Looking at the azure-blue Identity Token Long Aoxiang handed over, Ye Lin accepted it in puzzlement.
"Fellow Daoist, it's not that I doubt you, but what you said... truly makes it hard for me to believe."
Ye Lin wore an odd expression. Every race in the entire deep sea would show it some respect?
One had to know that the entire deep sea was boundless, with no telling how many races lived within it. To make every race show it some respect? Wasn't that far too exaggerated?
Besides, what exactly was this Lord of the Deep Sea? Could it be that such a vast deep sea actually had an owner? That was simply too inconceivable.
One had to know that even the land had no so-called overlord, much less such an enormous deep sea.
If the deep sea truly had an overlord, just how powerful would that being have to be? It was impossible to imagine.
"Fellow Daoist, perhaps you are unaware of something?"
"What is it?"
Seeing Ye Lin's confusion, Long Aoxiang chuckled softly. He then raised a hand, pointing ahead as he began to explain.
"What you do not know, Fellow Daoist, is that during the Primordial Era, the Xuanhuang Great World was boundlessly vast, at least a hundred thousand times larger than it is now."
"Even the combined area of today's deep sea could not compare to the territory of a single prefecture on one continent during the Primordial Era."
"Such vast lands naturally gave birth to countless powerful beings of every kind, and the world naturally descended into chaos."
"Heavenly Dao could not supervise such an immense territory, so during the Primordial Era, three Daos were born."
"First, Heavenly Dao, standing above the firmament and overseeing the entire Xuanhuang Great World."
"Second, Earthly Dao, standing within