At the center of the Pacific Ocean, above the Mariana Trench.
The late-night sea had been calm and still.
Without warning, piercing SSS-class alarms blared simultaneously in America's Pentagon and the Huaxia Capital City Underground Command Center. On the Holographic Projection screens, satellite thermal images filled with blinding red light. The center of the eruption lay eleven thousand meters beneath the Pacific Ocean.
There were no seismic waves. No tectonic compression.
Yet the sea rose in an unnatural bulge. A ring-shaped wall of water a hundred meters high formed out of nowhere, sweeping outward in every direction with enough kinetic force to destroy everything in its path. Isolated islands and reefs were pulverized the instant it struck them. At the Pentagon, the duty officer stared at the radar readings shooting off the charts, his entire body cold. He even forgot to press his communicator.
Ten thousand meters beneath the sea.
In the absolute darkness, more than a dozen enormous figures knelt silently on the seabed.
Abyss Bone, Black Thorn, Scale Fang, and the humanoid sea beast who had once encountered Chen Lin in the East China Sea were all present.
Of these dozen or so sea beasts, even the weakest had reached early nascent soul. Abyss Bone, the strongest, stood at the peak of mid nascent soul.
Just days earlier, they had slaughtered without hesitation in the overseas blessed lands, treating human Great Cultivators as worthless weeds. Now, every one of them pressed their head firmly into the mud, not daring to breathe too loudly.
Before them lay a bottomless fissure in the seabed.
Deep within it, two pools of eerie green light slowly lit up. Repelled by this power, the seawater churned violently outward. An area ten li across became an absolute vacuum.
Two figures stepped up through the