Far out in a distant sea.
Crimson fire runes suddenly split the surface of the water.
The next moment, an island appeared out of nothing.
The island dropped into the sea, sending up enormous waves.
Qin Siyang stood at the island's center, his expression grim.
[Domain Summoning] had succeeded, but it had also immediately gone on cooldown.
For twenty-four hours, he could not use this move to relocate the island again.
If Madison and Adams found this place anytime soon, they would probably be doomed.
Qin Siyang had anticipated this.
That was why, at the critical moment, he had teleported to coordinates extraordinarily far away.
Somewhere even he knew nothing about.
Unfamiliar waters stretched in every direction.
The seawater was darker than before, and the sound of the waves was much deeper.
Most importantly, the starry sky overhead was completely invisible. Only pitch-black darkness remained.
There were clearly no dark clouds, yet not a trace of starshine reached them. Qin Siyang found it utterly strange.
Standing at the island's center, Qin Siyang closed his eyes and listened for a while.
The waves here were unusual, too.
Ordinary waves rose and fell as they struck the shore, but the sounds of this sea piled on top of one another.
It sounded as though they were rolling in from somewhere far away, yet also as though they were echoing back from barriers beneath the sea.
Qin Siyang opened the Spatial Artifact and brought everyone back onto the island.
Quan Taibin stood at the shore and observed for a long while before saying, "Qin, something's wrong with this place."
Qin Siyang said, "I can see that. All the stars in the sky are gone."
"That's not all." Quan Taibin raised a hand and pointed into the distance. "The currents here are chaotic."
Everyone