Searching the Deep Sea for a Nest

Deep sea.

A thousand zhang beneath the surface, an evasion light became an almost invisible dark streak, threading through the pitch-black seawater.

Roughly three hundred li from the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins.

The water pressure continued to climb, currents squeezing in from every direction. The density was several levels greater than in coastal waters.

The direction of the undercurrents was no longer predictable. Multiple hot and cold currents collided in the deep layer, carrying vast quantities of fine mineral particles and spiritual energy impurities.

But to Li Yuan's physical body, such pressure was not worth mentioning.

The Permanent Affix of the Monster Trace Spirit Appraisal continued operating, passively analyzing the auras within the surrounding waters.

Combined with Li Yuan's formidable divine sense, it allowed him to probe an extremely great distance.

Two li ahead, a Dark-Scaled Sea Python about fifteen feet long was lying concealed behind a reef. A Second-Order Middle Grade Demonic Beast, its spirit power fluctuations were steady as it slept.

Li Yuan adjusted his direction and closed in on the Dark-Scaled Sea Python in a straight line.

Sensing the approaching spirit power fluctuations, the Dark-Scaled Sea Python jolted awake from its slumber. Its gray-black vertical pupils snapped open, and its body instinctively sprang away in an attempt to flee.

The Gold Blade Technique shot from his fingertips and pierced through the python's head.

There was not the slightest hitch in the entire process. A Nascent Soul cultivator's suppression of a Second-Order Demonic Beast was absolute; the disparity in strength was so vast that it could not even put up a decent resistance.

Li Yuan took the Inner Core and continued onward.

The condition for permanently acquiring the Flood Lizard Essence Soul Affix was to kill three Second-Order Demonic Beasts in a deep-sea environment.

That Dark-Scaled Sea