The cold ocean water began to violently churn. Everyone stuck close to the bottom of the ocean, feeling as if their hearts were about to jump out of their throats.
It was a monarch!
It was not very big, but in the dark, it was releasing a chilling light in the shape of a serrated sword, as if there were countless cold swords without hilts stuck in its body. The weird and creepy light added a sense of horror in this extremely gloomy underwater world.
The inducement had already been released. It was a mass of pure soul energy, which was a relatively rare undead substance. The vast majority of high-level demons would have a great interest in pure soul energy because they needed to make their souls stronger.
"Lu lu lu ~ ~ ~ ~"
The Cold Light Monarch moved its gills, releasing something similar to ink that quickly spread into the water.
However, the ink didn't spread very far before the cold water began to freeze. One could see black ice spread out in the trench like vines, growing into all sorts of strange shapes. It looked like corals, seaweed, flowers......
This thing was still growing in the water. It was about to reach the scarred old general.
The old general lay on the stone wall. He didn't move because moving now would undoubtedly tell the Cold Light Monarch where he was.
Not only that, the others would be affected as well.
"Chi!"
An ink colored sharp branch pierced the old general's thigh like black ice.
The old general grit his teeth. The pain caused his face to scrunch together, but he still remained motionless.
To the side, Tan Feng was incomparably worried. The ink was clearly able to penetrate. He could already see the old general's entire leg turn black. The flesh on his leg was horribly falling off!
Not long after, the old general's leg was left with only bones. Tan Feng looked at the old general and planned to save him, but the old general lightly shook his head.
He didn't want the entire team to be slaughtered by this monarch because of him!
"The monarch is far away. It's chasing the lure!" Captain Tong hastily told everyone.
Tan Feng and the old general both let out a sigh of relief.
Tan Feng immediately swam in front of the old general and cut off his leg. He immediately used a light type magic to close the wound and seal the blood vessels.
"I can't restore you now. How are you? Can you move?" Tan Feng asked the old general in sign language.
"It's fine, I'm a Shadow Magician. Losing a leg won't affect my movement. Don't worry about me," the old general said with an ugly smile.
Fortunately, the Dark Frost Poison didn't spread very quickly. Some monarchs with powerful poison could fill a person's entire body with their poison in an extremely short amount of time.
…
As they continued to dive, what surprised everyone was that the bottom of the trench was unexpectedly wide!
This kind of openness was not the kind that one would feel when falling from an abyss into a cave. Instead, it was the feeling of passing through a path of darkness and entering another world at the bottom of the ocean.
There was no sand or sediment, only an extremely hard rock crust. It was extremely cold, and some parts were even especially smooth, like metal minerals.
"General, the water here seems to be flowing," Tan Feng said.
Zhang Xiaohou also felt it.
Logically speaking, the flow of water in the deeper layers should be extremely subtle, and for everyone present, it should be still.
However, the water at the bottom of the trench was flowing.
And yet, the water at the bottom of the trench remained the same.
"An underwater river?" Uncle Zhen, who had been silent for some time, suddenly asked the group with his Psychic Voice.
An underwater river …
It was a rather contradictory term. After all, the surface of the ocean was filled with seawater, the surface water, and the deeper layers of the ocean.
However, Uncle Zhen's description was quite appropriate for the situation they were in.
The water in the trench was still, like air with strong resistance and pressure, but the bottom of the trench was like an open and long subterranean river. The seawater was flowing from one direction to another, and the flow was extremely fast!
"Where is the water flowing to?"
"If the water at the bottom is flowing like this, it means the 'underwater river' is connected to somewhere else."
"General, are we still going down? The water flowing at the bottom of the trench is extremely strong. It's a few hundred times stronger than a normal river. We don't know where we will end up if we go down," Tan Feng said worriedly.
Zhang Xiaohou had a stern look.
They had come here to look for the nest of the Dragon King Ants, but after a few inspections, they realized there weren't as many Dragon King Ants as they had imagined.
Most importantly, the strange things they had discovered had nothing to do with the Dragon King Ants.
It was hard to predict what would happen if they continued to explore.
"Uncle Zhen, I don't think there's any silver ore in the deep sea here." Zhang Xiaohou asked using sign language.
"It definitely came from here. Look for yourselves!" Uncle Zhen said.
As he spoke, Uncle Zhen pointed his palm at the undercurrent in the deep sea. A milky white light shot into the undercurrent. Immediately, countless tiny sparkling fragments flickered in the undercurrent.
The undercurrent emitted an incomparably dense light. It was gorgeous and dreamy, and it was all silver. It was like a floating belt full of silver crystals. In this pitch-black and terrifying world … …
"The undercurrent is full of silver crystals. This might not be the nest of the Dragon King Ants, but the underwater river is obviously connected to another part of the ocean. If we go against the undercurrent, we might be able to find the answer!" Uncle Zhen said to the group with his Psychic Voice.
"The power of the water is probably enough to flatten mountains. How can we swim against it?" Tan Feng said.
"Captain Tong, test it with the purple liquid," Zhang Xiaohou said.
They were here to look for the Dragon King Ants, so they had to determine the density of the Dragon King Ants here!
They turned on the purple liquid that could identify the Dragon King Ants and allowed the purple color to dye the surrounding water.
However, because the seawater below was flowing rapidly, the purple liquid would quickly be washed away after being contaminated by it.
However, the water in the trench had completely changed color.
Using the light again, the silhouettes of the Dragon King Ants nearby were immediately revealed. These Dragon King Ants still carried the silver crystals in their bodies. At first, everyone thought they had accidentally floated up. Who knew that the Dragon King Ants had swum from the undercurrent to the trench?
"General, look at the undercurrent!" Uncle Zhen suddenly reminded Zhang Xiaohou with his Psychic Voice.
Zhang Xiaohou looked down and saw countless Dragon King Ants flashing through the rapidly surging undercurrent of the subterranean river like a school of carps crossing the river!!
If they hadn't used the purple liquid, they wouldn't have known that there were so many Dragon King Ants in the undercurrent …
Occasionally, a small portion would be squeezed into the trench and slowly swim upstream. This portion of the Dragon King Ants must have been attracted to the Salt Flower Peninsula. Their bodies contained the silver crystals!
However, there were even more Dragon King Ants in the undercurrent!
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