Clearing out small worlds was already familiar work for the clearing teams.
The Sky Ark crossed mountains and seas to reach a portal. First, they cleared out the mutant beasts, then established defenses, declaring that the Tianli Sect had claimed this world and preventing others from entering or damaging it.
After that, they entered the world beyond the portal and established a temporary base.
They organized the teams to strike out, clearing out mutant beasts and weakening their forces. They would even issue missions to draw other martial artists in, but that would come later. For now, their main task was to deal with the Heaven-tier mutant beasts.
That was the usual procedure. The clearing operations would draw out the Heaven-tier beasts, the True Lords would kill them, and finally, they would deal with the source beast.
This time, however, they did not follow that procedure. As Qian Shan put it, their combat strength was beyond what was needed, so there was no reason to proceed step by step.
The other teams continued clearing out mutant beasts according to plan, while the four True Lords appeared far out at sea.
True Lord Hanli and the others had already investigated the area. The source was a water-element mutant beast hiding in these deep waters.
The entire planet's oceans had become its domain. Under the influence of its water Laws, countless marine mutant beasts had evolved, and vast numbers crawled ashore along the coastlines to invade the continents.
By now, almost all the continents on this planet had been occupied by mutant beasts. Fewer than one in ten natives remained, struggling to survive.
Fang Mo and the other three True Lords stood above the ocean. Here, they could clearly sense the dense water-element energy in the sea below.
Qian Shan looked into