The far south, Tomb Mountain.
The low mountain lay quietly in the sea, like a solitary grave. Willows, cypresses, locusts, and poplars covered its slopes, with wood spirits clinging to the trees in deep slumber.
Hundreds of miles of sea behind the mountain had already become void. Fierce winds gathered there, ceaselessly churning the waters and raising waves.
Only by skirting the mountain and continuing south could one see the Sea Eye suppressed by Pudu Holy Land, where the waters were much calmer. Traveling east instead, around White Pond and onward for nearly ten thousand miles, one could reach the newly restored Pan Sea.
Tomb Mountain had once stood in the ancient [Eclipse Sea], the domain of Heaven's Eclipse Dragon Lord. Unfortunately, after the Dragon Lord perished in the great war at the end of Zhou, most of these waters had also become boundless void.
Had True Lord Yuan Yan not built Great Wind Mystic Firmament and taken the opportunity to prop up Tomb Mountain, the owls would likely have lost this Ancestral Land of taboo wood by now. Beneath Tomb Mountain.
Mysterious Deathly Azure radiance shifted, gathering into gates and transforming into coffins, from which piercing bird cries rang out.
Countless gray owls flew from the radiance, their cries mournful, and broke through the seawater. Immediately afterward, streams of baleful black fire erupted from the abyss beneath the sea, burning them all to nothing.
Within that baleful black fire, a faint light like a blood-red setting sun could be seen gathering into a divine decree:
[The Great Western Abyss Dark Crow slew the wicked owls here. Their ancient baleful power is restrained; their corpses shall never rise.]
In the Great Void, a woman stood quietly, watching the scene before her.
She was slender, with dark gray pupils, and wore