Chapter 3716: See Clearly

Victor said, "The sea race possesses an innate perception ability. We can distinguish our surroundings through water pressure fluctuations and tidal sensing. The residual effects of the seal cannot affect this ability. If other races lack this kind of perception ability, they can easily become lost in the Sea Abyss region. Rashly entering this place is basically the same as committing suicide."

Fang Heng secretly nodded.

That made sense. This kind of environment gave the sea race a huge advantage. No wonder even the God Clan had suffered setbacks within the Sea Abyss region.

Victor spread open his hand, revealing a dark cyan scale resting in his palm.

The scale was about the size of a palm. Complex patterns covered its surface, and it faintly emitted a dim glow.

Everyone turned their gaze toward Victor.

Victor explained, "This is a scale granted by Lord Kandal before our departure. After entering the Sea Abyss region, we can use it to perceive the movements of hidden currents and guide us toward the Sea Abyss sealed land."

The dim glow of the scale flickered faintly, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, as though some living creature was breathing.

Victor stared at the glow for a moment before raising his hand and pointing to the left. "Follow me this way. Three hundred meters ahead there is a horizontal spatial undercurrent. We’ll go around it."

After hearing that Victor possessed such a treasure, the accompanying group relaxed slightly.

"Alright."

Everyone adjusted their direction and continued deeper while following Victor.

Along the way, the scale in Victor’s hand issued warnings at least seven or eight times. Each time, it detected the existence of spatial undercurrents several hundred meters in advance, allowing the group to avoid them early.

As Fang Heng passed by the edge of one undercurrent, he slightly released his mental strength to sense it.

The spatial undercurrent was extremely concealed. Unless one got close, it was very difficult to detect. It silently surged through the darkness, constantly devouring nearby light, perception, and any living creatures.

Suddenly, Victor, who was leading the way ahead, signaled for everyone to stop.

"There’s something ahead."

A deep, muffled roar came from the darkness of the deep sea ahead. The sound was extremely low, making it seem like it came from some enormous creature.

Within the deep-sea abyss, perception was suppressed to the limit. No one could see anything at all. Even the sea race could only vaguely sense the existence of some gigantic monster in the distance, while a heavy feeling pressed down on their hearts.

Fang Heng slightly narrowed his eyes. The God’s Eye in his right eye rapidly rotated as he looked into the distant darkness.

He saw it clearly!

Several enormous figures appeared faintly within the darkness hundreds of meters away.

He could not see them clearly, but he felt these monsters were at least ten times larger than Kandal’s two catfish guards.

"They are Sea Abyss giant beasts."

Victor was also unable to perceive the exact positions of the deep-sea giant beasts, and he continued in a lowered voice, "It seems we are already approaching the bottom sealed area of the Sea Abyss. These creatures have lived at the bottom of the Sea Abyss year-round and were normally in a dormant state. Recently, due to the outbreak of spatial undercurrents, they collectively awakened. We launched three rescue operations before, and two of them were stopped here by these creatures."

"However, they also have weaknesses. The Sea Abyss region has lacked light year-round, causing their vision to approach zero. They generally use their low roars to probe their surroundings."

"In addition, Sea Abyss giant beasts are extremely sensitive to the smell of blood. If something is injured and bleeding, they will rapidly gather over. They are extremely troublesome."

Feng Tiya tried sensing the Sea Abyss giant beasts hidden within the distant darkness.

Even with her affinity toward the ocean, she still could not perceive the exact locations of the Sea Abyss giant beasts.

Feng Tiya lightly raised the Sea God’s scepter in her hand, and a trace of killing intent appeared in her eyes. "If that’s the case, then we’ll simply carve out a bloody path."

"That won’t be necessary." Fang Heng looked at the clusters of giant Sea Abyss creatures in the distant darkness and lightly shook his head. "If possible, it’s better to go around them. Everyone, I’ll determine the positions of the Sea Abyss giant beasts. Victor, you just remind me to avoid the spatial undercurrents."

Victor was stunned and looked toward Fang Heng. "You can perceive the positions of the Sea Abyss giant beasts?"

"I’m seeing them."

Fang Heng did not explain further. He immediately moved forward first, leading everyone around the direction where the Sea Abyss giant beasts had gathered.

Seeing them?

Victor could not understand it, but after seeing that Empress Feng Tiya trusted Fang Heng greatly, he directly led his subordinates to follow. He immediately signaled for his own subordinates to follow as well.

Huh? It actually worked?

Victor quickly discovered that after following Fang Heng’s guidance, although they could frequently hear the low roars of the Sea Abyss giant beasts, they encountered no danger at all along the way.

He really managed to do it!

Victor was greatly encouraged.

With Fang Heng guiding them to avoid the Sea Abyss giant beasts, the danger level of this operation was greatly reduced!

But how exactly had he accomplished it?

Victor was extremely curious.

...

At the bottom of the abyss.

Within an open area.

The spatial barrier surrounding the outer layer isolated the seawater and the threats of the giant beasts outside.

The group of Black Castle players was trapped there.

The stone platform before Charlene was covered with hand-drawn structural diagrams of magic arrays. Every diagram was densely filled with runes and annotation analyses.

The three alchemy scholars invited by Black Castle were leaning over another wider stone platform nearby. Two of them were flipping through the alchemy manuals they carried with them for comparison and reference, while the other repeatedly examined a shattered fragment of an array foundation, muttering something under his breath.

What they all shared in common was their deeply furrowed brows and miserable expressions.

A portion of the sea race guards was also trapped there.

Although everyone had brought sufficient supplies and there would not be any problems in the short term, after being trapped continuously for many days, traces of exhaustion and irritability unconsciously appeared on everyone’s faces.

Charlene raised her head and looked toward the ruins of the alchemy magic array emerging on the ground not far away.

The more she researched it, the more of a headache it became.

The complexity of this magic array far exceeded her expectations. Without exception, the three alchemy scholars invited by Black Castle all possessed transcendent-level alchemy skills. One of them had even already touched the threshold of demigod-level alchemy.

No matter which game world these three were placed in, they would be considered an extremely luxurious lineup.

Yet despite working nonstop for several days, their progress in deciphering the magic array had remained stuck at the very beginning.

They had not even reached 1%.

"Sir, the structure of the magic array here is completely different from all known alchemy systems. Its energy circulation mode is entirely self-contained. We simply cannot find a node supplying external energy. All of our previous assumptions have been overturned."

A somewhat older alchemy scholar put down the blueprint in his hand and walked to Charlene’s side. A trace of discouragement appeared in his eyes as he said, "I verified it repeatedly three times. This array contains at least seven nested layers of structure. The only thing I can currently understand is the outermost layer. As for the rest... honestly speaking, even if you gave us another ten years, I still could not guarantee we could fully analyze it."

"There are structural differences between ancient alchemy magic arrays and the current alchemy magic array system. Normally, we cannot find a breakthrough in a short period of time. There is no need for everyone to blame themselves too much."

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