Grotto-Heaven Fragment

Inside the ancestral seat of the Jellyfish Palace, shadows intertwined with light that waxed and waned, creating a strange stillness.

As the battle grew fiercer, the depths of the ancestral seat, once the heart of the Jellyfish Palace, had emptied. To stop Jiang Chen, the Secret-Keeping Demon King had mobilized every force at his disposal.

Just then, a figure slipped inside without a sound. He had the body of a giant shrimp, wore bronze armor, and held a Tide-Calming Fork. A strange radiance shrouded him, concealing every trace of his aura. He was the Wave-Turning Demon King of the Jellyfish Palace.

Of course, now that the demon seed in his soul had manifested, Jiang Chen's consciousness had long since overridden his own.

"To think a pawn I planted by chance back then would prove so useful today."

Jiang Chen smiled as he looked through the Wave-Turning Demon King's eyes and surveyed the palace interior.

Back when the Jellyfish Palace and the Impermanence Sect were at war, Jiang Chen had been ordered to reinforce Fanghui Island. In the fighting, he had planted a heart-demon seed in the Wave-Turning Demon King by chance. The seed had long since matured, but he had never used that pawn because he had had no need for it.

With the Wave-Turning Demon King's body to act through, Jiang Chen explored deeper into the Jellyfish Palace. He passed through layer after layer of restrictions, drawing ever closer to its true core.

Ordinarily, it could never have gone so smoothly. But the shaking of the outer formation had opened many gaps in the palace's inner restrictions. Although the Wave-Turning Demon King still had only Purple Mansion-level strength, Jiang Chen's sight let him find those gaps with ease.

Where there were no gaps, Jiang Chen twisted the restrictions with