Deep beneath the sea, Ariel, the Sea God, was rebuilding the ocean's order around Sea God Island. The sea soul beasts roaming the depths all bowed their heads beneath her overwhelming presence.
In the Dragon Realm, Xisu, the Dragon God, was revitalizing the Dragon Clan in the realm's depths with the complete Dragon God's authority.
Ursula managed her Divine Kingdom of trade in an alternate space, while the Nine-Colored Deer rested peacefully in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest. The fairy-tale characters Lin Wan had once summoned to the Douluo Continent had now all reached their respective pinnacles.
On the Douluo Continent, nothing could stand in the way of Eva's ambitions anymore.
And so, she turned her gaze overseas.
Eva slowly rose and walked to the enormous floor-to-ceiling window beside her desk.
In the courtyard outside, several neatly trimmed ornamental trees swayed gently in the afternoon breeze, flecks of sunlight shimmering along the edges of their leaves.
The outline of Bright Moon City unfolded in the distance. Its orderly streets, buildings packed together like scales on a fish, and streams of people coming and going all moved to an orderly, vigorous rhythm.
Everything was going well. But Eva's gaze did not linger on those familiar sights.
Her eyes passed beyond Bright Moon City's walls, beyond the distant mountains, beyond the horizon edged in gold by the sunlight, and settled somewhere farther away.
The sea.
Out in the sea, Ursula and Ariel were harvesting the faith of sea soul beasts.
Ursula had established her Divine Kingdom of trade in the region she had torn wholesale from the waters surrounding Fishbone Cave and drawn into a fold in space.
The sea soul beasts that had once roamed the depths were now all enveloped by her transaction rules.
Sea soul beasts