"This is... the Great Canal Kingdom!" The Tear Demon quickly recognized the sprawling buildings appearing on the Guxuan Star Disk. They were the Daqú Kingdom Ruins where they now stood.
As the light on the disk grew denser, the sprawling buildings began to rise little by little, revealing an unbroken stretch of rolling undersea hills beneath them.
At the center of those undersea hills lay an even deeper trench.
A long crimson line wound through the buildings above and extended all the way into that deep trench.
"This is where we are. As for that trench, that's where the Northern Abyss Kun is hiding," Fire Spirit Child said, pointing to the two ends of the red line in turn.
Hearing this, Shen Luo followed the red line with his eyes. It twisted and turned from their position to somewhere near a stone tower, then plunged straight down into the trench beneath the ground.
"With so many of us, moving around will only be more difficult. How about this... you stay inside my Free-and-Easy Mirror for now. When I need everyone's help later, I'll call you out. What do you think?" Shen Luo asked the others.
"All right." Yuan Qiu was the first to agree.
The Tear Demon and Mirror Demon hesitated briefly, then nodded their agreement as well.
"I won't go inside. Let's move together so we can watch each other's backs," Ao Hong said.
"That works too." Shen Luo nodded.
Then he opened the space within the Free-and-Easy Mirror and took everyone except Ao Hong inside.
Without the Tear Demon and the others accompanying them, Shen Luo and Ao Hong became considerably bolder.
Both were Taiyi Realm cultivators, after all, with extraordinary perception and reflexes. They had little fear of ambushes by water demons or Sub-Beasts, so they sped