Twenty-five years later.
The Sea Kingdom.
The Heavenly Capital Royal Palace.
Ling Jia sat at the head of the council hall, thick books and numerous jade slips laid out before him.
These were all reports submitted from across the Sea Kingdom over the past month.
As usual, Ling Jia was listening to reports from throughout the Sea Kingdom.
Twenty-five years was not actually very long.
That was especially true for the long-lived demons of the Sea Kingdom.
Yet more major events had occurred in those years than in the preceding hundreds or thousands of years combined.
Twenty-five years ago, strange phenomena had appeared in the sky.
First came the Great Sun Black Heaven, followed by the appearance of the Phoenix Bird.
Later, the black veil shrouding the great sun had suddenly dispersed.
Immediately afterward, Jianmu's Spiritual Qi had erupted.
A vast torrent of Spiritual Qi had gushed from the direction of Jianmu, spreading in all directions along the water veins and wind veins between the sky and sea.
It was as though it had slumbered for tens of thousands of years and awakened that day.
The Wilderness of the Heavenly Capital had received the first surge and reaped the greatest benefits.
In the years that followed, spirit plants and spiritual objects had emerged in abundance, and many spirit medicines long thought extinct had actually reappeared in the world.
Thanks to their proximity to Jianmu, the cultivation of the demons in the Wilderness of the Heavenly Capital had benefited beyond imagination.
Both the concentration and purity of Spiritual Qi far surpassed what they had been before, and many demons trapped at bottlenecks for years had actually broken through one after another within just a few years.
The younger generations of the major demon tribes had grown even more astonishingly fast. More