The two exchanged looks as though no one else were there. Behind them, Jimo Yunqi and Chu Tianshuo wore expressions of helpless amusement.
"Can you two actually understand what the other is trying to say?" Unable to stand it any longer, Chu Tianshuo asked the two, who were winking and making faces at each other.
At his words, they stopped blinking, silently withdrew their gazes, and looked outside at the same time. In truth, they couldn't really understand much either.
Meanwhile, in another private room, a rugged-looking man encased in ice-blue armor, with scales faintly visible on his arms and face, was furiously smashing everything in the room to pieces.
If a barrier hadn't blocked the sound, such a commotion would probably have drawn everyone else's attention long ago.
Even so, the guests in the rooms on either side had noticed the disturbance. They simply hadn't called it out.
"Patriarch, could the person in the room next door be the deep-sea Demon King who brought in the Sea Origin?" a young girl asked the elder beside her.
The elder slowly nodded. "He tried to steal a chicken, only to lose the rice he used as bait. He's probably gone mad with rage by now."
Hearing this, the girl asked again, "Patriarch, are Sea Origins really so numerous on the seafloor that they're everywhere?"
The elder nodded again. "In the depths of the sea, Sea Origins really aren't anything unusual. They don't even qualify as monster beasts and can only barely count as spirit beasts."
At this point, he abruptly changed tack and continued, "However, that only applies to ordinary Sea Origins. One like the specimen just now, which can keep switching between plant and fish forms, is still very rare. Because of that rarity, the Sea Race regards them as