An equally brutal slaughter took place beyond Spirit Turtle Island.
A thousand nautical miles from Spirit Turtle Island lay the Mystic Radiance Blessed Land.
Mystic Radiance True Person was a mid Nascent Soul Great Cultivator, a peerless Sword Cultivator who had once slain an eighth-tier greater demon with a single stroke.
Now, a sea beast wielding twin axes snapped his prized natal flying sword with its bare hands.
"Impossible... How can your bodies withstand high-grade flying swords?!" Mystic Radiance True Person's hair hung loose, his right arm severed at the shoulder. Blood soaked his Daoist robe.
"A scrap of iron. And you dared show it off."
The sea beast grinned viciously and crossed its axes in a shearing strike.
Blood flashed.
Mystic Radiance True Person's body was shredded into a shower of flesh.
Amid a piercing scream, his Nascent Soul shot into the sky and fled west for its life.
Another five hundred nautical miles south lay Star-Raiment Island.
Violet Frost Fairy, a female cultivator at early Nascent Soul, failed to last even fifteen minutes against three sea beasts of the same cultivation stage.
She decisively detonated half her body to buy a slim chance of survival. Dragging her grievously wounded, dying remains, she used a water escape technique to plunge into the deep sea and flee desperately.
In just three days.
The four secluded blessed lands hidden overseas, clinging to life through their remaining spiritual veins, were wiped out by the awakened Sea Beast Clan as effortlessly as autumn winds sweeping away fallen leaves.
Their lineages were destroyed. Their disciples became food.
Only a few Nascent Souls remained, stripped of their bodies and frantic as dogs without a home, racing toward the Huaxia mainland in despair.
They did not know whether the mainland offered any way to survive, but