Chapter 1288: Sinking into the Deep Sea Curse of the Eternal Night

CRASH!!!

The dark sea, dotted with floating icebergs, surged wildly as if boiling. Gigantic waves, swept up from the ocean depths, crashed into the air, as if threatening to bring down the entire sky.

Amidst the churning spray, massive black shadows rose from the seabed around the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle, like mountainous creatures from the deepest, most mysterious forbidden realm. Dense and eerie runes flickered across their rugged bodies. Tentacles, fins, sharp teeth, seaweed resembling human hands... Countless parts churned on the surface, swarming to encircle the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle!

CRACKLE!

Flickering electric arcs danced through the air, as a winged electric eel instantly plunged towards the sea surface.

A pair of burning azure eyes, like suns in the dark night, in the blink of an eye, bit into the neck of one of the Forbidden Sea's Calamities, forcibly dragging it from the seabed into the air.

It was a lanternfish covered in runes.

The azure glow from the electric eel's eyes surged, and terrifying currents caused the lanternfish to thrash wildly. A smell of scorching permeated the air, until its massive body stiffened and congealed, then it was casually tossed back into the sea, sending a towering column of water skyward.

But the next moment, four more gigantic shadows burst forth from the seabed!

Water spiders, their azure eyes also burning, swept across the sea surface at astonishing speed. In an instant, thick azure silk spun into a web in the void, forcibly slowing down the four gigantic calamity shadows for a moment;

Meanwhile, a long, slender black shadow, resembling a flood dragon but with fins, leaped out of the water beside the giant turtle. Its dark maw opened, and a world-destroying azure dragon's breath erupted!!

BOOM—!!

Azure flames rapidly spread along the web, directly igniting all four trapped Calamities. The surging flames pierced through the icebergs on the surface and poured into the seabed, illuminating a corner of the otherwise ink-black sea...

Beneath the surface, hundreds of terrifying, massive Calamities lurked;

Only the Calamities near the flames were clearly illuminated, but beneath the deep sea, beyond the reach of the light, countless other black shadows remained. They gathered in a dense swarm, like innumerable corrupted hands reaching up from the seabed, aiming to drag the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle into the abyss.

The Fusion faction members on the broken track watched this scene, their scalps tingling with dread!!

There were too many.

Even if the creatures raised by the Lord of the South Sea were formidable fighters, they couldn't possibly withstand so many Calamities.

One must remember that the Forbidden Sea was currently the largest Calamity territory in the Grey Realm. Its area alone surpassed the combined total of the Wailing Wilderness, the Murky Thicket of Agony, and the Ghost-Mocking Abyss... Given such a terrifying scale, just how vast was the volume of Calamities hidden within?

No one knew, and no one dared to imagine.

BOOM—!!!!

Just as everyone watched in horror, an earth-shattering roar suddenly came from the direction of the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle!

The Three-Eyed Giant Turtle, which bore the entire South Sea Domain, suddenly emitted a muffled booming sound, and its colossal body began to shake violently. A third of the giant turtle's body, which had previously been submerged, was forcibly pushed out of the water!

It was as if something even more terrifying beneath the surface was violently colliding with the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle's body!

At the same time.

Two pale, deathly circular moons were outlined from the depths of the ocean...

No one knew the exact location of these two circular moons in the deep sea, but the light they emitted seemed to pierce through thousands of meters of seawater. Within their glow, countless black shadows could be seen moving, which were other Calamities of the Forbidden Sea.

“Those are...” Linglong stared at the two circular moons, a bewildered look flashing in her eyes.

“They are eyes.”

Old Wolf's expression turned incredibly grim. “Those are the eyes of the Taboo Calamity.”

Linglong's mouth fell open in disbelief. Although they had all learned about the characteristics of every world-destroying Calamity in class, and knew that the Taboo Calamity was extremely massive... it wasn't until this moment that they truly understood what the simple phrase 'extremely massive' in their textbooks actually meant.

Could there truly be a creature this enormous in the world?

Compared to it, the Three-Eyed Giant Turtle, which carried an entire domain, didn't seem so massive anymore...

The Three-Eyed Giant Turtle's body was continuously battered by the gigantic shadow from the deep-sea floor, and layer upon layer of overwhelming waves rapidly spread outwards from its center.

Linglong stared blankly at the scene, murmuring the annotative phrase from her old textbook:

“Deep-sea cursed shadows, submerged in eternal night; immense forbidden cadavers, spreading blight.”

The South Sea Domain.

The Mid-Lake Pavilion.

Buzz—!

Chen Ling, walking along the lake's long corridor, suddenly felt a tremor underfoot. The normally calm lake surface suddenly rippled with tiny waves, silently spreading outwards from the Mid-Lake Pavilion in all directions...

Initially, the ripples were small, as if someone had just dropped a pebble into the center of the lake. But as wave after wave swept across, their amplitude gradually increased, as if someone were continuously beating a drum in the middle of the lake.

Seeing this, Chen Ling's brow furrowed slightly.

“Don't just stand there, the Lord of the South Sea is right ahead.” While Chen Ling's attention was on the ripples, the Blind Man silently wiped his nose. The nosebleed that had been flowing down immediately smeared across half his cheek with the wipe.

The figure in the theatrical robe, who had been pausing on the long corridor to gaze at the lake, slowly withdrew his gaze. Chen Ling was about to continue forward when he suddenly asked, puzzled:

“Why are you bleeding from your nose?”

“...I've been feeling a bit run down lately.”

The Blind Man wiped a few more times, but the nosebleed continued to trickle out endlessly, impossible to wipe away. After replying with some irritation and embarrassment, he lowered his head and continued walking forward.

Chen Ling walked for a long time along the corridor into the center of the lake, finally discerning the outline of a stone pavilion at the end of the corridor.

The stone pavilion wasn't large, but it was overgrown with vibrant flowers. They weren't intentionally planted, but had grown wildly from the cracks between the pavilion and the flagstones, as if drawn by something, desperately wanting to grow, grow, grow... Their colors were dazzling, full of vitality. It was the first time Chen Ling had witnessed such tangible life force with his own eyes.

From a distance, a figure could be faintly seen standing calmly amidst the floral pavilion.

He faced the lake, his back to the corridor. His long, waterfall-like hair cascaded down his tall back, fanning out among the flowers on the ground. Coupled with his antique-style emerald-green long robe, from afar, he resembled a slender, ancient bamboo standing within the floral pavilion.

He gazed down at the lake before him, as ripples spread outwards from the stone pavilion beneath his feet, causing the myriad spring flowers filling the pavilion to sway gently...

Yet his expression remained utterly calm and unruffled.

As if sensing someone approaching, the figure slowly turned his head. His long, dark hair cascaded over his shoulders, and a pair of deep, indifferent eyes, green like emerald bamboo, gazed behind him.

The moment that flash of crimson entered his eyes, his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly, then he slowly turned his head back.

With his back still to Chen Ling, he spoke calmly:

“Hello... Mocking Calamity.”