Chapter 120: The Shifting Stars

As the Turtle Chancellor, carrying the inherited memories of his ancestors, he naturally knew what the trembling of the ancient city signified.

The trembling of an ancient city meant that its lord had emerged.

According to the memories passed down through his bloodline, every ancient city across the seas and waters of the world had trembled before—except the Ancient City of the Other Shore.

Now, the ancient city that had never once trembled had finally shaken. This alone had broken a record that had stood since time immemorial.

“With the ancient city protecting him, even if the masters of the other eight royal cities attacked together, they still could not break through the defenses of the Ancient City of the Other Shore.”

The Turtle Chancellor’s expression gradually improved. A cold smile touched his face, though contempt remained far more prominent.

The ancient city trembled as its foundations began to tear free from the seabed, slowly drifting upward.

At that very moment, the entire sea suddenly shuddered.

In the next instant, every body of water beneath the heavens fell silent.

The sky was clear, yet the sea lay utterly calm, without so much as a ripple.

It was like an inverted mirror, so bright and smooth that it reflected the heavens above.

Beneath the tranquil, mirrorlike surface, threads of golden light slowly gathered. In the end, they condensed into the phantom image of a five-clawed golden dragon.

A trace of fury smoldered in the dragon’s eyes. Its gaze turned toward the city, then its form transformed into a streak of afterimage and vanished into the sea.

Above the Ancient City of the Other Shore, the water split apart. Space collapsed, forming a black cavern.

A golden claw extended from within and pressed down upon the city’s protective barrier.

The golden claw was covered in countless scales, blazing with resplendent light.

With that gentle press, the ancient city sank back to the ground, sending another tremor through the entire sea.

After the claw appeared, the ancient city fell silent.

Then the claw vanished into the black hole.

“What is this...?”

Within the City Lord’s Residence, the Turtle Chancellor saw the golden claw through his control over the ancient city. His entire heart trembled.

An unknown claw had actually shaken the whole Ancient City of the Other Shore.

“How many secrets are still hidden within this world?”

The Turtle Chancellor’s body quivered, and his face turned deathly pale.

There was no such claw in his memories at all.

Moreover, judging by its appearance, it resembled the claw of a land beast—certainly not the limb of an aquatic creature.

While he stood in a daze, the sky above Martial Capital underwent a sudden transformation. Only moments before, it had been clear and cloudless, but in the next instant, the stars shifted and the heavens turned.

The sun vanished, replaced by a sky full of stars.

The sight stunned every human and strange beast alike.

As the bright moon rose into the sky, the countless stars glittered in unison.

A vast and mighty celestial威威 erupted throughout heaven and earth.

The full moon grew ever brighter. Every awakened strange beast instantly fell to its knees, as though bowing before its king. Their bodies trembled uncontrollably.

“What is this aura?!”

At the entrance of the management office’s little shop, a large black dog lay prostrate on the ground, its body shuddering as though struck by electricity.

The Zombie Thunder Dragon had been examining the strange beasts, preparing to register them and issue their household records.

But now, even he fell helplessly to his knees.

As he stared at the full moon overhead, the whites of his eyes vanished in an instant, leaving only pitch-black pupils. His fangs lengthened, his nails began to extend, and he started howling and bowing toward the moon.

Throughout Martial Capital, every strange beast prostrated itself.

Some with fragile minds even lost control of their bodily functions.

“This is...”

Within the vanished manor, White Crystal’s body trembled incessantly. Slowly—very slowly—her knees began to bend, and she sank little by little into a kneeling position.

“No... I am the eldest princess of the White Clan. My bloodline is noble, and I possess an Immortal Spirit Body. Who in this world could possibly withstand a bow from me?!”

White Crystal roared and struggled desperately to rise, but the more she resisted, the more terrifying the celestial威威 became.

Even as a seventh-tier powerhouse, she soon began to bleed from all seven orifices, crimson blood slowly trickling forth.

“No...”

White Crystal let out a furious, unwilling cry. At last, both knees crashed heavily into the ground, shattering the floor and sending dust billowing into the air.

Perhaps because of her resistance, the pressure bearing down upon her only grew greater. In the end, her entire body was pinned firmly to the ground.

At that moment, White Crystal looked utterly wretched. Not a trace of the eldest princess of the White Clan’s dignity remained. She resembled nothing so much as a toad sprawled helplessly upon the earth.

White Slash’s body trembled as well, disbelief filling his eyes.

“What kind of presence is this? What level of cultivation does it possess?”

“How can there be an existence in this world more powerful than I am?!”

He roared in fury, his body bending downward inch by inch.

He unleashed every ounce of his strength to resist that overwhelming might, but despair soon seized him.

“Impossible!”

He let out another bellow. His entire body instantly transformed into its true form, bursting the manor apart and reducing it to ruins. In its place stood a black swan so vast that it blotted out the heavens.

The swan’s wings beat beneath the starry sky. Its gaze, filled with defiance, remained fixed upon the moon’s pure radiance.

Around the bright moon overhead, space began to ripple. Then, as though someone were tugging at a piece of coarse cloth, the entire sky wrinkled and twisted.

The stars themselves began to dim.

“Who are you? Show yourself!”

White Slash gave a furious shout.

But in the next instant, the pressure surged.

His enormous body was frozen in midair.

White Slash tried to struggle, yet no matter what he did, he could not move even an inch.

Even the power within his body was sealed by a mysterious force.

Horror filled his eyes.

He was a tenth-tier powerhouse, an existence that had broken free of the Primordial Dragon-Binding Lock. Yet he still could not escape this accursed restraint.

What kind of being was this mysterious existence concealed in the shadows?

As terror gripped him, the wrinkled region of space began to collapse, forming a black hole.

A golden claw wrapped in silver-white currents of electricity slowly emerged from within.

Silver serpents of lightning coiled around the golden claw, while muffled thunder rolled through the void.

More than that, the instant the claw appeared, the entire world fell silent.

It was absolute silence—a hopeless, deathly stillness. At that moment, every living creature could hear the sound of its own heart beating.

The noise was like thunder, reverberating beside their ears.

They could even hear the flow of blood moving through their bodies.

Only in the extremity of silence could hearing become so infinitely amplified.

Amid the stillness of heaven and earth, all things were crushed against the ground, their heads pressed firmly into the earth.

To move even slightly had become an impossible luxury.

Perhaps beneath the starry sky of all Martial Capital, only White Slash could see the claw slowly descending toward him.

“No...”

White Slash was terrified. At last, he let out a shriek of panic.

But then he realized, to his horror, that not a sound could escape his throat.