At the edge of the Soul-Devouring Undercurrent, violent energy tides endlessly battered the jagged reefs and twisted spatial rifts around them. This dead sea region, which had only recently witnessed the fall of the Poison Lord, was still permeated by a nauseatingly thick stench of blood, the lingering embers of berserk energy, and wisps of eerie, icy, deathly poison power that seemed capable of piercing the soul.
Only a few days had passed since that brutal battle. Xiaobai had been sent back to Sea God Island, gravely wounded and near death. Sea Ghost was half-crippled, and Sea God Island remained engulfed in tremendous upheaval and grief. Yet the order to investigate and exact vengeance had already been issued from the Sacred Mountain like the most urgent of tsunamis.
Three figures, shrouded in pale blue barriers and covered in flowing Sea God runes, cut through the chaotic energy currents like three blue bolts of lightning. Their auras carried obvious fatigue and suppressed fury as they appeared at the outskirts of the Annihilation Vortex Core. They were Sea Spear Douluo, the senior member charged with the mission; Sea Horse Douluo, whose injuries had only just stabilized but who had insisted on coming; and Sea Ghost Douluo, temporarily called in for his expertise in tracking and investigation. Though he was deeply poisoned and in terrible condition, he was the most sensitive to the poison power lingering here and had been forcibly brought along as a "detector."
In just a few days, this place had changed again. The terrifying clash of energies from the battle seemed to have triggered deeper turmoil within the Soul-Devouring Undercurrent. The energy tides were even more violent and disorderly than before, while spatial rifts appeared with increasing frequency. The aftershocks of the energy storm caused by Moyuan's self-destruction had