Clang!
That thunderous twang of a bowstring reached the Divine Land continent, like a signal agreed upon long ago, sending sect after sect pouring out in full force and racing toward the sea.
Kuaiji.
The Sect Leader of Siming Mountain raised a gigantic Gatehouse Archway and led his disciples hurtling toward the Great Belly Sea, with Daoist Cunsi among them; the abbot of Hidden Dragon Mountain raised the Dragon Girl's Six Pearls, stirring boundless waves across the Great Belly Sea; the Sword Heroes of Yandang Mountain drew their swords and left their green mountains for the sea, heading straight for Half-Moon Island, the Alligator King's seat in the Great Belly Sea, to encircle it.
And not just Kuaiji.
The recently established Yellow Mountain Sword Sect in Qingzhou fought its first battle since its founding. Its many disciples advanced east under Vice Sect Master Master Canxia, entered Kuaiji, and followed the Qiantang River out to sea, joining the campaign to encircle and exterminate the demons of the Qiantang Sea. As for the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect's Sect Master, the Fifth Realm True Person Bao had naturally reached the sea long before, lying in ambush on Changqing Island at the northern end of Dragon Spine Road. He was already battling the Qiu King of the Feiling Sea, sword light soaring into the sky.
The monks of the Chan Sect's Jiuhua Mountain in Qingzhou were not absent either. They moved with the Yellow Mountain Sword Heroes and entered the Great Belly Sea to eradicate demons. Naturally, their current abbot, the Fifth Realm eminent monk Zen Master Yutian, had also taken his position well in advance under the unified deployment, lying in ambush on Fire Dragon Island south of Dragon Spine Road. He had now raised Jiuhua Mountain's mountain-guarding Buddhist Treasure, the Wrathfire Sumeru