After hunting down a Fourth-Level Spirit King, Huo Hai not only let out a great sigh of relief, but also gained quite a harvest. After searching for so long and relying on Little Water's abilities, he had never gained this much before.
One could imagine just how great the benefits of gathering resources on a large scale in the central region would be. Before long, Huo Hai crossed the border and entered the territory controlled by the Sea Beasts. He did not act rashly, instead observing cautiously. Although Sea Beasts had already taken human form and possessed intelligence equal to humans, they were not human after all.
Their long years as Spirit Beasts made Sea Beasts more straightforward than humans. After studying their organizational structure, Huo Hai discovered that it differed greatly from the human side as well, even though they appeared much the same on the surface.
On the Vast Earth Empire's side, large numbers of Spirit Generals searched the nearby seas under the command of Spirit Marshals. They gathered the Spirit Energy Beads and delivered them to Spirit King experts in various locations. Those Spirit King experts then sent the collected Spirit Energy Beads back for centralized accounting. Even Spirit Kings of differing strengths had their own separate affiliations.
Overall, it could be considered a unified organism. This gave them clear divisions of labor and extremely high efficiency. By now, the Vast Earth Empire was probably already investigating what had happened to the dead Spirit King.
The Sea Beasts were different. They were nothing more than a rabble gathered together. Every Sea Beast at the Spirit King Realm occupied territory of differing size according to its own strength.
Then, each gathered some ordinary Sea Beasts to help search its territory. Sea Beasts often fought one another simply because