enlightenment would likely have been fraught with difficulty.
Jiang Linglong understood this as well and could not help nodding. "The timing of his breakthrough was exceedingly exquisite. He most likely asked an expert to divine the moment when the danger of attaining the Dao would be at its lowest."
"Call it his good fortune."
Chen Nianzhi spoke calmly, then pondered for a moment. "When I returned, I saw that the waters of the West Qi Divine Abyss Sea had receded considerably."
Jiang Linglong nodded, her expression grave. "Yes. The West Qi Divine Abyss Sea is suffering a great drought. Compared to several hundred thousand years ago, its waters have probably decreased by more than a tenth."
It turned out that over the years, the sea level of the vast West Qi Divine Abyss Sea had fallen by over a tenth.
One had to know that the Immortal Domain Continent was boundlessly vast. The seabed across that immense ocean varied tremendously in elevation, while the seawater itself reached depths of hundreds of millions of li.
Now that the sea level had dropped by a tenth, countless immortal mountains and wondrous islands had emerged from the waters.
In many areas where the seabed was shallow, the blue sea had even turned into mulberry fields, becoming continents that stretched on for untold hundreds of millions of li.
Upon those continents, rare treasures that had lain buried beneath the sea for hundreds of millions of years had reappeared in the world.
On the newly formed continents, water-element power had greatly diminished. Fire, metal, wood, earth, and other Heaven-and-Earth elemental qi, suppressed by water-element power for hundreds