Firebird swept across like a waterfall, and the phantom image of the giant golden dragon emerged from it. It shrouded over the entire fleet and spread its wings. Innumerable blade-like scales extended, reflecting layers of metallic gleam.

  As the dragon spread its wings, the speed of the entire fleet abruptly skyrocketed, and the horrifying speed caused it to form a huge gully in the waters that it had passed. The loud noise of seawater backfilling only sounded behind them after a long time.

  At the moment, the phantom image of the dragon and the fog collided, and a landslide-like quake burst forth.

  The phantom shadow of the holy emblem fell apart.

  The wall of fog was smashed through.

  The tide that had risen vertically began to collapse, and huge gaps emerged from it. In the forlorn wails of countless strands of music theory, the dissipating aether spewed out, forming flying streams of silver light in the air.

  The naval defense set up by the Sacred City was destroyed as easily as crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

  The Royal Fleet had already entered the hinterland of the territorial waters of the Sacred City!

  It was at the very moment that the waters behind the fog wall were enraged. Mighty bell tolls sounded. The bell chimes seemed to have become tangible, spreading from the middle of the sea in all directions. Everywhere the substantial sound waves passed, they forcibly smoothed out all the ripples and tides.

  It was as if someone was cutting off protruding wooden stumps with a sickle.

  The sea region which was initially turbulent with hidden tides returned to a death-like calmness in an instant.

  First, the thousands of alchemy arrays inscribed into the mud and gravel at the bottom of the sea were illuminated. When the glows lit up, only then did people realize that the entire seabed had long since been shoveled in a manner such that it was perfectly level at the moment.

  It was as smooth as a mirror.

  The mud deposited on it was pushed away by the shock waves. Then, an infinite nature interference spread, forcibly processing all the seawater in the sea region.

  After the original nature of “fluidity” was removed, the “rock-like firmness” that replaced it made the water as hard as a rock.

  In an instant, the entire fleet was bounced up into the sky by the ocean.

  It looked as if all the warships leaped from the sea together in an orderly fashion, then fell back heavily on the rock-firm sea. As if they had hit the iron, matter and matter collided, leaving deep scratches, and producing countless sparks. Sharp noises sounded one after another.

  The warships were stranded.

  Fortunately, most of the warships materialized from Firebird. Otherwise, tragic scars would probably have appeared due to weight and gravity in an instant.

  It was much simpler for the Mountain of Nomadism.

  It directly switched to the fourth mode forcefully.

  And so, it stopped its falling forcibly, floating about 60 centimeters above the sea. Relying on the enormous gravitational force radiated by its innumerable arrays and musical movements, it exerted pressure on the frozen sea below.

  It was as if a shot put had fallen into a fishing net, and the sea surface, which was initially flat was forcefully pressed until it caved in.

  “That’s all? Let me add on!” someone snickered with disdain, then stomped on the deck.

  Bang! The gravitational force emitted by the Mountain of Nomadism became hundreds of times stronger in an instant, reaching the maximum load it could bear in theory. It was the result Ye Qingxuan directly extracting the power of the Net of Aether and forcefully pressing it down.

  The frozen sea surface shattered and caved in, directly forming a huge hole. The surface of the sea became rugged like shattered rocks and turned into ruins in an instant.

  As if it was not expecting the defense position that was initially indestructible to be defeated so easily, at the moment, the counterattack finally took place.

  A large pillar of iron rose from the deep sea towards the surface.

  A total of 641 iron pillars were erected on the sea in an instant, their tops being several hundred meters above the sea, and each was so thick that it would take several people to join hands and form a ring around it.

  But no alchemy array was inscribed above.

  It seemed like pure ornaments with no ability to attack, and even the material was just an alloy with high strength coated in a layer of black gold.

  The strange man-made creations stood on the shattered sea, exuding a cold and forbidding aura, or at the very least it did not seem like some artificial scenery of the Sacred City.

  At least, no one had ever heard of such a pointless tourist attraction.

  Soon, the Sacred City provided them with a detailed explanation.

  What the pillars were, exactly.

  When the auditory hallucinations that sounded like the buzzing of bees resounded in everyone’s ears, their hairs standing up one by one in the static electricity, some still did not know what was happening.

  But everyone could see the chaotic specks of light floating around in the air.

  They were like fireflies of summer.

  They drifted about in the hurricane, fluttering chaotically. They were fine and chaotic lightning, and the harm each one could do was negligible, but they were like the warning barks before an earthquake.

  They were the signs of the arrival of a disaster.