The intense light before them lasted only a few breaths before Mu Chen and Nine Nether felt their surroundings suddenly open up.
An ocean as crimson as blood came into view.
The ocean stretched boundlessly, as though reaching all the way to the ends of heaven and earth.
The seawater was an extraordinarily pure, viscous crimson. It carried not the slightest bloody stench; instead, a strange, invigorating fragrance drifted faintly from it.
Enormous shadows swept beneath the calm surface from time to time. Occasionally, gigantic beast phantoms leaped out of the water, sending towering waves of blood surging into the air.
Those beast phantoms took all manner of forms. Some bore wings upon their backs, ferocious and majestic; some coiled like dragons, their scales and claws fearsome; some resembled giant turtles carrying mountains on their backs... All were mighty divine beasts whose names had resounded through ancient times!
Although they were merely phantoms formed from essence blood, the vast pressure born of their life essence and ancient bloodlines still permeated this world as though it were tangible.
"This... this is..."
Nine Nether trembled slightly, her violet-black eyes fixed on the crimson ocean below, her lovely face filled with indescribable shock.
As a divine beast, she was more sensitive to the bloodline auras of her kind. This ocean had been formed from the final essence left behind by the supreme divine beasts that had once roamed supreme across heaven and earth, after they had utterly perished!
"This is a true... ocean of supreme divine beast essence blood..." she murmured.
Standing beside her, Mu Chen gazed at the boundless sea of blood, and a flicker of wonder passed through the depths of his eyes.
The spiritual energy here was concentrated and pure to an inconceivable degree! With every breath, torrents of heat