Before long, Lin Yuan and his companions found traces of the King of the Deep Sea.
Or rather, the King of the Deep Sea found traces of Lin Yuan and the others.
It was an enormous eel-like fish, its mouth filled with huge fangs, with flashes of electricity flickering across its body from time to time.
The moment it appeared, it charged straight at Lin Yuan and the others.
The King of the Deep Sea was no less intelligent than a human. It could sense that the humans before it did not have powerful auras.
They were no match for it at all.
Even so, it did not unleash its full strength at the outset, instead testing them with long-range electrical attacks.
But all the Sunken One Merchant Group's ships were wooden and did not conduct electricity.
The electrical flashes had little effect on either the ships or the soldiers.
Only the unlucky soldiers struck directly by the electricity fell without a sound. Everyone else was unharmed.
As for the fallen soldiers, according to Chi Yu and Wuwei, they would naturally be resurrected later.
By now, Lin Yuan had more or less figured it out.
These Sunken One soldiers were actually people from the same era as Chi Yu and Wuwei.
They had originally been soldiers of East Pole Island. Through something akin to soul possession, they transferred into the bodies of Sunken Ones formed after nearby fishermen fell into the water, thereby being "resurrected."
The "resurrection" ability Chi Yu had spoken of probably worked the same way.
That was why the fishermen of Shattered Island said that after falling into the water and becoming Sunken Ones, people lost all their memories and underwent drastic changes in personality.
The souls within their bodies had quietly changed.
The drawback was that,