Inside Dongyang City, Lin Xiao sat in the lobby of a restaurant. While waiting for his meal to arrive, he listened to the discussions of ordinary people around him.
Since the matter of the "evil soul masters" had already been dealt with, he relaxed and began to experience life in the Sun and Moon Empire as it was today.
The appearance of various soul guide vehicles and the construction of roads seemed to have made the entire Douluo Continent feel a little smaller. Even in this small Dongyang City, Lin Xiao had already heard several different accents.
"Guest, sorry for the wait!" The waiter's voice sounded beside Lin Xiao's ear. But before he could set down the food in his hands, a piercing alarm rang out across the entire Dongyang City.
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
The restaurant instantly became noisy, with voices rising one after another. Some people had already stood up and were running outside.
It had been three years since the Continental War ended. Over these years, the people here had grown accustomed to a peaceful life. The sudden alarm left everyone in the city momentarily stunned.
But soon, the piercing sound awakened the fear of danger buried in their memories, and they scrambled to rush outside.
"Guest, you should—"
The waiter no longer cared about the food in his hands and shouted to the side. However, when he turned his head, Lin Xiao was already gone from the table.
On the northern city wall of Dongyang City, the sound of soldiers' footsteps thundered. Below the city wall, a figure with light glowing behind him flew up and landed on the battlements.
"What's the situation?"
"Captain, the message from the ultra-high-altitude reconnaissance soul guide device says that there are soul beasts, sea soul beasts, approaching Dongyang City!"
The captain hurriedly picked up a far-seeing soul guide device and looked toward the sea. However, aside from the churning waves, he could not see any trace of sea soul beasts.
"How many? How many have come?"
"Reporting to the captain, the soul mentors in charge of the ultra-high-altitude reconnaissance soul guide device are still counting. We only know that there are a lot of them."
Although there was no specific number, the words "still counting" were enough to indicate the scale. The captain's expression changed drastically. "Quick, prepare the army! Messengers, report to the city lord!"
"Yes!"
The captain picked up the far-seeing soul guide device once more and slammed his hand heavily against the city wall.
In the city lord's mansion, the city lord of Dongyang City had also received the news. Messengers constantly moved in and out of the mansion. He paced back and forth in the room, equally anxious.
"Quick, evacuate the residents in the city. Tell everyone not to cling to their possessions and to withdraw immediately."
"Also, report the situation to Mingdu and request reinforcements from nearby cities."
"Furthermore, have all the soldiers in the city don their armor…"
One command after another issued from the city lord's mouth. Only after a long while did he finally let out a long breath. "Since Dongyang City was established, it has always had the function of resisting sea soul beasts."
"Now we will see just how effective it is in this battle."
Outside Dongyang City, waves surged on the sea. Many fishermen who had gone out to sea seemed to have also noticed the changes on the water's surface and were hurrying toward Dongyang City.
Inside the city, several beams of light from flying soul guide devices had already lit up and were flying toward the sea, apparently to rescue those ordinary people.
The turbulence beneath the sea had also raised the sea level considerably. Some nearshore ports and buildings had been completely submerged, with debris from many structures floating on the sea surface.
For soul masters and soul mentors with cultivation, what was truly terrifying was not only the changes on the sea surface, but the increasingly dense aura of soul beasts under the sea.
Another wave rose, seemingly about to engulf both the soldier rescuing the fishermen and his flying soul guide device in the seawater. However, in the next moment, that wave suddenly changed direction and fell to the side.
The soldier only felt a coolness on his face. He raised his head slightly and seemed to see someone standing high in the sky, but the distance was too great for him to see clearly.
With Dongyang City growing closer and still carrying the fisherman he had just rescued, the soldier did not think much about it and headed toward Dongyang City.
High in the sky, Lin Xiao frowned as he watched the sea soul beasts surging toward Dongyang City.
His spiritual power spread out. Although the sea beasts beneath the surface were mostly ones with relatively low cultivation and no developed intelligence, he could still sense a feeling of panic from within them.
The great terror at the bottom of the sea…
For some reason, Lin Xiao suddenly recalled the words spoken by those former Holy Spirit Cult disciples.
Their island had been submerged by a tsunami. The "Holy Envoy" had told them it was because a great terror had appeared at the bottom of the sea.
And now, these sea soul beasts "attacking" Dongyang City did not seem like they were launching an active assault. Instead, it looked more like they had encountered something terrifying and, in their panic, had fled here.
It was just unknown whether that "great terror" had moved near Dongyang City, or whether its influence was strong enough to spread all the way here from the deep sea.
Lin Xiao frowned slightly. His figure flashed as he flew along the sea surface toward the distance. His spiritual power spread out, sensing the chaotic auras beneath the sea surface, attempting to find traces of that "great terror" within them.
To him, if that thing had simply moved nearby, it might still be manageable. But if its influence could reach here from the deep sea, then its cultivation was probably quite terrifying.
"Boom—"
A loud explosion rang out from the top of Dongyang City's wall. A massive wave instantly rose on the sea surface. Several sea soul beast corpses flew into the air along with that giant wave, then crashed down heavily.
The foremost sea soul beasts had entered Dongyang City's attack range. With just one strike, a patch of red appeared on the sea surface.
That red hue was spreading along with the seawater, and a thick smell of blood gradually permeated the air.
However, the sea soul beasts with keen senses showed no intention of stopping after smelling this scent. They continued surging toward Dongyang City without pause.
"Boom—"
Seeing this scene, the defenders of Dongyang City did not slack off. Even fiercer attacks followed.
On the distant sea surface, Lin Xiao had already stopped moving and stood quietly in the air.
Looking up, the seemingly endless sea surface below was filled with the auras of sea soul beasts.
From the time he left Dongyang City until now, the cultivation levels of the sea soul beasts he sensed had grown higher and higher, but there was nothing inside that could be called a "great terror."
With a soft sigh, Lin Xiao looked toward the distance.
From the looks of it now, it seemed more like the "great terror" at the bottom of the sea had suddenly appeared, causing many extremely powerful sea soul beasts to abandon their original territories.
Their flight in all directions then forced slightly weaker sea soul beasts to migrate as well.
Under these layered changes, the sea soul beasts closest to the coast had no choice but to flee toward the distance.
As for the sea soul beasts near Dongyang City, they had nowhere else to go and could only be forced to assault Dongyang City.
With their level of intelligence, they still could not fully understand the terror of soul guide devices. Their fear of the other sea soul beasts in the ocean clearly outweighed everything else.
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