Meanwhile.
In the middle of the ocean, three thousand kilometers east of the Mariana Trench.
An "island" spanning dozens of kilometers suddenly began to shake violently.
The sea churned, sending colossal waves surging skyward!
Rumble-!
Amid a deafening roar, the "island" slowly rose, revealing its true form.
It was no island at all!
It was a beast so immense that words could not describe it!
It resembled a giant turtle, its shell covered in ancient, weathered furrows. Deep within those furrows grew primeval forests that had existed for untold tens of thousands of years.
Its head was larger than a mountain, and its eyes slowly opened like two dormant blood-red suns.
An ancient, boundless, terrifying pressure that surpassed the limits of Nascent Soul instantly swept across hundreds of kilometers of ocean!
Every sea beast patrolling those waters, whether at Core Formation or Nascent Soul, froze in place, their divine souls trembling.
A late Core Formation tiger shark in pursuit of prey stared in terror at the colossal creature waking from its slumber, unable even to think of fleeing.
It could not fathom the creature's strength!
It could not fathom it at all!
This was absolute domination on the level of life itself!
Run! I have to report this to the king!
Elsewhere, an early Nascent Soul sea beast on sentry duty endured the stabbing pain in its divine soul and abruptly burned its origin essence, turning into a streak of bloody light as it tried to flee toward the trench.
Yet the giant turtle merely opened its mouth slowly.
An enormous vortex that seemed capable of swallowing heaven and earth formed in an instant.
Time and space seemed to freeze.
Every living creature within ten kilometers, including the Nascent Soul sea beast burning its origin essence, was caught in an