Chapter 1288: The Deep Sea Curse Shadow Sinking into Eternal Night

*Boom—!!!*

The pitch-black seawater around the floating iceberg surged as if boiling. The monstrous waves swept up from the depths of the ocean, threatening to smash down the entire sky.

Under the churning waves, black giant shadows rose from the seabed around the three-eyed giant turtle, like mountain-sized behemoths from the deepest, most mysterious forbidden lands. Dense and eerie curse scripts flickered on their rugged surfaces. Tentacles, fins, sharp teeth, seaweed like human hands... countless parts churned on the sea surface, swarming to surround the three-eyed giant turtle!

*Crackle!*

Flickering electric arcs traveled through the air, and an electric eel with wings lunged at the sea surface in an instant.

A pair of burning cyan pupils, like suns in the dark night, bit the neck of a Calamity of the Forbidden Sea in the blink of an eye, dragging it from the seabed into the air.

It was an anglerfish covered in curse scripts.

The light in the electric eel's cyan pupils flared, and terrifying electricity made the anglerfish struggle frantically. A burnt smell permeated the air, and eventually, the massive fish body stiffened and was casually tossed into the sea, creating a towering water column.

But the next moment, four more giant shadows erupted from the seabed!

Water spiders, also with burning cyan pupils, swept across the sea at astonishing speed. In an instant, thick cyan spider silk wove into a net in the void, forcibly slowing the four Calamity giant shadows for a moment;

At the same time, a black shadow with a slender body like a dragon but with fish fins leaped out of the water beside the giant turtle. Its pitch-black mouth opened, and a world-destroying cyan dragon breath erupted!!

*Thud—!!*

The cyan flames spread rapidly along the spider web, directly igniting all four Calamities caught in it. The surging flames pierced through the icebergs on the sea surface and poured into the seabed, illuminating a corner of the ink-black seawater...

Beneath the sea surface were hundreds and thousands of massive, hideous Calamities;

Only the Calamities near the flames had their forms clearly illuminated, while beneath the deep sea where the light couldn't reach, there were countless black giant shadows. They gathered densely together, like countless fallen hands reaching out from the seabed, wanting to drag the three-eyed giant turtle into the abyss.

The Fusion Faction members on the broken tracks felt their scalps tingle at this sight!!

There were too many.

Even if the creatures raised by the South Sea Lord were capable fighters, they couldn't stop so many Calamities.

One had to know that the Forbidden Sea was the largest Calamity territory in the Gray World. In terms of area alone, it was even larger than the sum of the Sighing Wilderness, the Flesh-Rotting Turbid Forest, and the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery... With such a terrifying scale, how large was the volume of Calamities hidden within?

No one knew, and no one dared to think.

*Thud—!!!!*

Just as everyone was watching in horror, a heaven-shaking loud noise suddenly came from the direction of the three-eyed giant turtle!

The three-eyed giant turtle, which carried the entire South Sea Domain, suddenly let out a dull explosion, and then its massive body shook violently. One-third of the giant turtle's body, which had been lurking beneath the sea, was actually forcibly pushed out of the water!

It was as if something even more terrifying beneath the sea was violently colliding with the three-eyed giant turtle's body!

At the same time.

Two pale and deathly silent full moons were outlined from the bottom of the deep sea...

No one knew where these two full moons were located beneath the deep sea, but the light they emitted seemed to pierce through thousands of meters of seawater. In the radiance, one could see countless black giant shadows swimming—those were other Calamities of the Forbidden Sea.

"That is..." Linglong looked at the two full moons, a daze flashing in her eyes.

"Those are eyes."

Old Wolf's face was extremely ugly. "Those are the eyes of the Calamity of Taboo."

Linglong opened her mouth in disbelief. Although they had all learned the characteristics of all World-Ending Calamities in class and knew that the Calamity of Taboo was extremely large... only now did they realize what the simple words "extremely large" in the textbook actually meant.

In the world, there was actually such a large creature?

Compared to it, the three-eyed giant turtle carrying an entire domain didn't seem so large anymore...

The three-eyed giant turtle's body was constantly impacted by giant shadows from the bottom of the deep sea, and layers of overwhelming waves spread rapidly in all directions with it as the center.

Linglong stared blankly at this scene, muttering the annotation from the textbook back then:

"【The Deep Sea Curse Shadow Sinking into Eternal Night, the Ming-Vast Corpse Spreading Taboos】."

……

South Sea Domain.

Lake Pavilion.

*Hum—!*

Chen Ling, who was walking on the corridor over the lake, suddenly felt a tremor beneath his feet. The calm lake surface suddenly rippled with tiny waves, spreading silently in all directions with the Lake Pavilion as the center...

At first, the ripples were small, as if someone had dropped a pebble in the center of the lake, but as layer after layer of ripples swept across, their amplitude gradually increased, as if someone were continuously beating a drum in the center of the lake.

Seeing this, Chen Ling frowned slightly.

"Don't just stand there, the South Sea Lord is just ahead." Taking advantage of Chen Ling's attention being on the ripples, the blind man silently wiped his nose. The nosebleed that had been flowing was smeared across half his cheek.

The figure in the opera robe, who had stopped to look at the lake on the corridor, slowly withdrew his gaze. Chen Ling was about to continue forward when he suddenly asked in confusion:

"Why are you having a nosebleed?"

"...I've been a bit overheated lately."

The blind man wiped it a few more times, but the nosebleed kept gushing out, impossible to wipe clean. After replying somewhat shamefully, he buried his head and continued forward.

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

The stone pavilion was not large, but it was covered in bright flowers. They were not deliberately planted by anyone, but grew wildly from the cracks between the stone pavilion and the floor tiles, as if attracted by something, frantically wanting to grow, grow, grow... Colorful and vibrant, life was presented before Chen Ling's eyes in such a visible form for the first time.

Looking from afar, one could vaguely see a figure standing calmly among the flower pavilion.

He was facing the lake, with his back to the corridor. His waterfall-like long hair hung down from his straight back, spreading all the way to the flowers on the ground. Coupled with that antique emerald robe, from a distance, he looked like a slender ancient bamboo standing in the flower pavilion.

He looked down at the lake in front of him, and ripples spread from the stone pavilion beneath his feet, causing the spring flowers in the pavilion to sway gently...

But his expression remained calm and waveless.

Seeming to sense someone approaching, the figure slowly turned his head. His long cyan hair slid across his shoulders, and a pair of cyan eyes, like emerald bamboo, looked at his back with indifference and depth.

The moment that splash of vermilion entered his pupils, his brows furrowed imperceptibly, and then he slowly turned his head back.

With his back to Chen Ling, he said faintly:

"Hello... Calamity of Mockery."