Lan Fozi fell silent for a moment, as if digesting the sheer amount of information in those words. Then she nodded vigorously. "Then I need to cultivate faster."
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale Queen merely curled her lips faintly. She said nothing more, simply hovering quietly in the water as the currents drifted slowly past her.
Elsewhere, unlike the sorrow surrounding the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Queen, Xiao Bai stood at the edge of the highest hill on the newborn Sea God Island, her gaze fixed firmly on the sea shrouded in dusk to the south.
She had sensed the violent tremor from the south and seen the dark-blue light that had abruptly flared at the point where sea met sky.
Energy fluctuations of that level far surpassed any clash she had witnessed in her life.
Complex emotions surged in Xiao Bai's silver-white eyes. She had absolute faith in the Sea God's strength, but Ariel had only just completed the Sea God's Inheritance, and her foundation had yet to fully stabilize.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, meanwhile, had been a god for some time. Combined with the strength he had possessed even ten thousand years ago, when he could contend head-on with the Sea God, Xiao Bai could not wait as calmly as if this were a battle already won.
The Soul Masters and Soul Beasts on Sea God Island who had just recovered were also murmuring among themselves. Some stood at the edge of the shallows, gazing into the distance. Some knelt on the beach, softly reciting prayers.
Xiao Bai did not stop them. She herself was waiting too.
No one knew how long passed before a crimson-gold point of light finally appeared in the southern dusk.
At first, it was no more than a faint flame