Blood Fiend Trench lay at the far northern boundary of the Endless Sea Region.
The seawater here was a spine-chilling dark red, as though it had gathered from the blood of countless living creatures.
The trench was unfathomably deep. Its steep rock walls were covered in Bloodthirsty Seaweed that gave off an eerie glow, like writhing tentacles greedily snatching up the spiritual energy drifting through the currents.
"Master, Blood Fiend Ancestor's lair is just ahead."
Shark King swam obsequiously at the very front, carrying his signature Xuanhua Great Axe.
Although he had been beaten into fleeing with his hands over his head here just half a day ago, he now had Qin Chen, this living ancestor, backing him up. His ferocious face practically proclaimed "a fox borrowing a tiger's might," and even the way he swam had the swagger of someone who would disown his own kin.
Qingyuan Prefect and Jiao Sha guarded Qin Chen's left and right. Both held their heads high and their chests out, their eyes shining with the excitement of having their great grudge avenged at last.
Dressed entirely in white, Qin Chen looked utterly out of place in the dark-red depths, yet not a speck of dirt touched him.
He had not even formed the hand seal for the Water-Avoidance Art. Whenever the surrounding seawater came within three feet of him, an invisible Star Force automatically pushed it away, forming a domain of absolute vacuum.
"Quite a grand display." Qin Chen swept his gaze into the depths of the trench.
At the bottom stood an undersea palace built from countless enormous white bones.
Outside the palace, over ten thousand fully armed shrimp soldiers and crab generals stood in dense ranks, along with several hundred massive Deep-Sea Behemoths.
Sensing the presence of Qin Chen and the