Artistic Conception, Merfolk Secret Realm?

[The waves subsided and heavenly light scattered once more. You stood above the ocean surface, spiritual power surging around your body as you gazed at the gradually quieting bloody sea area.]

[You stored the corpse of the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon into your storage ring. This Nine-tailed Flood Dragon possessed late Spirit Transformation cultivation; had you not lured it up to the surface, it would likely have been extremely difficult to slay.]

[The Nine-tailed Flood Dragon could also be considered to carry a shred of dragon bloodline. Although the bloodline was impure, it was still a rare treasure in this realm, and its entire body could be used for medicine—naturally, it could not be wasted.]

[In the year 1600, you continued to explore the Star Sea, and this time you discovered an undersea secret realm.]

[You arrived at the ancient secret realm of the Merfolk Race—the Canglan Abyss!]

[The entire sea area was shrouded by a layer of pale blue spiritual light, isolating the turbulence and darkness of the outside world. Light filtered down layer by layer from the surface, transforming in the water into millions of tiny, fragmented rays of light that drifted like a river of stars falling to the ocean floor. The seabed was not made of pitch-black silt, but was instead paved with translucent white coral and luminescent spiritual plants. Clump after clump radiated faint cyan, pale purple, and silver-blue halos, illuminating the entire secret realm into a dreamlike illusion.]

[Enormous ancient seashells half-opened and half-closed, exhaling misty spiritual Qi; transparent jellyfish dragging long ribbons of light swam leisurely, every slight quiver scattering speckles of fluorescent light. Deep in the seabed stood ancient palaces constructed from white jade and coral, their spires lost in the gloomy currents, the pillar shafts engraved with water-patterned runes passed down through