“What?” Everyone was shocked, their faces filled with horror.
The Evil Domain was deep inland. Where was there any sea?
Let alone a sea, there was not even a large lake. How could a tsunami suddenly appear, with towering waves flooding towards them?
Bang! Bang! Bang!
At that moment, far away on the oncoming sea, the surface of an enormous beast thousands of zhang across faintly emerged. Eight gigantic claws, each several thousand zhang long, suddenly rose from the water and began slapping the surface as it advanced.
“Retreat!”
Upon seeing the eight-clawed behemoth, Long Tutian uttered a low command. He swept Lin Xiao up and retreated rapidly outward.
Zhan Meng and Ji Lian also gathered their respective forces and withdrew swiftly backward.
The elders and disciples of Canglong Gate who had been behind them, along with the people from the two major forces and countless unaffiliated cultivators, all retreated outward in haste.
Fortunately, they pulled back several hundred li. The eight-clawed beast stopped a thousand li away, level with the side of the giant tree. It danced its eight claws in mid-air but did not continue advancing.
Yet the vast floodwaters kept rolling forward, submerging the area below the crowd. The water reached several thousand zhang in depth.
Everyone now stood as though suspended above the sea.
The giant tree was half-submerged by the flood, though the Yin Demon trapped in its centre remained some distance above the waterline.
At this point, all stood far off, watching the eight-clawed beast, the colossal flower, and the giant tree with its Yin Demon.
The scene was too bizarre and overwhelming. No one knew what was happening.
The thousand-zhang flower had ceased attacking them. The giant tree and Yin Demon, perhaps because they were too far away to move or because they were locked in stalemate, no longer assaulted the crowd.
Judging by its behaviour, the eight-clawed beast also seemed not to have come specifically to attack them.
The thousand-zhang flower, the giant tree with its Yin Demon, and the eight-clawed sea beast appeared to be sizing one another up, posturing and demonstrating power.
Rumble…
Just then, far to the left-front of the crowd, an enormous city a hundred li across suddenly appeared in the sky. A vast shadow of moonlight moved across the sea.
In almost no time, it reached a position several hundred li beside the great flower and crashed heavily down.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! …
The hundred-li city smashed into the ground. The entire earth shook as though a great earthquake had struck. Towering tsunamis thousands of zhang high surged outward in all directions.
Immediately afterwards, countless figures floated up from the city. The walls were also lined with densely packed silhouettes.
When Lin Xiao and the others vaguely made out the faces of those countless figures, chills ran down their spines.
Every single one, whether in clothing, build, or appearance, was identical. All had sunken, emaciated faces, pitch-black skin, and looked three parts human, seven parts ghost. They were exceedingly ugly middle-aged men.
Yes, those hideous middle-aged men were none other than the same ugly figures from the strange city Lin Xiao and the others had previously entered.
Anyone who approached that city would be transformed into the same hideous middle-aged appearance.
Lin Xiao could not help drawing a sharp breath.
He glanced at the people around him and, seeing that none had changed, secretly sighed with relief.
Thank goodness that particular strangeness had not affected them.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! …
At that moment, another series of booming sounds rang out. Far to the right, fresh tsunamis rose. Countless flying spirit beasts filled the sky, while below, innumerable spirit beasts charged across the water’s surface towards this location.
Clearly, a beast tide was surging here.
Soon, they too halted several hundred li from the gigantic eight-clawed sea beast.
The spirit beasts treading the waves and those in the air were innumerable.
Who knew how many more lurked beneath the water?
Any spirit beast with cultivation would never drown.
At the forefront of the beast tide stood a youth.
The youth wore cyan robes and possessed stunningly handsome features. Upon his head grew a pair of antlers with countless branching tines.
After appearing, the antlered youth glanced at Lin Xiao from afar, surprise flashing in his eyes.
That antlered youth was none other than the one from the Qiulu Mountains, the same who had fought Nanmu Ling and later received a blow from Lin Xiao’s Heaven-Swallowing Spirit-Gathering Finger.
With vision comparable to a ninth-level Martial Emperor, Lin Xiao dimly recognised him and could not help twitching.
That unknown spirit-beast-turned-youth was actually the king of spirit beasts. He had mobilised a beast tide and led countless spirit beasts here?
Lin Xiao was filled with astonishment.
The Qiulu Mountains were extremely far away. How had such a massive beast tide reached this place?
There had been no word of any beast tide before.
Could it be that this Evil Domain was connected to countless other locations?
Lin Xiao also felt some worry. Would that antlered youth attack him?
He was certain the glance had been directed at him.
Judging by the youth’s aura, his strength was probably far more terrifying than before.
Of course, no one else knew of Lin Xiao’s history with the antlered youth.
After that single glance, the youth shifted his gaze away and stared intently at the sky beside the strange ancient city.
“Something huge is about to happen!” Long Tutian declared in alarm.
All these anomalies, sea beasts, spirit beasts, this place was definitely about to witness a monumental event.
Yet none of them withdrew.
Their side counted as one faction, and they had three Martial Saints. They would not flee in panic before even understanding the situation.
Whoosh!
At that moment, another sound rang out. Dazzling golden light shone from behind the crowd. Everyone hurriedly turned.
A colossal golden Buddha statue flew through the air.
This golden Buddha was ten times larger than the hundred-zhang Buddha controlled by the Immovable Monk, reaching a full thousand zhang in height.
The crowd hastily retreated sideways. The thousand-zhang golden Buddha did not unleash any attack. It simply flew past them and crashed heavily down two or three hundred li in front of the great flower, sending waves thousands of zhang high surging outward.
Where the thousand-zhang golden Buddha landed, the seawater did not encroach for a radius of over ten li.
Lin Xiao and the others were shocked once more.
The scene was simply too staggering. No one knew what was about to unfold.
One after another, colossal entities of uncertain life or death had appeared, each possessing utterly terrifying power. They were true titans of evil.
From the hundred-zhang golden Buddha controlled by the Immovable Monk, one could infer that this thousand-zhang version was bound to be unimaginably fearsome.
Now six great evils had manifested: the giant tree and Yin Demon counted as one, the thousand-zhang flower as one, the gigantic eight-clawed sea beast as one, the bizarre ancient city as one, the beast tide as one, and the thousand-zhang golden Buddha as one.
Six colossal evils stood in different parts of the void. The spectacle was breathtaking. Such a thing had never occurred in the outside world.
