Sea Demon City

The channel was maintained by Yila.

Luo Chuan's progress relied on the channel's power.

After some time, Luo Chuan noticed that his speed was gradually slowing.

It seemed they were close to their destination.

The channel vanished, and Luo Chuan abruptly appeared in the deep sea.

The crushing water pressure of the deep sea did not cause him the slightest discomfort.

Instead, it felt strangely novel.

"The barrier is up ahead." Yila pointed forward.

Luo Chuan stared hard and discovered a nearly imperceptible plane of distortion.

"Once we pass through the Spatial Barrier and then several Spatial Nodes, we'll reach the Sea Demon Homeland."

Perhaps because she was about to return to the Sea Demon Homeland, Yila seemed somewhat downcast.

"Let's go."

With that, she swam forward.

Luo Chuan drifted after her—what a strange sensation.

They arrived before the Spatial Barrier.

Luo Chuan felt as though he had passed through some almost undetectable obstruction, and certain spatial properties underwent subtle changes.

He glanced behind him.

Within the sapphire-like seawater lay an unnatural bend—it was the Spatial Barrier he had just passed through.

In the deep sea, the passage of time was nearly impossible to perceive.

The surroundings were silent, as if forgotten by the world.

Following Yila's strange route forward, their destination gradually drew near.

Before long, an arc-shaped dome emitting a faint glow appeared in the distance.

That was the destination of this journey.

Yila's speed subtly increased.

Perhaps to explain things to Luo Chuan, or perhaps to ease her own nervousness, Yila's voice sounded beside his ear. "At first, there weren't so many Spatial Nodes. These were specially added by the Queen decades ago, after the Mind Shadow appeared, to prevent it from spreading outside."

"Then how did you leave?" Luo Chuan asked.

Yila sighed helplessly. "Because I