Deep beneath the sea, the azure blue of the waters above had already faded to a pale black.
Waves of cold swept through the depths. Few fish or shrimp could survive here; only countless enormous beast bones lay strewn in every direction, forming vast beds of underwater coral and reefs.
Yet surging undercurrents swept in, and more than a dozen enormous Primordial Sharks came gliding through the water.
Several cultivators rode atop the Primordial Sharks' heads.
At their head was none other than Ye Jingcheng.
This stretch of seabed was the Primordial Sharks' lair. The moment they arrived, they felt incomparably pure water-aspected spiritual energy washing over them.
The richness of that spiritual energy startled Ye Jingcheng and the others.
"Is the spirit vein here a fifth-stage pure water-aspected spirit vein?" Ye Jingcheng could not help asking the Primordial Shark Demon Emperor.
When he had first asked about it, he had assumed it was merely an ordinary fifth-stage spirit vein. Now, however, it seemed to be a fifth-stage pure-aspect spirit vein.
Realization dawned on Ye Jingcheng.
No wonder the spirit water wielded by the Primordial Shark Demon Emperor had restrained that Corpse Emperor so thoroughly that it could not break free at all.
It was probably because this spirit water was not merely tied to the Primordial Shark Demon Emperor's divine ability, but had also been refined from spirit water produced by a fifth-stage pure water-aspected spirit vein.
It was much like a Crimson Flame Fox obtaining an innate spirit flame divine ability condensed from a natural spirit flame.
For the Ye Family, this was even better news.
It meant that all the Ye Family's water-aspected spirit beasts could come here to refine yin-aspected spirit water, and its water-aspected cultivators could cultivate here as well.
The Ye Family might even