Deep in the Pacific Ocean, in the Mariana Trench.
Sea King Kunpeng led the surviving elite sea beasts in a frantic dive toward the fissure in the earth's crust at the deepest point of the trench.
That was where the Spirit-Devouring Heaven-Swallowing Beast had once slept. Now, ironically, it had become the safest refuge.
Suddenly, Kunpeng's enormous body jerked to a halt in the pitch-black water.
His abrupt stop sent the surrounding seawater into massive turbulence.
"My king?" Queen Silver Ray swam forward, her voice filled with panic.
Kunpeng's enormous, blood-red eyes were filled with an almost human expression of utter terror.
"It's gone..." Kunpeng's voice reverberated through the water.
"What's gone?"
"That monster's presence. It's vanished completely." Kunpeng's immense body was actually trembling slightly.
The Spirit-Devouring Heaven-Swallowing Beast was an ancient primordial creature at half-step deity transformation. Even the Sea Beast Clan at its peak, together with an army of a million, would barely have been a morsel to it.
Yet less than half a day had passed since the monster reached land, and its presence had disappeared completely.
Something had wiped it out in an instant.
What unimaginable being was hiding on that human continent?
Kunpeng spun around and looked at the dozens of Nascent Soul sea beast generals behind him.
"Pass down my command! Seal the trench's exits! Set up ten layers of restrictions! From this day forward, for the next hundred years, if any member of the Sea Tribe dares take so much as half a step toward the Shenzhou continental shelf, I will swallow them alive!"
In Death Valley, in the Kunlun Mountains.
Demon Prince Di Shisan stood on a cliff at the edge of the abyss, his gray robes snapping in the wind.
His eyes were tightly shut, his divine sense extending eastward as