The Azure Star Sea.
The revived Mingwu Race was like a Fierce Beast emerging from hibernation, ravenous to devour everything and replenish its nourishment.
Now, ink-thick mist gushed from the center of Mistveil Island, coiling toward the sky like millions of giant pythons.
Wherever it passed, clouds dissolved into grayish-white flocculent matter that drifted down in a steady shower.
After several days of silence, the Mingwu Race officially launched a probing pillaging war against the entire Azure Star Sea, seeking a detailed understanding of its current balance of power.
For the races inhabiting the Azure Star Sea, this was undoubtedly a sudden catastrophe.
Chilling winds howled among the islands, sounding like millions of wronged souls wailing at once.
Along the shores of many islands, the Mingwu Race's vanguard troops were landing, swinging their killing blades at everything in sight.
A small coral reef near Mistveil Island rapidly collapsed beneath the shroud of Mingwu mist.
The greenery covering the coral withered and shriveled visibly, its bark peeling away to reveal grayish-white, bone-like patterns.
Slaughter was also taking place beneath the sea.
Schools of fish that touched the mist were devoured by the legions of slaughter emerging from it.
Thirty nautical miles away, the Sea Anemone Islands bore the brunt, becoming the first islands to be swallowed.
Before the mist even arrived, the currents around the islands had already fallen into disorder.
The once azure seawater grew murky, with enormous shadows faintly visible prowling beneath the surface.
As the Mingwu mist touched the outermost reefs, countless figures wielding sharp blades materialized within it.
They wore translucent scale armor, ghostly blue flames dancing in their hollow eye sockets.
Though they had lost their former bodies, after their long ages of dormancy, these Mingwu warriors possessed even stronger deathwhisper bodies.
The seabirds on the