Ye Zhen had passed through five water mansions along the way, completely traversing two of them. The waters under the jurisdiction of all five water mansions shared one thing in common: the closer one got to a water mansion, the stricter the inspections became.
Especially within roughly a hundred thousand li of a water mansion, the inspections became incomparably stringent.
Most water demons could command ordinary aquatic creatures that had yet to gain intelligence, using them as eyes and ears. The instant an outsider approached, patrolling water demons would arrive with large forces to investigate.
At the very least, some water demons would trail them from afar, probing their movements.
When Ye Zhen passed through the waters governed by one of those water mansions, he had accidentally entered its hundred-thousand-li warning zone. A huge number of aquatic creatures immediately came to interrogate him.
From the look of it, if Ye Zhen had not produced some sort of background, they would definitely have killed him on the spot.
He had been forced to flee another several tens of thousands of li before shaking them off. Even then, water demons continued trailing him from afar, only giving up after watching him leave the territory of that water mansion.
However, in the waters of the Manifestation Water Mansion controlled by Great Sage of Sea Quelling and the others, there had not been a single patrolling water demon, even after Ye Zhen had penetrated to within a hundred thousand li of the Manifestation Water Mansion.
This did not change even when Ye Zhen accelerated and entered the waters within ten thousand li of the Manifestation Water Mansion.
Given the abilities of Great Sage of Sea Quelling and the other two, they had once controlled even Sky Wing Island as tightly as an iron bucket.