For Another's Sake

As Shen Luo and the others spoke, they arrived before the entrance to a manor carved into the wall of an undersea mountain.

Two incomparably thick bronze doors were set into the entrance. More than a dozen crisscrossing rune patterns covered their surfaces, and at a height of about ten feet from the ground was an octagonal recess.

Yuan Tuo unhurriedly took a green command plaque engraved with a tortoiseshell pattern from his robes. With a flick of his hand, he tossed it into the air, where it rose amid a layer of green light and fitted precisely into the recess in the bronze doors.

Immediately afterward, light spread from the green plaque, causing every rune on the enormous bronze doors to light up. Amid rolling rumbles, the two immensely heavy doors began to swing inward.

A dazzling golden light shone out from beyond the bronze doors, making Shen Luo almost unable to look directly at it.

Yet when the golden light faded, Shen Luo did not see the imagined scene of mountains of gold and heaps of treasure. Instead, what met his eyes was an enormous golden octopus.

Caverns of varying sizes and shapes covered the cliff walls around and above the golden octopus. Each was shrouded in light, with a layer of golden Restriction runes floating in the air before it.

At the sight of everyone entering, the golden octopus slowly opened its long-closed eyes. A glint of life flashed through them when it saw the group, and it spoke in a human voice:

"Old Yuan, it has been a long time since you brought so many people here... Oh? Is that Ninth Prince over there? It has been several hundred years since I last saw you. I was even wondering whether no one would ever come steal