At the southernmost reaches of the Southern Sea lay a sea eye.
The [Great Salvation Holy Land] was sealed shut. Pure white spiritual light flowed outward in all directions, thick as grease, piling upon the sea and cutting off contact with the outside world, allowing no one to peer within.
Outside this Water Transformation light, many cultivators traveled on the wind. They wore moon-white Daoist robes embroidered with green bamboo and golden carp, each holding formation flags or compasses to stabilize the magical light here.
The Great Void split open, revealing a corner of deep purple brocade patterned with dragons. Then a half-dragon, half-human figure stepped out.
His jade horns were crystalline, surrounded by fragments of lightning, their tips branching into nine prongs like a crown. Mysterious Yin light shone from the reverse scale at his neck, its sharp aura seizing the soul.
Around the place where he stood, the seawater gradually turned deep purple. Bolts of lightning surged upward like a thicket of branching trees and vines.
The successive thunderclaps drew the gazes of the cultivators outside the Holy Land, and the atmosphere grew tense. Seeing that he was a Purple Mansion cultivator of Dragonkind, most wore strange expressions and dared not look directly at him.
Xu Xuan gazed into the distance. Through the dense Water Transformation light, he could faintly see Spirit Mountain sanctuaries and ancient temples, their architecture somewhere between the immortal and Buddhist traditions, unlike the immortal path of Great Li.
This sea eye is [Primordial Mother]'s sanctuary, the seat of the Southern Sea's only Golden Core.
He stood quietly beyond the shore, revealing the aura of his Divine Ability. A female cultivator emerged from the crowd, wearing a moon-white cloth skirt with a green tassel at her waist. She held a jade vase containing a