After careful consideration, Ye Zhen ultimately abandoned the idea of controlling the water lords, great and small, of the North Sea waters to take control of the North Sea.
Though that idea was immensely tempting, and the benefits once it succeeded would be beyond imagination.
The danger was equally enormous.
With the slightest mishap, Ye Zhen would be completely finished.
To say nothing else, Dang Xiao, the Yuan Xin Water Lord he had just taken in, had nearly dealt with Ye Zhen. Had the Demon Commander Avatar not happened to be unaffected by Dang Xiao's innate divine ability due to lacking a true physical body, Ye Zhen would have truly suffered a devastating loss today.
If Ye Zhen continued trying to control the water lords of other water mansions, he would not need many—just one or two water lords with such formidable innate divine abilities would be enough to make his soul scatter and spirit dissipate.
What was more, judging by the distribution of the North Sea waters, the waters Ye Zhen currently ranged through were still relatively outer regions of the North Sea.
Places such as the Manifestation Water Mansion and Huai Feng Water Mansion were only a few million li from land.
Yet in the ocean, the deeper one went, the stronger the water mansions and water demons became, and the deeper their foundations.
Some water lords might have inherited their positions through family succession. Though the water lord himself might only barely be at the ninth level of the Mystic Palace Realm or the first level of the World King Realm, behind him there could be several family elders at the middle and late stages of the World King Realm.
If Ye Zhen encountered such a situation even once, his martial path would end there.
Furthermore, the