"Clang, clang, clang..."
A string of metallic clashes rang out, blending with the surging waves to compose a strange melody.
Before long, a tiny fissure appeared on the thunder pillar.
Where there was one, there would be two.
The cracks spread like a spiderweb, plunging deep into the seabed in the blink of an eye, their end unknown.
Moments later.
A muffled, earthshaking explosion erupted from the depths of the sea.
As the blast rang out, the waters throughout the Thunderstorm Zone, spanning thousands of miles, and even the Endless Sea beyond it for thousands of miles, churned violently.
Towering waves rose one after another, like an army of ten thousand horses charging forward, vast in momentum and deafening in roar.
Whether it was the countless flying demonic beasts and fiends above the Endless Sea, or the sea beasts and fiends locked in slaughter beneath the waves, all of them let out shrill cries at that moment, as though accompanying this spectacular seascape.
Their screams resounded through heaven and earth. Immediately afterward, countless demonic beasts, fiends, and even cultivators searching for resources on islands beyond the Thunderstorm Zone fled madly into the distance.
It was as though some terrifying existence beneath the seabed was about to be born.
Yet this... was merely the result of the thunderous power spreading out from the depths of the sea.
As the thunder pillar in the Thunderstorm Zone underwent its transformation, the dark clouds that had blanketed thousands of miles of the Endless Sea and brewed countless bolts of lightning also gradually dispersed in the wind at a visible pace.
Deep within the Thunderstorm Zone.
Under Su Shi'er's watchful gaze, the once majestic and spectacular thunder pillar vanished after that earthshaking explosion.
Surging power roiled across the seabed, yet at its very center, the