The fourth blazing sun slowly rose.
The clouds lingering over the Northern Sea were instantly burned into nothingness. The sky seemed glazed with incandescent golden glass, and dazzling firelight reflected off the sea. Countless members of the Water Clan had barely glanced upward before the glare stung their eyes, forcing them to dive back into deeper waters.
Outside the Northern Darkness Dao Palace, Han Jue's expression had turned utterly serious.
He cultivated the Dao of ice and was especially sensitive to changes in temperature.
When the second sun appeared, he could still repel the heat easily with his own cold energy. But by the time the fourth blazing sun rose, the fiery power in the surrounding air had begun actively eroding the cold light protecting his body.
Han Jue reached out and clenched his hand before him. A mass of icy-blue cold energy condensed into an ice crystal, but the instant it formed, white mist began rising rapidly from its edges.
"If this keeps up, the Northern Sea really will be heated through."
Ao Lie did not respond.
His gaze remained fixed on the sky.
After the fourth blazing sun, a fifth golden light soon shone in the southeast.
Then came the sixth.
With each additional blazing sun, the temperature of the Northern Sea climbed another notch.
By the time the seventh sun fully manifested, vast stretches of the sea were steaming. Ordinary vegetation on distant islands rapidly curled up, and some weaker members of the Water Clan had no choice but to keep moving into the deep sea.
The Jade Slip in Lan Shuang's hand lit up repeatedly.
"The eighth Three Lives Post Station reports that the temperature of two nearby shallow-sea spiritual veins has soared."
"Outside the twenty-second post station, an entire branch of the Cold Whale Tribe