Faced with Sea King's proactive offer to join them, Gu Yu and the others decisively refused.
There was no room for negotiation.
Mature leeks should go out and carve out a future for themselves. Staying in Netherworld City would only make them more and more decadent, spending their days without ambition.
This could be seen from Copper Hanger and the others.
Ever since joining the Bei Qi faction, they had no longer faced life-and-death crises, and the cruel laws of survival in the underworld had nothing to do with them anymore.
Such a life was certainly comfortable, but it would also make people lose their fighting spirit.
Gu Yu and the others could not imagine Sea King, who had always been full of fighting spirit and wanted to dominate the Yellow Springs Sea Region, spending every day playing cards and drinking with Copper Hanger and the others.
By then, Sea King would probably be finished.
So, in order to preserve the fighting spirit in Sea King's heart, Gu Yu and the others did not hesitate to throw him into the sea, giving him freedom but never offering him even an inch of greenhouse soil.
At that moment, Sea King was undoubtedly dumbfounded.
He had actually always wondered why the Player Race had treated him so well, lending a hand whenever a crisis arose.
And behind all of Sea King's guesses was one conclusion: the Player Race wanted to recruit him and make him work for them.
Yet to Sea King at the time, that was nothing but a joke.
Even if I die—even if I die in the sea—I will never work for you Players!
But after going through so much together, some things changed. Sea King realized that the Players had truly treated him well. Thus, his resolve to