The preciousness of the Mother-Child Conch lay in the fact that, no matter how far apart they were, so long as they remained within the same world, they could instantly connect and transmit voices. It was exceedingly convenient.
Convenient as they were, the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures needed to refine Mother-Child Conches were incredibly rare: a deep-sea creature known as the Heart-Connecting Mother-Child Conch.
After Heart-Connecting Mother-Child Conches had grown fused together for a thousand years, the child conch and mother conch would separate due to old age. If one harvested these Heart-Connecting Mother-Child Conches after their natural separation and had a master artificer refine them, one could obtain these precious Mother-Child Conches.
These Heart-Connecting Mother-Child Conches were merely the most ordinary creatures of the sea floor and possessed no powerful means of self-defense. More often than not, they were devoured by other underwater Monster Beasts before they had fully matured. Not to mention a thousand-year-old one—even a hundred-year-old one was extremely rare.
In most cases, only Dragon Kings who governed a stretch of sea could carefully raise them for a thousand years and ultimately harvest several dozen pairs.
Ordinary water lords did not possess such things. Ye Zhen had only acquired several pairs of Mother-Child Conches after capturing Crown Prince Ao Zheng and searching him.
Ye Zhen first contacted his fief in North Sea Commandery. He casually inquired about the situation in North Sea Commandery and that of the Second Wind Patrol Envoy, while also ordering Spirit Investigator Niu Er to secretly investigate news from Luoyi.
He wanted to see which prince's residence had a eunuch named Lu Rang.
Ye Zhen had always prepared for a rainy day. That dead eunuch Lu Rang had escaped, and a deadly enmity had already been forged. No matter what his future