Jiang Chen turned his head, and the sight before him nearly made his jaw drop.
A crystalline, deep-black barrier stretched across his path, boundless, with no end in sight.
Suddenly, two wrinkled, dark-green stone walls closed together from above and below, covering the entire crystalline barrier with a thunderous rumble.
"Holy shit! Why does this... why does this look a little like..."
"An eye!?"
A thought arose in Jiang Chen's mind that sent a chill through even him.
The next moment, the dark-green stone walls parted, and a black beam shot out of the crystalline barrier and plunged into his body.
His consciousness began to blur. As his vision went black, the entire azure ocean world shattered.
What Jiang Chen could not see was that, before the scene broke apart, that eye widened further and further. Its owner was an enormous flood dragon with a fearsome form, pitch-black all over and radiating an overwhelming aura.
The giant fish from earlier was probably only the size of one of its eyeballs.
The flood dragon lay coiled there, white smoke curling from its massive mouth and nostrils. Its breathing was what caused the mist across this vast watery realm to appear and disappear.
"Wooo~~"
It seemed to roar, letting out a heaven-shaking sound. The blue sea began to boil, and towering waves nearly struck the vault of the sky.
Ding! Congratulations, host. You have drawn a Five-Star Monster Transformation Card-Great Sage Who Covers the Seas, Flood Demon King.
Through the haze of his consciousness, Jiang Chen was jolted awake by a crisp system notification.
He sat bolt upright in bed, gasping for breath, his entire body drenched in sweat as though he had just been hauled out of the water.
"Huff... huff... huff..."
Every hair on his body stood