Bubbles gurgled upward. Su Xiao did not leave the water, while Bubu Wang had transformed into a fish swimming in complete disarray. Even his dog-paddle stroke went crooked. He might have been the only one in the entire canine world who swam like that.
Su Xiao's plan this time was simple. He did not believe the only people coming after the Beast Lord would be the other Dukain family councilors, especially since the Abyssal Daughter had previously sought him out and asked him to cooperate with her as a top-tier alchemist.
The matter was straightforward. First, the mastermind was Madam Scorpion, the ruler of Empress City. Empress City was the greatest force in this world—at least in terms of scale. Its urban area and territory were even larger than the Beast Clan's Eternal Ring City.
The Beast Lord possessed the ancestral gene sequence of the Elf race, which was why he could mass-produce Elves through the "Breeding Factory." Madam Scorpion possessed the ancestral gene sequence of humankind, and thus the people she enslaved were naturally humans.
Compared with the Elf race's talent for craftsmanship, humans seemed mediocre. Yet once their numbers grew large enough, there were bound to be some all-rounders. Thus, Empress City's industry, productivity, commerce, and foreign trade were all highly developed. In fact, Districts 2 through 5 of Empress City were tourist and entertainment zones for outsiders.
Of the three councilors, Madam Scorpion was not the strongest, but she was certainly the most far-sighted and clever. Moreover, Empress City was the only one of the four main cities of the Dukain family that did not establish a "Breeding Factory"—at least, none existed on the surface.
Madam Scorpion's strategy was to hide the "Breeding Factories" deep underground in several districts, using them to mass-produce human Elite Individuals. She