The Endless Sea.
Lu Ran and the others returned to this place once again.
Unlike last time, they had a token Ghost Mother had given them... an Abyss Shell.
With it, Lu Ran and the others easily found the passage into Abyss Space.
After crossing the passage, they found themselves in the same familiar place. They seemed to be standing on a suspended floor, surrounded by a dark sea of stars, like a black Starry Sky Ocean.
This time, however, Lu Ran and the others stood there for a long while before the God of the Abyss slowly appeared.
"Lord Ghost Mother, we're back. We've finished collecting the hundred thousand samples of high-quality human blood you wanted."
As he spoke, Lu Ran took out the spatial equipment containing the hundred thousand blood samples and raised it high, offering it to the God of the Abyss.
With a movement of one of her tentacles, the spatial equipment instantly flew toward her.
Then she seemed to sink into thought, apparently inspecting the quality of the blood.
"That's it?"
After a long while, the God of the Abyss spoke. "Brat, you aren't trying to fool me, are you?"
"Although I haven't been outside in a long time, have humans' aptitudes really declined this far?"
"Huh?" Lu Ran looked at the God of the Abyss pleadingly. "Is... is it that bad?"
"Some of them even reached the level of a level-six Beast Tamer in their twenties. That should count as pretty good, right?"
"Is that very good?"
"Besides, judging by my inspection, they all forcibly advanced through outside help. Although their foundations are very solid, they're very different from the humans I remember."
"They even feel more like a group of 'incompletely evolved' humans."
"Have the humans outside degenerated this badly?"
"I looked through