In some vast, boundless stretch of deep sea, an Aolong Shrimp was gazing blankly around at the pitch-black waters, as though it had not fully awakened.
Suddenly, a sea snake silently drew close to the Aolong Shrimp. Before the shrimp could react, it tightly coiled around the pair of terrifying-looking claws, robbing the plump lobster of its strongest means of retaliation.
Then, the sea snake's huge mouth suddenly opened into a gaping maw utterly disproportionate to its body, beginning to swallow a portion of the Aolong Shrimp's head.
The sea snake's enormous mouth kept writhing. With every wriggle, it swallowed another part of the Aolong Shrimp's body.
Meanwhile, the Aolong Shrimp seemed to be asleep, showing no intention of resisting whatsoever.
Before long, more than half its head had already been swallowed by the sea snake, which was about to reach the Aolong Shrimp's abdomen.
Once it reached that comparatively soft abdomen, the venom in the sea snake's fangs could flow unhindered into the Aolong Shrimp's body.
Then this foolish Aolong Shrimp would be dead for certain.
Watching this scene transmitted into his mind, Ye Zhen was dumbfounded as well.
He had never expected that the Jade Scale Dragon King's remnant soul, having only just reincarnated, would encounter mortal danger. It was truly tragic.
For ordinary undersea creatures, the ocean was more than ten times more dangerous than Ye Zhen had imagined.
One of those incomparably precious three chances to preserve its life had been wasted just like that.
Through Little Demon, Ye Zhen could vaguely sense that Little Demon's clone within the Aolong Shrimp—the Old Jade Scale Dragon—had already begun to act. The moment the sea snake's venomous fangs bit into the Aolong Shrimp's body would be when the clone stepped in to save its life.
Perhaps its head