After heading back for another incense stick's worth of time, the group spotted a figure standing motionless on a raised reef platform on the seabed.
Sea Swallow Douluo immediately picked up speed, leaping off Huben's back and striding through the currents until he stood three paces before the platform. "My lord, the three Kings of the East Sea have been brought here. A hundred hundred-thousand-year guards have also sealed their own cultivation and accompanied us to await your judgment."
In the seawater behind him, Black Tortoise, Red Claw, and Eel King stood in a row, followed by over a hundred hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast guards who had sealed their own cultivation. Every guard hung their head in dejection, their aura feeble. Not a trace remained of their imposing presence as overlords of the East Sea.
Red Claw raised his head and swept his gaze across the reef platform. Finding no one there besides Kraken, he asked, "Where are Hailong and the others?"
Kraken stood on the reef platform, looking down from above at the three prostrate Kings. "You still have the leisure to worry about others?"
As he spoke, his gaze flicked almost imperceptibly toward Sea Swallow Douluo.
Sea Swallow Douluo caught his meaning and immediately raised his head. "Killed, of course."
At those words, all three Kings' expressions changed.
Hailong was a six-hundred-thousand-year existence, accompanied by over thirty Kings older than four hundred thousand years and an army composed of tens of thousands of ten-thousand-year Sea Soul Beasts. However powerful the man before them was, he could not possibly have uprooted the entire East Sea Central Army single-handedly.
Eel King's long, slender body shuddered violently in the water. "Impossible... Lord Hailong, he..."
Kraken calmly surveyed the shifting expressions on the three Kings' faces below. "Don't believe me? Then let