Boundless water!
Terrifying energy!
Terrifying suppression that was impossible to resist!
The Vast Sea Whale's final dying wails!
All of it lingered ceaselessly within Nie Chuan's soul consciousness, like a nightmare from which he could never awaken.
These things seemed impossible to dispel or escape forever, filling him with instinctive fear and pain.
Above all, the dying cries of his last companion, the Vast Sea Whale, had shrouded him entirely in self-reproach before his consciousness collapsed.
Yes, the people in charge in the Dragon Nation had repeatedly told him that, given his earlier development of All Rivers Run to the Sea, he should not venture out at that time. He could easily be ambushed and killed by people from other countries with ulterior motives.
Yet he had insisted on having his own way. After all, for an enormous ocean-dwelling Water Element Pet Beast like the Vast Sea Whale, living only within a Beast Taming Space, living only in a captive pool, was indeed agonizing and painful.
He had even refused to let anyone accompany him and slipped away alone, leading to his own death and the Vast Sea Whale's.
Self-reproach. His remaining soul consciousness contained nothing but self-reproach.
But death followed him like a shadow, and the final fluctuations of his soul consciousness made it abundantly clear that such self-reproach was meaningless.
He understood with absolute clarity that his death was an inevitable outcome.
His end, too, would inevitably come as he died unwillingly within this darkness.
Bearing his guilt toward his Pet Beast, bearing his hatred for his attackers, he had died completely.
Yet at this moment, when he once again sensed the azure sea around him within the range of his perception and saw two young men with familiar styles and appearances, Nie Chuan visibly froze in place.